I am not sure about revel's problem, but ophthalmologists don't seem to have the answer for the vertical ghosting (separately in each eye) that a number of people on this forum have. I saw two ophthalmologists and they said they'd never heard of it and couldn't explain it. Others have also had this problem for years or decades, seen multiple doctors and found no answer.
Now I have 14,5 prism (base in) glasses. I have had these for three months. No more one eye diplopia with both eyes, ghost images or nothing. I did get work as an electrical engineer and life is smiling. I hope I can someday help somebody with this kind of problem.
That is very interesting, Ahmad; thanks for posting.
I do have vertical ghosting, in each eye separately, but unlike with many people, mine occurs only when I am (1) reading while looking down; and/or (2) very fatigued.
The idea of higher-order aberrations, which I looked up, is interesting, but I don't understand how the ghosting would only be triggered by those two conditions. What would fatigue have to do with corneal topography? That is a mystery to me.
There's a very clear correlation for me between the onset of the ghosting and fatigue (general fatigue, i.e., lack of sleep, and/or presumed eye fatigue from a couple of minutes of fast reading while looking down).
Good luck to you as continue your research. I hope you find an answer for your "good" eye.
Nancy T.
Hello All, My Name Is Ahmad And I'm Suffering From This Problem Since 2009, And It Keep Getting worse.
The ophthalmologists I visit have no idea what is this, but as I change doctors A Lot my clothes, I build up a good knowledge of the subject taking some words from one doctor and some from the other.
to mention this at first, i spent the last 3 years searching and looking through the Internet about this problem as well as searching for other medical conditions regarding depression, dizziness, and so on.
and I've found the question asked by Larchy in 2008, and the replies of the people specially Nancy T who I've found to be a good person and try to help who ever she feels need helping.
returning to the subject, I have severe monocular diplopia in my left eye, where i see many(multiple) ghost images above and below the real object and beside it (to the right and to the left) as well but not as severe as the vertical diplopia.
that was my left eye...... my right eye is lazy (ambylopic ) as i have severe astigmatism in it and the brain just cancels the images coming from it... so my left eye was my precious eye to me untill i had this weird thing in 2009.
i also have severe starburst effect at night which you see what is supposed to be asingle dot of light, you see it as lots of dots with arms of light coming out from them.
after walking by alot of doctors, neurologists, psychologists, and ophthalmologists, and being diagnosed with tons of unrelated things which is considered so minor in the eyes of the doctors and consider me a hypochondriac or an exaggerator.
I diagnosed my self based on their talks altogether, as every one individually has given me nothing to rely on.
first of all, the problem seems to be worse in dim light conditions, and when you are tired or in conditions when you lack some sleep, and that has a simple explanation..... in theses situation, your pupil seems to be larger than normal, and large pupil amplify any problem might be there in your eye, it is the exact opposite of pinhole experiment which you reduce the area of your cornea that takes in light, and there is another reason why it doesnt happen in the day, or at least it will be so faint or small to be noticed.
secondly, there must be something wrong with our corneas... after some research, you can find that this problem is found in the people who undergoes refractive surgery, as the flap divides the cornea into two places, and when your pupil is dilated an exceed the limit of the flap, you will see ghosting, starbusrsts and blur.
for the people who never goes under lasik, PRK, or any other refractive surgery, then they have something called HOA higher order aberrations and that suppose to be discovered by a corneal topography or pentacam but in some cases as mine, they cant see it.
thye HOA could be normal and mild, or it can be a result of a corneal dystrophy which i suspect myself to have.
search corneal dystrophy and lasik disasters and see if it can help you, and i am happy to be contacted if any one needs in anything or if someone reaches a rigid solution...
Thanks Alot.
Ahmad.
I have seen ophthalmologist two times. In fact, once in year 2006 I did get some good results, wich I did not noticed as I shoud have. "After one hour Marlow the results were -9 Prd for long distance and -15 for near distance". There were much more information, but that information may be irrelevant. Doctor also say in that diagnose that "Monocular diplopia is not caused by astigmatism". I don't know what means "Marlow" and did not undertand doctors diagnose, and maybe thats why this has been so big challenge to get my vision back.
Anyway, in that point in year 2006 I had 3prd+3prd glasses and i bought two fresnel 3prd lenses extra (3+3 in glasses and 3+3 with fresnel, or so I Thought. I put them on and I coudl see. I tried to order glasses with 12 Prd but my optician said that I had put those 3+3 PRD fresnel lenses wrong way so I did not have any prism at all. After that I used contact lenses and completed my university studies, and then happened what I wrote before.
I had so many diagnoses, so I did't paid attention on that diagnose. Other diagnoses which I had weren't even close, and I could't read those papers anyway, before I solved this problem.
It is impossible to comment without an examination. You need to see an ophthalmologist.
Dr. O