Hello all,
Thank you so much for your thoughts and your caring, supportive comments. It means so much. Other people really do not understand at all.
Yesterday I went to the office of the doc who originally did the strabismus surgery. The orthoptist examined me, suggested I add more prism to my glasses, and since the double vision is transient, to try the Frenell prism first, to see if it makes any difference. Because I experience it only at reading distance, not far vision, she suggested that I have two pairs of glasses, one for near and computer-distance, and another for only far. I hate to do that, and go back to changing my very expensive glasses all the time. I’ll take it a step at a time.
I am beginning to realize that this not affecting my life very much right now, and I do notice that with the added prism, I don’t have the double vision.
So I am a bit happier now.
To Sasha-
Re stress-In my experience, I have not found that stress has been a factor in Graves’ or TED-with the major exception that my experience with both of them have been very stressful. But I am sure that external stresses were not a factor. Having said that, I think there is enough literature out there documenting that stress is tough on a body, and can impact us big time, it is possible that stress IS a factor in some way.
I’d guess that there are a large number of people in this country, in war torn countries, who have extreme stress, and probably most of them do not have Graves’ or TED. Having said that, it does seem reasonable that it may impact Graves’ and TED. Just to repeat myself, I found TED the most stressful experience I have had in my life.
It is an interesting topic to consider.
Shirley
