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Do cataracts cause glare and starbursts?


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177275 tn?1511755244
Some cataracts cause starburts, other's don't. There are also other non-cataract causes of starburts such as cornea scars or uncorrected refractive errors.
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Well, the visual static, has completely gone away. I attribute that to having an adrenal problem which was leaving me dehydrated. I was hypovolemic, my kidney hormone renin was high, so my endocrinologist said I had primary mineralcorticoid deficiency. I was salt wasting. I've been on a steroid for it since 2012.

I still have the bad photophobia. Actually its worse now. Only in unavoidable situations do I go out at night. I hardly ever watch TV anymore. I don't see the static but the lights hurt my eyes. I also have a more difficult time driving and avoid it. Of course all the eye drs say it's migraines. But that doesn't make sense. Migraines aren't day in day out for years.

I did see a couple of neurologists. I showed them the mri report of an enlarged area of spinal fluid in basal ganglia and my endocrinologist found a small pituitary tumor. Neurologists were dismissive. Ran no tests whatsoever. Tried me on topamax which put me in metabolic acidosis and caused me to go unconscious with a possible seizure. So naturally the neurologist said my symptoms were psychosomatic. I'm really pissed off about it, actually. I've got systemic symptoms including neurological such as radiculopathy and left sided nerve pain, squeezing pressure sensation in a band around my head, my eyeballs feel like they're being squeezed, my pupils are rapidly and getting bigger smaller and its screwing up my depth perception. Like when u go to take a pic on your phone and the focus cannot lock. I've developed, as an adult, my right eye veers down and right. I have double vision sometimes. When I look down to the ground my vision hops up and down, but only then. I also just had ANOTHER allergic reaction to an antibiotic. I didn't realize I was having an allergic reaction to the sulfa med. When I had the squeezing pressure that day, with the swollen and brown tongue, I saw my pupils were doing that fluctuating thing, bigger smaller, but this time they were oval. Anyway, I ended up at er where my mom thinks I was having seizures. It really scared her. Ever since she's been asking me if ive been tested for epilepsy or ms.

Umm no mom. The drs say I'm imagining my symptoms or making them out to be worse then they are. / :

Lately my vision
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I was diagnosed in 2012 with dry eyes and mouth. Sjogrens was considered but not confirmed by blood work. I have had 2 different eye glasses prescriptions but cannot wear either. My vision fluctuates. Its bad when I wake up and at night. My endocrinologist said my eye muscles aren't working right. The eye dr called it strabismus and it was congenital. If so, why did it only start occurring in my 30s? I do have regular labs showing my hormones are in range now.

Could these eye symptoms have anything to do with spinal fluid build up in brain causing swelling around the optical chiasma or a blood flow issue? I have autonomic dysfunction and orthostatic intolerance where my hr and bp get high and low and fluctuant sometimes wildly with position change. I have a cystic lesion in my spinal cord, a vascular tumor in my neck vertebrae, the enlarged area of csf in my brain, and the pituitary tumor. Could any of that be affecting my vision by way of fluid balance, csf flow, blood flow, etc?
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The most common causes would be 1. uncorrected refractive error. Glasses, contacts or refractive surgery help these.   2. cornea surface disease such as tears dysfunction disorder. If you're 31 and have a surgical menopause the incidence of dry eye problems becomes extremely high in women when estrogens and progesterones dectrease.

See an Eye MD ophthalmologist that specializes in cornea and external disease. Do not let the techs put drops in your eye till the eye MD looks at them.

Read about dry eyes in the feature article on this page.

JCHMD
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Hello. I've always had a hard time with light. When I go from a dark to bright area, its hard to see/adjust, my eyeballs get sore, sometimes disorientation and headaches result. Have always had very very mild night vision, starting with halo around the moon, but that was all.

For the past 6 years I've been going through menopausal changes. I'm 31 now and they've finally confirmed this after years of dismising me. Last year I became very ill and was hospitalized after a very bad flu. A few months prior, my eyes were gritty, itchy, sore and I was getting headaches behind my eye balls.

The glare has become much much more pronounced. It looks like starbursts with halos, sometimes a little bit of blurryness. But I see the glare on all lights, even in the daytime now.

I was told not cataracts. Going to a retinologist soon. Also being checked for lupus, even tho blood tests are normal, and I have low adrenal levels. Especially progesterone and iga. Does ayone have a clue what else this could be other than cataracts?
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