Optic Nerve Damage Treatment

[WizardNo1]

I have been diagnosed as having optic nerve damage, which I think was caused by a terrible rear-ending I took in an auto accident back in 2006.  One of my ophthalmolgists recommended Lasik Implants, which I had performed on each eye.  The operations made things decidedly worse.  Before these operations I was not seeing out of both eyes at the same time.  My left eye is my dominant eye.  When I close my left eye, my right eye jumps from the right corner to the center, and I can see out of it, albeit poorly.  When I open my left eye again my right eye jumps back over to the corner and I get only a tiny bit of vision from my far right from it.  Thus, I have no depth perception.
Before the Lasik Implants, I had good vision from my left eye, in both bright sunlight and in very dark conditions.  Now, after the implants, the bright sunlight requires a very dark pair of sunglasses and the night vision is all but non-existent. I can no longer read without both my glasses (prescription glasses of about a 1.5 strength) and a magnifying glass.  One of the eight ophthalmologists I went to put it rather harshly after his examination.  He said, simply, "You have optic nerve damage and you will never be able to see out of both eyes at the same time again."
I desperately want to prove him wrong!  I have an appointment with an ophthalmologist-neurologist coming up, one whom I have not seen before, and I hope he can help me.  Any other suggestions or recommendations would be greatly and deeply appreciated.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

You are welcome JCH MD

[WizardNo1]

I I will follow your advice.  Although I got my Ph.D. at L.S.U., I am a retired Professor of Music at Miss. State U., and no longer reside near Baton Rouge.  I will find another surgeon nearer me, if I can.  Thank you so very much for your attention to my case!

Dr. Laurin Peyton Crowder
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[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

Suggest you get a second opinion. Find another refractive corneal surgeon near you at www.aao.org     LSU has a very good ophthalmology department.

JCH MD

[WizardNo1]

Thank you so much for the response.  Whatever procedure it was that I had made my vision much worse.  Of that much I am certain!  Now I have to have a strong flashlight even to look inside the refrigerator, and the bright outside light is blinding.  My eyes seem to have no capacity to adjust to varying degrees of light as they once did, and I continue to see only out of my left eye, unless I close my left eye, in which case my right eye jumps over to the center and I see from it as long as the left eye is closed  But, when I open my left eye again, the right eye jumps back to the right corner and I see only a tiny bit to the far right from it.

Laurin Peyton Crowder
Ph.D.  L.S.U.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

There is no such thing as a "lasik implant".  LASIK is a surgical procedure done on the cornea with an eximer laser to reduce dependence on glasses. There is no "implant" as part of this.  Also except under the most rare condition lasik is not going to cause optic nerve damage. If you were myopic and you had lasik and you are over 40 it is normal to need glasses for reading due to presbyopia.  People younger than 40 that have lasik and "it works" still need glasses for reading when they get into their early to mid 40s if all the myopia was corrected.

Keep your appointment with the neuro-ophthalmologist.

JCH MD

JCH MD