Hi Since I have been sick, my left eye has been bigger than my right one. I wonder if this is from the optic nerve swelling or what, has anyone exprienced that? How did you treat it? Thanks
Posted by lou (Member # 81) on :
Are you talking about the pupil, or the eye?
Lyme can cause pupils of different size, and it is a neurological symptom. Goes away with treatment for lyme.
I'm actually talking of both pupil and eye... Thanks Lou.
Posted by tricia386 (Member # 29623) on :
You may want to look into graves disease... Lyme does sometimes affect your thyroid. You could have hyperthyroidism. I have Hashimoto with his hypothyroidism. Has your LLMD run an thyroid pannel yet? If not I would ask he/she to do so....
Posted by hadlyme (Member # 6364) on :
I heard a NP lyme specialist talk a year ago about this symptom. She was speaking here in AZ to other nurses and dr.s on how to test and treat lyme/co. She stated to look for one eye larger and drooping of eye lids as a symptom.
Not sure if one is actally larger or if the drooping of the other one makes the one look larger.. make sense.
She was the only one I've heard this from.. but weird that you are talking about it after hearing her say that.
Posted by jwall (Member # 22999) on :
I have one eye larger too! That is so weird. I always notice it in pictures. This was one of my first symptoms. I was really sick with my ear pain, tachycardia, dizzy spells, migraines, neck pain...and my friend looked at me and said, one of your eyes looks bigger - like it is popping out! I think it is from swelling on that side of my brain. I only have problems on the left side of my head, neck, spine and my left eye is bigger. Interesting...
Posted by WhitneyS (Member # 25666) on :
I have pupils that are different sizes, and my vision is unbalanaced-- also some times the skin around the eye is numb. My LLMD says its part of Lyme and that MS patients get this too. Its just another part of our brains that are effected by chronic infection either through, toxins, the actual bacteria or inflammation :-( its scary huh!
Posted by wealdsteve (Member # 25281) on :
I have had one pupil bigger than the other for about twenty years, It was only recently that I mentioned it to my lyme doc. She is sending me for an mri just to rule out anything else but it is likely to be lyme causing it.
I have had several eye checks over the last twenty years and it has never been picked up by any optician. Only by different girl friends that have gazed into my eyes over the years lol
I guess in an eye examination the time is spent looking into each eye seperatley instead of staring into them both at the same time.
Posted by bodhi6 (Member # 27105) on :
When I had a baby, and did not know I had lyme, (difficult labor- pushed with my face they said) the next morning my eye was pushed out. Had it measured, it was a 20 and my other one is a 18. Been to every type of eye dr and they say it must have been like that before or that nothing was wrong. I can totally see it in the mirror, my lid actually is split its so big, and when I am sick or have a headache it has so much pressure in it- i have to open it manually, if you get that? sometimes- the lids stick - it feels like its going to fall out of my head and drives me crazy- even had a MRI on it but no tumor, etc- happened day after I had a baby, would have had undetected lyme then, for about 6 yrs. But maybe it was weak due to lyme, they say it lives in the "aqueous humor" of the eye, and the difficult labor just pushed it out. I hope with rife and herbs it will sink back in...its one nasty thing to have to live with every day...always in your face.....
Posted by FYRECRACKER (Member # 28568) on :
my right eye is bigger than my left.
however, even in baby pictures it seems my right eye is larger.
not sure what that means.
Posted by elizzza811 (Member # 24713) on :
That ever-so-slight drooping of my eyelids, especially my left eyelid, was one of my very first symptoms. The left side of my mouth drooped slightly, too, so look for that as well.
Also, pinpoint pupils day and night. They are so tiny that driving at night, even before I was aware of my seizures, was impossible.
Posted by sutherngrl (Member # 16270) on :
I had one eye that looked bigger than the other for a couple of years. Lately it seems to have corrected. This is after almost 3 years of treatment.
I thought I was the only one!
Posted by norcal (Member # 29829) on :
There is something to this,I have that as well.I noticed it after starting treatment. Go figure.
Posted by Shahbah (Member # 28735) on :
hum., could it be from vein swelling? just guessing, maybe that creates pressure on the nerves...