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Assorted PWEPs (People with eye problems).... FLASHBACK TIME: The first time I had my eyes examined at Kaiser Permanente's eye clinic, the clinician told me that one of the problems one has when one's got double vision is that the eyes stop working in concert - as an integrated unit, that is - and begin to try to compensate for the problem rapidly SWITCHING vision back and forth - thousands of times a minute, thus seeing out of only one eye at a time. Apparently this works to some degree in lessening the double vision until or unless the condition becomes pretty constant. The clinician (an optometrist, not an opthomalogist) commented that this type of eye problem causes tremendous physical fatigue, which MIGHT explain why so many Parkies often experience pronounced tiredness. Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Ken Janis <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sunday, May 02, 1999 7:29 AM Subject: visual dysfunction >FINALLY some mass awareness of the visual >dysfunction associated with PD. These multiple >visual problems along with depression were a >major component of my initial "package" of >presenting issues. Several opthalmologists >(including prominent academicians) did not >comment on the problem and others stated >that "convergence insufficiency" was NOT >related to the PD. My "basket" of problems >included extreme discomfort (car sick with headache) >which accompanies any serious attempt to concentrate, >read or track (store or bookshelves). I have been >through all the various therapeutic efforts (prisms, >limited correction of blended progressive lenses, >exercises, medication manipulations, tinted >lens filters, eye patch etc) without improvement. >Reading attempts are limited to rapid scanning. > >Ken Janis, MD >