Podcast 211: Q&A

Description: Here is a Facebook live I did recently where I answered questions from my patients and listeners. I go live on Facebook at 5 pm every Wednesday, so be sure to tune in and get your questions answered. Or you can email them to [email protected]. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSeye, glaucoma, optic nerve, macular degeneration, cataract surgery, question, curcumin, health, important, prescription, lens, called, bilberry, people, cataracts, milligrams, day, heaviness, 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. 00:06Hey, everybody. Good evening. Welcome to Facebook Live. And I'm happy to be back on the air. So we've got some really good questions tonight. Before I do that, I want to make a special announcement. This is a special one, my upcoming class on how to heal your cataract. That's right, instead of doing cataract surgery, you can take my class and learn how to reverse cataracts and improve lens health. So this is a two week intensive, it starts on Saturday, September 11. And it runs for two weeks we meet about every other day. So it is an intensive, it's a deep immersion. Even if you don't have cataracts, this would be a show that I would recommend. Because in this workshop, you're going to learn how to be proactive with not only your lens health, but your overall eye health and probably your wellness as as in addition to that, so if you want to sign up, you can do so through my website, Dr. Sam Berne calm. I also have an announcement on Facebook, and it's in my bio on Instagram. If you have questions about it, you can contact me at hello at Dr. Sam berne.com. So I want to start off the show. And I want to take a question from an active patient of mine. And she writes and says I had the second cataract surgery on the left eye on June 15 of this year. Let me give you a little backstory. This is a person who I have been working with in vision therapy for many years and helped her finally navigate the surgery maze and she had cataract surgery on her right eye, which was super successful. So you know, sometimes folks, you do need cataract surgery, and there are ways that you can navigate it so that you have a very successful, successful positive outcome. So that's a little backstory. So her right eye was already done. It's about her left eye. So she had the surgery, and she went back for an immediate follow up. And while reading the eye chart, she noticed that something was not there before, not ever. And what she noticed was that when she read the chart with the left eye, that's the eye that she just had the inter ocular lens put in that there was a blank spot. And she found this, of course, very troubling troublesome. And this seemed to happen when she was reading the smaller letters of the eye chart. And basically the ophthalmologist then did an O CT on her and found that she is the beginning signs of macular degeneration. So let's get this straight. She had the cataract surgery in the right eye, everything went well. She had cataract surgery in the left eye. And the next follow up. They diagnosed her with macular degeneration. So she of course, she's very concerned about that. So I want to address that issue. She also said that another issue she has with the left eye is that this is the eye that she had the surgery on that her eye feels heavy since the surgery and it makes her tired.