Hydrops nearly clear - strange vision problem

[craigthornton]

My hydrops has almost cleared in my right eye, just a quarter of the original circle left. Hopefully it will have all gone by my next appointment on 18th July.

When I cover my good left eye and look through the eye with hydrops, the vision - although obviously still a bit cloudy - seems to have less distortion the pre-hydrops. I am hoping when fully cleared, the cornea will be in better shape than it was before!

But when I look using both eyes, the vision is quite bad. It is as though my brain is not pairing up the two images to make one (which I presume happens in a 'normal' person. So, left eye alone = good, right eye alone = cloudy but less distorted than before, both eyes = bad!

It is quite distracting when driving - there's the main line in the middle of the road, then a cloudy one rising up northwest of the original line! For this reason I won't drive in the dark as the contrast between dark and light makes it worse.

I hope this has made sense, has anyone come across this before or heard of it, and will my brain learn to see again?!

[GarethB]

Craig,

Good new on the hydrops.

Perhaps using an eye patch on the bad eye will help regarding driving by doing away with the second image.

Hopefully come your next hospital visit you will be able to get a new improved lens for the hydrop eye to get good vision. Then hopefully you will have two good eyes with corrected vision.

Its taken time, but sounds like the wait has been worth it.

Gareth

[Andrew MacLean]

Craig

That's really good news. Lets hope it clears away completely.

Let us know what they say about scarring to your endothelium.

All the best

Andrew

[craigthornton]

What's an endothelium?

[jayuk]

rear layers of the cornea.....

[rosemary johnson]

Hi Craig,
I'm glad to hear the hydrops is clearing. I hope it finished clearing over and leaves you a clear field of vision again.
I can't say I remember having the effect you describe after any of mine - but it wouldn't surprise me to find one's brain might struggle to cope with reconciling the "normal" vision from one eye with the still-cloudy post-hydrops vision in the other.
Hope it sorts itself out as the clearing process goes on.
Rosemary