said “in that case…” and took me to the front desk to refer me to one of his partners. When I visited him the next day, he told me that an eye muscle in my left eye had calcified because of the Graves and would not regenerate, that it could be fixed by surgery after it stabilized in a year or so, but that he would give me a prescription for prism glasses. I asked why what he was saying was so different from what the other doctor in his cubicle said, and he stated that “it is a very specialized field.”
I had heard about prism glasses from another eye doctor friend, but in my mind they were something which looked strange and stigmatizing. I was surprised that they were easy to make and just look like any other glasses, and they were less expensive than my last pair of regular glasses. By the way, when I went to my local optician to get the glasses made, he gave me some stick-on prisms for free to put in a drug store pair of reading glasses, so I walked out of there being able to see and drive home with both eyes! The optician was very familiar with prisms, it was an easy job for him and he indicated that other prisms could be added if my vision changes.
The best part is, I now can do everything again so I have my life back! The eye doctor did say this might be just a temporary fix, but I am happy each day that I can have a normal life. I would like to encourage people to not accept that nothing can be done, and keep looking for treatments. I hope my experience can be helpful to someone else. Good luck! J S
