Cataracts Treatment

Question by Sociopath: Foggy vision, slight reddening and halos around lights. All symptoms only on the right eye…?
…is gluacoma a possibility? I feel no pain even while pressing the eye over the eyelids. This occured about 4 days ago and the halos first started appearing after a shower. I’m just 19 so i supposed the possibility of developing cataracts can be ruled out. I had never worn glasses and possesed healthy vision.
Any suggestions?

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Answer by Polly Ester
Don’t rule out the possibility of a cataract just yet. I am 26yrs and recently had cataracts removed from BOTH eyes. Although uncommon, cataracts can develop in patients as young as infants. Cataracts in younger patients develop much quicker than those seen in the elderly. They can get worse over the course of months, weeks or even days. The symptoms you described are very similar to what I experienced- foggy vision, halos and star bursts.
Go to an optometrist and explain your symptoms. Only an eye doctor will be able to tell what’s wrong with your eyes.

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Question by spacye: distemper signs and symptoms?
my friends dog has a bad cough, then gags, with a dry heave, i first thought he had heart worms, but now am not so sure, in the last 5 days his eyes are blue, like cataracts and he cant see he is not as spunky as he used to be, seems a little unsteady, and his cough and gagging is getting worse, he is about 6 months, my friend has never gotten him any shots, does distemper cause sudden blindness? or could this be a different disease?
thnx

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Answer by Bizworth
Well, it’s definitely not heartworm disease–it takes a long time for heartworm disease to progress to this level – longer than 6 months.

As far as whether it’s distemper or any other disease–it would be pointless for you to sit there and speculate. Take the dog to the vet as soon as you can.

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Question by First of the Gang to Die: Difficulty seeing in one eye with pressure behind it, cold-like symptoms, body aches, loss of appetite, etc..?
My girlfriend started feeling ill today during school around noon. She’s at college – a 19 year old sophomore. She told me that, in order, she developed a runny nose and a sore throat. Her body then began to ache and she became tired and went to bed for a nap sometime in the afternoon. She woke up with a headache, feeling unrested, and, despite a loss of appetite, forced herself to eat some soup and orange juice. She went to bed still with a headache and all her muscle pains, and woke up again some time later with blurred, fuzzy vision in just her right eye. She is able to see out of it if a light is on, but instead of a big dark blur she sees a big light blur. She has told me her vision out of this eye is about a 6 on the 1-10 scale with 1 = total blindness and 10 = perfect vision. Her eye seems puffy or swollen and there is pain behind it, like pressure. Her left eye is completely fine – no pain or impairment. She believes the lymph nodes in her neck may be swollen. She claims that her muscle/body aches are the most intense symptom at the moment.

I have googled around for answers and, given the common nature of her symptoms, have landed between either a sinus infection or chronic fatigue syndrome, as she has been an insomniac for years and has been under a lot of stress with college starting back up last week. What else might it be? I mean what is most likely? Everything happened over the course of one day. She goes to a state school in Massachusetts. I’m not sure what else it could be. I don’t think it’s mononucleosis or swine flu, I just hope it’s not something serious like glaucoma or cataracts, although given that her eye problems came along only with these flu-like symptoms, I like to think anything that severe has been ruled out. Anyone else have an idea?

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Answer by Heather
It sounds like she has a flu- headache, body aches, puffy eyes

also you might be right and it might be a sinus infection. She should go to a doctor and have her sinus passages checked out to see if they are swollen and then they could determine that and get her put on a antibiotic for the right diagnosis.

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Question by Dilbert: Double vision symptoms in detail?
I have double vision in my right eye and have seen an optometrist and ophthalmologist about it, but didn’t get any clear detailed opinions from them about what is causing the double vision, other than cataracts. But they say the cataracts are too small to be a problem, and the ophthalmologist seems to think that implies the double vision is also not a problem. Especially because I mentioned that I don’t notice it when reading street signs in broad daylight. In other words, it only seems to happen in normal office light or less.

To try to find out what the most likely cause of the double vision is, I’m going to try to describe a phenomenum associated with it, in enough detail that it might ring a bell for someone who has seen the exact same symptom:

When reading text, such as this, if I aim my head upward, so my eye has to look down to see the text, it looks close to normal. As I move my head down, so my eye has to be moving up to stay on the text, a 2nd image of the text forms above the original image. As I keep moving my head down, the 2nd image gets brighter and the first gets dimmer. When my head is down all the way, so my eye has to aim all the way up, the 2nd image is close to normal, and the first is gone.

Someone here mentioned that it might be caused by astigmatism, but that was before I mentioned the above exact details of moving my head up and down. Also the optometrist and ophthalmologist didn’t mention anything about astigmatism to me.

If you can think of what it’s most likely to be, from the above symptoms, can you explain how the symptoms relate to that?
To David E: I was telling the truth when I said it happens in my right eye, not both eyes. Obviously I already did what you suggested, covering my left eye, or I wouldn’t know it was only in my right eye.
To Philliesballgurl: The double vision happens in room light, not daylight, so it’s not caused by any phenomenum such as what you mention, which is an afterimage from a bright light, or whatever.

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Answer by philliesballgurl
Human eyes react to light oddly. Like if you look at the sun for instance you might see another sun that your eye created floating around in the distance.

Did you by chance have something squirted into your eye so the eye doctor could look into it better? I was tested for something like that but I forget what it’s called.

Also some people have this type of eye problem where their eyes cross when they close them and bounce back when they open them. Sometimes it causes double vision. No offense but you might just have cross eyes.

Good Luck, I hope you find whats wrong.

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Question by Tom Thornton: Causes of the symptoms of DNP?
Why does DNP cause cataracts and other symptoms?
Thanks, but I kinda wanted to know why caused cataracts

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Answer by snowwhite22003
There is a reason a lot of professional bodybuilders won’t even touch the stuff.

At the end of the day it all really comes to diet and cardio. If you really must take something, then do a mild cycle of T3 and Clen (but I don’t even recommend that).

To answer you question, I looked into DNP awhile back and as far as I could find, all human research in regards to DNP has not occurred in many years. The reason being is that is just so dangerous that the few I have been able to find in medical libraries usually had to be stopped to due patients having to be hospitalized.

If electron transport doesn’t produce ATP, then much more sugar must be metabolized for energy needs. Very low production of ATP would be lethal. In oxidative phosphorylation, the flow of electrons from NADH and FADH2 to oxygen results in the pumping of H+ from the matrix to the inner membrane space. This gradient of H+ can produce ATP by flowing through ATP synthetase in the mitochondrial inner membrane. Dinitrophenol disrupts the H+ gradient reducing ATP synthesis. Under these conditions, much of our food that we eat could not be used for ATP synthesis are we lose weight. However, too much inhibitor and we could make too little ATP for life. The difference between weight loss and death is only a small concentration change in dinitrophenol, making the drug dangerous.

There is also an article in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) that did a trial with lab rats. Several rats died after being given dosages for 2 weeks, and even after the experiment stopped, all the rats died prematurely. They talked about it being difficult to directly relate the numerous DNP deaths of the 1940s because there were so many variables to it and that they strongly urge human trial of DNP be discontinued completely. When dealing with humans in an uncontrolled environment, it’s almost impossible to say X person took Y drug 15 years ago and as a result is now having problems with Z. If this is what you are talking about. I hope not.

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