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nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 14 Sep 11

I have been in vision therapy since June 1 of this year for my Convergence Insufficiency, and the difference between now and when I started is like night and day! I can read and write in print for longer periods now without...

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nonew3 My experience has been that having migraine along with CI has made its symptoms worse because the CI would trigger the migraines, and then I would have both at the same time. Do you by any chance have migraine? And, no, I seriously doubt if it's all...

17 Sep 11

nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 14 Sep 11

I have been in vision therapy since June 1 of this year for my Convergence Insufficiency, and the difference between now and when I started is like night and day! I can read and write in print for longer periods now without...

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nonew3 Yeah. I kept being told by many people and doctors that I was just being "mental," and that those very real symptoms that I was getting from reading and writing and looking at anything that moved were all psychosomatic or "all in my head." All of this was...

14 Sep 11

nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 14 Sep 11

I have been in vision therapy since June 1 of this year for my Convergence Insufficiency, and the difference between now and when I started is like night and day! I can read and write in print for longer periods now without...

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nonew3 One of the problems that I noticed from having vision-related vertigo is that it seems that very few medical doctors have ever heard of this. Whenever I kept going to doctors or the ER for severe vertigo spells, I kept being given medications and other...

14 Sep 11

nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 14 Sep 11

I have been in vision therapy since June 1 of this year for my Convergence Insufficiency, and the difference between now and when I started is like night and day! I can read and write in print for longer periods now without...

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nonew3 Glasses never really worked for my Convergence Insufficiency (CI) because it is a brain issue. The CI just kept getting worse and worse, to the point that the prism lenses no longer helped. I was also once prescribed pencil push-ups but that didn't work...

14 Sep 11

nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 14 Sep 11

I have been in vision therapy since June 1 of this year for my Convergence Insufficiency, and the difference between now and when I started is like night and day! I can read and write in print for longer periods now without...

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nonew3 Vision therapy is a series of exercises to re-train the connection between the eyes and the brain, and they are prescribed by a licensed vision therapist. My vision therapist is an optometrist with a post-doctorate degree in optometry. Vision therapy...

14 Sep 11

nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 14 Sep 11

I have been in vision therapy since June 1 of this year for my Convergence Insufficiency, and the difference between now and when I started is like night and day! I can read and write in print for longer periods now without...

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nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 24 Aug 11

If you are an adult with severe Convergence Insufficiency (CI), the medical doctors and the disability-services organizations can't handle you. That has been my many-years experience with the local disability-services...

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nonew3 Very. But, I will be writing letters of complaint to all of the places that kept messing up and kept refusing and postponing appropriate services, including that deafness center. I have just a few more sessions of vision therapy left, thankfully. I'll...

14 Sep 11

Bashful87 @Bashful87 (123) 24 Aug 11

I am working as a part time in the evening and my job sometimes requires me to work over time or even like 24 hours especially when I have to substitute some absentees.I felt very exhausted and with that I've got fever and I can't...

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nonew3 Even if a job pays well, you can't really do your job very well if your health is deteriorating. If I were you, I'd be looking for another job that pays fairly well, one that won't ruin your health.

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nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 24 Aug 11

If you are an adult with severe Convergence Insufficiency (CI), the medical doctors and the disability-services organizations can't handle you. That has been my many-years experience with the local disability-services...

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flowerfest08 @flowerfest08 (1677) 22 Aug 11

I'm a music lover, I like classical music, opera, blues, trance, classic rock, and dubstep,alternative rock, jazz, pop, rnb. I like most all genres, when I listened to music I feel relax and easy,when I'm bored I only put my...

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nonew3 Certain video games also refresh my mind when I am bored or don't feel like doing much else. I sometimes like to get lost playing online bowling games.

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flowerfest08 @flowerfest08 (1677) 22 Aug 11

I'm a music lover, I like classical music, opera, blues, trance, classic rock, and dubstep,alternative rock, jazz, pop, rnb. I like most all genres, when I listened to music I feel relax and easy,when I'm bored I only put my...

