vision problems

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I have sectoral heterochromia, one eye all blue the other mostly blue with brown. I had 20/20 vision until I reached my 30's and now need glasses only to see distance.

Debbie

From: littlel77 <lcountee@...>Subject: Re: vision problemsheterochromia Date: Saturday, August 15, 2009, 12:44 PM

Just as a counterpoint to this, I have heterochromia and still have perfect vision at age 31. So, there is not necessarily a perfect correlation between vision problems and heterochromia.> >> > My 2 year old has one brown eye and one blue/grey eye. He was tilting his head back to watch tv for about 2 weeks then he stopped and was back to normal. I told his dr and he went to an eye dr. He now wears glasses because his

brown eye is weaker than his blue eye. Anyone else have vision problems?> >> > I have sectoral heterochromia. (both eyes are brown and blue) And I wear glasses. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty useless without them. My father, grandmother, AND great grandmother also have heterochromia and also have poor eyesight. I have a pair of 6 year old twins and the optometrst told me that most likely they will need glasses. Even though my eyesight sucks I wouldnt trade my blue brown eyes for 20/20 vision. Your son will adjust and learn to live with it. besides, there is always lasik surgery in the future.>

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I guess everyone is unique. Hopefully your son will also have perfect vision

but even if he doesnt, he'll be fine with glasses.

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> > > My 2 year old has one brown eye and one blue/grey eye. He was tilting his

head back to watch tv for about 2 weeks then he stopped and was back to normal.

I told his dr and he went to an eye dr. He now wears glasses because his brown

eye is weaker than his blue eye. Anyone else have vision problems?

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> > I have sectoral heterochromia. (both eyes are brown and blue) And I wear

glasses. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty useless without them. My father,

grandmother, AND great grandmother also have heterochromia and also have poor

eyesight. I have a pair of 6 year old twins and the optometrst told me that

most likely they will need glasses. Even though my eyesight sucks I wouldnt

trade my blue brown eyes for 20/20 vision. Your son will adjust and learn to

live with it. besides, there is always lasik surgery in the future.

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> My 2 year old has one brown eye and one blue/grey eye. He was tilting his

head back to watch tv for about 2 weeks then he stopped and was back to normal.

I told his dr and he went to an eye dr. He now wears glasses because his brown

eye is weaker than his blue eye. Anyone else have vision problems?

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yeah!! i have one blue eye and one green eye and the green one is weaker so i

have glasses too.

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I have the same colours (green and brown) in my both eyes, only that the colours of my left eye are a shade lighter than the ones in my right eye. Is it still heterochromia? Nobody ever told me if they've noticed the diffrence, but I know it and I don't like it much...

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> My 2 year old has one brown eye and one blue/grey eye. He was tilting his

head back to watch tv for about 2 weeks then he stopped and was back to normal.

I told his dr and he went to an eye dr. He now wears glasses because his brown

eye is weaker than his blue eye. Anyone else have vision problems?

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Yes, I had a blue and brown eye when I was young. It eventually turned to a

hazel and dark brown when I became a teenager and has stayed those colors.

Anyways, I have vision problems and have been wearing glasses since I was 2. My

blue/hazel eye is lazy. I did patching when I was younger, but it didn't help.

Everyone used to think that my bad vision was due to my two different colored

eyes, but I don't think that my vision problems have anything to do with having

heterochromia because my son has a lazy eye and has been wearing glasses since

he was 18 months old, and both of his eyes are the same color. I think that it

probably has more to do with genetics.

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Hi,I wear glasses and contacts. One eye is stronger than the other, but that isn't due to the color. I think it's just like anyone else. There are eye strengthening exercises out there you can do with your two year old to help improve his vision, based on if he is near or far-sighted. Just google it!

