The most informative web page I have seen about vision loss after stroke is from the RNIB.

[pinkvision]

Hi folks was searching for info on loss of vision after TIA and came across this page from the Royal National Institute for the Blind.

It's really informative so I thought I'd share it.

rnib.org.uk/your-eyes/eye-c...

[BinaryBiscuit]

Hi pinkvision,

Thank you for this as I haven't come across this information. It is really useful even though my sight loss is from a TBI but it is similar to stroke survivors. I only just started getting support from RNIB at the start of the year but wish I connected with them sooner.

[pinkvision in reply to BinaryBiscuit]

Having a TBI you are usually told you have light sensitivity or visual overload, which of course does happen, but no one really looks at the issues in my experience anyway, but with TBI you can also have many of the issues detailed in the RNIB page.

Check out this video because axonal damage (the main neurological condition after TBI) can cause these visual processing issues.

youtube.com/watch?v=2ZbFBlw...(Not working as expected?)

[BinaryBiscuit in reply to pinkvision]

Thanks for the video. I'm trying to learn more as the brain injury team haven't been that helpful with the sight loss. I do get light sensitivity but I haven't had any support with this. I guess one of the issues is that the MRI scan shows multiple lesions but most of these are in the frontal lobes. There is nothing specific though to account for the right homonymous hemianopia, although there is a lesion in the right occipital lobe. They would have expected the lesion to be in the left occipital lobe.

[pinkvision in reply to BinaryBiscuit]

Hmm, I looked up other videos too and they said hemiopia was a problem with lesions post chiasma in the optical nerve system before the occipital lobe but was not an issue with the occipital lobe itself. That was also a video for medical students specializing in visual problems.

Mine is anopia in characteristic which means it is an issue with the optic nerve pre chiasma.

Neither hemiopia or anopia is an occipital problem according to the medical training videos.