I may have done some damage to my right optic nerve after 3 months of illness with severe, violent coughing which almost caused me to vomit on several occasions. Ar any rate, before I was sick, both optic nerves were normal. Then I had to pass a cataract exam to continue to be allowed to drive. That is when the doctor noticed that part of my right optic nerve appeared to be gone/twisted, something wrong. They wanted me to start taking glaucoma medicine for both eyes even though both eyes had a pressure test score of 15 (normal range is 11 to 21) In fact when I asked the doctor to check my pressure scores for some years in the past, I sometimes had 17 or 16. My mother had glaucoma with high pressure, and a nervous up-tight personality. I am relaxed and happy so don’t believe I have low pressure glaucoma.
I was told, there was no cure for a damaged optic nerve, but with some careful Google searching found some suggestions that trauma can sometimes be healed. NAC was one item they suggested might help a damaged nerve heal, and I am taking it. I did not see anything about glycine or glutathione. I have some glutamine and wonder if that might be useful to increase my glutathione levels. I am also taking Alpha Lipoic Acid in the hope it will stimulate Adult Stem Cell Repair. And I could sure use more strength. Merry Christmas to all.
HMB helps older people get some strength back.
Merry Christmas to you and yours, too. I hope your optic nerve stabilizes.
Check out a book called, The Brain’s Way of Healing by Norman Doidge. It’s about neuroplasticity.
The sixth chapter in it is about a man who restored his vision when by all rights, it never have happened. He had physical damage and scarring to both his eyes and was essentially blind.