Orbital blowout fracture anyone?

[LABoxer]

Thanks for the reply, man. That sounds awful, but I'm glad everything is back to normal.

The left side of my face (from my left cheek to my upper front tooth) is still numb. Thankfully, I haven't been drooling, at least not that I know of. On occasion, I have looked at my reflection only to find crumbs or sauce on my upper lip that I didn't wipe away because I couldn't feel anything there.

I had surgery on Friday and while most of the double vision is gone, there is still double vision when I look far up. For whatever reason, my gut feeling is that this is permanent, but your response is giving me some hope that it will heal after a few months.

Thanks for your advice. That makes me feel better and I'll be extra careful to take it easy these next few months.

Has your double vision resolved or improved in upgaze? It has been 2 years since your surgery? I recently took a shot to the eye with facesaver headgear and 16oz gloves, had surgery for orbital blowout fracture, and have double vision in upgaze still, at 3 weeks post surgery.

 

[hangulmalmotayo]

Has your double vision resolved or improved in upgaze? It has been 2 years since your surgery? I recently took a shot to the eye with facesaver headgear and 16oz gloves, had surgery for orbital blowout fracture, and have double vision in upgaze still, at 3 weeks post surgery.

Yup. Unfortunately I don’t think it goes away completely.

 

[eternaldarkness]

I don't know either...and we were wearing 18oz gloves. My coach supplied the gloves he had...I remember those glove needing stitching cause the knuckle part in the left glove was coming out. It could've been that but the gloves honestly looked fine after the stitching. I don't know if it was that are if the punch was really that hard. I usually bend the bar a little foward so I get space between it and my nose(I've got a big nose). The head gear itself doesn't sit to tight on my head, I often find my self adjust after a good hit while sparring. I don't mind you asking me anything thing...ask away. Hopefully these questions and answers will helps a fighter.

I only had one surgery. That was actually yesterday morning. The eye is swallowing shut from it.i went to the emergency room the same night, I got scans, they saw that I have an orbital floor blowout...said it Wasn't a major fracture but it wasn't light either, that the eye was no longer sitting right as it had sunk down a Litlle due to the fracture of the orbital floor...they waited a week to see if my vision would correct itself, during the meantime I was giving steroids to reduce swelling and help with the recovery. After the week the vision improved but I still saw double I never looked up/down. And the fracture eye couldn't travel as far up as the unfractured one; I really hope the surgery helps that cause I look looney when ever I look up. They put a titanium metal piece to replace to broken fracture in the eyesocket and to help the guy said back to original position. I'm realizing as I text this now that my injured eye doesn't feel sunken in any longer

I'm a pretty decent puncher and the condition of the gloves has a lot to do with it. It doesn't take long for a big puncher to completely deform the padding in gloves so that it offers very little protection, it could have been this that allowed the glove to slip past the face bar.

 

[SandisLL]

Dyplopia or other sight defects?
It depends from their cause.
Usually they check with MR & contrasting because any head shot might cause for example, small hematoma in brain and then symptoms depends from place in brain, where this process happened. One place might cause hearing defects, another vision defects etc.
This might happen even without any broken/ damaged bones.

 

[CFGroup]

Doctor gave me the go ahead to start non-contact training. Of course, one day into it I injure my Achilles' tendon out of zeal to make up on lost time.

No bueno.

Haha did that too after hip surgery from trying to light run on the balls of my feet again. Limped home and pouted like a baby for two weeks. Now I triple that loop and add a half mile hill climb.

You'll get everything back just give it time. You're signed up for a lifetime of injury and rehab, enjoy the rehab as much as the training and you'll last for years.

 

[sweetviolenturg]

I was fighting a guy by the name of George Taylor in my third pro fight & he was an unorthodox fighter that frequently switched stances & threw punches from odd angles. He was a wild, dirty bastard with good power. And, in the fifth round, he threw a right hook that he followed up with an elbow that cut me over the left eye & cracked my supraorbital foramen.
I bled like a stuck pig & I thought for sure that the ref was going to stop the fight but he let it go on until the bell. I thought I'd done more than enough to win but the judges called it a draw.
Afterward, I went to the ER to get x-rayed & stitched up where they told me that it was a clean crack that wouldn't require surgery. Of course, I had to follow up with a specialist but he said the same thing. I just had to wait for it to heal which took quite a while. Though, luckily, I only experienced double vision for about two weeks. But, the lump on the inside above the eye took what seemed like forever to go away.
When I returned to training a couple of months later I tried to spar a bit too soon & my eye swelled up on the spot of the break so I had to take some more time off to let it heal again. All in all, it was about eight months before I fought again.

 

[LABoxer]

Yup. Unfortunately I don’t think it goes away completely.

You still have diplopia on upgaze? Did you have enopthalmus? I'm concerned that diplopia won't improve much since it didn't really resolve post surgery but hoping that it will with time.

 

[Dayle Haines]

I broke my cheekbone, eye-socket and orbital floor in a fight 8 years ago. I got plates and screws in my face and a replacement orbital floor made out of mesh under my right eye.

On diplopia, it's a crazy thing. 8 years on I still have it when looking up and down, or corners of my eye. Sufferers know what I mean, when you look back while reversing a car you go almost cock eyed.

Anyway, you get used to diplopia. And I dont mean in dealing with it. Your eyes will eventually block out double vision, truly I dont even know how bad my diplopia is atm. I went for an eye test years ago, before going I thought "wow I havent seen double for ages they're gonna tell me I'm fine" then I looked at my eyes in the mirror, trying to see double. And one eye was up one eye was down but I could only see single upon actually seeing that double vision returned. Its almost like you cant see your nose... your mind blanks it out. But it does that with double vision. Crazy. So sufferers dont worry too much because that will eventually happen.

ANYWAY. my question. I've just started boxing, what's all this talk about eyes exploding!?

 

[B0l0joe]

Has anyone else on here had an orbital blowout fracture and had surgery for it? If so, do you still have diplopia? Has it seriously affected your training?

I ask because I just had surgery after a pretty bad orbital blowout fracture from getting punched in the eye. I'm afraid that some of the damage is permanent. I.e., when I look up I still see double (which is a lot better than how things were before surgery). Does anyone here have any experience with working through that? Any advice or tips?

Thanks!

Holy shit I had one in 2004, every time I have old someone about it they had they had never heard of it.

The surgery didn’t seem to affect me long term. I had some vision issues for a few weeks but after that it was fine.

 

[John Schultz]

Some really informative post an injury like you've suffered is severe but good to let others know that they can come back.

 

[Sherif]

Hello, i had a blowout fracture that needed surgery where i had a mesh placed under my right eye, i dont have any complications such as diplopia etc.. its been 8 months now since the surgery but i still can feel something strange in my right eye, its really uncomfortable when i keep thinking about it, cant seem to really get it out of my head. Does this feeling go away or it will stay like this, hopefully someone can help! Thanks