HI Renee,
This is what happened the day I started the radiation therapy.It was in the plan at sometime down the road. I had been to the hospital to have my mask made of my face. It doesn”t hurt or anything. it looks like a golie mask. I had an apt . with my optho that morning and my sister had taken me. When I had the check up they asked me when my eyes got worse. well I wasn’t sure what he was talking about as they had been bad for along time to me anyway. I couldn’t look up or down or to either side. sometimes the lights seemed to go dim. Anyway he wrote a note by hand and told me to take it to the hospital and give it to Dr.—- which I did. We were asked to not leave the hospital because I was going to start to have treatments emmidiatly.(sp) I was really nervous. I guess what was happening was my optical nerve was being compressed and I didn’t realize because my eyes had been so bad for so long. I was given a prescription to start that day Prednisone . I have tried to post my experiences with prednisone and it was pulled , so won’t try again. So I did have a treatment that day and for 9 more after that.as well as being on the pred. My eyes are way better. don’t know why and can”t prove anything maybe it would have happened anyway. don’t thinkk so. I do have double vision and blurry a bit. I cant read for more than 10-15 min
cause I loose focus. I do see the optho next month and he will
decide about the surgery and so will I.
Before the radiation and pred. my eyes were swollen above the eyebrow and my eyes were so sensitive to bright light, red watery etc.
it is not so bad . If I get tense or angry my left eye starts to bulge so that you can see the white around the iris. Its funny if I could only live in a perfect world.
Talk to you soon
Lou