Seriously it is a real diagnosis.

A couple of weeks ago I started bumping into things on my left side as I walked by them. Just thought I was being clumsy or something like that and wrote it off. So then something really freaky happens, I am at a local grocery store. There is a person on my front left, I am looking straight ahead as they start to go by me and all of a sudden they disappear!!!!! Wow-what just happened. I am thinking crap, my brain tumor has returned. I get into to see an eye doc friend of mine and after several tests, I get diagnosed with Pie in the Floor Defect. It turns out my recent brain tumor (or radiation) disrupted ocular communication pathways between my eyes and brain resulting in a dead zone in the visual field of my left eye. It's pretty freaky. I have already had to suspend driving, walking in big crowds and pistol shooting

Is anyone else experiencing this defect? Is it going to s*ck as much as I think it is going to?

Sorry to hear that, had to be quite the shock when it happened

No I never heard of it before. I hope your ocular communication pathways come back though!

Never heard of it...freaky.

I hope it gets resolved, not driving and not going to the range is horrible. I didn’t drive for six months after my stroke....

Sounds bad, is this temporary I hope?

Good thoughts, and prayer for a full recovery.

I'm hoping it's temporary, too. What does the eye doc say about recovery?

I suspect it may the left visual field of each eye. Has this been confirmed (or ruled out)?

Sounds like either homonymous left inferior quadranopsia or an homonymous left hemianopsia.

When I see this it is usually associated with a stroke...or brain tumor. I’ve never heard of it happening from radiation treatment, but one can learn something new everyday.

Can be very disconcerting; sometimes special glasses can help.

Not sure about bouncing back from this one the way I did the two cancers. Praying for the best. I am getting another MRI this week to rule out a bleed, swell, etc.

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Originally posted by bcereuss:
I suspect it may the left visual field of each eye. Has this been confirmed (or ruled out)?

Sounds like either homonymous left inferior quadranopsia or an homonymous left hemianopsia.

When I see this it is usually associated with a stroke...or brain tumor. I’ve never heard of it happening from radiation treatment, but one can learn something new everyday.

Can be very disconcerting; sometimes special glasses can help.

Your good, OD/OS incongruent inf quadranopsia. Most likely due to the tumor.

I can only relate what happened to me, and it may be from an entirely different cause.

In my late 30s I had a stroke that left me with a "blind spot" that was fairly large in the upper left quadrant of my vision.

I was told at the time that it may improve over the following six months or so, and it did.

Today, almost forty years later, I only occasionally notice when, as an example, I watch words scrolling across the screen of the TV and the first few characters are just not there. I swivel my head slightly and there they are.

Hope you see a huge improvement as time passes.