Unexplainable symptoms.

[KellyAnnS]

For the past two years I have had visual problems. With corrective lenses I am considered legally blind. My ability to see worsens though my eye test show an improvement. I am 18 years old. I have limited peripheral vision, seeing only in black and white when at all. I have limited depth perception and am unable to tell exactly how close things are. I have incredible sensitivity to light and am unable to keep my eyes open in sunlight or under fluorescent lighting. I constantly have floaters in my vision. I cannot tell the difference between some blue's, gray's and green's. I have intense migraines that until i was put onto medication (amitriptoline) for them, would wake me up multiple times a night in pain.The medication only eased my nightly migraines nothing else.  In bright lights I retain migraines as well as if I look to my peripheral vision. I can only see well, in the direct center of my vision. If things are moving I cannot focus on them. My vision has dark impressions across my field of vision, which change from day to day sometimes even hour to hour.  I see sparkles almost constantly. If I focus on any one thing to long I get tunnel vision. At what appear to be random times, my vision completely blanks out on either one or both eyes. Most often the right half of my vision on both eyes goes black. Also randomly, I get large spots of different colors (red, yellow, green, and blue.) which usually present themselves by making everything i see limited to that color and the variations of black to white. The fine lines on people wave and my vision seems to view things the way water moves if I'm exercising. My vision also clouds over occasionally and does not allow me to focus without trembling. I realize that this is a long list of confusing things, however hopefully will be able to point me in the right direction of conditions, which both my eye doctor and specialist seem unable to provide. Thank you for the time of anyone who chooses to read this. ~Kelly.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

You should be under the care of a highly qualified neuro-ophthalmologist to work through the problems. Find one at www.aao.org    Ideally one associated with a medical school department of opthalmology.

JCH MD

[KellyAnnS]

Also I am incredibly unbalanced and all of these symptoms worsened after my last concussion which happened to be my fifth. From this one I had a report of severe concussion with mild amnesia, which four months later has not gone away. I also exhibit no abnormalities in my eyes. Sorry I forgot to include this before.