09-29-2014, 09:35 PM
Greetings -
I have quite a journey over the last 7 months. I am 47, and developed a severe posterior sub capsular cataract in my right eye in February. It's possible this is related to an eye injury I had when I was 13 (a rock shot out of a lawnmower and hit that eye, I had internal bleeding and a scar developed in the back of my eye). But it turned out to be fine for most of my life until recently.
I first noticed I was getting occasional blur in my eye about a year before hand, but dismissed it as tired eyes or computer eyes. But in mid February of 2014 I got a halo on the outside of my eye, and two weeks later it covered my entire vision. I could still read print and make out details, but it's become worse since then. Now it's the equivalent of trying to look through waxed paper for cooking. I can make out shapes and colors, but that's about it. I can sometimes read the letters on a t-shirt, or the big letter on an eye chart from about 3 feet away. Eye doctors are unable to see into my eye due to the opacity.
I initially thought the cataract might be related to mercury getting chelated from my body (dental amalgam removal from years ago), I was told by some holistic optometrists that this wasn't uncommon for cataracts. I also had, in years prior, pain around my eyes - I had styes in both eyes, and in one eye that developed into a chalazion cyst. In my right eye (the cataract eye), I ended up having multiple styes on the lower and upper lids.
I started in February on a protocol of N-AC drops, OcluMed, cineraria, Dr. Rowans DMSO eye-drops (DMSO, glutathione and Vitamin-C), proteolytic enzymes and other nutritional supplements for the eye, some originally from Marc Grossmans website, and have been doing acupuncture specific to eye health. I also started consulting with Dr. Glen Swartwout in Hawaii who had me do some of the things he has used in the past to successfully reverse cataracts.
A few weeks later I was introduced to Dr. Todd Wylie in Spokane who has had good success reversing cataracts (I think the worst being a visual acuity of 20/100) with a Bemer machine.
I bought a Bemer machine (even though I have a major charge on any protocol that is distributed through network/direct marketing - I think the stuff is overpriced and you have to sift through tons of kook-aid drinking research to get at the real stuff) and tried that for three months before I sold it because I wasn't achieving any results.
I later found Dr. Sam Berne who is awesome, and we discussed Bates protocol, nutrition, meditation. Sam thought based on the protocol I had discussed with him that my blockage was probably more emotional than anything else. Sam also has had success with the Bemer machine, and recently helped someone over about an 8-week period who was about 20/200 acuity.
I was reading Jerry Tennants book "Healing is Voltage", and Dr. Tennant said he had never personally witnessed any cataract reversal where the acuity was worse than 20/150.
My question is this: often I wonder if the lens restructuring is permanent after a certain state? I have read and heard differing theories on this subject, and many of the people I've spoken with who have assisted in cataract reversal have only seen it up to a certain state. I can only wonder if my level of success would have been different if I had known about this and started on it a year and a half ago.
I have been into natural healing and alternative medicine for almost 30 years now. I've been to a regular doctor maybe once in 25 years, and I am very hesitant around an industry such as ophthalmology that assumes 1) everyone gets cataracts if they live long enough and 2) there is no way to reverse them.
From the surgical point of view there doesn't seem to be any real incentive to find an underlying cause to cataracts - why would they? The industry performs over 3 million surgeries worldwide every year, it's a multi-billion dollar industry and every surgery takes about 5-25 minutes nowadays. Not bad for $3500-$7000 per eye?
Yet to me it is highly invasive, and I don't like the idea of my original lens being liquified and sucked out of my eye with a vacuum, and there are still all those little margins for error (the lens not taking and having to use an alternate stye IOL, the membrane not being able to accommodate, glaucoma risks, headaches, dry eyes, halos, etc - I get all the risks. Hence why I haven't done it).
However, waking up every morning and dealing with this totally opaque view out of one eye is becoming very frustrating and serves as a major distraction for *other* things I want to do in my life as well.
I wouldn't mind taking months and months to resolve this naturally if anything I were doing was actually showing that I was moving in some kind of forward direction. I have been told the restructuring of the lens back to "normal" is impossible after a certain point. And I have heard Deepak Chopra say the eye regenerates itself every two days, and if cells are structuring in a way that is not congruent to clear vision, it's a neurological thing.
Has anyone had success with a very opaque lens? Is there any actual evidence of cataracts dissolving after a certain point? I know I have read the numerous case studies from Dr. Bates, but obviously none of these are verifiable any longer. It's not that I'm skeptical - it's just that I'm bombarded by contradictory information, and I don't mind being my own guinea pig - yet so far I've had little to no progress - at least from my vision being a feedback mechanism to whatever my body is trying to tell me.
