I'm very nearsighted and 5 years ago the pupil of my right eye cramped up so bad it deformed my eye, gave me a cat eye if you can believe it but only temporary. But man, did that hurt wow. It looked sort of like this
and I had to buy these eyedrops called Durezal which is a steroid that cost $240 for a bottle about the size of your thumbnail but it did the trick, but I can tell every year my eyes are getting worse.
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My eye Doc suggested I buy AREDS-2 pills. Bausch-Lomb offers them, as one suggestion.
AREDS = Age Related Eye Disease. The pills are a supplement containing the ingredients identified as helping. This grew out of professional conference findings on the subject.
I take them, my father had MD late in life, high 80s onwards, and I have no desire to have the same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age-Related_Eye_Disease_Study
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Article could be describing me. 84 now and about 2 years ago during routine eye exam I heard Dr. calling out “drusen” findings to assistant. Both eyes. Beginning stage of dry AMD. Got me started on AREDS 2 vitamins. Didn’t work. Follow up exam couple months later revealed “wet” AMD. Immeditely referred to a retina specialist. Began apparently for life eye injections. Frequency varies depends on how well eyes respond...4 weeks on one eye and 11 on other. So far so good..no DL glasses restriction.
“Older age, smoking, obesity, and cardiovascular disease increase a person’s risk of AMD.”
Brilliant
From the posted article:
“matrix metallopeptidase 2 (MMP2), which acts as the eyes’ cleanup crew, removing harmful substances and keeping the eyes healthy. With less MMP2 activity, drusen accumulates, driving AMD disease.
Boosting MMP2 Prevents AMD”
But the following, from other sources, suggests that boosting MMP2 may not be such a good idea... (though maybe a way can be found to stimulate MMP2 in the eyes alone?)
“Increased MMP-2 activity has also been linked with a poor prognosis in multiple forms of cancer including colorectal, melanoma, breast, lung, ovarian, and prostate.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMP2
“Enhanced expression of MMP-2 and MMP-9 has been observed in cancers of breast, colon, lung, skin, ovary and prostate among others”
https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/8411d196-c934-4ce2-a876-d1f1d1bbb4be/content
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I’ve got dry MD discovered 4 years ago at 82, Eye doctor advised I take Ared’s by Bosch and Lome that are a vitamin, I asked her how do I know if they work the answer was if it doesn’t get worse. So far it hasn’t.