doulbe vision and headaches

[bonnie_g]

hi. my 7 year old daughter woke up one morning with double vision. her eyes looked different to me. i took her doctors and he sent us straight to a&e. she had her eyes checked and dilated. they said it was nothing serious, but didnt say what was wrong. she gets headaches alot to. im really worried that its something serious like a brain tumor.

[rumpled]

Bonnie never came back with an update - hope all was well!

[lexismom2005]

I am not trying to worry you and it could be something completely different but I posted back in August about my 5 year old daughter and she was having some of the same symptoms . she ended up having many tests that now has us traveling to the Childrens hospital to see a neurologist and neurosurgeon because she does have a brain tumor so I would suggest to ask your doctor to send her for a ct scan or Mri. That is how my daughters condition was discovered.

[rumpled]

That was a standard eye exam. That is good to do - but not enough. Please get her to see a neurologist and a opthomalogist that has more testing - they are called neuro-optho's - they have more study and so do more testing.

Dizzy is a rather... inexact symptom - so it is so hard to figure it out as it can be ears, eye, blood pressure, hormones etc. Do you keep a diary of her symptoms by day? That can help.

[bonnie_g]

no it was a special lense with a light on it that doctor looked through to check the back of her eyes. any ideas? iam very worried that its something bad. her eyes have gone cross eyed too and she was saying she was dizzy earlier.

[rumpled]

Was one of the machines where she sat, one eye covered at a time - looking forward at a dot and pressing a button when she saw a light or thought she saw a light in her peripheral vision? That is called a Humphries test. That is a good test to show issues.

Just looking at them - ok but could be better. I would still be persistent re neurologist etc.

[bonnie_g]

I think it was an opthomalogist. I seen that many doctors in one day was confusing. They lukd at her eyes wit a big machine.

[rumpled]

I would go ahead and get her checked out by a neurologist if you can.

Since the eyes are normal - and was that a normal eye doc or a neuro-opthomalogist? then that can be reassuring that nothing was noted around the optic nerve but a child with headaches and eye issues - it could be migraines but... I would persist until you get a diagnosis.

Weak muscles in the eyes can cause issues - including the headaches from not seeing well - there could be so many things that are not tumors - it just takes a good doctor to find it.