Thanks
Erik
I have quite a journey over the last 7 months. I am 47, and developed a severe posterior sub capsular cataract in my right eye in February. It's possible this is related to an eye injury I had when I was 13 (a rock shot out of a lawnmower and hit that eye, I had internal bleeding and a scar developed in the back of my eye). But it turned out to be fine for most of my life until recently.
I first noticed I was getting occasional blur in my eye about a year before hand, but dismissed it as tired eyes or computer eyes. But in mid February of 2014 I got a halo on the outside of my eye, and two weeks later it covered my entire vision. I could still read print and make out details, but it's become worse since then. Now it's the equivalent of trying to look through waxed paper for cooking. I can make out shapes and colors, but that's about it. I can sometimes read the letters on a t-shirt, or the big letter on an eye chart from about 3 feet away. Eye doctors are unable to see into my eye due to the opacity.
I initially thought the cataract might be related to mercury getting chelated from my body (dental amalgam removal from years ago), I was told by some holistic optometrists that this wasn't uncommon for cataracts. I also had, in years prior, pain around my eyes - I had styes in both eyes, and in one eye that developed into a chalazion cyst. In my right eye (the cataract eye), I ended up having multiple styes on the lower and upper lids.
I started in February on a protocol of N-AC drops, OcluMed, cineraria, Dr. Rowans DMSO eye-drops (DMSO, glutathione and Vitamin-C), proteolytic enzymes and other nutritional supplements for the eye, some originally from Marc Grossmans website, and have been doing acupuncture specific to eye health. I also started consulting with Dr. Glen Swartwout in Hawaii who had me do some of the things he has used in the past to successfully reverse cataracts.
A few weeks later I was introduced to Dr. Todd Wylie in Spokane who has had good success reversing cataracts (I think the worst being a visual acuity of 20/100) with a Bemer machine.
I bought a Bemer machine (even though I have a major charge on any protocol that is distributed through network/direct marketing - I think the stuff is overpriced and you have to sift through tons of kook-aid drinking research to get at the real stuff) and tried that for three months before I sold it because I wasn't achieving any results.
I later found Dr. Sam Berne who is awesome, and we discussed Bates protocol, nutrition, meditation. Sam thought based on the protocol I had discussed with him that my blockage was probably more emotional than anything else. Sam also has had success with the Bemer machine, and recently helped someone over about an 8-week period who was about 20/200 acuity.
I was reading Jerry Tennants book "Healing is Voltage", and Dr. Tennant said he had never personally witnessed any cataract reversal where the acuity was worse than 20/150.
My question is this: often I wonder if the lens restructuring is permanent after a certain state? I have read and heard differing theories on this subject, and many of the people I've spoken with who have assisted in cataract reversal have only seen it up to a certain state. I can only wonder if my level of success would have been different if I had known about this and started on it a year and a half ago.
I have been into natural healing and alternative medicine for almost 30 years now. I've been to a regular doctor maybe once in 25 years, and I am very hesitant around an industry such as ophthalmology that assumes 1) everyone gets cataracts if they live long enough and 2) there is no way to reverse them.
From the surgical point of view there doesn't seem to be any real incentive to find an underlying cause to cataracts - why would they? The industry performs over 3 million surgeries worldwide every year, it's a multi-billion dollar industry and every surgery takes about 5-25 minutes nowadays. Not bad for $3500-$7000 per eye?
Yet to me it is highly invasive, and I don't like the idea of my original lens being liquified and sucked out of my eye with a vacuum, and there are still all those little margins for error (the lens not taking and having to use an alternate stye IOL, the membrane not being able to accommodate, glaucoma risks, headaches, dry eyes, halos, etc - I get all the risks. Hence why I haven't done it).
However, waking up every morning and dealing with this totally opaque view out of one eye is becoming very frustrating and serves as a major distraction for *other* things I want to do in my life as well.
I wouldn't mind taking months and months to resolve this naturally if anything I were doing was actually showing that I was moving in some kind of forward direction. I have been told the restructuring of the lens back to "normal" is impossible after a certain point. And I have heard Deepak Chopra say the eye regenerates itself every two days, and if cells are structuring in a way that is not congruent to clear vision, it's a neurological thing.
Has anyone had success with a very opaque lens? Is there any actual evidence of cataracts dissolving after a certain point? I know I have read the numerous case studies from Dr. Bates, but obviously none of these are verifiable any longer. It's not that I'm skeptical - it's just that I'm bombarded by contradictory information, and I don't mind being my own guinea pig - yet so far I've had little to no progress - at least from my vision being a feedback mechanism to whatever my body is trying to tell me.
Thanks
Erik
