For the past 3 years I haven't been able to study because I have been diagnosed with spasm of accommodation with the following symptoms:
- After focusing for a few minutes, vision becomes vertically double (eg. while reading, watching movie, intense eye contact during conversations)
- Tired, dry, stingy eyes
- Headache starting from the eyes and forehead towards the whole head
- Sometimes nausea if I force it longer
- Also recently, slightly more sensitive to (artificial) light than usual

The eye clinics, neurologist and psychologists cannot find any problems in their tests. My eyes work fine except when I have to focus. I do need glasses of +0.5 for reading, but it doesn't relieve the spasms.

It started during a stressful period of deadlines during which I had to work on the computer for a long time without breaks.

I tried several treatments, such as:
- dilation drops (atropin, irifrin, cyclopentolate)
- eye exercises
- exercising (yoga, swimming, fitness, dance)
- neck/shoulder/back massages (10 sessions twice a year)
- vitamins (multi, omega 3, luteine)
- long breaks for my eyes
- warm eye masks

Those are only effective for immediate relief, but not for long term. The fatigue always comes back after focusing again. That's why nowadays I am learning to live with it by using alternative methods for studying (eg. braille, screenreader software).
However I hope I can heal my eyes soon.

My questions are:
1. Are there any other treatments I could try?
2. Which treatments that I have tried so far could have effect in longer term? 3. Is spasm of accommodation a correct diagnosis?
4. Are there any other fields of medicine I could look into, since it does not seem to be a optical/neurological/psychological problem?
5. Why are these symptoms still here after all these years? Is this a rare case? Will it ever go away? Can it get worse? Do I just need more patience?

Thank you so much in advance for your advice.

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