Double Vision with PD: My Brother

Mon Apr 16, 2007 9:37 am Post subject: DOUBLE VISION WITH PD

Dear Doctors,

My brother is a PD patient.

He has double vision.

He is forgetful the exit where the entrance he comes.

He finds diffiulties to drive car, to see object or faces , to read newspaper or TV.

He sees object/things differently or varieties with the times changes i.e day and night.

He could not read with his muti purposes glass as he has long and short eyes sighted.

He prefers to use mircosope than glass to read or sees things at close distance to relief his double vision.

He has impaired vision as he finds not comfortable with colours .

Yet he is told by eye specialist that there is nothing wrong with his eyes.

Are they related with PD?

Thanks

TEO KIM HOE
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Dr. OkunJoined: 19 Jan 2007Posts: 251Location: University of Florida
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 9:30 pm Post subject:

He must get an examination by a neurologist and maybe a neuro-opthalmologist. In PD the most common cause of double vision is something called convergence insufficiency where the eyes do not work well together particularly at close distances. It is best to keep books and reading material farther from the eyes, and try prisms to correct the issue. There are of course many other neurological causes of double vision that must be worked up._________________Michael S. Okun, M.D.
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