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Will my dead eye ever seal up?

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:45:01 +0000

Question by BombDude24: Will my dead eye ever seal up?
I was born with cataracts, after several surgery attempts (around 2-3 years old, some 15 years back), my eye became ‘dead’. I understand that due to the lack of function, my blind eye will never grow larger, and I am curious it will ever seal up, as in the skin will cover where my eye was. I know this is possible, and if so, if there is a way to prevent this from happening, I’d love to know.
That doesn’t really answer my question, and I don’t think that blindness is a very funny subject. Really, I don’t expect anyone to be in the same situation, but at least attempting to answer the question would be fantastic.

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Answer by Cheema 421
lol

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Has anyone ever heard of this?

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:49:27 +0000

Question by Lyndee: Has anyone ever heard of this?
I had laser surgery last week on my left eye called YAG Laser Surgery to remove the film build up on my new lens placed in my eye after cataract surgery. I went to my eye surgeon as a follow up appointment today. After a thorough examination and based also on what I told him, the doctor told me that there is a lot of inflammation in my eye. He told me that I have arthritis in my eye! He gave me Prednisone (an anti-inflammatory drug) to put in my eye 4 times a day. I am scheduled to go back to my eye surgeon on the 8th of November.

Has anyone ever had this problem before or has heard of it? How common is it to have arthritis in an eye? What kind of arthritis can get into an eye? I was completely speechless when he told me about this! I tried to look it up, but to no avail. Can anyone help me? Serious answers only please. Thank you.
The doctor gave me drops to put in my eye 4 times a day and yes they are Prednisone drops. Prednisone is a steroid but it can be used as a anti-inflammatory agent too. And yes the doctor told me I do indeed have arthritis in my eye. I just found out from the doctor’s office 5 minutes ago that I have rheumatoid arthritis in my left eye.

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Answer by Pops
I haven’t heard of it. Good luck. Pops

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has your dog ever been diagnosed w/an ulcer in his eye??mine did and they said he thinks he is blind after?

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:15:12 +0000

Question by cant take heat?get the f%&k out!: has your dog ever been diagnosed w/an ulcer in his eye??mine did and they said he thinks he is blind after?
they removed the ulcer..i was pretty sure thinking it was cataracts cuz his eye looked gray blue and the pupil was white.i know that cataracts can occur to animals do to eye trauma which is what happened to my do but they sai no that its an ulcer.his eyelids are sowed shut and must stay like that for two weeks.after the surgery they told me that they dont think he will be able to see.what if the vet doesnt know what he was doing?could my dog have been misdiagnosed?..does anyone know if this is the way an ulcer look like when its in the eye and if so..what happened to your dog did he go blind??

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Answer by chihuahua mama
I assume you are talking about corneal ulcers. One of my chihuahuas has been getting them for about 3 yr and they are coming more frequent all the time. Never had to have surgery for them. The vet gives us some drops, we use them a couple of days and the eyes clear up. If we have drops already at the house, we just use those drops. Onl;y have to take her to the vet about twice a year just to get new drops. Never I say again did we ever have to have surgery. The eye looks bluish and the light bothers her. That is when we know that it is the ulcers again. Like I said she has been having these for a few years and hasn’t gone blind yet. I do know you need to take them to the vet once they start looking blue or they can go blind.

BTW, I have had corneal transplants in both eyes and also the cataract surgeries. The corneal transplants have done great, but had trouble with one cataract surgery and now have little vision in my left eye.

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Any one ever hear of somebody getting cataracts from Seroquel?

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:16:10 +0000

Question by majnun99: Any one ever hear of somebody getting cataracts from Seroquel?
I starting taking seroquel as part of an research study; they got people with Major Depression and they’re trying out Seroquel as a medicaition (it’s usually used for Bipolar or Schizophrenia). They mentioned cataracts as a possible side effect. The doctor with the study said it’s not likely because the cataracts happened only with dogs who given seroquel and not people. Now my eye doctor says I’m getting cataracts, I have been in the Seroquel study for eight months. I’m going to be 50 this month, isn’t that a little young to have cataracts?

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Answer by healthiacynthia
Wouldn’t surprise me…. check out these sites:
http://www.drugawareness.org/Ribbon/SSRIMeds.html and
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SSRI-Crusaders/

God bless!

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Have you ever met someone who naturally had one blue eye and one brown one?

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:15:08 +0000

Question by Zelda Hunter: Have you ever met someone who naturally had one blue eye and one brown one?
No contacts, blindness, eye damage or cataracts. My biology teacher in high school had this, and it was months before I realized it. I was curious about how rare this is.

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Answer by vanessaannehudgens
no

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did any of you ever have the corticosteriod injection in the eye for diabetic retinopathy?

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:17:17 +0000

Question by naturalized: did any of you ever have the corticosteriod injection in the eye for diabetic retinopathy?
dear all, my mother has diabetes for 15 years now. recently we got to know about her diabetes retinopathy and its fast deteriorating. the doctors have offered laser treatment and the corticosteroid injection. as much as i have read online it seems that the corticosteroid treatment hardly has any information or studies done. i was wondering :
if any of you have undergone the steroid treatment,
how long ago did u have it,
how frequently did u have to repeat it,
and did u develop any cataract and/or glaucoma cos of it?

any of you had the laser treatment done, then please tell me about your experience from that. how r u doing now? what r the side effects or long term effects? if someone gets worse since the laser treatment what options r there then? the more details you have the better for me. please please let me know as much as you can. we r so worried for her. we need to come to a solution ASAP. thank you all for your answers and time.

god bless you all with good health.

