How To Get Rid of Double Vision

Doctor Valerie Lam talks about how to get rid of double vision. There are several ways to help to combat against double vision like prism glasses or vision therapy.

Vision Therapy is a custom program of exercises to strengthen the eyes and brain to treat many vision problems and learning issues. Vision therapy is done under the guidance of an optometrist and with one on one coaching of a vision therapist. Here is an example of an exercise we use with our patients. Leave a comment below and let us know how you did!

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[SuperStanster]

Mine went away by itself after 2 months! I read on the internet that in most cases it will mysteriously, slowly go back to normal even if you do nothing. I had to close one eye or wear one eye patch to drive for those 2 months, then I was at work and I cut hair, so my close up vision was never double. I would cut hair easily, then close one eye to walk or drive. It was a scary 2 months but one night I noticed it was not so bad, it got better over about 4 more days and now my vision is perfect again. I did go to an eye doctor in the first week, they said my eyes were fine, just wait 2 months. IF it doesn't go back to normal, they would prescribe prism glasses that would correct it. Good luck everyone.

[Kitzen]

Mine went away by itself after 4 months! I had brain surgery back in August which caused me to have double vision. Mine was pretty severe, my prism prescription was at 32. I just patched my eye at all times. I noticed it starting to get better at about the 3 month mark, prism prescription went from a 32 to an 8 in about a months time. but it takes a longgg time to get back to normal. I know one of the comments said it took 4 days for it to go back to normal, mine took more like 4 weeks. Just want to give folks some reassurance if going through the same thing. It was super frustrating and there's not really any resources out there that tell you how long it could take. Wishing everyone good luck though... I empathize with anyone going through this.

[SuperStanster]

Stanley Rama

I began experiencing double vision when I looked far away, It started 2 months ago. I could see fine up close. So IT GOT BETTER and now almost back to normal. I had read that this is a possibility it would just go away after 2 months .and my eye doctor told me just to wait and see before getting prism glasses. I could close one eye and not have double vision, so I closed on eye or wore an eye patch so I didn't get dizzy. Wearing the eye patch on either eye, I could watch TV and drive to work, then my work is up close so I was able to do that. Good luck to everyone . It can just go away in 2 to 3 months, but not always. Check with your doctor for advice. they never found a cause.

[cheegum]

Mine first appeared in 2005. In 2009 I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.

[iders]

I am 46 and had it all my life. I lead a normal life and cope no problem

[ApexCommercial]

Absolutely beautiful Dr. Lam. Well done. Thank you for sharing this important information!!!!

[enfieldjohn]

I was born with double vision, so when I was a little kid, I didn't know that anything was wrong since I'd always seen that way. My mom and grandma did notice when I was a baby that I didn't cross my eyes. Most babies cross their eyes at least now and then, but I never did. They weren't sure if that was a problem or not.

What I and my family did notice much more was that I was incredibly clumsy. I couldn't catch anything reliably. Usually, if I did catch something, it was by accident or luck. I also had trouble with depth perception. If I reached for something, I would sometimes miss it, closing my hand too soon, or hitting it with my fingers and knocking it away accidentally rather than closing my hand around it.

I also had a hard time learning to walk and didn't walk without falling down a lot until I was almost three. I would run into things and trip over things much more easily than other kids seemed to.

I also never spoke. Didn't even try to babble, until I was three. When I turned three, I started speaking in complete sentences without any babbling. I would sometimes stutter, but you could understand me perfectly. Thinking back on it later, we wondered if I took so long to learn to talk because I wasn't seeing people's faces correctly, so I had to learn a different way to learn to talk than mimicking other people's mouth movements.

From the time I was born until I was about four years old, I had terrible fevers and headaches. Sometimes, the fevers would get so high that I would hallucinate and point to things that weren't there, just scared to death of them. Other times, I would see inanimate objects and shadows moving around. When I was able to talk, I would tell my family about how I would have nightmares that wouldn't go away when I woke up. The monsters would chase me from my bed to my parents' room.

My family took me to all sorts of specialists for years trying to figure out what was causing the fevers, clumsiness and developmental delays. It was the early 70's, so they didn't know as much about how the brain works as they do now. My family was told all sorts of theories from mental retardation to brain injury possibly caused at birth to possible brain cancer. It was a scary time.

