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Eye issues after aortic surgery
I had thoracic aortic surgery June 1, 2023. Since then I have had a few Eye related issues that are concerning some I believe are ocular migraines and fit all the symptoms like silver ribbons on the sides of my vision or bright blind spots. These GI away within a few minutes.
But I have had Uncontrollable eye movements that only last a few seconds but scare me. This has happened about 4 times since my surgery.
I told my surgeon, cardiologist and my PCP and they act like this is new to them. But then I researched online and there is a lot of documentation of our issues after surgery.
Are my docs just not wanting to deal with my issues. Very frustrating.
Please let me know if anyone has had these problems and how you felt with it. I went back to work 3 months after surgery and have a very stressful job
In a Hospital Laboratory as a supervisor.
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I had a complete emergent Aortic Dissection in 2015 with a dacron graft repair. Coma for two weeks. I have had ocular migraines since then about every other month. No pain, just a jagged rainbow that develops and takes 25-30 minutes to complete. Can't work or watch TV. I just wait them out. I have also had the swirly eye phenomenon, too. My right eye just started jumping all over and I could not get it to stop. It's happened several times. My brain scans showed a left parietal lobe stroke but it's unclear when that occured.
Suffice it to say, if you have survived an AD you've been through a lot of trauma in having your vasculature fixed. The docs aren't always going to have an answer for why certain things happen. Remember that it only in the past 25 years or so that people even survived an emergent dissection. I am convinced that the profound hypothermic circulatory arrest with the accompanying cerebral death that I underwent for my two surgeries left me a little different. It's okay. We're all here and we're all capable enough to ask good questions. Peace.