I’m Answering Your Questions

I had a great discussion the other week with my followers on Facebook. We had a bit of a rapid-fire question session where I covered topics like cataract surgery protocols, floaters, lazy eye, and more. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, cataract, macular degeneration, wearing, msm, check, reduce, acupuncture, eyelids, health, glasses, called, lens, retina, vitamin, prescription, castor oil, retinal, doctor, cataract surgery Hello, everyone. It’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey everybody. Good evening. It's Dr. Sam. I'd like to welcome you to Facebook live tonight. And we've got lots of questions. So I'm gonna jump right in. The first question is from Geeta. Geeta, I hope you're doing well. She suddenly says that her right eye is not being affected by glare and general sunlight. Well, if your glare is going away, your cataracts may be reduced. Now, if your glare is getting worse, that means that the cataract is getting worse. So it's time for you to check in with an eye doctor who can do a cataract exam and see what is going on. I Robin is asking a question about cataract surgery and the inter-ocular lens that's implanted. And she is asking about the mono-focal lens. That means both eyes are corrected for distance, or the blended vision lens. So let me briefly talk about that when you go for a cataract evaluation with your surgeon, there are different lens options. One of the main options is correcting both eyes for distance. Now, if you get one cataract lens replacement, and let's say the other eye is working, okay. Sometimes there's a lag in getting the other eye done. But you want to think about getting both eyes corrected for distance. That's the basic solution. And then you use reading glasses for up close. Now another option, which is one that I don't necessarily recommend is the monovision, where one is corrected for distance in the other eye is corrected for near. Now in this scenario, this splits your brain and I don't recommend it. However, if you do get them on a vision, you're probably going to reduce the need for reading glasses up close. But you're also reducing the opportunity for depth perception and your two eyes working together. So this can put undue visual stress on you. So I would navigate that decision carefully. Then there are what we call multifocal trifocal correcting lenses, that are a split lens in the cataract lens. And this works really well, if you're the person who doesn't want to deal with glasses at all. Now one of the things that you have to consider if you're going to get bifocals or trifocals in your interocular cataract lens, is there's going to be a limitation in the the flow of being able to move your focus from near to the intermediate distance to the far distance. And sometimes it is challenging for the brain to have to figure out, where are you focusing? Now in my opinion, I wouldn't do the trifocal or bifocal contact lens. But for some people, you know, it's something that they're used to because they've worn bifocals or trifocals. In there, you know, before they had the cataract surgery. But that's another one that I would tread lightly and really check it out. Now, Robin was asking about this called extended depth of focus lens, 03:56 this is a new technology, it's kind of cool, where the surgeon is putting in the lens that works really well for distance,