Paul,

I know exactly what you mean about the focus varying! That happens for me
too, so far with one eye.

I am less sure of how it feels to refocus in the brain, but I'll give it a
try.

I've always experienced balance issues in PD as a visual-spatial phenomenon.
This must be part of that.

Thanks,

Kathleen


2009/8/15 <[log in to unmask]>

> Kathleen:
>
> My vision problem is that my focus seems to vary from time to time making
> my tri-focal glasses ineffective. The lenses are cut for reading at book
> distance, reading the computer monitor and far distance. Sometimes (more
> often
>  than not), I can't see clearly and have to push the glasses tight to my
> forehead  to see better and other times I have to refocus in my brain and
> start  over.
>
> As I re-read what I wrote, it sounds clunky but it's the best I can do.
> Sorry
>
> Paul
>
>
> In a message dated 8/15/2009 2:00:27 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> Paul,  anyone --
>
> Can you say more about vision problems? My erstwhile "good"  eye has been
> giving me problems...double vision,  floaters.
>
> Kathleen
>
> 2009/8/13 <[log in to unmask]>
>
> >  Kathleen:
> >
> > Of course you are right. My most painful symptom is  dystonia in my foot
> > which is a muscular/nerve disorder (I would  guess---have to have
> latitude
> > because I'm a civil engineer, not an  MD). One of the more annoying
> > symptoms,
> > addressed with Ambian  CR daily is insomnia and then there are the
> sensory
> > and
> >   eyesight problems neither of which fall into the movement disorder
> >  category.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > In a message dated  8/13/2009 2:00:33 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > [log in to unmask]  writes:
> >
> > A  thought spurred by seeing how the ball on  ECT/PD fell between  the
> > psychiatrists and the  neurologists:
> >
> > The longer I live with PD,  the more I  think that to term it a "movement
> > disorder" is limiting and   misleading. PD affects everything, including
> > cognition and mood. The  sooner  we all admit that, the sooner we can
> break
> > out of the box  our fragmented,  competitive system of health care and
> >  medical
> > specialties has put us  in.
> >
> >  Kathleen
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