Hello,

Last November 2009 I got the flu. 5 days later my right eye starts to hurt, I look and the pupil is enlarged. The next day a bright reflection shines in that eye and there is a sharp pain. The next day, I'm at the opthamologists office getting scared to death that the drops he's about to put in my eyes WON'T work. (The drops were the test he used to get my Adies pupil to react.) Thankfully it did, so there was no emergency trip to the neurologist the doctor was threatening.

Since then there have been many trips back to try special contacts, to get special prescriptions for my glasses, to deal with the double vision while reading.

The end result:
special colored contacts - NO I have to wear reading glasses with them anyway because of the double vision;
prescription glasses with no line bi-focals - YES of course this isn't a problem since I've worn glasses all my life anyway. The bifocals help tremendously.;
dull aches in my adies eye - YES often;
sharp pains - YES occasionally;
light sensitivity - DEFINATELY;
comments from others - YES but only the observant ones, I tell them it's permenant nerve damage in my eye (or like my twin sister likes to call it, "my crack eye" - she says I look like I'm on crack, not that she has every been around anyone that has been on crack, by the way).

I'm thankful for finding this site, I don't feel so much like a freak.

My suggestion to everyone out there is to get a good opthamologist who will work with you to get you the right prescription. By the way, if you have health insurance they should cover your optometry exams for life as a neurolocial medical condition.