How Does Lyme Affect One’s Eyes?
If you join any Lyme disease or tick borne illness forum, you are likely to see patients complaining about their eyes or vision. It seems that these are the common complaints related to vision from those with Lyme disease and other tick borne infections.
- Blurred Vision
- Eye pressure or pain
- Floaters
- Hallucinations
- Conjunctivitis
- Tunnel Vision
- Light flashes/streaks/squiggly lines
- Changing sight throughout the day
- Double vision
- Vertigo
- Can’t focus properly
So we would like to hear what your issues have been. Tell us in the comments below what your eye/vision symptoms have been.
Articles, Research and Blog Posts Related to Occular Issues
Lyme:
- First isolation of Borrelia burgdorferi from an iris biopsy
- Lyme disease in China and its ocular manifestations
- Ophthalmic Aspects of Lyme Disease Overview of Lyme Disease
- How does Lyme Effect the Eye by College of Medicine in Chicago
- Vision Symptoms from Lyme Disease
- Bizarre Visual Symptoms Of Lyme Disease
- Treating Vision Problems caused by Lyme Disease with Antibiotics and Steroids
- Ocular manifestations of Lyme disease
- Vision problems with Lyme
- Columbia University on Lyme disease and Eye Sight
Bartonella:
- Bartonella and intraocular inflammation: a series of cases and review of literature
- Cat-Scratch neuroretinitis (Ocular bartonellosis)
- How These Four Strategies Reduce Bartonella Eye Pain
- Understanding Bartonella, A Common Lyme Disease Coinfection
- Optic Neuritis Due to Bartonella henselae Infection
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