Different Pupil Size - The Cure??

[soylent1139]

OK, this is totally weird.  I've had a differing pupil size for almost 6 or 7 years.  Eye doctor has checked me out, had an MRI done to look for something causing it, but there was no problem.  Here's the weird part though.  I've started drinking ginger tea daily, plus I've been going to the gym to run on the treadmill.  For some odd reason, the pupil in my right eye is returning to normal.  For about 50% of the day and growing, the pupil size is now starting to be the same size as my left eye.  After my second cup of ginger tea at night, sometimes the right pupil is even a little bit smaller than the left one.  This is so very strange!  What to make of it?

[koppo]

I was hit in the right eye with a high speed marble which fractured my sphincter muscle.
Three years later it is still a fully blown pupil, it will not even quiver!   I cannot tolerate contacts and my Mydriasis is quite vulnerable when being manipulated with a lens placement.   I have Photophobia and some vision loss.  Someone said it might be something I put inside?  No I would never and that would cause serious side-effects and still not reduce the size!  During the emergency the eye specialist prescribed Homatropine for the iritis inflamation from blunt force trauma.   Help?

[jaysta36]

Sorry Ray your  answers to questions are always the same  (it could be a number of factors),the guy asked a question thats not an answer..what are the number of factors?

[badfluorescents]

I just drank ginger tea and noticed the same thing.  Quite interesting.

I get migraines (photosensitive) and have one pupil that is larger than the other.  I heard that taking astaxanthin supplements would help to decrease the pupil size (something about it causing the ciliary body to contract).  It certainly did, but it had no effect on the migraines (so I stopped taking it).

[soylent1139]

Yes, I still see results: only if I do the above.  If I slack off and forget to go to the gym, and forget to drink ginger tea, the right eye pupil seems to be larger more often.

However, sometimes I do the gym plus ginger tea, and a day after, pupil is still mis-matched size.  

So, I am not sure if it's working so well... but maybe it does sometimes.

Drinking coffee & lack of sleep also seem to add to the mis-matching size...

[kal09]

just wondering if your still seeing a results? im on ginger tea atm and i have noticed that it makes the difference in my pupils a little less obvious,

[soylent1139]

Hmm.  Thanks anyways Ray, for responding to my questions.

Sigh!  I really wonder about this!

[Ray T Oyakawa, MD]

Hard to determine.  Pupil size is dependent on so many factors.

Dr. O.