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I agree. I don't have heterochromia, but there have been vision problems in my family as far back as I can remember. I am the first in my family, that I know of, that didn't need glasses by age 20. Bad vision just runs in some families.        Best Selling Author of Son of My Soul - The Adoption of , A Very Special Child - An Adoption Story - co-author Jesus Gandhi Oma Mae "; scribe for Bullfrog Catcher http://www.DebraShiveleyWelch.netI firmly believe that I have received the same child I was meant to receive whether I gave birth or adopted. The same soul, the same entity was meant to be mine from the beginning of time. Debra Shiveley Welch "A Very Special Child"

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>> My 2 year old has one brown eye and one blue/grey eye. He was tilting his head back to watch tv for about 2 weeks then he stopped and was back to normal. I told his dr and he went to an eye dr. He now wears glasses because his brown eye is weaker than his blue eye. Anyone else have vision problems?>Yes, I had a blue and brown eye when I was young. It eventually turned to a hazel and dark brown when I became a teenager and has stayed those colors. Anyways, I have vision problems and have been wearing glasses since I was 2. My blue/hazel eye is lazy. I did patching when I was younger, but it didn't help. Everyone used to think that my bad vision was due to my two different colored eyes, but I don't think that my vision problems have anything to do with having heterochromia because my son has a lazy eye and has been wearing glasses since he was 18 months old, and both of his eyes are the same color. I think that it probably has more to do with genetics.

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I really don't think there's any correlation. I've worn glass since age 7 but so

did my siblings and they don't have heterochromia.

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> My 2 year old has one brown eye and one blue/grey eye. He was tilting his

head back to watch tv for about 2 weeks then he stopped and was back to normal.

I told his dr and he went to an eye dr. He now wears glasses because his brown

eye is weaker than his blue eye. Anyone else have vision problems?

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Hello,

There is some disagreement and contention amongst heterochromia specialists regarding the sight of heterochromiacs. It is understood that the lighter one's eye color, the lighter the image that reaches the brain. Therefore, in heterochromiacs with a two spectrum difference (like your son, who has a significant difference in eye color) the brain often argues with itself about which image to choose. If someone has sectoral heterochromia, central heterochromia with close colors (like a green eye and a blue-green eye) then the problem isn't such an issue.

Now realize, you can't close one eye and then the other and see the color difference. It's very very minimal, but the brain does notice the difference and often it will cause a dominant eye syndrome to the extent that the brain "ignores" the input from the other eye.

So okay, how does this effect us? It's different for everyone. I've heard of everything from balance issues to lazy eyes to full blown macular degeneration. In my case, my eyes are dark brown and very light blue and I'm extremely sensitive to light. When I was younger I had these terrible headaches until my eyesight matured with a 20/240 sight loss. I had lasik surgery about ten years ago and it solved the problem, though I'm still extremely light sensitive.

The person commenting before me is right - try eye strengthening excercises. Also there are exercises for adjusting the dominant eye, those can also be googled. Keep an eye on your son and look for him to rub his forehead or close one eye in bright sunlight. These are indications that the problem has become worse and you should consider taking him to an opthamologist. There's a special pair of glasses that can force the dominant eye to take a back seat to the weaker eye.

Good luck,

From: alilus1 <alilus2007@...>Subject: vision problemsheterochromia Date: Friday, August 14, 2009, 12:22 PM

My 2 year old has one brown eye and one blue/grey eye. He was tilting his head back to watch tv for about 2 weeks then he stopped and was back to normal. I told his dr and he went to an eye dr. He now wears glasses because his brown eye is weaker than his blue eye. Anyone else have vision problems?

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> I have the same colours (green and brown) in my both eyes, only that the

colours of my left eye are a shade lighter than the ones in my right eye. Is it

still heterochromia? Nobody ever told me if they've noticed the diffrence, but I

know it and I don't like it much...

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awww don't say you don't like your eyes...if you have any form of heterochromia

that puts you in a unique percentage of the population!!!

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Hi ,

Do you have a source for this information, or a name of one of the

" heterochromia specialists " to whom you refer? Not sure what the connection

would be between color of iris and the image resulting from the light taken in

by the pupil. Also would be interested in more information about heterochromia

being related to balance issues or headaches - have never heard of that or read

that before. Not saying you are incorrect, just would like to read some more

detailed information. Thanks.

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> Subject: vision problems

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> Date: Friday, August 14, 2009, 12:22 PM

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> My 2 year old has one brown eye and one blue/grey eye. He was tilting his head

back to watch tv for about 2 weeks then he stopped and was back to normal. I

told his dr and he went to an eye dr. He now wears glasses because his brown eye

is weaker than his blue eye. Anyone else have vision problems?

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Hello,

No problem, I'm happy to explain further and cite references.

