Yeah, I’m 12 and I’ve had double vision most of my life, I paint and sketch but I’ve gotten so used to my double vision that I only see it if I think about it, sort of like manually breathing.
Good job persevering through your struggles, Ken. I'm a brain cancer survivor and I have some lasting visual impairments including double vision. When it's a part of your daily life it's so much more than just a simple vision issue we deal with. It seeps in to basically every area of your life in some way, and only we truly know it how affects us through the experience. I admire the way you "reframed" the situation and have only been moving forward with things. Embracing and transcending can be tough but make a worlds difference. Also sharing your story is powerful in itself to instill hope and a positive outlook in others. Although things were hell for me for quite some time and I still have my off days I also would not trade my experience for anything else. I appreciate you sharing this. Take care.
I also have Diplopia. Mine just occured naturally. Prism lenses with my vision prescription is the only way I can function. I always buy plastic frames as I have to wear my glasses in the shower. This artist fascinates me and let's my family understand what the world is like through my eyes.
That picture beside him is great! It shows pretty accurately how I've seen the world my whole life. It took years to figure this out. Once we found an eye doctor who could figure why I was so clumsy, had poor depth perception, couldnt read etc. He worked with me with eye exercises and prisms in glasses. Took five years to get any improvement. I could finally read and do things that take hand-eye coordination slightly better than before. Then five years ago, I started having what turned out to be symptoms of hyperparathyroidism. One of the symptoms that developed was that all of the progress I'd made in controlling my double vision over the years started slipping away. I was 45 years old and once again my diplopia was as bad as it was when I was four. So disheartening! I've had the surgery to remove the parathyroid gland that was causing the problem now, but the doctors say it may take a couple of years for all of the symptoms I had to heal. I never thought of trying to accurately draw what I see. I have to wear an eye patch over my weaker eye to see things singly for more than a few seconds at a time.
I was born with a lazy eye and double vision. Until I saw the tv show Dactari I had no idea that other people usually didn't see like I do. People with stereoblindness can actually make great artists.
I had am a operatiion in 1979 for a lazy eye., all seemed good until i turned 16 just after leaving school i got double vision. I trried glass's and prisms but it got so bad that glass's wasnt an option. I went with a eye patch for a while, but i was getting major headaches so bad i had to go to hospital. Fast forwars to 2008 after various eye tests and photographs of my eye positions it was agreed to do a second op. Tho the op did center my eye the double vision remains to this day. The left eye is blurred and the right eye may as well be blinded as its useless. I get blurred double vision. Ive learned to live with it now to a point where i dont even think about as a disability.
I also have double vision and now it's been one year plss someone help me l see double from my both eyes and now i am very depressed i can't focus on my studies or when i use my phone then again i see double things......☹️
On a personal note. I did not say "I want breast cancer" The initial chemotherapy sessions I had double vision. As much as I wanted to shake it off, there's no way I could. My Mom would be driving me on Central Blvd on the intersection with Boca Chica. There are 5 lanes on central, there was nothing but confusion. I do believe I just shut my eyes. Well, confusion is not of God, that much I do know.
I just begun having a double vision ever cens I burned the American flag. why? well I had enough at first, but I was also scared at the same time when I went for a walk. I was scared of the government planning to jump out of nowhere and kill me without a chance to think and act. but I do some how feel stronger then ever, most of the time I always luck of strength and courage. I don't even know that I still am, but i'm gonna enjoy it to the fullest. I am a bit worried of the side effects. anybody know any tips so I can be careful with my eyes?, if so, let me know.
Is not at will. You are forcing your eyes all the time and probably for a long time to see normal and now it feels like a normal state. When you relax intentionally your eyes, you see double.
Alina Balmos that’s exactly what happens to me too. I truthfully thought this was something that happens to everybody. Ever since I was younger I dealt with this. I was told today from my optometrist that the pressure in my eyes are very off. I attempted to take a test during my eye exam about seeing in 2 but I simply couldn’t complete it. If I were to not force my eyes to see what’s in my focus correctly it’d be completely in 2. She said I should be experiencing headaches and bluriness was which I do deal with daily and I thought it was just from my astigmatism. It was such a relief to kind of hear that it’s not normal and that I can help fix it or make it better.