Questions and debates about blindness:

typeingtornado19 said:
Hear Again, Nika, Dreama,

Do yall ever have a lot of eye pain? Why? and what do you do about it?
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the only time i experience eye pain is when i have migraines. (2-3 migraines/week). i take 100mg of imitrex and the pain is gone within 15 minutes. in addition, i have dry eye where my eyes tear up and become red and inflamed. for that i take prescription eye drops on a daily basis. i also have year round allergies which make my eyes very irritated. aside from that, i really don't have any problems with my eyes.
 
Hear Again said:
the only time i experience eye pain is when i have migraines. (2-3 migraines/week). i take 100mg of imitrex and the pain is gone within 15 minutes. in addition, i have dry eye where my eyes tear up and become red and inflamed. for that i take prescription eye drops. i also have year round allergies which also make my eyes very irritated. aside from that, i really don't have any problems with my eyes.
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I'm sorry about your migraines, dry eyes, and allergies.
 
Hear Again said:
thanks, typeingtornado. out of all 3, i think migraines are the most bothersome to me although when hay fever hits, i'm pretty miserable too. oh well.
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I'm sorry, but migraines SUCK! I ask the question i asked because i have been having problems with strain lately.
 
Hear Again said:
dreama,

is psychosomatic blindness the same as functional or cortical blindness?
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What does cortical blindness mean?

Basically they don't know what is wrong since they can't find anything wrong with the eyes themselves.
 
dreama said:
What does cortical blindness mean?

Basically they don't know what is wrong since they can't find anything wrong with the eyes themselves.
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cortical blindness is when a person has a lack of visual functioning in spite of the fact that they have anatomically and structurally intact eyes. the cause of cortical blindness is thought to be a lack of cortical functioning (i.e. the visual cortex of the brain is non-functional).
 
dreama said:
I don't know. What does optic nerve and occipital lobe?
What would those tests consist of?
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Testing the optic nerve *the cord that connects your eye to your occipital lobe* would just mean going to a lo vision specialist and them taking a picture.

Testing your occipital lobe *the part of your brain that makes sense of what your eyes see* i dont know how they do it, but i am pretty sure it can be done, because i have met people that have problems with the occipital lobe.
 
Hear Again said:
cortical blindness is when a person has a lack of visual functioning in spite of the fact that they have anatomically and structurally intact eyes. the cause of cortical blindness is thought to be a lack of cortical functioning (i.e. the visual cortex of the brain is non-functional).
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Thanks for explaining about that. How would they test it?

I think it's differant then psycosomatic blindness. As Psycosomatic blindness is where a person THINKS they are blind. But really they aren't.

The question is wether It is still Psycosomatic since I've only had a standard tests so far which said the eyes themselves were in good working order. The second lot of standard tests I had last september didn't even work because the eye doctors wouldn't proceed when my eyes wouldn't open. I had terrible migranes and eye strain for 4 days after that experience.
 
typeingtornado19 said:
Testing the optic nerve *the cord that connects your eye to your occipital lobe* would just mean going to a lo vision specialist and them taking a picture.

Testing your occipital lobe *the part of your brain that makes sense of what your eyes see* i dont know how they do it, but i am pretty sure it can be done, because i have met people that have problems with the occipital lobe.
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Thanks for explaining.
 
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