Do You Suffer From Retinal Related Night Blindness?

Retinal Problems and Solutionsfrom a retinal detachment or any serious eye
My Storyissue get to a qualified professional ASAP.
After 4 surgeries to repair detached retinas, oneUnfortunately in 1994 I went through a similar
of the longest lasting issues I dealt with wasexperience with my left eye. Luckily this time
reduced night vision while driving. For about a yearhowever, the detachment was found during a
after each surgery when driving for long periodsroutine exam to check how well my right eye
at night, I would see things that were not in thewas holding up. Again there was a hurry-up
road, be blinded by on-coming headlights andsurgery, a long healing process and other
suffer from extreme eye fatigue.complications. Later in 2002 and 2005 I would
My retinal issues began in 1993 when I noticedhave two more surgeries to remove the scleral
some very unusual and disturbing symptoms withbuckles placed during the original surgeries.
my right eye. Although I've worn glasses almostEach surgery negatively impacted the quality of
all of my life I had never experienced anything likemy vision and particularly my night vision which
this before. Not only was my sight blurry butreally concerned me. I had never had any
things were getting very distorted. Vertical linesproblems driving at night and now I found night
like doorways and walls seemed to bend anddriving to be very difficult and sometimes painful
curve when I looked at them. I hoped it wouldwith bright headlights blinding me and a greatly
pass but unfortunately for my sight, I let tooreduced field of vision. I had trouble seeing far
much time go by as the symptoms worsened.ahead of my car, judging distance accurately and
By the time I finally made an appointment with anseeing shadows that I thought were objects or
Ophthalmologist I had no idea what he was goinganimals in the road. Not knowing what to do to
to find. To my surprise he diagnosed me with ahelp improve my sight I tried taking Lutein as it
detached retina in my right eye and told me hewas reported to help with retinal health. I've had
was going to schedule surgery for the nextgreat results with real improvement in my overall
morning. I was extremely upset and worriedsight and especially my night vision.
about the diagnosis and the surgery because IIn the mid 1990's I began taking a type of Lutein
thought I would probably lose the sight in my eyewith Billberry extract, Black Currant extract and
if things did not go well. I left his office in a fogSpinach concentrate. After a few months my
because I could not get my mind around thisnight vision began improving and within a year or
news.so the results were beyond anything I had hoped
Long story short, I underwent the surgery andfor. My night driving steadily improved and has not
began a slow healing process that threw a realdeteriorated over the 15 years or so that I've
monkey wrench in to my life and routines. Therebeen using Lutein. My doctors tell me this is
were many restrictions and procedures I wouldimportant for the retina and may also help with
learn to do every day regarding cleaning the eyemacular degeneration.
and applying multiple drops several times a day. ILutein is not a cure for retinal or macular diseases
also suffered from severely limited vision in thebut seems to be very helpful in improving
eye for weeks afterward. In the end I regained aeyesight and possibly decreasing the risk of
reasonable amount of sight in this eye but tomacular degeneration. After 4 surgeries I am
repeat something I said earlier, I WAITED TOOgoing to continue using Lutein because of the
LONG TO GET A DIAGNOSIS. I lost a certainfantastic results I've experience. I'd love to hear
amount of sight that I will never get back. Myother success stories form people with similar
advice is, if you suspect you may be sufferingretinal and eye issues.