Posted on 08/24/2017 8:53:45 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
I've been using Can-c eye drops to help with my cataracts for about three months. I hadnt noticed much improvement until I lapsed on my usage. My vision immediately clouded up like crazy, so I got right back on them with a vengeance. The cloudiness quickly reverted back to its former level.
Please get yourself checked for diabetic retinopathy. See
https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/what-is-diabetic-retinopathy
Have same - age is the cause and reteina detachment the reason. Your brain get used to it and stop seeing them. Not to worry.
Per personal doctor, these are a form of migraine headache without the pain.
Also, check your blood pressure.
After years of frequently experiencing the floaters, they at last subsided for some reason. BTW, they did become very obtrusive before they stopped completely.
http://www.adrenaladvice.com/adrenal-fatigue-eye-floaters.shtml
so many of us have real issues with our adrenal glads because of prolonged stress. I highly recommend a good mineral protocol which ‘babies’ the adrenals. Namely magnesium, iodine, selenium and salt. You’ll also want to get on an active form of vitamin b and vitamin c with bioflavanoids.
all the above will nurture that part of your body. Do you have thyroid issues? panic attacks? anxiety or depression? all signs of adrenal issues (thyroid and adrenal go hand in hand)
See an Ophthalmologist, NOT an OPTICIAN. WORLD OF DIFFERENCE IN WHAT THEY DO. 0phthalmologist treats eye disease, Optician just makes your glasses. Could also be a cornea issue. But you start with the Ophthalmologist first, they will know if you need a cornea or retina specialist. EYES are not a WAIT and SEE if it will improve, you can go blind all to quickly if not taken care of quickly if it involves the Retinas.
If it is cataracts make sure you do your home work on the surgeon, as some of them are very sloppy. Do not have them set 1 eye for distance and 1 eye for up close. Use glasses to fix that issue. Getting cataracts removed does not mean you can be glasses free, no more than Lasix can after a certain age.
And BOTH can cause DRY EYE SYNDROME! Don't rush or push for glasses to soon after surgery, let your eyes heal fully.
I see your tape worms!
I am not a doctor so do this at your own risk.
Try Silver Biotics. You can pick it up on Amazon. Always store it in a cool and dark place. Light and heat (over 78 degrees)kills it. Get a Silver dropper too.
Anyhow, a few years ago I was having issues with my eyes. So I picked up some Silver Biotics. Poured it into a dropper bottle, and used it in my eyes. A lot of it too, but after 30 minutes I was good and the next die my eyes were fine again.
I have been consuming Hawaiian Grade Spirulina powder too mixed with water. It taste god awful, but I feel so much better and it improves my eye site has improved.
Anyway, hope that helps you out. Good luck!
Try 6 mg of lutein daily.
Every pill I am prescribed by competent medical authorities does something screwy with my vision.
The frustration and stress alone can be debilitating. Dont let it drive you crazy.
I had mine removed at 70 and am glasses free except for reading. They did one at a time and I simply removed the sense from my glasses until they fixed the second one.
I later developed some retina problems and hey pealed them much like skinning a grape. The floaters disappeared because they replaced the fluid in the eyes. It didn't help the warped retinas much but maybe they just didn't get worse.
I’ve had numerous floaters all my life. They are the same ones, though they change shape as I move my eyes around. Sometimes they are annoying and I have to rapidly move my eyes to get them out of my line of sight.
I have noticed that my vision has deteriorated significantly
the past few years.
Just want some input.
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What has your eye doctor told you?
My sister in law just had this problem. She went to the eye doc and he said something had broken off and was floating back and forth in her eye. The doctor said if you let this go on without treatment it can damage your eyesight.
It is scary when you run out. A few years ago there was a shortage and I couldn’t find any for a few months. My floaters came back with a vengeance and took about 4 months to get back to where they had been (essentially transparent).
“Do any of you suffer from “floaters” in your eyes? I’m finding it increasingly difficult with my vision.”
yes. it was impacting my driving safety it was so bad.
“Is there a remedy for this?”
yes.
It’s called vitrectomy.
basically, the eye surgeon sucks out the goo and replaces it with saline solution, and within 18 hours the body generates new aqueous humor.
I had my right eye done about 8 weeks ago and am having my left eye done Monday.
Recovery is usually about a month, with the main post-surgery effect coming from a long acting atropine dilator the surgeon treats the eye with during surgery that causes the eye to be dilated for a few weeks. The purpose of the dilation is to help reduce post-surgery inflammation.
Most of the online articles go on and on about oil or air bubbles having to be put into the eye after the surgery and the need to lie on one’s belly for a month until that is absorbed, but that’s old school stuff, and modern, uncomplicated vitrectomy’s simply for removing floaters don’t require any of that. Recovery was easy and straightforward.
My surgeon is a bit old school and likes to do this procedure under general, though some of the younger guys in his practice go with just local and brief periods of Propofol. At any rate, the surgery is 20-30 minutes, and even with general anesthesia, they don’t put you out as deeply as with, say, abdominal surgery, so you regain lucidness and energy much quicker than the deeper general.
My surgeon chose my right eye first, even though the floaters are worse in my left eye, because the vitreous humor had already naturally separated from my retina due to simple aging, thus eliminating subsequent possible/probable separation as a new source of floaters after the surgery.
Because my surgeon induces separation to prevent new floaters if natural separation hasn’t already occurred, the right eye was a simpler surgery and a good conservative first choice to see how things would go overall. (My surgeon believes in inducing the separation if it hasn’t already occurred because of the high probability of natural separation later due to aging requiring ANOTHER vitrectomy to clean out the new trash that can result from the separation. It’s the same idea as replacing the pulley and water pump when you are replacing the timing belt because you already have the timing belt cover off.
At any rate, the complication rate is extremely low IN THE HANDS OF AN EXPERIENCED AND COMPETENT SURGEON, so the key is to make sure you have a guy who does several of these on a weekly basis SUCCESSFULLY. Quiz the guy about the number of these he does a month, and the number and type of complications he has had for this particular surgery in his career.
I’m lucky that we have a world-class group of eye surgeons in my little berg (in fact, my surgeon attracts patients who need him to fix botched surgeries from other surgeons).
The results between my new right eye and old left eye are like the difference between day and night, so I’m greatly looking forward to getting my other eye fixed on Monday.
Insurance SHOULD cover the surgery when floaters make your vision dangerously poor, which is something the surgeon can easily see when he looks inside your eyeballs. Medicare covers it with no problem.
Thanks for the info and glad you’re doing OK.
No impairment to driving to pass the driving test. Needed glasses from age 45 or so to 55, then not, then again at age 65, no explanation that I recall, And finally cataract surgeries in my 70s.
Need reading glasses now but not driving glasses and to be honest I do not think I am typical and probably no help to you whatsoever.
just wanted to let you know i had the vitrectomy done in the second (left) eye this morning. piece of cake.
the floaters had been so bad in my left eye, it was difficult to tell just how clear the right eye had been made with the first surgery a few weeks ago, but now that i’ve removed the bandage from the left eye, and even though the left eye is still dilated (and consequently still a bit fuzzy) from after the surgery, i can finally see the full value of these two surgeries for me: the clarity of my vision is now truly remarkable compared to before the surgeries. I’m REALLY glad I had this done!
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