It takes courage for me to blog about this. I want the effects of this hemorrhage to go away, and I have a lot of fear surrounding it. But maybe I can help someone by doing this, and I may be able to help myself…
Dark spot in this drawing shows the approximate location and relative size of the initial bleed onto my left retina. X marks my center of vision.
August 4, 2009: Several days ago now, I had a tiny hemorrhage onto the retina of my left eye. It was so small that when I went in to the retina specialist to have it looked at he couldn’t find it until I told him where it was and he got out his magnifying lens and set it on top of my eye. It is right above my center of vision. I have had these before, so I am familiar with what they look like. This is a wake-up call. I have been so preoccupied with my life and caring for my son that I have neglected my vision. The doctor told a student he was working with that I had two huge cracks in the retina of each eye. Specifically, I had cracks in “Bruch’s membrane.” This is the extremely thin elastic layer between the blood vessles and your retina. He used the “A” word–”atrophy”–a word I have come to loathe in association with my own body parts! Guess I was a textbook case of the condition myopic degeneration caused by double-digit nearsight (my correction is over 10 diopters). Now that he’s mentioned it, I can see the crack in my left eye. I am now 51. I do not want to lose my vision due to bad habits. I am officially now back on the vision therapy wagon. It is going to take time. It is going to take persistence. And I have to do it.
This image shows my best recollection of how my field of vision looked to me on August 20th. The small dark spot in my vision on the 4th had gotten bigger, just covering my center of vision, and seriously degraded my ability to see well in the center of vision. My vision was "rippled" and I had poor depth perception.
Update August 20, 2009: My tiny hemorrhage got a bit bigger as the bleed spread out and thinned. It was close to my center of vision, so this blood ended up covering my center of vision. I could see through it, but the image was distorted. I tried a homeopathic remedy widely used to help with this problem: Lachesis mutus 30c. At the direction of my homeopath, I dissolved two pellets in 8 ounces of water in a pharmacy bottle and took 1/4 tsp. I took subsequent 1/4 tsp doses after succussing (or whacking) the bottle four times.
The first three doses of the Lachesis remedy definitely helped lighten my vision spot. Now it is mostly transparent but still distorted. Since the last two doses did not seem to do much, I do not want to take more, as the last thing I want to do is aggravate the problem.
Coincidentally, after getting this most recent hemorrhage, I had an appointment with our water guy, Charlie at Your Water Company. He is deeply interested in healing arts, and he introduced me to a Qi Gong healer who is a loving, gentle man and who has had great success in his work. You can read more about my experiences with this man, Paul Tom, on my Qi Gong page.
August 25, 2009
I took my son to school today, first day of first grade. He is doing so well, I’m so happy he’s launched so strongly. His teacher is wonderful. So now I have a little more time each day to work towards healing my vision.
While I am very happy with the benefits I have seen with the homeopathic remedy lachesis mutus, as mentioned in the above page, and while I am thrilled with the work of the Qi Gong healer I am seeing, I still have work to do, one foot in front of the other to recover from the effects of this retinal bleed and restore my natural vision and my optimum eye health.
I went to Los Angeles this weekend to celebrate a landmark birthday with a friend, and while I was there I spent an hour in Santa Monica with Gloria Ginn, my very gifted and experienced vision therapist. She gave me several techniques for cleaning up the spot of the bleed and restoring my vision.
My immediate problem is that the very small retinal bleed in my left eye has seeped slightly over my center of vision. Apparently The Universe wants me to heal this thing because She gave me an irritating problem that I can’t ignore–like I did last time. The homeopathic remedy I took helped some (think I’ll go take more right now…just a minute, I’ll be right back) so now the bleed spot is somewhat sheer, but it is also fairly distorted, as though I am seeing the world through a slightly opaque blob of water. If I am close enough to what I am reading, I can read text through the spot, but getting this eye to synchronize with the other in the region of my center of vision won’t happen with the fairly extensive distortion I am seeing until I get this spot cleaned up.
