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The day of the appointment finally arrives and it could not get here any sooner. Judy is now going on 27 days of having DOUBLE VISION, and hopefully today she will finally get some answers.
It's just under a two hour ride to the University of Nebraska Medical Center where the eye neurologist has his office so our trip seemed to take forever. Once we got to the office, the visit itself, moved quickly.
Once we were in the examining room the neurologist gave Judy the most thorough eye exam I have ever seen. Trust me I have worn glasses since I was about 8 years old, so I have seen my fair share of exams. He ended the exam with with this little card he held up to Judy's right eye and the higher it got the less her double vision become. He then said a negative number to his assistant who typed it into the computer.
During the entire exam he was quietly mumbling instruction to an assistant who was quickly typing information into a computer. It was interesting because I was closer to the doctor then the assistant, and I could barely make out a word he was saying. At the end of his examination he said OK let's get her a negative prism for her glasses. The doctor then proceed to say I believe you are experiencing some swelling in the nerves that control your right eye. This is why you are experiencing double vision.
The doctor continued to explain he believed the nerves leading to Judy's right eye were swollen and inflamed and because of this it was causing her eye to become (lazy) and therefor creating her double vision. So he was hopeful that if we treated the inflammation we would be able to correct the double vision.
The next hurtle would be to figure out what was causing Judy's eye nerves to become swollen and inflamed. The doctor suspected it probably was caused by Judy's recent increase in migraines headaches. The second possibility is Judy has a history of an existing thyroid problem. Both need to be checked in to as possible contributors.
The doctor concluded his examination by saying to Judy, “ I am going to have you come back for some blood work next week. In the meantime take this anti-inflammatory medicine that I am going to prescribe. Taking it will help reduce the swelling in your eye nerves and should help with the double vision. I am also going to send down a prescription for a prism that sticks onto the inside of your glasses.”
The interesting thing to note at this point of Judy's doctors visit is the doctor turns around to his assist and says, “Why don't you schedule her for a MRI on the same day next week too. Let's schedule these tests in the morning, then schedule her a follow up appointment with me in the afternoon. This way we can cover all our bases.”
Judy gets her appointment scheduled and a new prescription and we are on our way with a new ray of hope. Now maybe she can start getting some relief from her double vision.
We leave doctor's office and go to the conveniently placed optical center down stairs where Judy received her new stick on prism for her right lens hoping for some sort of visual relief. why wouldn't she, when the doctor held up the card in the office it was working.
So honestly she was hoping for more of an instant improvement, but no. Did it help? Maybe a little. She was still seeing double, but now in her right eye, it was cloudy, and in the corners she was seeing these star bursts from the prisms. But maybe it's because she needed to get used to them. Judy figured she just needed to start out fresh in the morning. So she took them off and waited till morning.
In the morning Judy tried her glasses on, once again hoping for some improvement. Not much changed. They did help, a little, she could see some things better. If it was up close it would be OK. But the further out you went the more double it became. It's better than nothing, maybe the medicine will help.
One more post until Judy’s MRI. Follow our story follow our journey. #uronenamillion
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