I am wearing sunglasses (not to look cool & show off my new hair cut) but because I was awaiting corrective eye muscle surgery in December 2008 & have had double vision for the last year 
that hopefully will be fixed. NEVER EVER take your sight for granted - even though I have yearly checkups I developed a macular hole in the retina extremely quickly & the vitrectomy surgery to attempt to correct it (which was unsuccessful - I have no central vision), I suffered an extremely rare complication from the retrobulbar block to freeze the optic nerve which left me with paralysis in the bottom muscles of my eye (inferior rectus and lateral rectus muscles) - therefore the double vision. None of the 6 ophthalmologists I have been referred to have seen this in their 25 plus years of practices. I was never told of the complication of suffering a puncture to the eye muscles when performing the block by the anaesthetist although my research proves that it does happen. No matter how rare a complication, I strongly and adamantly believe I should have been told of this complication - if I had, I would have elected for general anaesthetic.
that hopefully will be fixed. NEVER EVER take your sight for granted - even though I have yearly checkups I developed a macular hole in the retina extremely quickly & the vitrectomy surgery to attempt to correct it (which was unsuccessful - I have no central vision), I suffered an extremely rare complication from the retrobulbar block to freeze the optic nerve which left me with paralysis in the bottom muscles of my eye (inferior rectus and lateral rectus muscles) - therefore the double vision. None of the 6 ophthalmologists I have been referred to have seen this in their 25 plus years of practices. I was never told of the complication of suffering a puncture to the eye muscles when performing the block by the anaesthetist although my research proves that it does happen. No matter how rare a complication, I strongly and adamantly believe I should have been told of this complication - if I had, I would have elected for general anaesthetic.So see your optometrist if you have any type of change to your sight - I didn't ignore the change in my sight - thought it was a stated side effect from new meds I was taking, or that my distance was deteriorating and I needed glasses for that because I have only worn glasses for reading. Click here to read my correspondence with MedHelp.
In the near future I will be stating my case and statistics about eye paralysis after retrobulbar block so you can be informed if you are considering eye surgery in the future. I will also post pictures of my eyes and let you know where I stand now with my sight. I have had one unsuccessful strabismus surgery and was scheduled for a second recently that the surgeon cancelled due to tests performed to track my eye movements that proved "disturbing".
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