We found a specialist in Denver (the nearest 'big city' to where we lived in the panhandle of Nebraska) who did a bunch of tests and determined that I had a hive tumor in my head. It would flare up periodically when I would be too hot, stressed, scared or very tired. The tumor seemed to be benign, but they didn't know of any way to remove or reduce it. They had us come back every six months for a few years to monitor it. Over the next few years, it gradually reduced on its own, and I stopped having fevers so high that they caused hallucinations. I still get feelings of an intense prickly itch and heat in my face when I am too hot or stressed to this day.

In the meantime, I still was clumsy as all get out. The specialists who found the tumor suspected that it could be having some effect on my brain's ability to process information, but they weren't sure. We eventually went to a new optometrist who had recently moved to the much closer town of North Platte. I was five now, and my parents had decided to not send me to Kindergarten yet because of my problems. Nebraska didn't require a kid to go to school of some kind until he was seven in those days.

This eye doctor examined me and determined that I needed glasses for nearsightedness. He also noticed that both of my eyes didn't track movement together, nor was I able to focus on an object for more than a second or two at a time, and even then only with concentration. Somehow, no other specialist we had gone to had even considered checking my vision. Go figure.

He taught me how to do several eye exercises to strengthen the muscles that made my eyes move from side to side especially, but also the ones that made them move up and down. I still do those exercises now and then to this day. Many of the exercises that this Youtube channel has videos for are among the list of exercises that I do.

Doing the exercises was very difficult at first and I hated doing them when I was a kid, but they did help me a lot. As the muscles got stronger, I was able to learn to read and solve math problems by the time I was eight. I was also able to improve my dexterity and depth perception well enough to dribble and shoot a basketball by the time I was ten. I was and still am a bit more clumsy and slow than the 'average' person, but I can read and write, do math, build models, play video games (not very well but I can play them) and even drive a car.

I can more or less control my double vision now as long as I don't get too tired. If I get tired, no amount of concentration can keep things together.

Now, over the last five years or so, I've had to deal with primary hypoparathyroidism which has affected all of my nervous system, joints and muscles, including my eyes. I'm having a harder time keeping my vision singular than I used to. I feel like I'm starting over again with the eye exercises as they are much harder to do now. I'm going to see my current eye doctor and ask about putting prisms in my next set of glasses to see if that helps.

Thanks for posting this video and your other videos on vision! People need to know about these vision challenges that they or their loved ones could have. If you haven't done so already, could you do a video about how things like brain tumors, endocrine system problems, etc. can affect peoples' vision?

[bellagosnell]

I have double vision from a brain bleed! I’m getting surgery this Thursday to get it fixed and I’m super nervous

[LayzeFlavored]

Thank you, i still have double vision after watching this, im in 6th grade, and my double vision started on the end of pre k

[dick-diddling-bandit]

I self diagnosed myself with double vision. It’s permanent and not caused by muscles. It’s something inside. Gladly I told my eye doctor so I can get rid of it.

[chinchilla]

I have double vision, age related since March 2022. I'm so tired of the headaches every single day. 24/7 headaches that Panadol and Nurofen only take the edge off the pain. I'm almost 68yrs and i've given up.

[hectorheath]

My friend (just 70) developed it and had the prism fitted to his glasses, then uncannily a month later I developed it. I blame it on looking at my phone too closely and too long 'cos I'm short sighted and take my specs off when I look. I would suggest the glasses prism makes your eye muscles lazy. Exercise them instead.

[fractal_]

I've had this my whole life and as dumb as it sounds, it honestly never occurred to me that I had it, cause I can get by fine. Trying prism glasses now.

[Majiins]

The fact that I can switch it to double vision and at normal vision at any time

[drjimbowimbo]

How did the camera create the double vision effect, generally curious.

[zazzmagar]

I can see fine when i see near objects. But i can't focus and get double vision when i look at far-away things like flying birlds, planes, stars n moon.it's been happening for quite some time..

[Corgi]

I have prism in my glasses and it keeps getting worse over time it is sure scarry

[dessyyyy]

I have double vision but only when looking at my phone in dark mode? I had floaters and went to an eye doctors and they said everything was fine but this started in October and I’m still seeing it on my phone😭

[GorgeousHotRat]

I'm in 9th grade and I keep seeing my teacher do the shadow clone jutsu