So my first urgent task is to encourage my body to clean up the spot of blood I’m looking through so that I can see normally again. With Gloria’s help I worked out a game plan. Here’s what I will do:
1. Keep taking lachesis mutus as long as it is helping me.
2. Keep seeing my wonderful Qi Gong practitioner (I will include links to Qi Gong healers when I understand better how to choose one.
3. Buy a 6x magnifying glass at my local vision assistance center. If you want to do this too you can purchase one from the Center for the Partially Sighted. Use this to practice “sunning” to bathe the retina with focused, constantly moving light (eyes closed!) and stimulate healing. **Update: I did this several times, but the increased blood flow caused increased bleeding through a couple of leaky capillaries, so I stopped. This would be great for “dry” macular degeneration, retinosis pigmentosa, or other problems associated with lack of blood flow to the back of the eye, but with “wet” it would likely increase bleeding if this is a problem for you.**
4. Palm for at least half an hour daily.
5. Swing at least twice daily.
6. Use the download Swing Windows found at www.central-fixation.com. What a great program! I love it! This prevents eyestrain from using the computer! I am so glad Gloria told me about this–computer work is one of the biggest sources of strain for me.
6. Do vision exercises and general living with my right eye (undamaged) covered, to keep the occluded eye working and contributing–I want my brain to keep depending on input from this source, whether or not the signals are perfectly clear. This is difficult for me but necessary to keep my left eye deep in the game while I clear up its present difficulties.
7. Put together a vision healing support group. My need for this was reinforced today at my local vision aid center. The store is staffed of people who are partially-sighted. One of them has been “blind” since he was 20 (although he was reading a computer screen and printed text, so he is certainly “partially” sighted). From his perspective, people who come in to their center are in some stage of grief regarding their vision. He expects all newbies to be in denial and this is how he approached me. Needless to say, I didn’t appreciate that. There are those of us who know vision problems and other health problems can be healed. He doesn’t know this and he doesn’t want to know this. But I don’t want his view of the world projected onto me. Anyway, I came away from the store feeling emotionally slimed. This experience reminds me that the best way for me to keep my spirits up and my energy focused on healing is to surround my self with others who are doing the same thing, and experiencing the day-to-day successes of those working step-by-step towards an extraordinary goal, one day at a time.
September 1, 2009: I spoke with my homeopath last week in our regular meeting. She recommended I skip the 200c dose of Lachesis mutus, as that dose is known amongst homeopaths as “the great agravator.” She recommends I go directly to 1M Lachesis. She told me she would send it in the mail. I was discouraged with the fact that the Lachesis 30c stopped helping. Why?
Meanwhile, last Friday I had my one month follow-up appointment with my retinal specialist. My spot had gotten worse, following a “natural” course of growing blood vessles to fill in the missing “laquer” where it was cracked behind my retina. The blood vessles grew into a mound right underneath my macula, causing a dark spot and distortion in and around my central vision as though I was seeing everything through a big blob of grey ink.
The doctor has a treatment to offer for this situation, and he felt the prognosis for me was excellent, since the degredation in my vision wasn’t that severe. Devoted as I am to homeopathy and other alternatives that heal the root cause of illness, this treatment is so simple and localized, and my vision occlusion was so significant at the central point, I could not turn it down. So I took it. It sounds awful, I know, but I got a shot in the eye. This was last friday. Now, Tuesday, my vision is much clearer and the ripple is much less significant. I know my vision will continue to improve. I am very heartened about this. It is always difficult if you have to choose between deep healing and allopathy. I love my vision and I love my body–both. I will work to heal the cause of this problem, and help my eyes’ long-term health. I am confident that in this case I made the right decision. And I am now enjoying the heck out of the vision I’ve gotten back. I nearly have excellent (corrected) binocular vision back.
September 14, 2009:
This drawing shows how the damage in my eye looked to me on August 17th. The tear had filled in nearly completely. Once Bruch's membrane is healed, then the blood vessles causing the bleeding and rippling in my vision will go away. Paul said the crack would fill in, then get shorter. This is what seems to be happening.