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nonew3 I listen to music all day and all night. I especially love techno music and dance music. The only time I don't listen to music is when I am sleeping.

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nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 22 Aug 11

One of the front teeth on my top jaw is abscessed. I saw a dentist about it last Wednesday, and am now on antibiotics. The pain has improved a lot since I started taking the amoxicillin. But, my abscessed tooth didn't have any...

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nonew3 The dentist put me on codeine for a little while for the pain. While waiting to see the dentist, I went through about 800 mg per day of ibuprofen and a lot of Orajel. The pain of an abscessed tooth can get so bad, all you can think about is making it go away!

22 Aug 11

nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 22 Aug 11

One of the front teeth on my top jaw is abscessed. I saw a dentist about it last Wednesday, and am now on antibiotics. The pain has improved a lot since I started taking the amoxicillin. But, my abscessed tooth didn't have any...

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nonew3 Yeah. Don't ever get those. They really hurt! This is the first time I have ever had an abscessed tooth in the front area. I have to be careful whenever I bite into anything because of the pain. This is not fun! I am actually looking forward to getting the...

22 Aug 11

nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 22 Aug 11

One of the front teeth on my top jaw is abscessed. I saw a dentist about it last Wednesday, and am now on antibiotics. The pain has improved a lot since I started taking the amoxicillin. But, my abscessed tooth didn't have any...

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nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 21 Aug 11

I am still studying literary Braille, and just finished a lesson on the euro sign, as well as the signs for "feet" and "inches." I am now working on the endings "ation" and "ally." I am slowly getting through my correspondence...

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nonew3 It is quite possible to have 20/20 eyesight and still have severe CI, as is my case. It's not that I can't see, it's that my brain won't let me eyes use my vision. My eyes are fine except for astigmatism and farsightedness. The problem with my CI is my...

21 Aug 11

nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 21 Aug 11

I am still studying literary Braille, and just finished a lesson on the euro sign, as well as the signs for "feet" and "inches." I am now working on the endings "ation" and "ally." I am slowly getting through my correspondence...

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nonew3 I have severe convergence insufficiency (CI), meaning that my eyes do not go inward (converge) like they are supposed to whenever I read or do any other tasks that require close-vision effort, and my eyes are unable to sustain this conversion for very long at...

21 Aug 11

nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 3 Jul 11

I have Convergence Insufficiency (CI), which means that the eyes do not converge (move inward) enough, which gives me double vision, blurred vision, headaches, dizziness/vertigo, etc., whenever I read or write in print or do any...

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nonew3 Oh, goodie. I just got yet another consent form in the mail from the Department of Services for the Blind (DSB), this time to see a neuropsychologist for an evaluation. But, what really gets me is how the DSB has been trying to get these evaluations done...

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nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 21 Aug 11

I am still studying literary Braille, and just finished a lesson on the euro sign, as well as the signs for "feet" and "inches." I am now working on the endings "ation" and "ally." I am slowly getting through my correspondence...

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elsoft12 @elsoft12 (1821) • India 4 Jul 10

Hi, I want to learn braille,the language for the blind.What the places where I can learn it in India or abroad.How long does the course take.Please share the details,if you know.Thank you very much.

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nonew3 The National Federation of the Blind's (NFB) web site has a free course to become certified with the National Library of Congress as a braille transcriber. I think you have to be in the US to take the course for free by correspondence (postal mail), but they...

19 Aug 11

nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 27 Sep 10

I used to be involved in sports, and was once the captain of a softball team, until one day in junior high when I was hit in the head by a baseball when I was watching a baseball game. I, being short, was sitting behind a guy who...

blindness

convergence insufficiency

deafness

multiple disabilities

traumatic brain injury

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nonew3 I am going through vision therapy to retrain my brain-vision and vision-equilibrium (balance) areas of my brain. I have gone through a lot of physical therapy, and this is definitely harder than any of the physical therapy I have ever endured, because my...

30 Jul 11

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