Question about Physiological Anisocornia... (Eye specialists needed)?!
Question: My eye doctor just performed a series of tests on me and told me that the reason I have differently sixed pupils is because of physiological anisocornia. However, I as just wondering a few things...
1. Is it normal for the bigger pupils to sometimes be the smaller one, and vice versa? And can they sometimes be normal sized?
2. The eye doctor told me that because both pupils react equally to light, I must have physiological anisocornia and not a tumor or aneurysm. Do you think that the eye doctor is an efficient enough source of informatio to feel safe, or should I be worried and still get an MRI/other brain scan. Honestly.
Thanks a lot.
**Serious answers only please. Only answer if you've got an answer. Thanks.**
Answers: My eye doctor just performed a series of tests on me and told me that the reason I have differently sixed pupils is because of physiological anisocornia. However, I as just wondering a few things...
1. Is it normal for the bigger pupils to sometimes be the smaller one, and vice versa? And can they sometimes be normal sized?
2. The eye doctor told me that because both pupils react equally to light, I must have physiological anisocornia and not a tumor or aneurysm. Do you think that the eye doctor is an efficient enough source of informatio to feel safe, or should I be worried and still get an MRI/other brain scan. Honestly.
Thanks a lot.
**Serious answers only please. Only answer if you've got an answer. Thanks.**
I don't know about all of that... I have worked in a eye doctors office for over 5 years now, and have seen many patients that have different sized pupils. If they react equally to light that tells me its not something to do with the brain. If one pupil shrank when i shined a light on it and the other did not, or the one reacted a lot slower than the other that tells me something is up....It could be something natural, i know my own pupils are not exactly the same size, and that if i look in the mirror they kind of pulsate.
Any doctor in the office i work at would have recommended a Visual Field test, which can do a rough screening for tumors and other brain/optic nerve problems. And they would have also recommended blood work and an MRI/MRA. Just to rule everything out. It sounds a little weird that they make a diagnosis just on the size of your pupils. I would really get a second opinion.
Good luck!
I don't have an answer, but I do have a question...
Why do you keep asking this same question over and over again???
**Well it would seem that if you aren't satisfied with any of the answers posted by anonymous people on Y!A, then perhaps you need to get your doctor on the phone and ask them.
And, I believe Footprints gave an answer that you even chose as "Best Answer" to this same quesion.