Uneven Focus

[MNTim]

I feel my focus has gotten worse recently.  Since my last procedure my focus has been uneven but recently it seems worse.  I have an optometrists appointment later this week.  Anyone else experienced focus issues?

Tim

[spgreenfield]

Tim -

My retrosigmoid surgery was about 4 weeks ago, and I totally understand what you're talking about!  It's double vision when it's happening, but it seems to come and go for me.  It's mostly bad in the morning (and maybe again at night when I'm tired) but I wonder if it has to do with lying down and something happens with the eye itself.  I'm going to be going to an ophthalmologist to have my cornea checked and I'm going to ask then.  I think I saw on another string about people needing prisms put into their glasses temporarily until it goes away.  It's a pain when it happens though!

Pam

[mk]

Tim,

I have had this problem too, mostly a month or two before my surgery. I was afraid that it was because of onset of hydrocephalus, but my optometrist reassured me that he saw nothing wrong with the nerves and that I needed a new prescription. He attributed the trouble focusing on the strain on the eye muscles.
However, this improved after my surgery, which makes me think that it had something to do with the tumor pressing on the nerve, specifically my neurosurgeon said that it was affecting the 6th nerve, which is responsible for eye movement.
Subsequent visits to the optometrist and ophthalmologist found a gradual improvement in my vision 6 months post surgery.
I guess I will never know for sure.
See what the optometrist will say, perhaps it is just a prescription issue.

Marianna

[MNTim]

Thanks All,

Met with the optometrist last week.  Everything checks out.  She feels it is a combination of my inability to close my eye totally, dryness and late day tiredness (more noticeable later in day).  She also thought there may be some residual effect on the 6th nerve.

Tim