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What Causes Vision Problems After Lumbar Puncture?

Hi, I m an 18 year old female and I m relatively healthy. I ve been having vision problems for the past maybe 13 months and I ve seen many doctors and had a lot of tests and everyone s struggled to give me a diagnosis. It started when at night time, I turned the light off and my room was not entirely black but sort of moonlit, and I lost the vision in my right eye. When I turned the light back on I could see fine. It s now progressed from even when I walk into a darker room from a lighter one my right eye vision dims or goes completely black. I have frequent headaches, tinnitus, whooshing in my ears and worse than usual postural drop. Tests show I don t have the venous pulse in my right eye and my right optic nerve is prominent. I ve had a lumbar puncture that returned normal opening pressure and am having another one in the next week. Do you have any idea what this could be? Thank you
Mon, 30 Mar 2015
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your history sugest that you requere complete eye examination. refraction fundus examination, tension measurment and field tracing.exclude diabtes and hyper tention.cataract and glaucoma is to be excluded.may be you are having glaucoma. if sorequered treatment be started. after ball the investigation if any problem is detected then requred treatment shoud be given.
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What Causes Vision Problems After Lumbar Puncture?

your history sugest that you requere complete eye examination. refraction fundus examination, tension measurment and field tracing.exclude diabtes and hyper tention.cataract and glaucoma is to be excluded.may be you are having glaucoma. if sorequered treatment be started. after ball the investigation if any problem is detected then requred treatment shoud be given.