Why am I seeing double?

Symptoms

You’ve been getting 6

attacks of distorted vision where you see double and you lose part of your peripheral vision, you’ve also noticed that you’re getting pins and needles in your feet.

in your 60s and have type 2 diabetes, you’ve noticed that your vision is getting blurry and occasionally you see double.

It could be sclerosis

(MS), the eyes are quite often the first place to show symptoms. MS causes “demyelination” of nerves – destruction of the fatty protective sheath, which interrupts nerve function.

6Cataracts,

these are small opacities which form in the lens of the eye as we age. They’re not harmful but increasingly interfere with vision when they are removed.

get periodic Migraine, where the

6 attacks of double initial symptom, the vision and flashing double vision, is due to lights, usually in one eye constriction of the blood with a severe headache vessels to the brain. over the same eye. The Afterwards the blood flashing lights go but vessels dilate causing the the headache remains. headache.

Stop it

See your doctor for a full 6

examination and a referral to a neurologist for an assessment and tests. MS may take a gradual progressive course or periodic attacks which get better leaving a deficit.

your optician or doctor who will examine your eyes and assess the state of your cataracts. A lens severely affected with cataracts can be removed and replaced on the NHS by an ophthalmologist.

your doctor to confirm the diagnosis and for treatment, though most people devise their own regime to control the pain of the headache.