auto accident and retinal detachment question

I was involved in a auto accident where I was rear-ended on Oct 1, 2003.
Around Dec 7th I started noticing
floaters in my left eye. On Dec 11th I went to see my opthamologist and he
found numerous tears and sign of
retinal detachment, which he tried to fix with laser, next day my
opthamologist decided the retina detachment
was imminent and I had emergency bubble surgery done that night. My
operation was successful
but around Dec 30th I started noticing floaters in my right eye.

My question is being in a car accident cause my injury? Although I did not
show any sign for two months.

 

Certainly possible (especially if your head hit something or an airbag
went off in your face), but not guaranteed. Coincidence, and from
another underlying cause is another possibility.

I hope you've been to the doctor to assess the symptoms you are
expriencing in your right eye.

--LB

--
Dr. Larry Bickford, O.D.
Family Practice Eye Health & Vision Care

The Eyecare Connection
http//www.eyecarecontacts.com
larrydoc at eye-care-contacts dot com (remove -)

 

Mr. larryDoc didn't even ask if the patient was wearing glasses!

 

If he was, then there was less of a chance of flying debris causing damage.

Scott

 

If he was not wearing glasses, that is, if he was perfect sighted
without glasses noro contacts nor operations, he could have not run into
the accident in the first place and his eyes would have been strong, so
no damage could have existed.

I bet the man was nearsighted, with weak eyes.

 

Yes I am nearsighted but my accident has nothing to do with my eyesight, I
was hit from behind.

 

I understand.
Please, what was you refraction, I mean, which glasses were you wearing,
-5, -10, contacts, progressives...

Thanks very much.

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If you are nearsighted, the higher the nearsightedness, the greater the
retinal thinning, and the greater the underlying risk one has of having a
retinal detachment. Detachments can occur from a pre-existing hole or a
tear, although tears are more prone to detachment because of the retinal
tag that keeps tugging on the retina every time the eye moves. People have
indeed suffered detachments induced by blows to the eye or the head. You
will no doubt remember Sugar Ray Leonard, the boxer, who had to retire
because of retinal detachments. I once tended a boy who suffered a
detached retina following a thumb to the eye while playing basketball. It
was several weeks following the injury that he presented with the symptoms.

The eye, being a hollow organ filled with a thick, viscous substance, will
transmit energy like a bowl of jello, causing first a tear, then ultimately
a detachment. I would be surprised if your ophthalmologist did not examine
your other eye for signs of a tear or detachment.

DrG

 

I was wearing glasses, my prescription is
spherical cylindrical axis
OD -6.25 -1.00 005
OS -7.75 -0.25 090

 

I see a serious myopia, not "so" serious, but the kind of that weakens
the eye so much that any moment you may produce a detachment.

You should understand that the unconscious strain you put on your eyes
is so big, that it happens that the refraction is no more changed but
the weakening continues, and so you produce at a certain point a
detachment.

Your only way to escape this situation is to start a serious and
intense practice of the rest methods devised by Dr. Bates.

Don't follow the advice of the professionals you find here: aske them
what is their success rate, and you will see it is ZERO!

 

Please --- be complete!

Tell us the whole story.

What was the condition of the sight of Leonard and of your patient who
had the thumb in his eye, pre and after the accident.

There is any proof, however, that links the accident with the
detachment.

You must be correct in your statements, because you are a professional
and people believes in you!

Be honest!!!

 

(Rishi Giovanni Gatti) wrote in

On the other hand, nobody expects you to be correct, and so you can spout
any kind of lunacy you want.

DrG

 

Please answer my question, be a scientist, don't start quarreling.

Stick to the point.

What was the refraction of Mr. Leonard and of your patient with the
thumb in the eye.

Tell us if there was a story of imperfect sight, pre and after.

I think readers are very much interested!


What was the outcome of the two patients, how they cope now???

 

What kind of convoluted argument is this ?

What is that gives you correctness ?? The fact that you are a
professional ? Oh shit, authority principle strikes back.
Academics and professionals cannot be wrong because they
are academics and professionals. Since it is expected from
them to be correct it means that they cannot say that they
are wrong (even if they are and even if they themselves find this
out) because otherwise their authority would go down the drain.

So, if they are wrong they cannot admit it in every case.
Now how can science advance in a situation like this?

