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What made you consider those drugs for your eyesight?

• treeman79 6y ago
  Didn’t consider drugs for vision. Spent like 20k on glasses and eye doctors to little success. Have increased cranial pressure. Makes eyes want go double. 5th or sixth nerve gets weak. Diamox lowers pressure. Nerves work better, double vision goes away. Prism glasses help if I’m having a bad time. Other issue was black disc / hallucinations in vision. Doctors found I had a genetic clotting disorder. Only found due to clots showing up elsewhere in body. Blood thinners are standard treatment. Aside from double vision all my eye Problems went away in a few days. So basically eye mini strokes. Everything comes back whenever I try and go off meds.
  • elric 6y ago
    That's interesting ... I've had vision problems (been partially blind out of one eye for years, and my vision often wants to go double), and no one's been able to pin point a cause. Keep getting hand-wavey responses like "it's just your migraines". How did you discover you had increased cranial pressure?
    • treeman79 6y ago
      Had a spinal tap to check pressure. It was high. They removed some fluid to Lower pressure. Massive difference in symptoms. Lasted about a year. Diamox lowers pressure now. Reddit has /r/iih a good place for learning.
  • oulipo 6y ago
    What kind of blood thinners are you using?
    • treeman79 6y ago
      Pradaxa. I don’t like it, but 3 days without and my right side goes numb. Then vision starts going weird.