Experiences with

Vision loss

I have been prescribed aspirin as the doctors think I may have had a TIA (due to partial vision loss which returned after 2 minutes.) Scans were good. As I don't like taking any pill I would appreciate any thoughts on this. Thank you.

I’ve got field vision loss …, been in HU over 10 years. My neuro ophthalmologist has said that Hu is known to cause problems with oeripha field vision. I now also have peripheral neuropathy - another known side effect !!

Do I need to inform DVLA oh worsening peripheral vision loss Any advice , has anybody else been in this situation

Hi Has anyone got any information on low blood pressure/nocturnal hypertension linked with optic nerve loss and glaucoma as I have been reading that this could be a cause of vision loss I have also been looking at new treatments for vision loss linked to Glaucoma and have come across a clinic in

Hello, I have ocular hypertension and have had SLT and use eye drops. A 8 weeks ago I woke up and had lost some vision. I still have no definative answers . Eye A and E said optic neuritis, private specialist consultant, a ciculatory problem, a mini stroke behind the eye damaging the optic nerve. I

Just spend 2 days in A and E and acute medical ward with big flare up - jaw pain and enlarged auxillery arteries and CRP levels at 42 had in depth eye test - luckily no vision loss Rheumy has now upped the pred to 60mg and recommends I seriously consider taking Methotrexate along side but in injection

According to the authors of the current report, there is "new compelling evidence" that untreated loss and elevated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol are also risk factors for dementia.

before doing the other which has less vision loss. My stress levels are sky high which is probably not good …

Hello 👋🏻 I’m not looking for any in-depth information but wondered if anyone has applied and awarded ADP (the PIP equivalent in Scotland), for CRVO and glaucoma, where you have regular injections and have slight vision loss. thanks 🙏🏻

anyone got any comments on this article? I was diagnosed with PD this summer . My older brother passed away from a Glioblastoma in 2009. This article really has me thinking!

I was diagnosed with PD June last year and recently also been diagnosed with a prostatic obstruction and been advised to have a Turp procedure. I’m looking for anyone who’s had the procedure with pd and how it went. Steve

Hello, I realise this may well be impossible to answer but just thought I’d ask. Could Scintillating Scotoma’s and episodes of severe, fairly short lived, double vision be a sign of GCA? I have no GCA like pain, “just” PMR pain. I will tell me rheumatologist but as he’s about as much use as a chocolate

Anyone any information on the use of these in helping with parkinsons?

I’ve been trying to get to the bottom of some horrible symptoms (dizziness, weakness, fatigue, feeling jittery, brain fog) and have resorted to a private blood test as not getting anywhere with GP. test shows high FT4 under thyroid section and high cystatin C under kidney section (which I believe is

And am now have some vision loss from advanced cataracts. They proposed a stent as the angle of my eye in parts is narrow though I'm considered open angle. I have never been on drops and the stent is to remove the necessity of drops.

My understanding was that there were 3 disease modifying studies at phase 3 trial.1 Exenatide has failed. 2 Ambroxol is on going 3 lactobacillus acidophilus I can't find any study details for via google. Does anyone know more ?

There are some research regarding GLP1 agnostic helps with Parkinson's. There are a couple of trials in progress as well such as exenatide and lixisenatide. I came across this supplement for GLP1. Is it similar to GLP1 agnostic? Did anyone try GLP1 supplements?https://ca.iherb.com/pr/pendulum-glp-1-probiotic

Just completed week 5 run 3. I’d been dreading stepping up to 20 minutes running, however, not as bad as I had been expecting. All in the head!!! Starting again after being diagnosed with rectal cancer and undergoing a colostomy operation in May. I was feeling pretty down for a while, thought useful

Hi folks I'm looking for advice on how to lose weight with hypothyroidism. I'm currently about 6 and a half stone over weight . I do alot of walking at least 10000 steps a day . My downfall is that I snack on alot of junk food, I do know about healthy eating as I did weight watchers before and lost a

Lots of tests etc completed today and visual fields last week so the brief summary is no evidence of vision loss and no compression to or damage of optic nerve at the moment. As expected, active TED in both eyes, with left slightly worse than right. Priority is thyroid control.