Your eyes are the only ones that you will have for all your life, so make sure that you take good care of them with regular visits to your local optometrist. There are diseases, including macular degeneration and glaucoma that, if detected in time, do respond to treatment to save your eyesight. It is not pleasant for someone to need to depend on other people because of loss of sight, not to mention the devastation on a person;s psyche and the loss of gainful employment.
It is also well known that serious diseases such as myasthenia gravis, diabetes, and atherosclerosis can show their very first signs during an eye exam well before any other symptoms manifest themselves. Besides that, as we all age, we will need glasses in order to read, if not for all seeing at some point. And even when we are young, some problems with seeing can be addressed with specialized exercises to strengthen muscles around the eye. It is important to establish a relationship with a local optometrist so that your eye history is kept for future treatment and updating glasses. A family history of eye problems also helps to alert an optometrist to any future problems a patient may have.
Also, some problems with vision can be addressed with surgery such as Lasik. In some cases, after this surgery a patient no longer needs glasses in his or her daily life. This surgery is essentially painless, but be sure to check that your ophthalmologist has had the proper training and is up to date on any and all new methods before you make your decision to have the surgery. You may still need reading glasses as you age. Another surgery that is essential to good eyesight is the surgery to remove a cataract.
A good optometrist will check a patient often to decide when the surgery is needed. Cataracts grow at their own pace and not all need surgery, maybe just needing to change a prescription lens, but as they grow, they will need to be removed. There are several different lenses that can be implanted at that time. Again this surgery is essentially painless, but you must start special eye drops several weeks before the surgery and continue with more eye drops for several weeks after the surgery. Most people have very good sight after this surgery and are pleased. Both eyes are never operated on at the same time even if both need the treatment so that recovery is well along in one eye before the surgery is done on the second.
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