What causes alternating/seesaw anisocoria? (& Difficult Diagnosis...)?!
Question: What causes alternating/seesaw anisocoria!? (& Difficult Diagnosis!.!.!.)!?
OK so I'm 16 years old and noticed while staring into my eyes that my eyes were unequal size (like half a year ago I first noticed)!. I had it "diagnosed" by some kind eye doctor who said it's nothing to worry about!. She did the regular eye tests with the light and all that!.!. They gave me glasses too =( but I don't really need them!.!.
Anyway, she called it Physiological -- meaning I was "born" with it!. Who knows, I don't usually stare into my eyes, maybe I was!. My parents don't have it by the way, and neither does anyone in my family that I can think of!.
My mom says she doesn't even see a pupil difference, but I see a significant difference!. My pupils respond normally and equally to light, but the weird thing is, they aren't ALWAYS different sizes!.!. And some days the right one will be larger, and other days the left one will be larger!. It just switches!. So, I narrowed it down to "Seesaw Anisocoria"!.
HOPEFULLY Physiological!.!.
But, I don't even understand from a medical standpoint, HOW it's possible to have seesaw anisocoria!? Like, what processes can happen differently that the pupil actually switches!!? Whether it's being caused by something like a tumor or an aneurysm, or (hopefully) just physiological, I just don't understand how it's possible!.
Can anyone please try to break it down for me!? Am I missing something!? How is this possible!? What could I have!?
**Also -- I believe chest tumors have some relation to anisocoria, just out of hypothetical curiosity, how is that!?**
(Please, do not be afraid to tell it like it is)Www@Answer-Health@Com
Anyway, she called it Physiological -- meaning I was "born" with it!. Who knows, I don't usually stare into my eyes, maybe I was!. My parents don't have it by the way, and neither does anyone in my family that I can think of!.
My mom says she doesn't even see a pupil difference, but I see a significant difference!. My pupils respond normally and equally to light, but the weird thing is, they aren't ALWAYS different sizes!.!. And some days the right one will be larger, and other days the left one will be larger!. It just switches!. So, I narrowed it down to "Seesaw Anisocoria"!.
HOPEFULLY Physiological!.!.
But, I don't even understand from a medical standpoint, HOW it's possible to have seesaw anisocoria!? Like, what processes can happen differently that the pupil actually switches!!? Whether it's being caused by something like a tumor or an aneurysm, or (hopefully) just physiological, I just don't understand how it's possible!.
Can anyone please try to break it down for me!? Am I missing something!? How is this possible!? What could I have!?
**Also -- I believe chest tumors have some relation to anisocoria, just out of hypothetical curiosity, how is that!?**
(Please, do not be afraid to tell it like it is)Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
Pupils do tell you a lot when in your case it is anisocoric!. The sympathetic chain or horner's syndrome is what you are referring to that is being affected!. That is due to the fact that the pathway crosses the apex of the lungs and up to the pupil muscles!. If there is indeed a "chest tumor" from what you suspect, it will block the neronal pathway, resulting in one eye CONSTANTLY being smaller than nonaffected eye, because the innervation to the dilator muscle of the iris is blocked!. You stated that you have alternating anisocoria, so i would not worry about it!.Www@Answer-Health@Com