Today, I want to share this virtually session I had with someone who is struggling with Retina Coloboma and Myopia Reduction. Enjoy the show.

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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].

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Here it it's actually 50 degrees.

00:53

Oh, nice.

00:54

And it's gonna be it's a little weird. We didn't get any snow this year. In Manhattan? No. We just didn't get any snow, which was a little bit bizarre. But it's

01:13

cool. Hopefully you'll have a wet spring, you'll have a wet spring and good flowers and maybe everything will bloom. Yeah. So I read your history. And why don't you give me your goals and objectives today. And I can I can speak a lot about your diagnosis. But I want to hear in your words what you want to get out of our time today.

01:39

Yeah. So I have retinal coloboma. And basically, what it like, in this, I have a blind spot. So okay, it's like, the middle, there's a spot, I can see what's on the sides of me, but I can't see what's in the very center, like, there. Okay. And then I can see fully with both eyes open, because just like they're working together like that. It's possible that I have some blind spots in the left eye, but my brain blocks them out. So I see a full picture. And oh, I didn't mention in my thing that when I was 15, I did have the muscle corrective surgery in the right eye. Because I was crossing.

And so yeah, so my prescription was quite high. I kept getting over prescribed, they were my doctor who did a really good job with me as a baby, but he kept making my prescription higher and higher and higher. So I'm 24 years old, I'm now 31 But I'm 24 years old with negative 7.5 and a negative seven and astigmatism lens. So that's quite high. And then I got a prism installed in this lens because then I met a doctor that was like let's put a prism in there. So now it was even stronger because I didn't realize a prism men stronger. A couple years ago, I met an eye doctor that now retired but he works with Dr. He was a colleague of you know, that guy that does the light stuff. Jacob Lieberman. Yeah, with him, I started doing color therapy with sin tonics. And that helps me a lot. And he retired. And I'm not really doing I have this and tonics here at home, like I can use them when I want to, but I don't. I'm not on a protocol with them at the moment. And I also have a red light therapy device, which I use a lot as well. I've gotten my prescription down.

Now I'm in a negative 4.5. In both lenses. I still have these magnetism and this lens and I want to get that gone. I also want to I'm not 100% clear in these glasses. I'm like 90% clear, when I'm dehydrated or hungry, my vision will get blurrier. And I'm curious about that about like, what do you think is possible for me as somebody with coloboma?