Vision or eyesight issues?

[aspiehepcat]

Hi all

I'm posting here because I am having issues with my eyesight and am not sure if it's part of being aspie or not. Basically, I'm getting increasingly strong after-images of things, especially text on my computer screen or on paper. It's becoming incredibly distracting, as I'm seeing the afterimages or ghost text while I'm reading, so it's almost instant rather than an after-image as such. It's as though the contrast with the background makes these really distracting shapes that then start moving around as my eyes move across the text.

I got my eyes tested and the optometrist prescribed glasses, but the cynic in me thinks that of course they would do that... The glasses have made the text sharper, but the after-images/ghosting worse I am experimenting with turning the brightness down, which seems to be helping a bit, but not stopping it.

Has anyone had any experience with something similar? Any tips???

cheers
aspiehepcat

 

[atheistcanuck]

sounds like you should go to an ophthalmologist rather then an optometrist.

 

[Arashi222]

Welp I am legally blind. I have no vision whatsoever in my left eye from what is called peters anomaly and extremely poor vision in my right. I agree with Atheist you need to see an opthamologist. Someone who actually deals with eye issues not just glasses which is basically what optometrists do. Have you tried using different tints on what you are reading? Like tinted plastic sheets? I have heard that can help with some issues. But again this is something you should take up with your eye doctor as it maybe a neurological thing and not an eye thing.

 

[Judge]

I wear reading glasses over my computer glasses to avoid any eye strain. Guess when there's positive cashflow again I'll go to the optometrist.

 

[Aspieistj]

Please see an ophthamologist ASAP! Optometrists are trained to evaluate refraction and prescribe lenses. They may also do cursory exams to check for serious eye conditions but an oththamologist is first a medical doctor who then specializes in treatment of eye diseases. Your problem may be due to eye disease or it could be a manifestation of a neurological condition. The glasses may be very accurately prescribed for your visual acuity and not at all a rip off. However, true eye or neurological disease treatment requires someone who has been to med school and then specialized.

 

[aspiehepcat]

Thanks everyone. I'll talk to a doctor about getting a referral to an ophthalmologist.

 

[76054Pluto]

I would definitely see an eye specialist doctor. I had a bit of an experience a couple of months ago when I was quite happily watching TV. Suddenly I thought I had something in my right eye like a piece of dust or something so i closed and gently rubbed it and noticed i was partly blind in my open left eye. I got a relative to drive me to the local emergency department and after several hours of tests and sitting in waiting rooms i was diagnosed with open angle glaucoma which means I've permanently lost about 20% of the sight in my left eye. The funny thing is I only notice it when I close my right eye. Luckily i saw a top eye consultant and I've been taking drops daily which are working well and I have a good chance I won't lose anymore sight. Basically I'm just taking every day as it comes and not thinking too far ahead.

 

[Explosition_Rooster]

I wear glasses and without them I couldn't see anything, though this was long before I was ever considered autistic, but after reading through all these different stories the cause of it may be the Autism. I wonder if that's something that's caused by the Autism or if it's just random luck?

 

[atheistcanuck]

I would definitely see an eye specialist doctor. I had a bit of an experience a couple of months ago when I was quite happily watching TV. Suddenly I thought I had something in my right eye like a piece of dust or something so i closed and gently rubbed it and noticed i was partly blind in my open left eye. I got a relative to drive me to the local emergency department and after several hours of tests and sitting in waiting rooms i was diagnosed with open angle glaucoma which means I've permanently lost about 20% of the sight in my left eye. The funny thing is I only notice it when I close my right eye. Luckily i saw a top eye consultant and I've been taking drops daily which are working well and I have a good chance I won't lose anymore sight. Basically I'm just taking every day as it comes and not thinking too far ahead.

It's not unusual for people not to notice problems with a single eye, the brain is pretty clever about compensating for vision loss in one eye by using information from the other eye. That's why when you get your eyes checked they check each eye individually with the other one covered.

As for me,my right eye didn't develop properly (microphthalma)and is completely blind and so I have a prosthetic right eye. I also have nystagmus (my eyes move around constantly). My vision is like 20/80 in my working eye. I heard they can do surgery to correct nystagmus but since I only have one eye that works at all I don't want to have people messing with it.

 

[chuckintime]

Hi all

I'm posting here because I am having issues with my eyesight and am not sure if it's part of being aspie or not. Basically, I'm getting increasingly strong after-images of things, especially text on my computer screen or on paper. It's becoming incredibly distracting, as I'm seeing the afterimages or ghost text while I'm reading, so it's almost instant rather than an after-image as such. It's as though the contrast with the background makes these really distracting shapes that then start moving around as my eyes move across the text.

I got my eyes tested and the optometrist prescribed glasses, but the cynic in me thinks that of course they would do that... The glasses have made the text sharper, but the after-images/ghosting worse I am experimenting with turning the brightness down, which seems to be helping a bit, but not stopping it.

Has anyone had any experience with something similar? Any tips???

cheers
aspiehepcat

I have had that since I was about 14. the after images comes and gos, but I developed a constant little "sparkles" I call them hard to explain them to someone, my eye doctor didn't believe me. its almost like I can see little atoms in the air around me. Gets much worse in the dark. Almost like we can see the vibrations in everything.

 

[tree]

Warmheart

Shouldn't an optometrist be able to tell a patient/client
their visual acuity numbers?

Normally, any optician has told me mine, but recently
when I asked, the man laughed. He said "We don't
bother when it's like yours. We just call it 'the Big E.'"

There were other details about the service I found slack,
as well.

 

[Warmheart]

I would think they would be able to in most cases.

 

[tree]

I would think they would be able to in most cases.

That's what I figured.
Any other time I go for an eye exam,
they tell me.

The preliminary exam was rather sloppy, also.
The person who went with me said the tech
talked to him from across the room, with her
back to him.

So he had the impression that she was
quizzing him about his last vacation. She was,
in fact, asking about medications. [Same thing
happened with me.]

He has had his glasses for almost 2 weeks and
isn't convinced they are the right prescription.
I don't feel secure about going there and getting
my glasses, now that I have had the exam.

 

[Warmheart]

Tree, might you be able to bring your exam records and go elsewhere for your optics?

 

[tree]

Tree, might you be able to bring your exam records and go elsewhere for your optics?

That is what I am thinking I will do.
It means having to go three times as far.
But, I don't have confidence in these
people.