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Pittsburg, Kansas | The treatment for it from an eye doctor will mostly be eye drops. One type is a beta blocker (like heart pressure medicine) and I don't remember what the other one is. I take both, one in the morning and one in the evening before bed. The prevailing idea is the pressure inside the eye is too high and this damages the tiny blood vessels, not allowing proper blood flow, causing the receptors in the eye to get sick and eventually die. This is why vision is lost in specific portions of the eye, usually starting in the perifery. Mine is mostly in the lower left quadrant of my left eye (whereas as a kid my left eye was always my strongest and best eye). The drops, via different mechanisms, lower the pressure in the eye. Mine was typically 20 which if borderline high and now runs about 16 with the drops. That is conventional treatment. In more severe cases they can do surgery to drop the eye pressure.
Diabetes is a big contributing factor because blood sugar spikes and high blood pressure damage blood vessle linings. Damaging the glycocalyx which lines the blood vessles. The eye is full of tiny blood vessles to deliver blood to different parts of the eye. Damaging blood vessles is not a good thing, and the ones damaged the worst and most quickly are the tiny blood vessles. That is why diabetics have so many eye problems, because of the poor blood flow and thus poor nutrient and oxygen delivery. Have a friend who is diabetic that has had a few emergency eye surgeries because of ruptured blood vessles in the eye. Untreated it can cause complete blindness. She is controlling her blood sugars somewhat better now and not as many problems lately, thank goodness.
Anything that can improve elasticity and blood flow through these tiny blood vessles (without causing ruptures) can be helpful in not advancing the degradation of the receptor cells and thus vision. Improving production of nitric oxide and thus oxygen flow is helpful. Destroying the glycocaylix by high blood sugars and high blood pressures causes poor nitric oxide production.
So in my estimation, diet matters. Improve blood condition, improve the possibility of the eyes not getting worse. Maybe even better. But it may take a while to see any positive results. The most important thing is to prevent more degradation.
I am sure the above has many misspellings. When I use the keyboard I lose my spell checker. A good reason to not listen to anything I say. I'm an uneducated retired dirt farmer. Use anything I say at your own risk.
You don't have to have diabetes to have damage from blood sugar spikes. The diabetes or pre-diabetes diagnosis are just somewhat arbitrary lines in the sand. Because your A1c is 5.5 (normal) instead of 5.7 (pre-diabetes) does not magically make you healthy vs non healthy. Research has shown it is the high SPIKES in blood sugar that are damaging. Of course continual high blood glucose is bad, but high intermittant spikes are certainly not good. Insulin rams the toxic excess sugar into cells to protect the organs (goes into muscle as much as possible then fat cells and finally fat cells within muscle and organs which is the most damaging). People can be developing diabetic problems LONG before diabetes is finally diagnosed or possibly never diagnosed. This is not what conventional medicine tells you, but it is what I have found out, much belatedly in my life unfortunately.
My opinion only. I am NOT a doctor and don't even own a while coat or play one on TV.
Edited by John Burns 12/12/2024 07:29
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Eye health and intermittant fasting
