In being diagnosed, my doctor spent a lot of time with the flashlight
test comparing my pupillary reaction. He seemed puzzled and later asked
me if the light seemed brighter in either eye. He said that with the
kind of visual field defect I have in my affected eye (the other eye is
normal), he would expect a difference in pupillary reaction but he
couldn't see one. Can anyone explain what this might mean?
Dr. Leukoma - 21 Feb 2005 01:33 GMT
Loss of optic nerve tends to cause a relative decrease in the pupillary
response on the same side...sluggishness. This is also a key diagostic
test for optic neuritis, so scratch that.
DrG