Double Vision and the Brain

I don’t have that but I can really empathize with you and I hope your prism glasses are helpful.

Back in 1989, I got double vision when I was pregnant with my son. One evening I felt what I can only describe as a “sprong” in my right eye. Gradually, over the next few days, that eye started looking off center until it was very noticeably looking in a different direction. I couldn’t read, watch TV, or drive. I don’t even know how you can write your post or read this one. I found that the only thing that helped me was to put a patch over my right eye so that only my left eye could see. That way, nothing was doubled.

It only lasted about a month, thank goodness, but it was awful and scary since my doctors didn’t know why it was happening. I can’t imagine living with it for a year, as you have done.

Years after my son was born, I had to see a retina specialist to treat my acute angle glaucoma. I told him what had happened with the double vision while I was pregnant and asked if he knew what it could be. He told me, oh, yes, sometimes pregnancy can cause pressure on a certain nerve which causes double vision. And he had seen it before. What a relief it was to FINALLY have an answer.