IDreamInColor Posted November 8, 2011 Report Share Posted November 8, 2011 I've had alot of eye involvement with this pots, and recently I've noticed my pupils are fully dilated and look freaky. Does anyone else have this problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redoctober Posted November 8, 2011 Report Share Posted November 8, 2011 I've had Anisocoria (pupils of unequal size) forever...discovered about 8-10 years ago. I only discovered how long I've had it by reviewing "red-eye" from old pictures...which makes it really easy to check your pupil size. You might want to check some pictures taken with flash to see if you've had this problem for some time or not...you may be surprised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackiemxoxo Posted November 8, 2011 Report Share Posted November 8, 2011 yes, it means you have a lot of sympathetic activity. When I was in the hospital they would continually use a pen light to check my pupils and they wouldn't constrict. They have gotten a lot better but mine are still always on the larger side. I really hate fluorescent lighting because of this and always wear sunglasses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lieze Posted November 8, 2011 Report Share Posted November 8, 2011 Holy cow!My eyes have been this way my entire life.My kid's are huge just like mine and they are totally wired!I've been asked many times if I'm on drugs-several times by doctors 3 different doctors asked if I was on cocaine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anaphylaxing Posted November 8, 2011 Report Share Posted November 8, 2011 People always comment that mine are huge but they constrict normally with light Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoGiuliana Posted November 8, 2011 Report Share Posted November 8, 2011 I've also been told my pupils are huge, but they also constrict normally w bright light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyominglacey Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 I have also had huge pupils for a long long time. Since before high school I know for sure, and everyone always asks me and tells me they are huge! I ALWAYS have red eyes in pictures too when no one else does!!! That is crazy. Another problem I have been having with my eyes is seeing alot of floaters. Does anyone else have that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potsgirl Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 I've had the same red eye problem in photos for years. No one else seems to have them in these photos but me. I've become the 'devil woman' (song reference from the late 70s, Cliff Richards) with my family and friends. I also have large pupils, and they contract with bright light, but not as much as other peoples seem to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peregrine Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 1I don't tend to have abnormally large pupils, but my partner has noticed from time to time that my pupils are different sizes (not always, just occasionally). It doesn't seem to strongly correlate with particularly bad visual issues (the blurriness that is one of my major dysautonomia issues), though.I do have super long tracers and many floaters, which in my case are worse on serotinergic drugs (my Seroquel and Cymbalta). In my case they're benign and due to neurotransmitter upregulation (palinopsia is the technical diagnosis). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenglynn Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 I always have large pupils. HUGE! People always comment on them. However, my left one is even larger than the right. Doctors always comment on that. It usually takes a bit of time for them to constrict as they should, but most of the time they do appropriately. Interestingly enough, all four of my kids have HUGE pupils as well... almost taking up their whole eyes.I have always wondered what this means? It is autonomic or neurological? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anaphylaxing Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 I get the floaters since POTS too; seems worse when my BP is worse. Before POTS had huge pupils. no floaters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetuniasMom Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 My daughters pupils are often HUGE. There are a couple of ways that I gauge how she is feeling, and her pupils are one of those ways - seems that when they are large, she feels yucky - varying degrees of yucky I guess, but we always know she is not good if her pupils are large... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julie_2girls Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 My daughter too has huge pupils and they are their largest when she feels really bad. I can use them as a gauge on how she is doing. It really has not much to do with the amount of light in the room. I think of it has increase sympathetic activity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maggie Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 I found an eye doctor here in town that has an opto map machine to take pictures of my eyes since I can't use the drops to dilate my eyes. He informed me that when they dilate a person's eyes they open to the number 9, my eyes without being dilated are open to the number 6 all the time. He says it's almost to they point where he can see most of my eye through this machine without even dilating my eyes. It was very interesting to know the exact number my eyes were actually dilated to.Maggie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julieph85 Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 huge pupils can be an indicator of decreased acetycholine activity. Acetycholine is the neurotransmitter involved in the parasympathetic nervous system. If your sympathetic is over active that could be a symptom of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirsti Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 I'm pretty sure the autonomic nervous system controls pupil dilation and restriction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aunie Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 Me too! I have HUGE pupils. They do constrict in light normally though. I have heard that many of us experience this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julieph85 Posted December 16, 2011 Report Share Posted December 16, 2011 I'm pretty sure the autonomic nervous system controls pupil dilation and restriction.yes. The autonomic nervous system is in part modulated by the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system, pupil dialation/constriction is effected by the parasympathetic neurotransmitter- acetycholine. The ANS is the big picture. The PNS and SNS are part of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramakentesh Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 Ive had all sorts of eye symptoms:Visual snowfloaters during flare upsabnormal pupil constriction and dilationdifferent pupil sizeseye lid lagsore and red eyes sometimes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MightyMouse Posted December 20, 2011 Report Share Posted December 20, 2011 the autonomic systems absolutely DO have some of the control dilation and constriction of the pupils. Mine are particularly huge in the mornings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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