Let's back up a step and consider a person with the same colored eyes. Consider that people with lighter colored eyes (both the same, such as two blues or two greens) have a higher likelihood of photophobia. This is because the lighter eyes reflect light, and the darker eyes absorb it. Remember that the cornea and the lens are the two parts that send light to the retina, where the rods and cones send the information to the brain. The pupil, of course, is the part where light enters, but the amount of light is affected by the pigmentation in the iris, because again, darker color absorbs it, and lighter reflects it. Check out this article, which explains the structure of the eye much better than I am.

http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_light_sensitivity.hcsp

Here's a good short paragraph that explains how iris pigementation affects perception of light:

"People with a lighter eye color also may experience more light sensitivity in environments such as bright sunlight, because darker-colored eyes contain more pigment to protect against harsh lighting."

That's from http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/lightsensitive.htm

So what I'm getting at is this. These issues mess with our brain. On an infinitesimal level, we're giving the brain two completely different images to decipher. And its in the brain where the final decison is made. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051026082313.htm Color perception is all about the brain.

Here's another good article about light and how it's perceived by the brain: http://handprint.com/HP/WCL/color1.html

Realize that this is a new field. Before, these tests could not be conducted because cadaver eyes didn't reflect the light the way a living person's retina would. We are just now truly understanding what is the real connection between color, the eye and the brain.

As far as heterochromia experts, that's a trickier question. I know that there's one in Germany, one in Finland and one in Australia. I'm lucky enough to have been a patient of Ming X. Wang, the American opthamologist. Though he probably wouldn't call himself an expert, I know I would. There's no one I know more informed about heterochromia. Also, he's a champion ballroom dancer

Look, if you are taking the kid to a Lens Crafters doctor, don't expect him to know or understand any of these studies or anything about heterochromia itself. But any opthamologist who knows about Waardenburg Syndrome will know about heterochromia. Unfortunately, that's the best I can offer you.

Now regarding the balance issues, the loss of eyesight, etc, I'm sorry but all I have are ancedotes. I did my thesis on f Mengele (may he rot in hell) and his attempts to breed the "super-psychic". He, along with his mentor, did experiments on "Gypsies" with heterochromia because he believed that heterochromiacs were endowed with super-abilities. I interviewed the some of the families and the victims themselves and these are the stories I heard from them. Also, I belonged to several heterochromia groups and these are the stories I've gathered from them.

You should realize, only heterchromiacs are interested in this stuff. We're a rare breed, you know. All of the fables, the hand-me-down stories, the science...it's taking a long time to get onto the Net because of lack of interest. *shrug*

Hope that helps. I'm on the road traveling, so I didn't have my library at hand.

From: littlel77 <lcountee@...>Subject: Re: vision problemsheterochromia Date: Monday, August 17, 2009, 4:50 PM

Hi ,Do you have a source for this information, or a name of one of the "heterochromia specialists" to whom you refer? Not sure what the connection would be between color of iris and the image resulting from the light taken in by the pupil. Also would be interested in more information about heterochromia being related to balance issues or headaches - have never heard of that or read that before. Not saying you are incorrect, just would like to read some more detailed information. Thanks.> > > From: alilus1 <alilus2007@ ...>> Subject: vision problems> heterochromia> Date: Friday, August 14, 2009, 12:22 PM> > > > > > > My 2 year old has one brown eye and one blue/grey eye. He was tilting his head back to watch tv for about 2 weeks then he stopped and was back to normal. I told his dr and he went to an eye dr. He now wears glasses because his brown eye is weaker than his blue eye. Anyone else have vision problems?>__________________________________________________

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Hi Bee, I have been on the diet since March of 2009. I have slipped up a bit

and craved cake. I stayed on the diet but add bakery. I am on track again.

My question is that I have alway had near sighted vision since first grade, and

it progressivily gets worse every year. I have had break through bleeding which

damaged my vision in the left eye. I have floaters and the start of cateracts

starting. They are having a hard time fitting me with glasses. I see better

with contacts, but it is getting hard on my eyes. The eye doctor is considering

cateract surgury and the replacement of the lens in my eyes.

Since I have been on the diet,

the retina doctor said I had a small improvement in the health of my eyes but my

vision is worse. First time in my life time anyone ever said I have any

improvement.

What can I do to improve my vision. Increase some supplements? What is your

opinion on the surgury?

Donna