Question about Rubella/German Measels?

When I was about three years old my left eye lost the ability to move left. My parents took me to a opthamologist who did a quick examination and said that he didn't know what had caused it, but the muscle had been damaged and my left eye would be able to move in every direction without complications--- Except to the left.

A few years later in kind of a by-the-by thing, my parents took me to another docter who had a bio-feedback machine. He said that when I received my German Measles shot that I had somehow contracted the virus, and it had done damage to my eye. I was really to young to remember what exactly was said.

My question:
Could this have really happened? If so why did it attack my eye, and what damage did it do?
I have done research on the internet about Rubella and can't really find a whole lot of info, other that it is a mild virus with little or no side-affects.

Rubella is a mild infection...
Except if it is present in the baby at birth, due to the mother having acquired it during pregnancy, especially during the first three months. There it can have severe and life-threatening effects.

Injury to the VI intracranial nerve which controls exactly the eye movement you specify is relatively common. The nerve has a long and vulnerable route and relatively mild trauma, such as from a childhood fall, can damage it.

Acquired in an *adult* there are lots of possible causes, and MRI scans and blood tests might be required to locate the reason. Even so in about 25% of cases this is never found.

A VI nerve palsy at the age of three does not sound like Rubella, even an acquired Rubella, in the absence of more data. It's just possible a degree of inflammation from a reaction to the innoculation caused the problem, but I can't think of any way of separating that outside possibility from others.

Note: a VI nerve palsy does not damage the *eye*, only one of the six muscles controlling its movement.