Hi Jodie I i made my self up a lense a week or so ago out of some clear baroque glass i do stained glass as a hobbie which does work blurres the image but i can still see out of that eye and it allows me to drive I have it stuck in with sticky tape certainly worked better than the ones the local optometrist made up for me. Ithink some of my headache problem is that I have been trying to go without glasses in an attempt to get the brain to suppress the distorted image in my r eye headache is much better today as I had my glasses on all day this may be a helpful suggestion for others while they are waiting to get to see a specialist optometrist thank you so much for all your help and suggestions Ruth Solly
Yes, getting the right correction will involve a trial and error process.
Do you have glasses now? I'd suggest trying to wear a foil on the inside of the lens for your affected eye that would blur your vision so that you'd be relying on your good eye. This is a much better solution cosmetically than wearing an eye patch. Your optometrist should have foils available in a range of powers.
I don't know the extent to which my own experience would generalize to others, but wearing the wrong prescription in my bad eye provided comfortable vision. Through some type of neuroadaptive process, my brain automatically screened out the distorted image in my bad eye. It seemed like I was seeing out of both eyes, and I wasn't aware of the loss of depth perception. (Apparently, there are many visual cues for judging depth.) This wouldn't work for viewing 3-D movies, but my vision seemed to be fine for driving. (In the 3rd edition of "The Fine Art of Prescribing Glasses Without Making a Spectacle of Yourself" by Milder & Rubin, the authors prescribe glasses with the wrong script in one eye for a physician who suffered a badly botched LASIK procedure in one eye--and it worked just fine.)
Hi I went to see the eye specialist who was very apologetic said he only ever come across this once in his professional life and didn't know what to advise me .he had written and phoned Ken Robertson in Auckland also he took copies of Gerard De Wits paper on retinal induced aniseikona and the info on the aniseikonia inspector . I attended the appt with Ken Robertson who was helpful he also was aware of Gerard De Wit Ken is trying to make me some lenses at this stage for driving did say that it would be atrial and error exercise but was happy to hang in there . My major problem at the moment is constant headaches despite taking panadol 2 every 4 hours do u have any suggestions I am trying to work and finding this a real struggle with the headaches any suggestion will be appreciated . Ruth Solly
You are incredibly lucky! I live in a large metropolitan area (Chicago), and I have yet to encounter an optometrist who is knowledgeable about retinally-induced aniseikonia. A couple of optometrists actually became hostile when I attempted to explain the concept of field dependency. I did see a very enlightened local neuro-ophthalmologist who used correction techniques similar to those of Dr. de Wit. However, the ophthalmologists I contacted who specialized in binocular vision actually refused to see me when they learned that my problems were retinally induced.
NZ is apparently more advanced in this area than we are in the US. It sounds like you are in good hands.
hi Jodie Yes I intend taking the information an the aniseikonia inspector with me on tues. and I am lucky to have someone in Nz he is about 3 hours from me at the university of Auckland .Whenthis first happened I managed to stumble over your site and got on to Dr De Wits stuff from there it hen did a nz search for retinally induced aniseikonia specialists in nz and his was the only name popped up .the Auckland university school of optometry and vision science runs teaching clinics at the university and so I ph and got an appt with him.Ken Robertson is Canadian he apparently developed the Robertson technique of measuring dynamic aniseikonia and designed iseikonic lesses you can google him I feel incredibly lucky as I suspect he is probably the only one in nz. Will let you know how I go
JodieJ: Thanks again for sharing your experience and research. JHaganMD