{"id":6319,"date":"2025-03-20T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/bibliotheek\/how-long-will-i-keep-seeing-phantom-images\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:14:29","slug":"how-long-will-i-keep-seeing-phantom-images","status":"publish","type":"library_pt","link":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/library\/question-for-maaike\/how-long-will-i-keep-seeing-phantom-images\/","title":{"rendered":"How long will I keep seeing phantom images?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-03-20T14:02:00+01:00\">20 March 2025<\/time><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dear Maaike,<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since my eye was removed, I keep seeing images. How long will these phantom images last? Will this problem go away after a while? It has been 8 weeks since my evisceration.   <\/p>\n<p><strong>Best regards, N.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dear N,<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve often heard people mention this issue during our Open House events. However, I\u2019m not yet sure whether these phantom images disappear after a while. That\u2019s why I\u2019m forwarding your question to Dr. Paridaens, an orbital specialist and member of our Medical Advisory Board.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Paridaens replies: <em>Phantom images or visual hallucinations occur in about 30% of patients who undergo an eye removal. They may be triggered by impulses generated in nerve tissue when the optic nerve is transected during eye removal. Once the trauma has healed, these impulses will likely cease. Impulses in the optic nerve pathways and the visual cortex are interpreted as images with various shapes and colors. These images usually fade within six months, but wound healing (and nerve stimulation) takes 12 months, so a longer duration is not unusual. Other than that, there isn\u2019t much you can do about it. <\/em> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Best regards, Maaike<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dear Maaike,<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you so much for the information. Your answer has definitely helped me. It has put my mind at ease regarding the consequences of the evisceration.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>N.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Office staff member Maaike Oosterhof is the driving force behind the peer support program at the OOG in OOG Association. Her daughter Macy (18) has anophthalmia and wears two ocular prostheses. Thanks to her many years of experience as a staff member at OOG in OOG, Maaike knows a great deal about living with one eye and ocular prostheses. For some of the questions she receives, she enlists the help of our board, other volunteers with personal experience, or ophthalmologists and ocularists.   <\/p>\n<p>In this section, she answers questions that people ask by phone or via info@ver-ooginoog.nl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5373,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_daextauttol_enable_tooltips":""},"library_cat":[124],"class_list":["post-6319","library_pt","type-library_pt","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","library_cat-question-for-maaike"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_pt\/6319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_pt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/library_pt"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"library_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library_cat?post=6319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}