IT CANNOT AND DO NOT ADVANCE !!!

Crystal clear like source water.

In fact science advances only by leaps made from so called
mad people that do not bother to be expelled and jailed and
such because they are intelligent and they love truth and
science way more than their perceived authority.

Galileo is my hero, and a lot of others.

Dear Leukoma, you and your peers are right if you want, but
myopia will continue to be caused by the strain to see far
away objects.

 

I think you must be having some problems with the English language.

DrG

 

Bates' followers have had enough time to prove their case in this group,
let alone in a scientific forum. What separates the professionals and
academics from the mystics is called the scientific method. In this way,
ideas that do not withstand the scrutiny of scientific enquiry fall by the
wayside(i.e. Bates).

If I am wrong I will admit it. But what have I said that you think is
wrong?

Bates' theories are not advancing.

That is your belief, and you are entitled to it. Just don't try to force
it on me.

DrG

 

As you have with the cure of the eyes.

 

Oh, but I have cured many eyes. I have made many eyes less nearsighted
with the use of minus lenses.

DrG

 

There is no way to prove it arguing, because you start from
some ideas that are different from mine, so arguing is useless.
The only valuable thing to do, and I'm very aware of it, is
this: take someone that understands the method and has been
able to cure himself (me) give him a population sample to cure
in a reasonable amount of time. Get another similar sample of
people and "treat" them with your methods. Get a third one
and let them alone without doing anything upon them.

Here you are very very wrong.
In almost a century there has not been ANY ANY ANY serious
effort at a scientific enquiry.

What the so called scientific professionals have been able to do
is only to label the Bates' work as quackery WITHOUT EVEN
read his ORIGINAL work !!! But basing their judgment only on
the shit that the so called idiotic "Bates teacher" have spread all
over the world.

The scientific approach REQUIRES that scientists must
reproduce the experimental conditions of the previous
researcher and try to get his results (FACTS, not THEORIES)
first, THEN try to research more (with more sophisticated scientific
research if possible) in that direction if the original experiments
gave the results expected.

Chatting on a newsgroup with people that say:
"hmm I've tried it and it didn't work, SO it is bullshit"
is NO SCIENCE !!!

BUT, if SOMEONE "tried it" and IT WORKED, scientific
men should AT LEAST give an ear (so to speak) to what
is going on...

But, alas, on this newsgroup there are no scientific men,
so no wonder that the only things that "professionals"
are saying is "it's too late, it haven't worked for so long
SO it proves that it cannot work" or "he was a mad man
believing in different things than ours" and UNSCIENTIFIC
BULLSHIT like that.

The whole way in which you "treat" patients is wrong,
You are only able to give devices that alleviate the symptoms
but the disease remains or gets worse.

Simply because nobody studied it SCIENTIFICALLY.

The fact that has been ignored for so many years does
not prove that it is wrong, in any way.

Besides, the Bates' discoveries are "workable" one
because he not only discovered the true cause of imperfect
sight but he found a treatment for it. Although the
treatment may be not so quick in obstinate cases.
This is MORE than enough for ophthalmology to advance.
And there is room for other research to quickly treat and
cure all cases.

Fortunately, something is starting to move, and I think
that in a year or two I'll be able to withstand a scientific
demonstration of the truth of what Bates discovered, in
the way I described above.

I do not force anything on anyone.
It is not a belief, it is a truth that I've been able to demonstrate
to myself. I can't help but say the truth: you and your peers
believe in something that is fallacious.

If truth is there (demonstrated by facts), there is no room
for beliefs.

Please answer:
Have you ever read the original works of Dr.Bates?
Have you ever tried to prove some of his statements true?
Just out of curiosity I mean.
What if you try something on some of your patients and it
turns out to be true ?
Your investments in your profession are too high ?
But, wait a moment, you have only to gain if you become able to
really treat and cure people. What is it that hinders you ?
Maybe your beliefs like the one about strong light ?
Take willing patients and try the WHOLE things that Bates wrote!

Why, and I am very very curious about it, you do not have
some curiosity about it and want to stick to your so loved beliefs?

 

Any idiot can do that with the use of a minus lens, "grazie al cazzo"
(we say in Italy)!

Try to do that with more elegance without lenses nor operations, that
is, teaching rest methods.

That will show your intelligence.