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During a consultation, your doctor will use various techniques to assess the symptom: Impaired vision. These will include a physical examination and possibly diagnostic tests. (Note: A physical exam is always done, diagnostic tests may or may not be performed depending on the suspected condition) Your doctor will ask several questions when assessing your condition. It is important to openly share any pertinent information to help your doctor make an accurate diagnosis.
It is also very important to bring an up-to-date list of all of your all medical conditions, medications including dosages, and names of numbers of any specialist you see.
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Why: to determine if acute or chronic.
Why: if unilateral would suggest local eye causes such as cataract, refractive error (e.g. myopia), iritis, glaucoma, keratitis, retinal detachment, foreign body, vitreous hemorrhage, optic neuritis, orbital fracture. If bilateral may suggest cocaine use, methyl alcohol poisoning, tobacco, barbiturates, quinine and other drugs. Bilateral blurred vision can also with cataracts, glaucoma, chorioretinitis, retinitis pigmentosa, optic atrophy, papilledema, papillitis, optic neuritis, refractive error, pituitary tumors, posterior cerebral artery occlusion, concussion, migraine and hysteria.
Why: if transient may suggest migraine, carotid artery insufficiency or diabetic swelling of the lens.
Why: may suggest migraine, optic neuritis, vitreous hemorrhage, iritis, keratitis, glaucoma, retinal detachment, foreign body, retrobulbar neuritis, orbital fracture, carotid artery insufficiency and hysteria.
Why: e.g. cocaine, tobacco, barbiturates, methyl alcohol, quinine and other drugs may be responsible.
Why: e.g. diabetes increases risk of cataracts, glaucoma and retinal detachment; multiple sclerosis and syphilis can cause optic neuritis; migraine can cause transient blurriness of vision.
Why: e.g. myopia (short-sightedness) people are at increase risk of retinal detachment and macula degeneration.
Why: some medications can cause blurriness of vision e.g. ethambutol for tuberculosis and chloroquine for malaria may be toxic to the eyes.
Why: can cause central visual blurriness due to toxic effect.
Why: can cause optic neuropathy.
Why: of Diabetes, Glaucoma, Retinitis pigmentosa, migraine, Leber's hereditary optic atrophy.
Why: indicates retinal hemorrhage or choroiditis, posterior vitreous detachment.
Why: suggests retinal detachment, posterior vitreous detachment.
Why: suggests glaucoma, cataracts.
Why: suggests migraine.
Why: suggests retinitis pigmentosa, syphilitic retinitis.
Why: suggests migraine, pituitary tumor, benign intracranial hypertension.
Why: suggests optic (retrobulbar) neuritis.
Why: e.g. seeing objects smaller or larger than actual - suggests macula degeneration.
The following list of conditions have 'Impaired vision' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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The following list of medical conditions have 'Impaired vision'
or similar listed as a medical complication in our database.
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