Ophthalmologist problem... what do you think?!


Question: Ophthalmologist problem!.!.!. what do you think!?
in 2006 I was in a car accident, that left me with double vision, blurriness in my eye (like when you're not wearing glasses even when you are!.!.!.) and a massive black eye, cuts and goose eggs on the brow on on the cheek just under the eye!.

The double vision and external injuries went away but not the blurriness, so I was sent to a neuro ophthalmologist!. He did a bunch of extensive tests including an all inclusive field vision test and this test where they put electrodes on your head, and make you stare at a moving checker board on tv to test the signal your optic nerve gives your brain!.

after all the tests he concluded that I had optic nerve damage with blindness in my Peripheral vision, caused by trauma!.

He stated it was permanent, but non-progressive (wouldn't get worse!.) and that there was no surgical options to correct the problem!.

So that was that!.

Well, this past saturday!.!.!. after hanging out with friends all afternoon, I was at home, sitting on my comfy chair watching an SVU marathon while playing slots on my computer, just chillin!.

Suddenly around 11pm, I got this weird light in my eye!.!.!. that is usually a warning of migraines!. The light got bigger and bigger till it encompassed the whole of my eye, (The eye with Optic nerve damage!.)

then things suddenly turned this filmy brown color in that eye, and then went black!.

I may be foolish looking back, but I thought it was a nasty migraine coming on, since I had bad migraines in the past!.!.!. so I took some aspirin and a pill for nausea!.

but no headache or nausea ever came!.!.!. I felt fine!. So I finally started to worry, and by 1am my mom had me at the E!.R!.

they called in an opthamologist and he gave me an extensive exam, plus an MRI!. He asked if I suffered any trauma besides the car accident, and just the month before I fell on ice, breaking several ribs and hitting my head!.

He was theorizing that it was possible a bloodclot let loose in a blood vessel to the optic nerve!. that clot was cutting off the optic nerve's blood supply, which caused the blindness in that already compromised eye!.

Even though he had an idea that was the problem, he said that I would have to go to a neuro opthalmologist to verify his findings!.

So he sent me to the one he said was the best, the one I had already seen who diagnosed me with the optic nerve damage to begin with!. I saw the doctor from the ER once more on Monday, when through another set of tests, and said the same thing!.!.!. I needed to see the doctor who diagnosed me in the first place, to confirm what his suspicions were about the clot!.

That's when it gets weird!. The Neuro Opthalmologist's office told me, either I come that same day right after leaving the doctor I was with, or he wouldn't see me for weeks!. There wasn't time to get the records of what the opthalmologist thought, nor to get a copy of the MRI and ER reports from the hospital!. So without paperwork, I thought I'd have to go through all the tests again!.

I get there, and his room is being worked on!.!.!. (the room with all his equipment!.) The guy kept telling him he'd work around us, or come he'd back later!. He told us this like a million times, and each time the doctor told him it wasn't necessary!.

I wondered how he was going to do anything without the eye exam equipment!.

So he took me into a room he borrowed from a non-eye doctor!. He put a pen light in my eye and made me look up and down, side to side!. Then he pulled out a 3D book and gave me glasses and told me to pick out the 3D images!.

I didn't see anything 3D!. He told me to look again!. I didn't see 3D that time either, but he INSISTED that I did!. He told me to look again!. Nothing!. Finally he was so insistant I started pointing at anything!. Then he told me to grab this fly's 3D wings!. The wings weren't in 3D, but again he was insistant, so I thought, how hard is it to figure out where the fly's wings are in 3D!? There was a 2D image, So I pointed to the 2D wings!.

after that he asked me a bunch of personal questions like, am I married, is there a chance I'm pregnant, am I sure I'm not pregnant, do I live at home with my mom, yada yada!.

that was the extent of my exam!.!.!. 3D images I couldn't see that he insisted I could, and a pen light!.

he didn't dialate my eyes, he didn't use any actual eye equipment!.!.!. it was just a pen light and 3D book!.

Then he proclaimed I had perfect vision!. (Perfect!? Just a year ago he gave me thousands of dollars of extensive tests that proved I already had a compromised optic nerve with loss of perhiphial vision!.)

I asked him how that was possible and he said "two ways!.

Hysterical blindness caused by stress, feeling of helplessness or guilt!.!.!. or you're looking for attention or money!. I suggest you go home and don't pursue this futher!."

WHAT!?

Ok, since it happened at home with no triggering event, and the car accident was settled, I couldn't financially gain from it!. If I wanted to gain something from it, whyWww@Answer-Health@Com


Answers:
TKquest is correct, you should make an appointment with another Ophthalmologist!. He(Ophthalmologist) should have informed you that he did not have a room where he could examine the eye properly!. You need your eyes dilated and the macula and retina looked at, some of the symptoms you gave are the ones for detached retina!. And you do not need a referral, to another Ophthalmologist, you can call one yourself, tell him this is a medical emergency!. If the clot is cutting off
blood supply to that eye, you could lose your vision in it!. Please don't take that chance!. I lost my central vision in my left eye, because the doctor ( a goofy Ophthalmologist) mistook a cataract for the reason I was seeing a large black band and curvy lines on doorways and window blinds that should have been straight!. I actually had degeneration of the macula, and had he checked it, he would have found blood vessels in the back of the eye were leaking!.As this had just started, an injection of Avastin in the eyeball could conceively have stopped the bleeding!. Now the damage is permanent my central vision lost!. Please see another doctor with the proper equipment, 3D images indeed, I hope this is nothing, but it sounds dangerous, please do not wait!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

I despise doctors who take short cuts and tell me what I see, instead of listening to what I actually see!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

I actually read all of what you said!.

I have only one suggestion for you!. Go see another ophthalmologist!. The real concern is your vision, not what this doctor did or didn't do!. You have undiagnosed problem and that is your priority!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

As to why he'd think it was psychosomatic, I can't really tell with the information you gave, but as a general rule, if I have a problem with a doctor's opinion, I go see a different doctor whilst trying to NOT mention the previous doctor's opinion!. If you mention a professional's opinion/diagnosis, people tend to look for their reasoning behind the diagnosis and ignore the whole picture, which often leads them to the same diagnosis!.

It could just be that he didn't want to spend any time actually treating a problem because his office was in poor condition and maybe he was having a bad day!. Unfortunately, doctors are just as human as the rest of us; The difference is that if they're unmotivated and careless about their work, lives can be permanently changed or lost!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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