Posted on 03/12/2021 1:57:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
Interesting. I use drops to keep my glaucoma from advancing.
day AND night...
That's probably why I won't be getting this treatment.
Not to mention the occasional MJ toke.
(I said not to mention that!)
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thanx nick
Yes but will it work on dogs?
My Dad had glaucoma and,as a result,I have to be monitored for it every year (I’m told that it runs in families). My Dad had laser surgery at a large ophthalmology group affiliated with Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary and I now go to that same group.If this device reaches that group...that is,if it’s accepted by the group...then it’s OK with me.
That's probably why I won't be getting this treatment.
The rotating lens on the eye was the old treatment which took ten minutes. The new one doesn't touch the eye and takes seconds. Next year's update just shoots your eye from the optometrist's office while you sit in your car or even drive by slowly.
Why would they not use the eye numbing drops that are used in a normal eye exam?
Okay, that’s the one I want.
I was diagnosed with glaucoma only to find out that my eye nerves were pinched in my back and a chiro released the nerves and saved me $2,500/eye for laser surgery.
PTL for chiros!!
Ive had glaucoma for two years..open angle I think is what I have so Im currently taking drops for it(Lumigan) I havent been to an eye doctor in a year due to this damn pandemic so Ive continued with the drops hope they are still working..this laser treatment, this is a cure for glaucoma?
Same here. I’m going to ask my eye doctor about this laser deal next time I go.
See Post #8
My worry (as I am 70) is a time that I am unable to remember to do that as religiously as I do now and go blind. I suppose that when that time comes, the state of health care won't give a rat's behind what happens to a person of my age.
Use of Lasers to correct and some times heal what is wrong with our eyes is amazing besides the decades old laser corrective surgery.
A decade ago, My cataracts were replaced by the adjustable lenses so I wouldn’t need reading glasses nor glasses for distance. After about a year, I developed floaters and the eye doc used a laser to take out the floaters.
About a year and a half, ago, my wife had the normal cataract replacement lenses installed.
Recently, she was having blurred vision, trouble reading and seeing. Her eye doc had her come in and suggested that I drive and stay with her.
There was some accumulation on the implanted lenses that was impairing her vision. The eye doc use a similar machine and performed a “Posterior Capsulotomy” on both eyes and removed the scum as she called it. It took about 5 minutes per eye and a 10 minute wait in the exam room. Then, she could go home.
After the procedure was over, she walked out using my arm as walker. We put post procedure steroid eye drops in her eyes for a week.
Each day her vision improved, now it is as good as ever.
Do you have some device to remind you, like an Echo?
Just posted a study on a supplement that also greatly helps.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3941757/posts
That would be minor compared with what my mother had to go through, and she lost one eye anyway.
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