Anyone’s child failed a vision field test?

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My 15 year old has been having headaches for the past 2 weeks at night. They come on suddenly with no warning and has to take paracetamol. She says the pain is around her eyes, top of her nose going to the back of her head. She’s also sensitive to light. When she was getting her nails done the lamp was hurting her eyes and today walking round the shopping centre the lights were hurting.

so I took her for a eye test first explained her symptoms. Her vision is perfect but they said they will do a field vision test to test peripheral vision. At first she seemed okay but then failed miserably. They did it again with different settings and she still failed so they have referred her to the hospital.

I didn’t get much from the optician when I asked what it meant. She just said it can a lot of things and that was it.

I’ve done what you’re not supposed to and googled and the list of things it could be is things like glaucoma, diabetes, degenerative disease and then brain tumour.

Has anyone else had something similar and what the outcome was ? I’m driving myself mind thinking about the worse.

I would not jump to brain tumour straight away. Did they mention anything else regarding the health of the eye or did they say it looks ok? Did they do an OCT?

Teenagers with symptoms such as this are common. Most likely the optometrist is being extra cautious due to your DDs age. If her vision is good that’s a positive sign.

The visual field test is difficult for some people especially if tired etc. some people do need to return to repeat it and generally do better. But again due to her age I would assume optometrist is being cautious.

They just said vision is perfect and there was no need for a prescription. They did 2 exams in her before going in to see the optician so I assume one was the OCT.

she had the test 4 times all together twice in each eye. But didn’t ask us to return. Just said a referral needs to be made and I’ll hear within the month. So not what to make of it really.

It means you’ll get a referral to a eye doctor at the local hospital where they will
do more tests, which is routine. If they were worried it would be an urgent referral. If it takes 3 months to come through then they aren’t worried.

And the visual field test is a pretty terrible,
rather subjective test. Having done it loads of times it depends a lot on how comfortable and relaxed you are, and you often aren’t sure if you see the flashes so you end up clicking anyway, or not at all.

I failed that test twice, the optician asked me to come back the next day to try again and I failed again.

I was referred to the hospital where they did other tests plus another field test and it was fine. I had another one done at the optician a year later and that one was fine too.

This was a couple of years ago and no issues since.

I do get headaches too, unrelated to vision.

I think take her to the doctor aboiut the headaches, soon. These sound like doctor symptoms, with some vision side effects, not optician symptoms.

I have an appointment for her next week for the headaches but they always ask to get eyes tested first so rule out eye problems.

It’s not a 3 month wait. She said we will be seen within the month.

I've found the referral process is quite quick. In Somerset you get sent a code to log in and see which centres have availability and book your appointment. The catch is it might not be your local hospital, in your case it's not a problem that you are not allowed to drive after having had your pupils dilated. The NHS also uses some private ophthalmic clinics.