What's caused DH to lose some vision in his eye?

[Dowser]

Just a normal day. DH gets up, starts making breakfast. Comes back I to the room saying the vision in his right eye has gone funny. He couldn't see his right hand when he stretched it out in front of him.

We whisked him to hospital and he had a ct scan and an eye exam and they haven't been able to determine what's caused it. The doctor didn't see any signs of a tumour or a bleed in the brain.

His speech was not slurred and his limbs were ok.

So, they've kept him in and will give him an MRI tomorrow.

Up to me leaving at 8 pm he hadn't got his vision back. He's just texted now to say he thinks it's a bit better.

I'm so worried.

My dh had a stroke three years ago. I know how you feel
Look after yourself too.

How's he doing philphil

Good he's on the drugs. When my husband was investigated, they checked for any furring in neck or heart problems. My husband was put on a statin as well as clopidagrel. They talked about blood pressure tablets as well but DH put foot down. Hope your DH is feeling better soon. The drugs really help.

He's fine Dowser.
He was off work for three months, but that was because of exhaustion rather than anything else.
My father had a stroke a couple of years ago and lost part of his peripheral vision, within a month his brain had compensated for it, or got used to it and he doesn't notice it at all now.

We saw a nurse from the stroke association which was helpful, she gave us information about recovering and getting back to work. She was very reassuring, I can highly recommend them.

Thanks for that Philphil.

That's given us a bit of a boost.

I think we need to see our gp and see where we go from here.

What age is he, Dowser ? Glad he got the MRI quickly b

He 62.

Quite young really. Stroke nurse came today. Gave him some ideas to help with his reading. Ive also looked into the Bates method for help with his eyesight. Sunning, palming, swaying etc.

We go to see the doctor at the hospital on Monday.
He's doing well. A bit of improvement in the bad eye but he still can't read his kindle very well.

I do worry ( get a bit frustrated) that he's not looking to his diet . We managed at a couple hours in a pub this afternoon to meet the family for grandsons birthday. He ordered a breakfast burger with fries . When we got home he got the cheeseboard out. I felt like saying would you like some Christmas cake to wash it all down!!!

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink!

If that was me, I'd be on a plain diet. Essential supplements that you don't get in your diet too well. I'm just having to go softly! Softly!

Grrr!

Yes he is young. The reality of something like that will take a while to sink in, and the meds will be helping - he may make some changes as the weeks go by. How frightening for you both.

Thanks everyone for all your support.
Well it's exactly a week today almost to the minute. Finishing our breakfast instead of DH sat in the chair complaining of blurred/partial vision.

I've been so poorly. Did it (combined with other factors) trigger a gall bladder attack. I don't know but I confined myself to bed for two days ( just after DH had perked up). Just when I thought I had rallied I got the headache from hell when my own vision was distinctly dodgy. I also have been very emotional . He mentioned at bedtime one night he had a headache. I gave him a hug and promptly burst into tears and the dam burst.

So, here we are a week later looking at DH and his idiot wife you'd think I was the poorly one. He looks amazing. Moves around as normal rather than gingerly. If you didn't know you wouldn't guess.

Sadly being unable to drive is having quite an impact. He can't just take off to the beach when he wants too. Reading his other passion is improving but it is taking longer. Hence the headache.

We've managed a few gentle trips out. I've noticed he's not had his two glasses of red wine on a night and he's eating avocados which someone suggested. We do eat very healthily though. He's cut out coffee because he noticed when he doesn't drink it he's less snuffily..
he's lost 3 lbs in a week. He's also drinking more water.

I've cut out sugar again and taking good care of my liver.

He has seen an improvement in his eyesight. He's getting some of that peripheral vision back but when I asked him if he felt confident to drive again...he doesn't. He's not allowed yet either.

Course my big worry is if there's another , bigger one waiting in the wings as this one was so out of the blue.

He has a review tomorrow at the hospital. So will see what is the doctor has to say.

Sorry for short reply , life is happening rather a lot at the mo.
V fit friend had stroke out of blue 2 yrs ago aged 61. It was very scary, has left her with problems , but amazing recovery and nothing like it since. So far so good. Hope he's the same.
Hope you feel better too.

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Thanks footie.

Well he went for his review. Everything was going great. Doc was pleased with his progress. He passed all the tests.
He wanted him to have an ECG which we had to come back for and some blood tests.

He was taken off and then I heard her saying are you ok. I looked through the side of the curtain and he was a horrible colour...beige instead of ruddy cheeked.

I went rushing over with rescue remedy and he was totally unresponsive. The doctor came running. I was crying and I just thought he'd had a massive stroke.

Gradually he came too. They got him to lie down and apparently the nurse hadn't been able to find his vein and poked around and he'd passed out.

I need to get a grip. Can someone send me one under plain cover. That was just horrible.

Jeez! What a start to the new year!

How horrible. Tell him he doesn't need to go to such lengths to amuse you. Glad you were ready with the rescue rem. I hope you had a good swig yourself.

I did lol!

He's been given statins , before the result of the blood test. Wouldn't t it be better to see the results first.

I think once you've actually had an event like a stroke or heart attack, statins are proven to be a Good Thing to prevent recurrence. Even more so for men than women I believe. Nasty stuff but hey.

Update

Well two and a bit weeks on things are still improving. He looks really well but then he always does. I took him to a behavioural optometrist on Friday. There's a treatment involving light of various colours and exercises called syntronics. It's expensive but not prohibitively so . He will get 4 free 1 hour sessions over two days so quite intensive and then his vision will be measured. If there's no improvement there's no charge. If there is he will get the other 16 over the course of a month plus two consultations with the BO and that will be £1000.

Theres a book called Ghost in my Brain which explains about it. A university professor was rear ended in his car and got mild concussion. He didn't go to hospital but the exults over 8 years were dreadful starting with memory loss and then physical symptoms. He managed to find out about two Chicago clinicians who were treating people with this therapy and were having astounding results. He tried it and he got back to where he used to be. I hope DH is suitable for this treatment as they have had good results with dyslexia and he does have that. There's only about 6 places inthe uk where you can get this treatment so we are lucky to be very close to one.

We're off to the sun tomorrow . I think that will help a lot.

Can't believe it's only been two weeks. We've had 4 visits from nurses/ stroke association. One hospital review and one visit to behavioural optometrist. The lady from the stroke association told him the route to take to get back to driving.

She also agreed with us about not taking statins which were given at the hospital.
No one has explained why this has happened . After doing lots and lots of reading we can only put it down to dehydration. He'd been eating a lot of Serrano ham , which is very salty, before bedtime. He hadn't drunk much water. He'd had a couple of glasses of wine and it happened shortly after he got up in the morning. This clot was missed on the ct scan, so it must only be small as it needed an MRI to pick it up. His blood pressure is good and we eat a good diet. He's slightly overweight, 12 st 12 on a medium 5'8ins frame and he stopped smoking 8 years ago. His arteries are good. So far there doesn't appear Tobe another explanation.

Would you like me to keep you updated? I don't want to bore anyone.

For anyone who wants to know more

www.visiontherapy.co.uk/syntonics/