Spent the day processing insurance paperwork instead of writing. Ugh! Not good for the vision either! But never mind that. Yesterday morning I had another small bleed at the same site, but with the Avastin still in there the effects by now are going away. Meanwhile, I had my Bio Electromagnetics healer, Paul Tom, work on my eye on Friday. Oh, he doesn’t do Qi Gong, exactly. He says what he does is beyond Qi Gong. He is just amazing. Friday night after working with him I saw blue light at the spot where I had breaks in the lacquer behind my left retina. The next day I could see the crack was smaller. It’s wonderful (in a way!) to be able to see the effects of the healing work in my eye.
I do see a purple after image (most of this is only visible now to me as an after image) which I have drawn in this picture. I don’t know what it is, but it could be the site of bleeding.
September 22nd, 2009:
I went to see Paul again last Friday. He worked on my eye some more, and helped balance my system generally again. He told me the homeopathic remedies are slowing down the progress of my healing. This is not too surprising I suppose since homeopathics “irritate” your system in just the right way to
promote the healing you need. He told me to stop using them for a week and see how I feel. Paul’s work opens up such an easy path to wellness–I won’t be sorry to see the homeopathics go, I guess, but I might really miss the flu prevention remedies! I must talk with him about these. But you want an update on the progress in my eye, right? Here is what I’m seeing today:
October 26th, 2009
Sorry I haven’t blogged on this for a while! I have been distracted with many things but also have not been worried about my eye at all. It is doing great. The crack I could see two months ago must be healed, or very nearly so, because I can’t quite see it anymore. I continue to have problems with slight bleeding, though. If you refer to the picture on September 14th you see a lot of schmutzy stuff I added to the drawing. This stuff is swirls and patches of blood which were there initially, always morphing around, but which I didn’t initially draw because they complicated my communication of the situation and they didn’t concern me so much because they were an after effect of the real problem, not the problem itself. I wanted to draw the tear which would have to heal before the blood is going to go away.
The tear healed in such a way as to crowd the extraneous veins through the little hole at the bottom of the healing crack. I can’t see the hole any more, but some of these veins are still there. I know this because I can see blood flowing through them when I am looking at the sky (they look clear, and I can see individual blood cells moving through them). A couple of them must be bleeding since I can still see two bright spots in the after image, actually one small one and one tiny one like this: (AAK! Picture problems, sorry pix TBD.) The bleeding is not substantial, obviously, because it is not blocking my vision. In a dim room I notice a color change: blue looks purple to me in this area, and the “bright” spot in the after image looks black. But in daylight there is no missing vision or black spot, only a bit of slightly grey shade. I think I am lucky in this regard now. I also have some slight grid distortion in the area right around my center of vision. Looking at each eye individually now, I realize my brain may be adjusting for me in order to have good binocular vision–my right eye seems to have the opposite distortion of my left eye. I will have to talk with Paul about this problem if it still exists once the blood vessles are gone.
When I had my tests at the retina specialists office last month, the technician explained to me exactly what was going on in my eye. She said I had a tear in Bruch’s membrane. Bruch’s membrane is the 3mcm thin stretchy membrane that separates the retina from the rich network of blood vessles feeding it. When Bruch’s membrane is gone, the blood vessles grow–that’s their job–to try to heal it. Only they don’t heal it, they grow in places where you don’t want them, such as in front of your retina. Then when they leak, you have “wet” macular degeneration. The Avastin is a receptor-blocker that prevents the blood vessles from getting the message to “grow” even though Bruch’s membrane is missing. According to my doctor, it is highly absorbent too, it will clear out blood spills. Because of its receptor-blocker nature, it is also a healing inhibitor. It is designed to give the blood vessles the message to “go away.”
