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Eye Disorders and Diseases

This is the place to come to talk about eye diseases and disorders. Are you hoping to find more information about cataracts, glaucoma, blindness, myopia, conjunctivitis, color blindness, uveitis, and eye coordination problems? Browse these boards or post your question here.

Pterigyum

How does sunlight cause pterigyum? Are sunglasses enough protection from pterigyum? How dangerous it can be and what’s the emergency treatment? How can it be recognized? Thanks in advance.

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Tosis

My mother who is 63 developed tosis following cataract surgery. It is actually what doctors are suspecting but they said they need to make more analysis. What else could it be? Her eyelids have dropped and she says she has problems seeing things. Is this condition reversible and will my mother’s...

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Cataract Implants

My dad is going to have cataract surgery two day from now. I understood that he is going to need implants after. Why is that? And what are those implants for cataract?

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I have pulsing eyes.

My pupils (both left and right) always seem to pulse (get larger then smaller) I also suffer from horrible migraines and one pupil is larger than the other. I have had a few... accidents :$ I have hit my head many times before :-P and I have been to the hospital at least once a year since I was...

by User avatar Missy1313130668

been wearing glasses for 13 years but my sight is getting worse!

Hello! I am William and I suffer from moderate myopia. I started to wear my glasses when I was seven since my problems started at school. I couldn’t see the numbers and words written on the chalkboard and my parents took me to the eye doctor. Since them my myopia has progressed. I thought it...

by User avatar jerri50727

About YAG Laser and LPI surgeries as glaucoma prevention

Hi, a friend has narrow angles and his doctor told him to have preventive surgery but using YAG laser, we have read through several documents and we have seen that YAG is not the most recommended laser in this case of possible glaucoma prevention with narrow angles while LPI seems to be the best, so...

by User avatar franciss87067

Eye Cyst

Answered by a doctor

Actually there is a cyst beneath my right side eye which started suddenly on the 8th of February 2007. Then one month later, exactly on the 6th of March 2007, it started to inflate and leave redness mark and puffiness (swelling) and this lasted for three days and then it become smaller again. On...

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cataract types

What are different types of cataract? Is it necessary age related? I am asking because I’ve heard of child who has cataract. I thought that is impossible.

by User avatar mule2300

What causes this, how should I treat it?

I have a calcium deposit (I'm assuming, people have suspected thats what it is) inside my left earlobe. I've never had this before, not quite sure what causes this, or how I should treat it. It is only sore to the touch, and you can't see it, but it feels as though a pea has been implanted in my...

by User avatar lizzie213422385

close my eyes I see flashing fireflies but with a much faster blinking rate and shorter duration

Answered by a doctor

I have had one or two ocular migraines in my life, some years ago now, with chevrons of light, and this phenomenon is nothing like that.   When I close my eyes, for the first 20-30 seconds, I see very tiny pinpoints of light as if I were looking out into the neighbor's backyard on a dark summer...

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