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How Can Double Vision, Depression And Chronic Crying After Losing A Loved One Be Managed?
Question: My mother is 71 years old and has been experiencing double vision and dizziness for about 2 months now. She's gone to a nuerological eye dr and had an mri done and blood work done. Everything says normal...no stroke ect. She has lost 30 to 40 pounds over the last year due to loosing a 17 year old grandchild. She is diabetic and takes metformin, lisinopril, pravastatin and recently started taking celexa for depression and chronic crying
Brief Answer:
Drug-induced, neuropathy, and ischemia to consider.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Rare causes of diplopia include diabetic neuropathy, drugs induced diplopia and ischemia of nerves that supply the muscles involved with eyeball movements.
These don't show up in MRI studies.
Pravastatin is one of the drugs that may cause in rare cases diplopia, so, I think it Can be stopped for a few days to evaluate this possibility.
If no regression of diplopia after stopping Pravastatin, diabetic neuropathy and ischemia of the oculomotor nerve, for example, are possible explanations.
In such a case, diplopia should regress with time (months).
Hope you found the answer helpful. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Take care.
Regards
Drug-induced, neuropathy, and ischemia to consider.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Rare causes of diplopia include diabetic neuropathy, drugs induced diplopia and ischemia of nerves that supply the muscles involved with eyeball movements.
These don't show up in MRI studies.
Pravastatin is one of the drugs that may cause in rare cases diplopia, so, I think it Can be stopped for a few days to evaluate this possibility.
If no regression of diplopia after stopping Pravastatin, diabetic neuropathy and ischemia of the oculomotor nerve, for example, are possible explanations.
In such a case, diplopia should regress with time (months).
Hope you found the answer helpful. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Take care.
Regards
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Dr. Arnab Banerjee
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