Peripheral vision loss

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Hi

My name is Phil and I had a left occipital acute infarct due we think due to an arterial dissection. I feel pretty lucky given some of the blogs I have just read that all I seem to have is a loss of peripheral vision low down to the right. I’m currently not allowed to drive after my first eye test and was wondering if anyone knew of any exercises/websites etc that might help me regain some of this lost vision/ability to drive.

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Hi @Pip59 just popping by to say hi & welcome to the community. Sorry to hear of your stroke & your resulting peripheral vision issues.

I had a right occipital lobe stroke which gave me double vision rather than loss of peripheral vision so can’t advise on exercises for that. However, i would think generally scanning around you would help with this.

I have also found this website with some suggested exercises.

Others will be along soon with more help I am sure.

Best wishes

Ann

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Thanks Ann, I will look into this.

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Hi @Pip59 Phil

Welcome to the community, I’m sorry to hear about your stroke and the difficulties with your vision.

We have some information our on website about vision changes which if you scroll to the bottom there are also links to some therapy apps which may help.

I hope you’ll find this community helpful. If you need anything whilst you’re using the Online Community, please don’t hesitate to tag me using the @ symbol and my username.

Anna

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Hello Phil - Nothing to add what Ann @Mrs5K has already said. So it’s just a warm welcome and happy to have you join us from me :slight_smile:

Wishing you all the best.

Namaste|
:pray:

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I lost some of my peripheral vision on one side to begin with, but it came back. Maybe yours will as well. The brain heals in mysterious ways.

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I had peripheral vision loss when I was in the hospital and they started me wearing prism glasses which they continually adjusted as my condition got better, so maybe those could help. They’re funky! you have to wear them loud and proud!

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Hi I’m two months post stroke with no improvement that I’m aware of. Fingers crossed that the brain can figure out a solution.

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Thanks. I might just look into the options.

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Hi @Pip59 and welcome to the forum. I just wanted to say that your vision is still in the very early stages of stroke recovery. The next 6 months of healing will give you a clearer picture of how your vision is. But it doesn’t stop there either, so don’t give up hope of any improvement just yet. I’m 5 years post stroke and one of my main issues was aphasia.
But I’ve improved so much over those 5 years, so never give up on improvement.

And just because you don’t notice any improvement, doesn’t mean there hasn’t been any. It can be one or a few of links to the chain of neurons that control your vision just now. But with more links reconnecting as time and healing go on.

Lorraine

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Hi Lorraine

Thank you for your words of hope and fingers crossed for both of us.

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The brain does indeed tend to work things out; I am now FIVE YEARS post-stroke and still have peripheral vision probs; but the verty worst thing is erectile dysfunction and ongoing loss of use of left arm and leg. I’m alive but only half a man !

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