Cataracts

[Ray]

I've got cataracts and I am also am at risk for detached retina(s) which may complicate surgery.
Anybody know of any cures from the hive (or elsewhere)?

[Bakersdozen]

So sorry to hear that Ray.  I don't know any cures from the hive.  But I will say that modern medicine has made a lot of advances in this area.  Cataract removal is a walk in the park.  Detached retina, I don't have any experience with.  Good luck to you.

[brooksbeefarm]

Ray
My wife had cataract surgery as an out patient and it might have taken 20 minutes, i couldn't believe it . My eye doctor says i have a starting of cataracts, but not bad enough for surgery yet. I went to him for what he called floaters, when working bees it sometimes looks like a bee is coming or is to close to my eyes , i don't think there is much they can do for floaters Jack

[riverbee]

well wishes to you ray. had a close friend also with recent cataract surgery. went well, doing great.  not sure she had detached retina though?

[Perry]

I read this just a few days ago. A guy in BC invented them and they could soon be available.
http://www.designntrend.com/articles/52832/20150531/bionic-lens-offer-vision-three-times-better-20.htm

[Ray]

Thanks everybody.
Jack those floater are a sign you may be at risk for a detached retina. I have a few relatives on my mother's side who had detached retinas.

[brooksbeefarm]

I don't have good vision in my left eye, they say i have a wrinkle behind it, and surgery might help or it might not? I'll just live with it. Jack

[efmesch]

I've heard of people who had their retina "re-attached" by the use of a lazer beam.  It is shined into the eye and focused on several points around the margin of the retina, creating a few tiny "burns " that "glue" the retina in the proper position.

[lazy shooter]

I have floaters.  I had them back in 2007 when I had cataract surgery, lens replacement.  My vision since then has at least 20:20 without any downside.  I would advise having it done.

Don

[rwlaw]

While floaters are a indication of a retinal tear, in my case they're just pieces of veins that have broken off (as a long term glaucoma patient, I get my money's worth out of my eye doc lol). I can't tell you the percentages, but I was told I have nothing to worry about.
Ray, there's a cataract thread started in the apitherapy section of the beesource forum you should check out, somebody gave a recipe for honey eye drops. As I have em too, I'm going to become my own patient .
I've been doing a bilberry tincture that a gal made up for me (bilberry increases blood flow to the eyes) and it seems to have helped with the floaters, don't see em as often as I've had before.

[brolib]

Google "sage honey for cataracts". A drop in each eye at bedtime for 7 nights the 7 nights w/o. Repeat as needed. A friend of the family learned this in a massage therapy course along with other neat stuff everyone should know.