eyes

[bethann]

Hi everyone!

I have a question that I have been wondering about for quite some time. I have read somewhere that if there is damage in the spinal cord (like a tumor) that a person can have one eye larger than the other....Now is this true I have noticed for years in pictures that one of my eyes is what I would say a little droopy does anyone else have this? I also notice that when I am over tired it droops more.

Beth

[tc]

Beth, I haven't noticed one eye being larger than the other. However, I do have trouble with twitches under my eyes and twitchy eyelids. That symptom started in 2006 and my cervical tumor was discovered in 2007. The movement is so slight that I don't think it is noticeable to anyone but me, but it gets irritating.

[John]

I always had one eye bigger in all pictures for last 15 years.

So I wonder if it had been there growing the entire time.

Better check out the baby pics and see if the eyes have changed

[aliclement]

Yes, Beth, I have the same problem exactly as you describe. Family members tell me that my left eye was droopy before the surgery, but I never noticed it! But post-surgery, it is very noticable. If you look closely at my picture, you can see it. And it gets more droopy as I get tired. Doctors have told me it is called Horner's Syndrome.

I found this on the web site of Dr. Andrew Weil, "The nerve fibers involved don't travel directly from the brain to the eye but snake down the spinal cord to the chest and then back up the neck, through the skull and into the eye. The nerves can be impeded at any point along this meandering path, by any number of abnormalities including a tumor in the lung, brain, or spinal cord ..." (http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/id/QAA342852)

- Alison

[Tmasgio]

I never thought about it but if I look back my left eye would droop a bit but I always chalked it up to being tired.

[deb]

Beth - I have this condition as well and from what I can gather info-wise, it is called "Horners Syndrome" and it does have to do with spinal cord issues around C7. I have had uneven pupils since October although they are getting more even and my left eye droops especially more pronouced when I am tired. My neurosx said there is really nothing I can do about it since it has to do with damage done to the spinal cord due to the spinal cord tumor.

[bethann]

I do not have one pupil larger than the other. I do remember my neurologist saying something about horners but my eye Dr. did not see this....he just said if I felt my eyelid was blocking any vision I could have surgery. I tend to think the neurologist is right and the eye Dr was wrong. I think it is from having the spinal cord damage. To many of us have this to have it not be what caused this.