Vision changes anyone?

Blame the cancer LOL
I had to go see an opthamologist due to my vision being blurred and my eyes just hurt all the time. The radiation caused chronic dry eye, I am now on Restasis. It has relieved the constant strained feeling and also helped with my blurred vision.

I asked if I need glasses and she said your 44, readers should suffice for now, said at "our age" its kinda inevitable.... I told her Id prefer her to blame it on the cancer and not my age....

Not sure if it's a coincidence
Not sure if it's a coincidence or not but my husband, who has always had excellent vision, noticed a change about a month ago. This was about the time he finished his treatments of rads and chemo. He is 50 and has had reading glasses for a couple of years but his far vision was always fine. He went to have his eyes examined and now needs bifocals. His MO didn't seem to think it was the treatments but who knows.

Hondo said:

Hi Cathelen

Yep you are getting old, but not that old that you should have problems just yet. Radiation and Chemo as in your case with NPC can affect your vision depending on where the doctor had the beam aiming. There is always a chance that the hearing or the eye sight will be effected by the treatment. Suggest going to see an Ophthalmologist, but you need to do it at one of the major cancer intuition and not a local city doctor. As they don’t deal in problems with people that had cancer, all they will do is to give you the run around. More then likely they are going to tell you need glasses.

Here is to wishing you well and welcome you in to the forties.
Hondo

My mother has had problems
My mother has had problems with her left eye ever since she finished her radiation treatments last year. The left side is where she had the radiation and that eye constantly would tear and itch. The sun and bright lights also irritate her eye.

Wierd Visual Disturbance
I started having a weird visual disturbance about 10 months post rads. However, I don't think the disturbance is rad related.

My visual field "jumps" with every heart beat. At first it was just in my right eye, but after a couple of months, the visual disturbance was in both eyes.

Went to Neuro-Oth, had MRI/MRA, found nothing. The Neuro-Opth said he often has patients with strange visual disturbances, but seldom can find a reason for them. And he says that the symptoms don't progress or kill the patient. But if the patient dies, how would he know. I don't have any return appointments, so the neuro-opth won't know how the symptom progresses.

Sometimes I can ignore the symptom and other times it affects me. I been having a little trouble with depth perception, judging steps and the like. Need to use a hand rail.

But the visual problems are the least of my worries. Pain in the side of my face and in the ear, with the likelihood that the C has returned occupy me. I am being followed.

I did find one person on the Internet who reported my "exact symptoms". He/she also did not get any explanation or treatment from doctors.

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As an aside, cataracts become troublesome as one gets older. Cataracts distort the visual field. I have very severe cataracts due to lifelong use of steroid eye drops. But cataracts can develop from the sun. So use those shades and see better longer.