For those playing along....
I am not diabetic. It's all fine, so I went through all that for nothing.
Now he decides to ask about medications. Turns out Topamax can cause all sorts of vision problems. Including drastic changes in your central vision. Great, so it's just a medication. I really am sincere about that, medications can be changed. We can always find a way around that especially since while I've been on it for three years now it's increased 75 mg a day in the last three months so a problem just showing up now makes sense.
I tell him I'll call my neurologist for an appointment about changing that prescription. He asks why I take it. I explain that I take it for chronic migraines that I've had since I was 14 and this is the first drug that's had any success, so I'll have to work with her weaning off and starting something new. This Doctor tells me "it's just for migraines you can just stop taking it." Two problems here, first is that is spoken like someone who has never had a migraine if he believes giving up the drug that is stopping me from having migraines three or four days a week without a replacement in line is going to happen. Second problem is, it's an anti convulsant you don't just stop them, especially at that high a dose, you have to be weaned off just like you have to be titrated up. I'd rather not start having seizures because I gave it up all at once.
So good news, I'm not going blind!!!! It's only a medication causing loss of vision. Discontinuing the medication should fix the problem.
Bad news, my eye doctor still sucks at explaining so I still don't know all of what's happening I think I'm still making an appointment with an opthamogist to make sure it's all okay. And of course, the first drug since I was 14 is causing vision loss so I'm going to have to stop it because right now my good eye is at 20/80.
Now he decides to ask about medications. Turns out Topamax can cause all sorts of vision problems. Including drastic changes in your central vision. Great, so it's just a medication. I really am sincere about that, medications can be changed. We can always find a way around that especially since while I've been on it for three years now it's increased 75 mg a day in the last three months so a problem just showing up now makes sense.
I tell him I'll call my neurologist for an appointment about changing that prescription. He asks why I take it. I explain that I take it for chronic migraines that I've had since I was 14 and this is the first drug that's had any success, so I'll have to work with her weaning off and starting something new. This Doctor tells me "it's just for migraines you can just stop taking it." Two problems here, first is that is spoken like someone who has never had a migraine if he believes giving up the drug that is stopping me from having migraines three or four days a week without a replacement in line is going to happen. Second problem is, it's an anti convulsant you don't just stop them, especially at that high a dose, you have to be weaned off just like you have to be titrated up. I'd rather not start having seizures because I gave it up all at once.
So good news, I'm not going blind!!!! It's only a medication causing loss of vision. Discontinuing the medication should fix the problem.
Bad news, my eye doctor still sucks at explaining so I still don't know all of what's happening I think I'm still making an appointment with an opthamogist to make sure it's all okay. And of course, the first drug since I was 14 is causing vision loss so I'm going to have to stop it because right now my good eye is at 20/80.