Question about double vision?!

Question: Question about double vision?

anyone who has had double vision caused by a fall:- i fell and bashed my eye and face on a concrete step 4 weeks ago now, the two black eyes have gone, the stitches have been taken out, and all the visible bruising has gone too, but i still have double vision and slight lumpiness inside my lower eyelid. i have been to the hospital for checks every week and am due to go again monday. the hospital have checked the inside of my eye and done x-rays, but found nothing wrong, they said it is just bad bruising that will eventually go. SO, basically, my question is this:- has anyone else who has had a black eye/s and had double vision ever had it for this long and if so, how long was it before your eyes/s were back to normal?

Answers:

This is actually a fairly common problem, particularly in the elderly, when people fall.
I don't know that there's any way to predict if or when the vision goes back to normal. I've had patients where it only lasts a couple weeks, up to a few for whom it's permanent. Most of the time some level of prism correction works (either normal glasses with ground-in prism, or Fresnel prisms, as the other poster describes one lens with lines across it.) If you haven't seen an eye doctor (optometrists tend to be more interested in binocular vision and double vision than ophthalmologists), you might want to schedule an appointment if it's already been a few weeks and you haven't noticed any improvement.

I'm an optometrist.

My father-in-law has double vision caused by cataract surguery - they can't find anything causing it, but he sees double - they were able to do something to his eyeglasses (it looks like there are tiny lines across the lens of his one eye) that help him

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