The doctor felt the Avaston shot would help me a lot, and it definitely did improve my vision. He said I might only need 1 shot and be fine for 20 years, or I might need a shot a month for the rest of my life. I did notice I seemed to be getting bleeding on a more or less weekly basis after the shot. That was discouraging. But I am going to keep working with Paul to see if he can get these veins to go away entirely of their own accord once Bruch’s membrane is completely healed. It seems to me that is what the body will do on its own. Once that’s done maybe I’ll go back and let them take a nice picture. Although I’ll have to talk them into it because it will no longer be indicated.
I did find someone to join a vision support group with me, a grandma who works with the kids at school, but she is in demand at school to help the kids and doesn’t feel vision work is a priority right now (!). Too bad! She is going to have a hard time helping if she can’t see. She has a cataract and dry m.d. in one eye, I believe she could heal at least the cataract herself if she worked on it a little, and wet macular degeneration in the other eye. I am sorry to lose this personal source of support and checking-in, but even sorrier that she has decided to not try to improve her vision situation. Down the road, the kids and teachers will miss her.
November 18, 2009
Paul Tom told me two weeks ago that he didn’t need to work on me anymore–my liver was working great, my blood was clean, all other major organs were working fine, and now the healing will just–happen. So we’ll see. My vision is pretty good, I cannot see a crack anymore at all–which is fantastic! I do have two small spots where the vision is occluded, and I still have places where lines bend around. I can see blood flowing in veins, but these are corralled in a very localized place right around my center of vision. I think a couple of these veins are still bleeding which is why I have the two occluded spots of vision. But this is minor if it is caused by veins which are on their way out! The wavy lines are still a concern. They are caused by veins growing behind the retina (behind Bruch’s membrane). These should go away too once they get the message that the membrane is back.
I will post again when there is a significant change in my condition.
March 19, 2010
The crack that Paul healed six months ago is still closed. I can see a tiny line (scar?) along a portion of the section he healed. I can no longer see any opening, so I’m guessing that is closed. However, I do still see clear veins criscrossing my vision. This doesn’t impair my vision, although I know that it means I still have veins in front of my retina, which I still really, really want to get rid of. The only cool thing about seeing these veins is I can see individual blood cells moving through these capillaries. This gives me an idea of how hydrated I am, how much energy I have, etc. I am starting to realize how important it is for me to be well hydrated. I also have a spot appearing below my center of vision (most thankfully) which is darker and looks as though I am seeing through a bubble. I know this is because I have veins growing under the retina which don’t belong there, and they are distorting my vision.
Just in the last week I found out about another doctor who is curing Retinosis Pigmentosa and Macular Degeneration. He is doing this through diet, supplements, color therapy, acupressure, and gentle electrical stimulation. He has a do-it-yourself kit he sells. He has also done research on his techniques and will be posting it online within the next two weeks. The doctor is Dr. Damon P. Miller II. His website is www.organicmd.com. I am just now reading a riveting book by the woman who discovered many of his methods herself. The book is Amazing Grace by Grace Halloran. Get it! It’s very inspiring!
November 3, 2010
I have gotten away from this blog for a bit and I’m sorry. I know if you are facing the loss of vision and you are searching for answers, you need to hear from others who are going through the same thing.
After the healing of the tear in Bruch’s membrane, I developed what looked like a “bubble” in my vision, below my center of vision. I suspect now that this bubble might be related to the Avastin injected into my eye. I would not be surprised, although the Avastin helped me at the time I had it. Anyway, the “bubble” didn’t bother me much, but aberrations in our vision is pretty much the opposite of what we’re looking for, right?
It got worse. A lot worse. The “bubble” morphed into an area that was hard to see through, got bigger and encompassed the center of my vision, then fairly quickly got worse so that I was not seeing through a large section of the center of my vision at all. It looked like a somewhat large reddish area right at my center of vision.
