Diplopia or double vision is the subjective complaint of seeing two images instead of one and is often referred to as double-vision in lay parlance.
Due to this condition a person can either see two images side by side or on top of each other. It can happen in both eyes and one at a time.
Diplopia or double vision of one eye is called Monocular; While, if both the eyes are affected, it is known as Binocular.
What is Diplopia Or Double Vision?
This condition can involve various parts of your eyes such as the lens, cornea, nerves, muscles and even the brain. A problem with any of these organs or parts of the eye can lead to the condition of Diplopia .
Cataracts are the most common lens problem. Cataracts can be worse in one eye than the other and can grow at different rates between both eyes.
Double vision when both eyes are open is called binocular diplopia. It might involve :
Muscles. They control eye movement and keep eyes aligned with each other. If a muscle in one eye is weak, it won’t move in sync with the other eye.
When Patient look in a direction controlled by the weak muscle, he/she see double. Eye muscle problems could be due to :
- A problem with the nerves that control them
- Myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune illness that stops nerves from telling your muscles what to do. Early signs include double vision and drooping eyelids.
- Graves’ disease, a thyroid condition that affects muscles. It can cause vertical diplopia, where one image is on top of the other.
Nerves. They carry information from brain to eyes. Problems with them can lead to double vision for example :
- Multiple sclerosis can affect nerves anywhere in brain or spinal cord in case of damages the nerves that control eyes, one may see double.
- Guillain-Barre syndrome is a nerve condition that causes growing weakness. Sometimes, the first symptoms are in patient’s eyes, including double vision.
- Diabetes can cause nerve damage in the muscles that move eyes, which can lead to double vision.
Brain. The nerves that control eyes connect directly to the brain.
Many causes of double vision start in the brain for example :
- Strokes
- Aneurysms
- Increased pressure from injury, bleeding, or infection
- Tumors
- Migraine headaches
Homeopathic treatment for Diplopia
Agaricus Muscarius
Itching in the eyes. Burning sensation in the internal corners of the eyelids, which are painful on being touched. Pressure in the eyes. Humor in the corners of the eyes, and agglutination of the lids. Twitching of the eyelids and eyeballs. The cleft of the eyelids growing narrower. Canthi itch, burn, are red stick together (lachrymal fistula). A viscid yellow pus glues the eyelids together. Weakness and confusion of vision, as from a mist before the eyes. Brownish spots (like flies) before the eyes. Black motes before the eyes. Myopia. Diplopia. Muscular asthenopia; nystagmus; squint. Vibrating specters.
Gelsemium sempervirens
Double vision. Disturbed muscular apparatus. Corrects blurring and discomfort in eyes even after accurately adjusted glasses. Vision blurred, smoky, Orbital neuralgia, with contraction and twitching of muscles. Eyes feel bruised. Drooping of the eyelids – heavy; can hardly open them or keep them open. Fulness and congestion of the eyelids; paralysis of the eyelids.
Diplopia – double vision controllable by the strength of the will, or when looking sideways, not when looking straight forward. Eyeballs oscillate laterally when using them. Double vision cannot tell which side of the street he is on. Diplopia and dim vision during pregnancy. Amaurosis from masturbation. Smoky appearance before the eyes, with pain above them. Detached retina. Dimness of sight, and vertigo. Cannot see anything (complete blindness). Sudden blindness. Pupils dilated. Aversion to light; more to candlelight. Confusion of sight; blindness; astigmatism.
Aurtum Metallicum
Extreme photophobia. Great soreness all about the eyes and into eyeballs. Diplopia; upper half of objects invisible. Feel tense. Sees fiery objects. Violent pains in bones around eye. Interstitial keratitis. Vascular cornea. Pains from without inward. Sticking pains inward. Trachoma with pannus.
