According to Kristine B. Hopkins, O.D., professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry and associate dean of Academic Affairs, double vision, or diplopia, is an eye disorder ...

Double vision, also known as diplopia, can be frightening and disorienting. It occurs when the brain fails to merge the visual information from both eyes into a single, clear image. While double ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I had a total thyroidectomy in July 2022 for Graves’ disease. All the time leading up to this and almost all the time since, I’ve only had one short “active” period of thyroid eye ...

Double vision, or diplopia, occurs when a person sees two images instead of one. Performing certain eye exercises may help to reduce double vision in some cases. When a person has double vision, the ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My husband woke up with double vision about three weeks ago. It appears that his left eye is turned inward and does not move with his right eye. He’s had a prescription for prednisone ...

Dear Dr. Roach: For two weeks, I have had double vision when I look down to the lower side. Each eye is individually normal, but I have double vision when using both eyes. An MRI was done by my doctor ...

When Cole Smith started seeing double, he visited an eye doctor. They learned that a tumor nestled in the middle of his brain caused his vision problems. When Cole Smith was 9 years old, he noticed ...

Convergence insufficiency (CI) is an eye disorder where your eyes don’t move at the same time. If you have this condition, one or both eyes move outward when you look at a nearby object. This can ...

Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disorder that primarily affects the thyroid gland. Approximately 27 percent of patients with Graves’ disease in North America will develop an eye disease that is known ...