During this time my retina specialist, for whom I wait 2 hours, no matter what (–what an office!), began saying things like, “this just takes a really long time to heal,” and “I see an exclamation mark (no explanation of what the “bubble” I was seeing was, or even the “exclamation mark” he could see). He never answered questions directly about what was going on in my eye. I was having trouble making a mental model of what was going on with my vision. Were veins growing so dense in front of my retina that I couldn’t see through them? That’s what I’d assumed. But one day, talking with a friend who also happens to have been diagnosed with macular degeneration, I realized what I saw was the same as what she saw: a reddish blind spot. Not having been told that my macula had “degenerated,” I was shocked at first. But then I realized my doctor had just been avoiding telling me the situation. He was watching my vision deteriorate.
As soon as I figured out my vision was simply deteriorating, I made a b-line for all healers who might be able to help. Most fortunately, Paul Tom once again came through. Here’s what he found: I had a neck injury when I was young. In fact, I fell on my jaw when I was 10 and broke it. The impact of the blow was such a shock to my system that the muscles around my spine tightened up greatly. This restricted blood flow to my head. And it stayed that way until I lost my vision in my left eye.
Fortunately, Paul has developed the ability to “erase muscle memory.” He did this in my neck, and…the next day my vision was 20% back to normal. The day after that, same thing: my vision was 20% more restored. This continued for a week. This was about four weeks ago. Now, after a few more $70 appointments with Paul (Gee, THANKS!!!), my vision is nearly normal in my left eye. I can read with that eye again, the vision is about as bright as in the other eye, my central vision is pretty much unaffected now, and I have binocular vision again!! I have depth perception! I’d missed that! So, this is a very happy story at this point.
Interestingly, I also went through early menopause, and had Hashimoto’s disease. All of this may have been due to restricted blood flow–for the same reason–to my pituitary. Go figure.
A note about Avastin: According to my retina specialist, Avastin blocks the growth of veins. This is great for the veins you don’t want to grow, but what about the other veins in the area? Like the ones feeding your retina? What does the Avastin do to them? I was happy with my experience with Avastin, but when that was followed by degregation of a major portion of my central vision five or so months later after having had no problems for the prior 50 years, I have to think the Avastin had something to do with that. Especially viewing this in retrospect and knowing that I had restricted blood flow to my eye, how would it have been possible for my body to clear the Avastin out of there? All in all, I think the Avastin did more harm than good in my case. However, I was fortunate to have a healer who could increase the blood flow to my eye which should have cleaned out any gunk/poisons from the area, so it all seems to have worked out OK. I feel very blessed to have this healer in my life and I am extremely grateful for what he has done for me.
- September 22nd 2009. Now what used to appear as an open tear in the afterimage of my vision is just a closed line, with no open spot for blood vessles to get through! I still have some distortion in the vision surrounding my center of vision, but thank goodness no distortion at the center of vision (marked with the X). Blood from the former bleed is dispersing and fairly sheer.
Hi
I’ve come across your web post. And am wanting to get in touch with you to find out a bit more about your experience. I have a similar condition and has been for the last 4 years very marginally improving. Anything that I could know or get on top of would most definitely help.
Thank you for this post
Best
Abe
I just found your blog post. I have the exact same problem with my retina. Your story is almost the same as mine! I’d love to hear from you if your vision stabilized or if you are still healing. I’ve been healing for almost 2 years and I am looking for alternative healing methods other than Avastin or surgery. Thanks for posting your progress
Hi, Christine! I am glad you found my story interesting. I have not posted for a while. I continue to see my energy healer, Paul Tom, who usually finds an energy “block” due to some kind of big emotion. Paul clears the block, then I feel my feet warm up, or the circulation in my head increase by 70% or something like that! Paul is very booked up healing cancer patients now, most of whom come to him dying after the doctors have given up on them, so I really hate to take up his appointments now! But this is my vision which of course I care deeply about. The thing he wants me to do so that my energy flow stays good is to enjoy…everything I do. I don’t think that means to not admit it when something upsets you or irritates you, but look at that upset or irritation as a great opportunity to grow in some way. What is the experience teaching you? This is I’m sure the challenge and opportunity of all healing. Easier said than done, I know! Excuse me, I have to go practice my yoga poses and chant now…
Just kidding. Although I probably shouldn’t be! Another thing which I actually think is extremely powerful in terms of keeping the energy flow going is called tapping. If you do it in public people will think you are a bit off the deep end, but I actually think it’s a great way to empower yourself to keep your energy flowing so that you will heal. Since we’ve got macular degeneration, and the doctors aren’t good at solving the problem yet, we have to resort to stuff like this that at first seems strange, but once you try it you can tell, odd as it is, it works. Take a look at http://www.tapping.com (no affiliation to me) for information about how to do this technique. Do it and you won’t need a Paul Tom in your life.