Zincum Metallicum
Pressure on eyes. Pressive and lancinating tearing in eyes. Photophobia; dread of sunlight with watery eyes. Sensitive to light; brain affected. Burning and biting in eyes. Pterygium. Burning and inflammation of eyes and lids. Redness and inflammation of internal canthi, with suppuration. Dryness of eyes. Agglutination of lids at night, with pressing, sore feeling. Intense burning in eyes after surgery. Falling down and paralysis of upper eyelids. Pupils contracted. Luminous flakes before eyes when looking into the air (at the sky). On looking up felt giddy and saw showers of gold descending (cured with hysterical retention of urine. When looking up, a dark, diagonal line before eye, directed upwards about six feet in length. Diplopia. Strabismus developed. Amaurosis.
Hyoscyamus Niger
Pupils dilated, sparkling, fixed. Eyes open, but does not pay attention; downcast and dull, fixed. Strabismus. Spasmodic closing of lids. Diplopia. Objects have colored borders.
Arnica Montana
Pain, like excoriation, in the eyes and in the eyelids, with difficulty in moving them. Red, inflamed eyes. Inflammation of the eyes with suggillation after mechanical injuries. Burning in the eyes and flowing of burning tears. Eyelids swollen, and with ecchymosis. Pupils contracted. Eyes dull, cloudy, and downcast. Eyes prominent, or half open. Fixed, anxious look. Obscuration of vision.
Belladonna
Heat and burning in the eyes, or pressure as from sand. Aching in the eyes and the sockets. Sensation of weight in the eyelids, eyelids close involuntarily, paralysis. Quivering in the eyelids. Ectropium. Paralysis of the optic nerve. Shooting in the eyes and in the corners, with itching. Eyes red, brilliant, and convulsed, or fixed, sparkling, and prominent, or dull and turbid. Congestion of blood to the eyes, and redness of the veins. Look fixed, furious, and wavering. Look wild, unsteady, wavering. Spasms and convulsive movements of the eyes. Eyelids wide open. Inflammation of the eyes, with injection of the veins and redness of the conjunctiva and of the sclerotic. Distension of the sclerotic. Inflammatory swelling and suppuration of the lachrymal aperture. Softening of the sclerotic. Spots and ulcers on the cornea. Medullary fungus in the eye. Swelling and inversion of the eyelids.
Yellowish color of the sclerotic. Ecchymosis, with hemorrhage. Sensation of burning dryness in the eyes; or flow of acrid and (salt) corrosive tears. Pupils immovable and generally dilated, but sometimes co tracked. Agglutination (nocturnal) of the eyelids. Desire for light, or photophobia, with convulsive movements of the eyes when the light strikes them. Distortion, spasms, and convulsions of the eyes. Momentary blindness. Confused and weak sight, or obscuration and entire loss of sight. Blindness at night (moon-blindness). Presbyopia. Mist, flames, and sparks, before the eyes. Diffusion of the light of candles, which appear to be surrounded by a colored halo. White stars and silvery clouds before the eyes, esp. on looking at the ceiling of the room. Diplopia – objects appear double or reversed, or of a red color. Trembling and sparkling of the letters when reading.
Natrum Muriaticum
Itching, shootings, smarting, and burning in eyes. Inflammation of eyes. Corrosive lachrymation (morning). Frequent lachrymation. Pus in external canthi. Nocturnal agglutination of eyes. Eyelids continually red and ulcerated. Inflammation of eyes with ulcerated lids and glutinous mucus in (external) canthi. Spasmodic closing of lids. Eyes give out on using them. Headache associated with eyestrain, headache on waking. Feeling as if balls were too large and compressed. Sensation of sand in eyes, mornings. Cloudiness of sight when stooping, walking, on reading and writing. Sight confused, as from down before eyes, or looking through a veil. Letters appear confused, when reading. Diplopia. Hemiopia (perpendicular). Presbyopia. Weakness of sight, as from incipient amaurosis. Black specks, luminous marks, and sparks before eyes. Fiery, zigzag appearance around all things. Affections of r. eye; angles of eyes; momentary loss of sight. Myopia.
