Neurological Malfunction

Tommy98

Hahaha pasta. Are you 100% sure that cooking oil is your cause? I might try that. So when you consume cooking oil you get eye strain from some screens?

Seagull

Tommy98

Its not my only cause, I can struggle with some screens regardless. But if I were to eat cooking oil, the lcd screen I am using fine now becomes unusable. Similar thing happens if I eat anything with curcumin, or silicon dioxide added (stops salt clumping together, also used in pills). I don't know why, but its been happening for about 4 years now. I have a lot of food intolerances and mild allergies, with new ones appearing fairly regularly. Whilst I don't get a rash or any other symptoms from cooking oil, I assume I am slightly allergic to it, and its getting into my brain and causing some inflammation because of that allergy. Every so often a new food trigger appears.

The first food trigger to affect my tolerance of screens was sunflower oil. I ate a lot of crisps (lots of sunflower oil) one day and was in much more pain the next day. Stopped eating crisps, got a lot better, soon figured it out was the sunflower oil. Since then its slowly expanded to be all cooking oils, and the other things I mentioned.

Tommy98

Seagull Wow. That's a lot of experimenting. I might try the pasta thing.

Seagull

Tommy98

Best of luck

Gurm

I haven't found a dietary link, not discounting Seagull's experience, but it's not representative.

tfouto

The best think would be a elimination diet for 3 to 4 weeks. Starting just with rice and chicken, and broth. Then adding some vegetables, etc.
There lot of info on google on Elimination Diets.

K-Moss

Anyone noticed any improvement from supplementing with a good B complex?

AGI

K-Moss I used for some months eye drops containing vitamin B-12 and it did help especially at the start. It relieved symptoms but did not eliminate the problem.

Tommy98

AGI The link doesn't work for me. What's the brand you use?

AGI

Tommy98 It is called Sancoba Ophthalmic Solution 0.02% : 5ml x 10.

Description: This preparation of vitamin B12 improves muscle function related to eye focusing. It is usually used to treat eyestrain.
Active Ingredients: Cyanocobalamin

I do not want to create too many expectations. It helped, but it does not cure the issue at the origin.

AGI

Tommy98 The link doesn't work for me.

I fixed the link.

Tommy98

AGI Thanks!

Sunspark

Cyanocobalamin is trash. Methylcobalamin is much better.

Edit: That is, if you want a form that can be absorbed and used by your entire body. Cyano needs multiple steps of conversion in the liver that Methyl does not. It is possible that Cyano in eyedrops functions differently when dropped into the eye so I shouldn't dismiss it outright, but I am skeptical.

Quad43

Interestingly had labs done and am highly b12 deficient

martin

Tommy98 Please check here - heteroforie.webnode.cz

If the optometrist did not find anything, then that unfortunately doesnt mean its still not heterophoria. You can try the home test and maybe find more specialists to try.

It may be stress, but in a different way than you think now - long time under pressure or sudden stress can make heterophoria manifest, as the strain is already too much and under bigger load your body may just give up and let the eyes "slide".

Also a lot of people here are looking for neurological solution - heterophoria IS a neurological issue as well. Its a combination of badly set eye muscles combined with how the visual center in the brain processes stimuli.