My vision is fairly stable now, with central vision that is pretty good and still binocular (thank God! It’s much nicer!). I had a bad tear right across my center of vision but with Paul’s help it healed in a sort of cratered volcano. I have scar tissue above my central vision that distorts my vision and scar tissue below my central vision that distorts my vision but the center is pretty darn good. So other than straight lines that look a bit wavy I’m doing pretty well.
I’m beginning to look at other causes for my troubles. In addition to macular problems that started about 36 (young!), I also went through menopause about the same time. I have to wonder if there is something going on with my circulatory system that just isn’t all that great. I have known for some time I had (or have) an autoimmune condition, so now I am wondering if this has affected my capillaries in some way. Even something as simple as lack of estrogen for all that time could have an effect. But I suspect something else or more fundamental is at work that I might be able to address. I have been so put off conventional doctors especially in the allergy & immunology arena because their methods just seem so…ill-advised. But recently, I have found an alternative rheumatologist who I believe may be able to shed light on what is going on with my system. I found him for my husband who I believe has problems with mold in our house (which we will remove soon). One of the tests this doctor recommends in testing for mold illness measures anticardiolipins (anti-phospholipids) which I know I tested positive for in the past. These are often found in people with collagen vascular diseases. I figure this might be a fruitful path to mine.
I am not content with the rate at which I am healing, and I am looking for ways to get better faster! I have to think there is something systemic that is affecting me that I can correct and then make faster progress. But at the same time I am very very grateful to have the sight I have now.
If you wish to look for a similar doctor, you would look for someone who treats lupus, fibromyalgia, lyme disease, and/or mold illness. The doctor we are seeing treats all these things and he follows Dr. Shoemaker’s protocol on mold illness. It is Dr. Shoemaker’s book that piqued my interest in looking into this issue for myself…whether or not I’m sensitive to mold.
In my case, my recommended treatment might be one baby aspirin daily. I don’t actually want to take baby aspirin every day, but if little clots are forming in my veins and causing stuff to atrophy, then maybe I’ll think about it! I’d rather solve the problem with homeopathy, but if I haven’t cured it yet that way, then I suppose I’d better do something. There are lots worse things than half an aspirin.
Hi – It was w/ great interest that I read your blog. I had a vision problem where a little tiny bubble like thing appeared in the corner of my eye, spun around & disappeared (repeatedly maybe several times a day). It was exacerbated when I was at work (stressful job at a computer for 6 hrs.). I went to an optometrist who said it was nothing, proably stress but he did see a small retinal bleed, “nothing vision threatening” he said. So I was uncomfortable w/ that & went to an opthalmologist who IMMEDIATELY sent me to a retinal specialist. He said that if the bleed moved to the center of my eye it would be Macular Degeneration & if he sees that happening, the treatment is the shot in the eyeball (which you never addressed the pain/discomfort level……nor did he). I am also very into natural remedies so I was very interested in what you had written. My vision, at this point, is not effected. I was so shocked by the diagnosis last week, & he was in a hurry to get to surgery, I never asked any real questions. I emailed a list of questions 3 days ago which still have no responses. I asked if stress exacerbates the condition, if the car accident I had 2 months ago could have caused it – I was rear ended on a highway & have been in treatment – chiropractic & massage since. Where are your physicians located? (I am in Central Florida.) I am very scared about this – my dad had Macular Degeneration, has surgery for it & he came out of the surgery blind in that eye – the dr. had made an error in the surgery. I would appeciate it if you would contact me.
