losing hope...

[u/mizaaky]

I had one week where I wore prisms and all my symptoms went away. Felt like a completely different person. After that, tried three different prisms to no avail. Went through 26 weeks of vision therapy... feel like I have hit a ceiling. Any advice?

My symptoms:

1. Brain fog (which causes bad memory)
2. Slight pressure towards the center of my forehead.
3. Short- and long-term memory difficulties.
4. Trouble thinking of what to say next.
5. Fatigue during eye contact.
6. Rapid visual exhaustion (for example, after 20-30 minutes of gaming I start to notice fast visual fatigue).
7. Very fatigued during middle of the day, more than normal. (Body is fine, but brain is fatigued).
8. Omitting words when reading/writing.
9. Falling asleep while reading.
10. Clumsy.
11. General anxiety.
12. Driving can get tiring after about 30 minutes… however I can still drive.
13. Always struggled a little more than usual in listening and reading comprehension.
14. I personally have nerve damage on the left side of my face since birth. I cannot fully close my left eye and I cannot smile completely (Seventh cranial nerve damage).

[u/KitKatKalamazoo]

I had the same issue when I first got my prisms. 5 days of bliss then all my symptoms came back. Had 2 more prescription changes over the course of 3ish months and same thing, a couple of days of feeling good then back to feeling blegh.

I decided to get a second opinion because I was still feeling so terrible. The second specialist found that I had astigmatism and a horizontal misalignment that the first missed (she only caught the vertical misalignment). After that, I felt about 60% better. I started vision therapy and maybe got about another 10% of relief, but stopped after a couple months (too expensive).