Meningitis/encephalitis & vision

Posted By Jim P. on July 09, 1998 at 11:04:13:







After a 2 day stay in the hospital for what the GP thought was an allerigic reaction to droperidol (severe shooting pain in leg of injected side", we sought a second opinion.
Our neurologist believes that my wife had viral meningoencephalitis. We are still waiting on the results of the lumbar puncture but since it was taken 4 weeks after the episode
we don't hope for conclusive evidence. We have been told that the leg pain was probably thalamic pain. The disconnected feeling and the dizziness continue to improve. Her left
side continues to get stronger. The strangest thing has been the vision problem. The opthamologist said that her astigmatism was suddenly much worse in the left eye.
After unsuccessfully trying an astigmatic contact lens, he is now having her wear a regular lens that is a decent bit stonger than the old one.
What is the connection between the meningoencephalitis and the physical change in her eye?