Thanks so much for blogging. All the best, Janie
Hi, Janie-
Thanks for your comment. It is frightening to have your vision disturbed. We take it for granted, it’s wonderful, then one day we realize, wow, I want so much to keep my vision!! What can I do?
Of course I am not an opthomologist, just one person who’s studied vision from an alternative perspective for a long time and is feeling her way through some vision problems of her own.
It would not surprise me if your vision problem (“bubble”) was caused by some retinal disturbance due to your car accident. It is great that the disturbance was not at your center of vision, what a blessing! Also if it was caused by a car accident, then you can feel somewhat confident your circulation in the area is normal and it will heal up normally. It is fantastic that you are doing massage, because this will help bring your entire body back into balance and keep your circulation to the area flowing. That is ***key***!!! So keep it up! So, with confidence you have normal capillary action to the area and good blood flow generally, all you need to do is make sure you have great nutrition so that your eyes have all the nutrients they need to do whatever repair is necessary. Make sure you are getting all the good retinal nutrition you need–lutein, Omega 3s and Astaxanthins in particular, and you should be fine. I take Mercola’s Krill Oil (although I am finding it rather fishy, it is a good source of Astaxanthin which is found in large amounts in the retina), Lutein, and Clear Focus drops. NOTE: Just researched Krill Oil to add it to my store, and found there is a better one–how did I miss it before? Red Whale Oil is a great choice, you will find it in my handy a-store!
In the absence of knowing what caused your father’s md, I will go out on a limb and say this regimen should have a preventative effect on the macular degeneration from which your father suffered. Do you know your father’s macular degeneration cause? Did he have diabetes, circulatory problems of any kind, any unusual tendency towards blood clots (antiphospholipid antibodies of any kind), neck problems or pain, or a stooped posture? If you share any of these, you can use these as signposts to help you navigate the waters and avoid problems in the future. Exercise will help you greatly–that reminds me I have to go work out now!
Thanks so much for your reply. My dad’s MD presented before he became stooped from old age, he wasn’t diabetic, had lymphedema in his legs & I guess normal circulatory issues for someone living until 91. He had the MD at about age 75.
I am awaiting delivery of an Isotonic Vision Formule from a wonderful product line that I have been into for the last several years. I have been using OPC-3 (Oligomeric Proanthacyanidins – Pycnoginol) & have bumped up the dosage. I had used Krill oil myself but couldn’t take the fishy aftertaste & relux. How is the Whale Oil?
I have shared the Market America website because I think you would find the product info interesting. Totally cured me after 53 years of IBS! I have high hopes in success from the Vision Formula. The thought of ashot in the eye totally freaks me out – esp. once a month for the rest of my life. Do you find that stress exacerbates the retinal bleed/symptoms? How are you now? Thanks, again. Best, Janie
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Thank you for the link. I will look into it.
Certainly the Lymphedema would affect your father’s body’s ability to clear waste from the eye, and must have contributed to his eye condition. A great question is: What caused the lymphedema?
I am *so impressed* that the OPC-3 cured your IBS! Wow! Good for you! Nothing like self-empowerment, right?
I have found that stress can exacerbate symptoms. Actually anytime I’m not doing great I can expect that to show up in my eye, and the converse is also true, I have seen improvements when I’m doing well.
I still have good vision in the center of my left eye, but it is tilty, that is straight horizontal lines look raised on the left side. I believe this means I have scar tissue built up under the retina. I am seeing a doctor who has now diagnosed lyme, a few lyme co-infections, and mold illness as well as a staph infection! This is great news in a way, because I now have three or four things I can improve to make myself healthier. The Lyme and mold illness caused damage to my hypothalmus which caused a serious drop in my hormone levels which in turn affected my vascular system. The doctor is treating the co-infections (parasites) first and has me on hormone supplements which have me feeling like a new person. I am hopeful that going after these problems can not only improve my global health but will help heal my eye and reduce the scar tissue under my left retina as well. Better circulation ***works miracles***.