A final shot.

Last week, we visited Johns Hopkins' famous Wilmer Eye Clinic, and met with the head of the department regarding my eye condition. They took down a full hours' worth of data regarding my case history, then ran a significant array of tests. Guess what they found wrong with me?

Nothing.

More accurately, they found nothing that would explain anything. I had peculiarly bad 3D vision, apparently, but nothing else. Wonderful. So what treatment options do I have?

First: pupil-constricting eye-drops. They would shrink the overall light entering into the pupil and do it some good. Also, insurance would probably cover them. On the downside, prolonged use rather permanently deforms the lens, and therefore I would likely become extremely nearsighted. Considering my left eye has ~20/15 vision and my right ~20/20, I don't particularly like that idea.

Second: pressure reducing drops. A bizarre, rather inexplicable correlation between my bad eye days and my intraocular pressure has consistently occurred. Not sure if this implies causation, but at this stage, anything is game.

Third: prosthetic contacts. Most pleasing solution to me (though a glaucoma drop + contact combination would please me more), in that it reduces the size of the pupil artificially by overlaying a fixed, tiny aperture. In my opinion this would do me a world of good; first, it limits light going into my eye. Second, it stays there all the time - no taking it on and off, nor would I have any issues with carrying them around like sunglasses. Third: my eyes dilate oddly and do it more with sunglasses on, so if I have a small aperture in combination with attenuated light levels, I should really get some healing going. Fourth: if my theory that my surface eye problem results from the pupil spasm affecting the focusing mechanism, then in theory this could completely solve that problem by having a fixed aperture. Fixed aperture = constant focus at a fixed distance. If that problem goes away, then I have a life again. I could read, watch movies... do about a thousand more things than I can do now.

To get any of those treatments, though, I need to go back to Dr. Cheung again, because the neurophthalmology guys couldn't prescribe anything for me. That only means a wait until Wednesday - so why get in a huff about it?

Maybe because we came up with all those possible treatments a month ago and no one would let me pursue them because it might affect the Johns Hopkins visit. The result of which was that the doctor said "sure, those are all good ideas, go after it." I wasted a month waiting for a magic "Dr. House Cure" (as my mom puts it) while sitting around getting worse. Bughrtrhgh.

Drugos Medicales

I just started a trial of corticosteroids for my eyes. If this solves my eye problems, I will dance naked in the streets.