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I am wearing my pimp hat today! It's fabulous. We got it in Philadelphia during a visit with

eruthros. Its chief virtue is that it holds all my hair without hairpins digging in and clonking me when I go to answer the phones. Its secondary virtue is cuteness.

I think I need to see an eye doctor. I go to look at something, and one eye moves, and I can feel the other eye sitting still. (I've assessed this in the mirror, as well, though I don't know how effective that is.) It seems like I'm losing spots of my sight in the same eye that's not doing so well at the moving. I knew I was legally blind in that eye, but I don't want to be actually blind in that eye!

I can compensate, but only by turning my head in that direction. How bad is this?

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Yay for the pimp hat!

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Ooof. Yeah, sounds like you need to get that checked out. Lazy eye, maybe? Not sure. Hmmm.

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When you focus, can you make the two eyes work together again? How much usedo you have of the bad eye? Can you read with it alone? If so- I tend to turn off my left eye on occasion, and the exercise my eye doctor gave me was to cover/patch one eye and read for 5 minutes, then to cover/patch the other eye instead and read for 5 minutes, then to read with both eyes together. She also gave me lenses to put over my glasses to change every line or so.

In any case, if you are interested in that sort of approach, I'd really recommend a behavioral optometrist. I mean, I don't know the situation, but they do focus on maintaining use and exercises for strengthening the eyes, etc.

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Thanks! I'm going to go see whether it's a detached retina. :(

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I don't know about the moving part, but losing spots of sight is bad and you should have your eyes checked ASAP. Uh, do you see if there is any swelling at all? Apparently some types of infections can provoke a swelling that will make eye movements difficult in one eye.

*hugs*

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No swelling; I'm afraid it might be a detached retina. I had a doctor's appointment on the 31st, and I think I might now need an opthalmologist's appointment before then. I hope it's just eyestrain or something.

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For all it's worth, I don't think it's a detached retina. I had one, right after Tadpole was born, and I had no eye "slowness", just a -- well, a dark veil over part of my vision. If a dark veil seems to spread out over your eye when you move your eyes, and you can reproduce the symptom every time you look in that direction, then yes, it sounds a lot like it.

So -- the good news is, it doesn't sound like a retinal detachment. The bad news is, if it does turn out to be a retinal problem, a simple ophtalmologist won't be able to help you anyway: he'll just turn you over to a retinologist (again, that's from experience), and those can only be found in hospitals. Should your symptoms worsen, I urge you to PLEASE go to the ER, and if necessary lay it out thick to make sure someone actually sees you (again, from experience, it helps when you want to be taken seriously -- but I guess you know that, you've certainly been around doctors enough.)

*hugs* man, I hope it's nothing bad *crosses fingers*

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Well, it doesn't sound good. Noting that I have exceptionally large, myopic eyes, some "kind" soul went to a great deal of trouble to explained detached retinas to me in more detail than ever I wanted, and losing spots of vision pings my memory as having been on the list of symptoms. "Like a curtain falling over your vision" to one side or the other, if I recall correctly. I was afraid to so much as nod my head for weeks.

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Sadly and scarily enough, that is what it is most like. My eye's been very weepy, so I'm holding out that it's, like, some sort of infection; but I also have large, myopic eyes. So bleagh.

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