General Vision Health Topics. Mostly we talk about myopia here, which we don’t consider to be an illness. While on that subject we do often end up crossing over into related issues that you may encounter, while working to reduce your myopia.
Everything from dry eyes, to the dangers of certain antibiotics, to risks of retinal detachment and glaucoma and lattice degeneration, you’ll find all the vision health related topics in this category.
Christian: My KEY To Improving My Eyesight
Christian posts in the forum:First of all, I apologize for not having been too involved in the forum for the past two months. I was on vacation from school and tried to use as much time outdoors as possible. I only used my computer for errands that I had to get done and for reading the blog.———Now, to let you know, in the past six months or so I have improved my vision more than the year and half before [...]
Improved Glaucoma Detection: Singapore Study
From Today Online:Singapore — He was diagnosed with glaucoma in 2014, but 61-year-old Mr Ismail Busri does not know when the insidious eye disease first crept up on his left eye. Characterised by progressive damage to the optic nerve and loss of vision, glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide.“I was very surprised when the doctor told me I had glaucoma as no one else in my family has it. By then, about half of the vision [...]
(-9.50 High Myopia) Went To See The Optometrist Yesterday …
Not me. I didn't go to the optometrist. I've developed a profound fondness for avoiding optometrist consults years ago, even as my eyes started to improve measurably. Seeing those guys just made me either anxious, angry or depressed. It took me a long time to get lucky and find anybody in that profession who gave my results an actual thumbs up. Stefanie though, she did just go to the optometrist. And Stefanie has much better luck than I ever [...]
Eye Health Alert: These Antibiotics Cause 500x Higher Retinal Detachment Risk
A whole class of antibiotics, often prescribed for respiratory and urinary tract infections, have been found to cause a 500x risk increase of retinal detachment. The University of B.C. raised alarms about this problem a staggering four years ago, in 2012, and it has taken Health Canada until 2016 to finally require a warning label to be added to the entire class of Fluoroquinolones which create this serious risk of permanent blindness.22 incidents of retinal detachment associated with the consumption of [...]
LASIK: Should Be An Epic Scandal
From Straigtstimes Singapore: Mr A was an unusual patient. I had just completed an operation and was walking into my clinic when a boyish-looking man dressed in office attire stood up and followed me from the lift lobby into my consultation room. There was a look of trepidation on his face and his brows were knitted with worry. Even before I could sit down, he started telling me there was a shadow in his field of vision that would not [...]
Cruel, Cruel Winter
Perhaps you've noticed that there haven't been a whole lot of coherent words from me in the last few days, here on the blog.I left sunny, warm Bangkok with the slightest bit of a bug of some kind.Whatever the tiny bug was, it sure likes Japan. And the cold. And me, being a dumba** as usual, insisting on spending entire days outdoors, despite howling winds and low single digit temperatures. My logic for not even buying a hat? I'd only [...]