Has anyone ever heard about special blue glasses for pd
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I have not heard about blue glasses, but I can tell you that after having cateract's removed and lenses replaced in both eyes, I now have 20/25 distance vision and need reading glasses only. My eyes were changing so much that with every new prescription my vision had changed so much before I received the new glasses, that I could not see very clearly. Dr tells me that the lenses replaced are the lenses that change and caused me to keep changing my glasses. I am so happy that I can spend much less energy trying to see that I can now use on my energy Parkinson's issues.
QUESTION: Does Parkinson's cause the eyesight to change? If so, and you need cataract surgery, do it now. I stumble less because I don't have to wear glasses which distort my vision looking down at the ground.
My husband has had PD for at least 5 years and had catarac surgery early this year. Expected good results like his sisters did but developed double vision in one eye and don't know why. His long sight is good in one Eye and maybe would be in the other without the double vision. It hinders using reading glasses too. I'm hoping another Drs' exam will help find a solution. our 15 yr old grandson got better results in his glasses by switching to this one. Now if I can just get hubby to go. Has it been determined that PD or the meds can affect eyesight?
Could these be what one of the specialists on Dr Hyman's 'Broken Brain' series referred to?
He was quite a young guy and he was talking about sleep quality. He said he and his wife wear special glasses when they watch tv in the evening to filter out blue light - the idea is that the brain can then produce melatonin etc for a good night's sleep as it has a long wind down as a signal that night is coming. I was interested as I've never heard of the glasses - my computer has a night time light setting for that reason but this seemed a way around tv etc.
If anyone knows about them please post - could be good for kids too - I need them to sleep!!!
Sure, a big stink was made during the recent U.S. presidential campaign about the hypothesis that Hillary had Parkinson's, and, among various alleged pieces of evidence, was wearing blue lenses to suppress her symptoms.
youtube.com/watch?v=Jo4fpwy...
Here below is a PD patient who gets relief from extreme dyskinesia with the color blue. VIEWER'S DISCRETION ADVISED--DON"T WATCH THIS IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE:
youtube.com/watch?v=h3y13er...
That's one Dad that more than likely got teased by his kids.
Serenity, I don't think making a joke about someone else's dire situation is in good taste. On the other hand, making light of one's own tragedies may be quite admirable.
OK, Serenity, I gotta hand it to you--you scoured YouTube and found a comedian who pokes fun at his own cerebral palsy. Not my idea of funny, but some do enjoy his sense of humor.
It's Josh Blue.
C'mon, I didn't scour anything. He is a Last Comic Standing Winner.l love comedy as long as it is not to BLUE!!!!!
She went through a stage during the campaign where she put a lot of weight. Steroid weight and I don't believe that steroids has any Parkinson's uses does it?
This is the first time I have heard the following items being associated:
Hillary being overweight / steroids / Parkinson's. You have an original way of thinking. What have you been smoking?
Not smoking or vaping. Just ingesting. There was no secret that she was having some health issues but had to be treated with some thing that made her face puff up. Jerry Lewis had the same look while being treated with steroids as well as other people I know.
Serenity, Your penchant for miscellaneous associations has the risk that it will take the discussion far off track. Your mind will go on what mathematicians call a "random walk," tottering to God knows where. Please note: the "earthquake idea" from my original post in this thread is BLUE GLASSES MAY SUPPRESS DYSKINESIA. This should be of major interest to a lot of Parkies. Has anyone with dyskinesia tried this? And, if so, what did you experience? Those are the important questions.
It is interesting but that is one I can't wrap my brain around. Why the color blue. How do we know that the glasses are not REVOs. Which are actually Amber they just look blue.
Blue light suppresses production of melatonin, and apparently increases daytime wakefulness. Light therapy has been used to improve sleep and other behaviors in Alzheimer's and related dementias:
"Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Light therapy has shown great promise as a nonpharmacological method to improve symptoms associated with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), with preliminary studies demonstrating that appropriately timed light exposure can improve nighttime sleep efficiency, reduce nocturnal wandering, and alleviate evening agitation. Since the human circadian system is maximally sensitive to short-wavelength (blue) light, lower, more targeted lighting interventions for therapeutic purposes, can be used.
METHODS:
The present study investigated the effectiveness of a tailored lighting intervention for individuals with ADRD living in nursing homes. Low-level "bluish-white" lighting designed to deliver high circadian stimulation during the daytime was installed in 14 nursing home resident rooms for a period of 4 weeks. . . . "
REF: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/252...
Unfortunately, PubMed shows almost zero research on light therapy for Parkinsons.
Thank you for the insight. I much prefer warm light to cold light.
Yes, I wore Revo's and loved them but they look blue but are blue blockers.
Why did you wear these? (I never heard of them before.) Clearer vision? Better sleep at night?
Very stylish, in the 90s. Now my daughter uses them for dressing in steampunk.
I do know of someone that needs a fixed spot to focus on or he can not move, again multitasking. Maybe this is what the blue square provides. A fixed spot.
No, the blue color is the essential thing. When the nurse moves the paper away from the patient, it shrinks in apparent size and becomes more nearly a single spot, so according to your logic , it should work better, but, on the contrary, as the amount of blue light entering his eye decreases, it ceases to work.
