A Purple Heart Recipient’s TBI Story -“I gave up my pills…for a pair of glasses”

A solider suffers migraines, falling down often, and then…an NPR interview changes everything… Headaches? Dizziness? Nausea? Reading Challenges? ADHD? It could be your eyes. Find out now: www.IsItMyEyes.com In the past 15 years, over 325,000 service members have been diagnosed with a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Most of these men and women needlessly suffer as […]

Vision Specialists of Michigan, Patient Stories

Migraines and dizziness after closed head injury

In 1997, I was in a car accident that left me with a severe closed head injury. I was in a rehabilitation program for about 6 months but was unable to return to work because of short term memory problems and assorted other problems associated with a head injury. I began to get migraines shortly […]

Vision Specialists of Michigan, Patient Stories

Closed Head Injury Patient Receives Help from Vision Specialists

I caused myself many problems at the age of 19. I am now 32. I was introduced to Vision Specialists almost 2 years ago. A woman I called Dr. Debby put me through a number of tests and had a lot of questions for me. She made me wear funny looking frames and had me […]

Vision Specialists of Michigan, Patient Stories

Glasses Made Me Feel Normal Again After A Traumatic Brain Injury

In July of 2006, I was hit above my left eye with a golf ball resulting in a TBI (traumatic brain injury). During my recovery, I was constantly nauseous and had the feeling of “sea-legs”. I also had headaches everyday and fatigue was a constant battle- in the first few weeks of the injury. I […]

Vision Specialists of Michigan, Patient Stories

I can read again!

Eight years ago I had a major head injury which caused me to have serious problems with reading and driving. Through yoga and eye exercises I was able to recover some vision acuity, but even then, about one hour from starting to read, I would lose my vision acuity, and I would be dizzy, nauseated […]