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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Serious Medical Question
From: "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 20:21:00 +0100
Have you finally ordered that touchscreen camera and white monopod?

Or settled for the blind test?

This is all that matters to us viewers on the oly list.

Amities
Philippe, well, tongue in cheek for once, too many, more.

GET THOSE EYES CHECHED, AT ANY COST!!!!




Le 4 nov. 15 à 14:47, Chris Trask a écrit :


I'm strongly with Bob and all those others say get thee to the doc
sooner rather than later.  I say that after watching my father try to
deal with detached retinas in both eyes a couple years apart.


I tried finding an opthamologist (sp?) by way of Yelp yesterday, but got pretty frustrated. I'd be better off driving down the street and looking for a business sign. It's no wonder they did away with the Yellow Pages, as now they can manipulate things and send you to whoever pays the highest advertising fee.

So I went a different route. I checked into my primary naturopathic reference yesterday evening and learned more about this. This form of "floater" is called "fibrillar degeneration of the vitreous", and it's a result of long term exposure to sunlight. It is common amongst adults and near-sighted people. They are visible under certain light and backgrounds (which I've already observed) and are considered benign, eventually fading away.

In my naturopathic reference, one of the recommendations to prevent this is a supplement of 25,000 IU of Vitamin A, which sounds a lot like taking a big bite out of a polar bear liver. It is to be taken with lutein and zeavanthin. I'll check with Swanson later to see what they have as they are the very best source for dietary supplements.

One of the country's largest naturopathic medicine schools is just down the street from me. I'm going to drop by and see if they can refer me to someone who has a naturopathic opthomalgic practise.

These "floaters" are very slowly moving from left to right, and looking back I now realise that they have been here for weeks. I had earlier thought that they were stray strands of hair tangled with my glasses. This morning the largest one is almost in the centre and has faded noticeably since yesterday.

Since these are a result of exposure to sunlight, I've dragged out and cleaned my aviator sunglasses.


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
    - Hunter S. Thompson
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