Posted by Lorraine on November 9, 2001, at 9:23:53
In reply to Curved vision : any clues?, posted by Anna laura on November 9, 2001, at 8:13:44
I get very bizarre side effects from ADs, especially Wellbutrin and Nardil. With Wellbutrin when I entered a light room from darkness the whole room dance for me with light bogging this way and that and I had visual trails. On Nardil, I had very wierd visual things, like when I take my reading glasses off a horizontal line remains across my vision where the rim of the glasses were for maybe 1/2 hour to 45 minutes. Plus the bottom filed of my vision seems to be cut off.
I saw an opthamologist (both times) and she looked it up in her book (Opthamolic side effects of psychotropic medications) and found the side effects lists so that plus the physical exam told me not to worry (the effects were noted to be reversible on stopping the med). It just became a question of whether the effects were tolerable and safe for say driving. You might go see a good opthamologist and ask about this--bring your meds.
Lorraine> I've got this problem: when i turn my head from left to right and viceversa, i get visual distortions (objects and persons seem to "bend").
> I've been suffering from these curious visual distortions for a year by now;
> It started during my last bout of depression last year (major episode over dhysthymia); i eventually recovered from the major episode (came back to my old dhysthmya) by the end of January of the current year, but the symptoms persisted; I talked to a bunch of doctors about it, but nobody seems to have a clue. I've been searching on the net too and didn't find anything resembling this strange discomfort. I'm starting to doubt it might be caused by a medical condition ( i hope not).
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> Any input will be appreciated
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