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Answer by Dols
No, ouch

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Q&A: Do you think that medical research will ever find a cure for cataracts?

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 23:46:30 +0000

Question by ♥2htoohorse♥: Do you think that medical research will ever find a cure for cataracts?
HI there, so I have a 20 year old appaloosa and he has a cataract in his right eye causing partial blindness. A few months ago the vet came to give him a physical and told us that we could take him to a science research center about 2 hours away to see if they could treat it. This would cost us 4000 dollars, and there would be no garantee if of his vision would come back in the eye. For the time being he is perfectly fine, but my dream is to get him to have full vision like he once had.

I am wondering, do you think they will ever find a special surgery or cure for a cataract?

I know they can do it with dogs and people, and some other animals, why not horses?

Have you heard about any horses regaining vision?

thank you everyone!

Also should i take my horse to the reseach center to do the surgery? do you think he can get his vision back?
the thing is, i dont want his other eye to get a catartact or his already blind eye to get worse, the vet said that he could become fully blind in his right eye and then it can move to the other eye.

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Answer by April H
I wouldn’t see why not because I know my grandma had surgery on her eyes for cataracts however I don’t this that they can stop it from coming back. I think they can only remove it but it does take a long time for it to come back. Normally and being that he is that old you probably would do ok with that.

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Haunted house? No joke. Has anyone ever heard of this?

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:13:22 +0000

Question by Kim: Haunted house? No joke. Has anyone ever heard of this?
Lived here over four years. My wife and I are 62 and expect some physical problems, but were never seriously ill or had any serious problems before moving in. House is old, built 1892. Divided into 2 separate apartments at some point, probably the 70s. No lead paint or anything like that. I Live upstairs, full 2 bedroom apt. Not bad, clean. Family downstairs has been moved in a little before we did. Here’s the problem. Everyone down there has become ill. Different things, serious back and joint problems with husband, psychotic episodes with wife. It’s been one thing after another. They’re young, 40, and nice people. The same type of stuff started occurring with wife and I two years ago. High blood pressure (230/120) for me when I finally checked it, high cholesterol. Several back pain. My wife started losing her vision and we found she had cataracts. Did the surgery and though her vision is good left eye still bothers her. She woke up one morning two years ago with sever pain in the shoulder. They did everything to her for months and nothing was found. She’s never been overweight and has never used sugar or drank soft drinks. Eats a real healthy diet, but was diagnosed with diabetes and high cholesterol 2 weeks ago. The month before that I had to take her to emergency room for high heart beat (191) They fixed it with a special shot that re-regulates the heart. I developed kidney stones over the last several months, and three weeks ago woke up with a swollen knee. It’s super painful and I can hardly walk, but I absolutely did not injure it. It was just there in the morning just as my wifes shoulder. Here’s the point. A few months after we moved in I found myself looking at the stairway that leads down to the front door and thinking of a little girl. It sounds crazy but it seemed I could see or at least clearly imagine her. She’s about eleven and sits at the bottom of the stairs. I think she does come up here but only at night. She didn’t frighten me and until all this illness, that just keeps coming, I got no bad feelings. I mentioned to my neighbor and he said he was positive this place was haunted. Until last week I took none of it very seriously, however, my brother in law, who is a minister and who I haven’t seen in ten years visited. He took one step in the door and looked at me and said, “Do you know this place is haunted?” He is a very honest and down to earth man. I answered I did and we didn’t discuss beyond me saying I didn’t feel it was anything bad. Strangely the woman who lived here before us died shortly after moving, as did the woman who lived downstairs before the current neighbors moved in. One other thing that was odd was my best friend visited one day two years ago. We had coffee and at some point he said he wasn’t feeling well. He ended up in the hospital that night with a heartbeat of over two hundred and the same symptoms my wife subsequently suffered. My question is can places be bad? Has anyone ever heard of something like this associated with a house, or is this just my imagination from all these problems. I would appreciate any sincere comments. Thanks
Thanks to everyone for the thoughtful answers. It seems more and more obvious that there is little to lose in moving from here and possibly much to gain. Thank you again.

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Answer by Gaurav M.
no way this is a coincidence. but there could be two options:

one is that there is a ghost or there is a type of haunting. case closed.

another is that there is some1 there that is poisoning every1, and the poison ill harm you, and then when people are moving, the person puts
deadly poison and kills them to mimic a haunting. but that wouldn’t explain your brother, if what u said was true. i say poison because i read a book kinda like this, where a monster mimicked illnesses by poisoning, so that no one would go near important people, or people who knew of the monster. this way it could live on and its master could continue his plans. just a theory i doubt it tho, unless theres something valuable in the area

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HAS YOUR dog ever been diagnosed w/cataracts do to an eye injury??..i read online that trauma to the eye CAN?

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:14:13 +0000

Question by p: HAS YOUR dog ever been diagnosed w/cataracts do to an eye injury??..i read online that trauma to the eye CAN?
HAS YOUR dog ever been diagnosed w/cataracts do to an eye injury..i read online that trauma to the eye CAN cause cataracts.

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Answer by l3tsg0walki3s
as far as i am aware and i am not a vet , so that is the Best person to ask, cataracts are either hereditary or bought on by old age , they are more prevalent in certain pure breeds than others.

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Had cataract surgery. Got a new lens perscription. I am 64. Will my perscription ever change again?

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:15:26 +0000

Question by C M: Had cataract surgery. Got a new lens perscription. I am 64. Will my perscription ever change again?

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Answer by blueeyz
Yes it probably will. I used to work for an eye Dr. Most people think when they have cataract surgery they dont need glasses, most of they time they still need them.

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