[smiley=huh.gif] :(  Hello all Tom Gallucci here, I've noticed that since my stroke, which left me with no left side peripheral vision, I have a great deal of difficulty following any fast paced sports,  I went to all of my son's highschool football games and once the ball was snapped it all became one big jumbled mess and I couldn't follow anything.  The worst was Hockey, I went to a Devils game and the Princeton Cornell game and I couldn't follow a thing.  
    Has this happened to any of you, I guess its nothing serious just one of those pains in the as*  Any suggestions?

Thanks    Tom Gallucci

Tom~
Thanks for posting this question.
I've had two mm strokes and my vision is definatly altered re: perception. I am still able to drive (re took the drivers test after stroke one) and do things but my vision sometimes is 'fuzzy' for things that are new and in motion. I used to love birdwatching. Now I can see a bird but am unable to follow it's flight. Sound familier!? I'm at least 4 years past the last stroke and my eyes/brain is beginning to adjust or compensate or improve. Have also had the surgery at Stanford. I've been to eye doc re: this and am told that the connection between the eye and the brain is affected. Sometimes I just need to get home and be 'visually quite'.  It can make me exhausted. Just visited places I haven't  been to for about 3 years and had to 'adjust' visually to each place. I've become familier with the local grocery store (or else I feel comfortable there) so am not as bothered by this, or else I've learned that it happens and I know I can manouver thru it. So I figure I'll just keep adujusting!  Makes walking and doing stuff a real exertion until I get settled.
Hope this has helped.
Linda

HI Tom----although I haven't experienced a loss of peripheral visio0n, I have noticed a definite change in my eyesight....I am nearsighted and have worn glasses for year to correct my vision and see far away.....but, now, I actually have to take off my glasses to read things at close distances...i.e., books, newspapers, etc., and I have to pass the books and newspapers back and forth so I can read them at just the right angle and distance.....do not know if this is related to the mm or if it is just a sign of eyesight adjusting with aging........so, just wanted to add my two cents.......PatM

Tom,

I was diagnosed 5 weeks ago with mm as a result of an abrupt change in my vision while playing tennis.  I am a 42 year old white male.  My biggest symptom to date has been disturbances in my depth of field, particularly bad if I try to track any movement.  I have had 6 episodes in the last couple of weeks with an ER admission the result of the last one.  I'm now scheduled to have an angiogram at Columbia Pres. Hosp in NYC on 6/1.  I would be interested if anyone had more information on how best to handle this symptom.  Closing my eyes doesn't seem to help.  When it happens now, I have the visual problem, then a couple of minutes later I get a headache on my neck, then on my forehead and temples.  In retrospect, my wife and I realize now that I have had problems tracking for many years that I have adjusted to... some without knowing.  In addition to the tracking, I've had some visual disturbance that kind of resembles 3-D type vision.  Anyone out there experience that.  Thanks.  Mel

Hi Mel---welcome to the mm family------I also find that sometimes closing my eyes does not  help.....for me, if I sometimes (after taking a hot bath with lavender---may not be so cool for a guy, but it works for me) lay in my bed in a room that is completely dark and actually have my eyes open.....often, it helps me to fall asleep.....up until my first EDAS surgery, I had terrible migraines for about 5-6 weeks preceding the surgery.......once you have your angio and if surgery is recommended, after the initial headaches for a few weeks near the incision area, I think that maybe the headaches in your neck and in your forehead and around your temples may subside...at least, it did for me....now. I only get the headaches when I am extremely tired........have 2nd EDAS surgery on June 3rd and, after the first few weeks of headaches again, I expect that I will feel even better than I do now.....so, there is hope, and a light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak........Take care...PatM [smiley=sayyes.gif]

Arianna would be able to tell you what a color was one minute and then tell you it was another the next.  They were never able to determine whether this was a visual or developmental thing.    There were spurts in which she would follow a ball and catch okay and then it was like she could not focus.  Very frustrating to watch and frustrating for her.  
Let us know what turns up with this.