What questions should you ask Vince and Nigel?
Specific to their problems
- Are you having any problems with your vision?
- Do you feel your vision has altered? In what way?
- Have you had double vision, where you see two of something?
- Specifically, do you have difficulties with TV, reading or bumping into things?
- How long have you noticed the changes for?
More general questions about their vision
- Do you have any glasses? When was your last eye test? Who is your optician?
- Do you drive?
- Do you have any previous eye problems that you know of? For example, glaucoma, cataract?
- Have you had any eye problems before your stroke?
- Have you been seeing anything that might not / should not be there? Maybe patterns, faces or people?
Visual hallucinations may occur following significant visual loss. Patients rarely volunteer these symptoms and it is therefore important to ask if they are present. This condition is called Charles Bonnet Syndrome and the following information leaflet may assist your learning and be useful to stroke survivors: Stroke Charles Bonnet leaflet [PDF, 27K] (with permission of the British & Irish Orthoptic Society)
Page last reviewed: 29 Jul 2021
