Arizona quarterback Kurt Warner said he plans to see an ophthamologist about lingering post-concussion symptoms that kept him out of Sunday's last-second 20-17 loss at Tennessee.

Warner said Monday he's having hard-to-describe issues with his eyes, a condition he had hoped would subside last week but never did. He said the Cardinals medical staff told him before Sunday's game he shouldn't play and he agreed.

The decision ended Warner's string of 41 consecutive starts.

He sustained the concussion in the second quarter of Arizona's 21-13 victory at St. Louis and didn't play in the second half of that game.

Warner took all the first-string reps in practice last week but acknowledged that the eye issue persisted.

"I just think I hoped that it would get better and better throughout the week, as we all did and were optimistic that it would be good enough to play," he said.

Warner tried to describe the symptom.

"It's not a visual issue where I'm foggy, where I can't see or I can't focus on something," he said, "but there's a fogginess that's kind of in and behind my eyes, or on top of my eyes. It's something that's just not right. It's just not normal."

He said he has unusual sensitivity to light, especially fluorescent light.

"Everything I look at there's kind of a shadow that kind of follows it that's different than normal," he said. "But this other feeling that I've tried to explain and nobody can really grasp what it is, I don't know if it's necessarily related to that light sensitivity."

Warner said he plans to start on Sunday night when the Cardinals (7-4) host Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings (10-1).

"But again you've got to take it one day at a time," he said.

Warner said he was seeing the eye doctor "to see if we can come to any resolution if there's something related with the eyes or something there that we're not aware of."

Warner, who passed all the necessary neurological tests, said he was honest with the training staff and coach Ken Whisenhunt throughout the week as he experienced neck tightness as well as the eye problem.

"Then we got together again on Sunday morning and although the neck tightness was better, I was still having the issue with my eyes," he said. "That's when they said we don't feel comfortable with you playing, and I couldn't argue with them because I knew I wasn't right."

Warner's absence gave Matt Leinart his first start in more than two years. The former Heisman Trophy winner completed 21 of 31 passes for 220 yards with no interceptions. In the second half, he was 13 of 16 for 137 yards.