Phytolacca Decandra
Eyes staring. Blue round eyes. Eyes sunk deep in sockets with livid circles. Sclerotic dark yellow. Sharp pain through ball of eye on reading or writing. Dull aching in eyes. Pressure around eyes. Circum-orbital pains in syphilitic ophthalmia. Pan ophthalmitis. Aching along lower half orbit. Orbital cellulitis. Lids granulated; tarsal edges feel scalded, hot, raw. Burning and smarting sensation, feeling of sand in eyes and lids, with profuse lachrymation and coryza. Reddish-blue swelling of lids. Fistula lachrymal. Lids burning. Lupus, epithelioma. Pupils: contracted – tetanus; much dilated. Photophobia. Motion of one eye independent of that of the other. Diplopia with giddiness and headache. Objects quintupled. Far-sighted.
Pulsatilla
Affections in general appearing on the cornea; margins of the eyelids; dim-sightedness, with a sensation as though there were something over the eye which the patient wishes to rub away; amaurosis; cataract. Pain in eyes as if scratched with a knife. Burning sensation, pressive pain as by sand; or sharp or shooting pain in eyes, or else boring and incisive pain. Burning itching in eyes. Inflammation in eyes and margins of lids (and meibomian glands), with redness of the sclerotic and conjunctiva, and copious secretion of thick mucus nightly agglutination. Swelling and redness. Trichiasis in eyelid. Styes. Crystalline lens clouded and of a greyish color. Stye with inflammation of sclerotic, and tensive drawing pains on moving the muscles of the face.
Acrid and corrosive tears. Amaurosis; paralysis of optic nerve. Look fixed and stupid. Dimness of sight. Cloudiness of eyes and loss of sight, loss of sight in twilight, with sensation as if eyes were covered with a band, sight confused, as if directed through a mist, or as if caused by something removable by rubbing. Incipient cataract. Diplopia. Luminous circles before eyes. Photophobia, which causes lancinating pains.
Psytostigma Venenosum
Night-blindness; photophobia; contraction of pupils; twitching of ocular muscles. Lagophthalmos. Muscae volitantes; flashes of light; partial blindness. Glaucoma; paresis of accommodation; astigmatism. Profuse lachrymation. Spasm of ciliary muscles, with irritability after using eyes. Increasing myopia. Diplopia. Post-diphtheritic paralysis of eye and accommodation muscles.
Bothrops
Amaurosis; blindness from hemorrhage into retina. Hemeralopia, day blindness. Conjunctival hemorrhage. Diplopia.
Syphilinum
Chronic, recurrent, phlyctenule inflammation of cornea; successive crops of phlyctenule and abrasions of epithelial layer of cornea; photophobia intense, lachrymation profuse. Diplopia. Lids swollen; pain intense at night; ptosis. Tubercular iritis. Diplopia; one image seen below the other. Feeling of cold air blowing on eye.
Causticum
Cataract with motor disturbances. Inflammation of eyelids; ulceration. Sparks and dark spots before eyes Ptosis. Diplopia. Vision impaired, as if film were before eyes. Paralysis of ocular muscles after exposure to cold.
Cyclamen Europaeum
Dim vision, worse on waking, with spots before eyes. Flickering of various colors. Convergent strabismus. Sees countless stars. Diplopia. Disturbance of vision. Eyes dull and hollow. Shootings in the eyes and the eyelids. Swelling of the eyelids. Itching of the eyelids. Pupils dilated. The eyes lie deep in the orbits, look dim, and are surrounded by blue rings. Diplopia; strabismus. Burning in the eyes. Sight confused, as if looking through a cloud. Glimmering and glittering before the sight. Fiery flames dancing before eyes.
Phosphorus
Sensation as if everything were covered with a mist or veil, or dust, or something pulled tightly over eyes. Black points seem to float before the eyes. Patient sees better by shading eyes with hand. Fatigue of eyes and head even without much use of eyes. Green halo about the candlelight, Diplopia, due to deviation of the visual axis. Amaurosis from sexual excess. Glaucoma. Thrombosis of retinal vessels and degenerative changes in retinal cells.
Osmium
Glaucoma; with iridescent vision. Violent supra and infra-orbital neuralgia; violent pains and lachrymation. Diplopia. Green colors surround light. Conjunctivitis. Increase in intra-ocular tension, dim sight, photophobia.
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