You might check out Vision Specialists of Michigan www.vsofm.com There are only 3 doctors who specialize in-----Vertical Heterophoria----Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York. I saw Dr Debby Feinberg last month and as she said, "I can't cure POTS but I can make things better." My eye alignment was off and in her office with correction my vision cleared, nausea disappeared and all my dizziness and balance problems are gone." I have been wearing my new glasses for 3 weeks and my POTS symptoms are better...not gone...but much better! I have some blurring after I eat when the blood leaves the head for digestion but NOTHING like it was before!!
I was just diagnosed with vertical heterophoria by the Neurovision Center of NY and get my glasses this week. In order to align your eyes they use a prism in your prescription which corrects the misalignment and allows the eyes muscles to relax. In turn all of the extra work your brain and nervous system have been doing to accommodate this dysfunction is reduced. Since eye movement is a function of the autonomic nervous system it makes sense that all of the extra work to process visual stimuli can have a significant effect on the nervous system. It kicks your sympathetic nervous system (fight/flight) into constant activation which becomes exhausting mentally and physically. Plus the added symptoms of dizziness, balance and coordination issues. I believe this is a significant contributor to dysautonomia as it overworks the autonomic nervous system. Of course I am not a doctor but have spent countless hours studying the nervous system to address overstimulation, chronic fatigue, combined with constant adrenaline flooding my system, Vision problems including blurriness, difficulty on the computer and watching TV dysautonomia (orthostatic hypotension, POTS etc.) While I don’t expect this to solve everything I am really hoping for a significant reduction of symptoms over time. I am not sure if more eye doctors have become aware of vertical heterophoria since the post above but given that’s it’s been quite some time since the post above it would seem likely. I’d urge people to consider this and will update on my results!
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I was just diagnosed with vertical heterophoria by the Neurovision Center of NY and get my glasses this week. In order to align your eyes they use a prism in your prescription which corrects the misalignment and allows the eyes muscles to relax. In turn all of the extra work your brain and nervous system have been doing to accommodate this dysfunction is reduced. Since eye movement is a function of the autonomic nervous system it makes sense that all of the extra work to process visual stimuli can have a significant effect on the nervous system. It kicks your sympathetic nervous system (fight/flight) into constant activation which becomes exhausting mentally and physically. Plus the added symptoms of dizziness, balance and coordination issues. I believe this is a significant contributor to dysautonomia as it overworks the autonomic nervous system. Of course I am not a doctor but have spent countless hours studying the nervous system to address overstimulation, chronic fatigue, combined with constant adrenaline flooding my system, Vision problems including blurriness, difficulty on the computer and watching TV dysautonomia (orthostatic hypotension, POTS etc.) While I don’t expect this to solve everything I am really hoping for a significant reduction of symptoms over time. I am not sure if more eye doctors have become aware of vertical heterophoria since the post above but given that’s it’s been quite some time since the post above it would seem likely. I’d urge people to consider this and will update on my results!