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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 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

flowerfest08 @flowerfest08 (1677) 22 Aug 11

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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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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 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 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...

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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

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 I was hit in the head by a baseball at a professional baseball game in junior high. I was not knocked out, but I had a bad headache for the rest of that evening. No one checked into what was going on at the time of the injury, but I started noticing a...

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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 I am in vision therapy for it. I started on June 1, and have two more months of it to go. After that, my vision therapist will decide if more vision therapy will do any good. But according to her, most likely my vision therapy will end at that time. I go in...

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nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 20 Sep 10

Yep, you got that right. I just found out on the phone that the reason why my account with Department of Services for the Blind was closed earlier was because I had "vertigo issues," my then-undiagnosed Migraine Associated...

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nonew3 I really wish that DSB had done their research before closing my account.

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nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 20 Sep 10

Yep, you got that right. I just found out on the phone that the reason why my account with Department of Services for the Blind was closed earlier was because I had "vertigo issues," my then-undiagnosed Migraine Associated...

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nonew3 In spite of the fact that I now have a nasty headache from doing all this, I just spent an hour at the public library computer doing as much research as I could cram in about CI and vertigo, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and how it is sometimes associated with...

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nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 20 Sep 10

Yep, you got that right. I just found out on the phone that the reason why my account with Department of Services for the Blind was closed earlier was because I had "vertigo issues," my then-undiagnosed Migraine Associated...

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nonew3 It's just like an agency saying, "We opened your account for having epilepsy but since you had an epileptic seizure we are closing it," or someone saying, "We opened your account for being deaf but since you can't hear very well we are closing your account;...

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nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 20 Sep 10

Yep, you got that right. I just found out on the phone that the reason why my account with Department of Services for the Blind was closed earlier was because I had "vertigo issues," my then-undiagnosed Migraine Associated...

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nonew3 I will definitely do that with both DSB and VR, since my account is in the process of being re-opened with both agencies and since they both work together. And, really, it's not that hard to get the information about CI, as its readily available online....

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nonew3 @nonew3 (1941) • United States 20 Sep 10

Yep, you got that right. I just found out on the phone that the reason why my account with Department of Services for the Blind was closed earlier was because I had "vertigo issues," my then-undiagnosed Migraine Associated...

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nonew3 Also, I just looked up CI again in an online search engine, and vertigo and motion sickness are listed among the symptoms of CI. So, in actuality, DSB basically opened my account for having one of the symptoms of CI (poor visual function) and closed it for...

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