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Red eye
Since having covid I’ve had problems with red eye. I got it during the illness part and then it went, but now it’s come back and is not going. I’ve had intermittent red eye for 30 years but nothing that stays around like this. My googling suggests ocular rosacea and/or meibomiam gland dysfunction (MGD). They seem to have overlap. I know that Accutane causes MGD so it would make sense (if Anthony Mawson correct) that a big dump of retinoids during covid could worsen this. When I was very vA toxic in 2018 I had what I thought was skin rosacea, although it was never diagnosed. It completely went on the vA detox.Therefore it seems likely that I have this tendency when vA is high but this time maybe it’s affected the eyes? Rosacea is an inflammatory disorder and Covid increases inflammation (associated with NAD deficiency inflammatory kynurenine upregulation?). I can see how covid could have made any predisposition to these eye issues worse.
I’m just wondering if anyone has experience of something that helps or any opinions about it?
Hi @jaj I am sorry about your eye. I used to have rosacea as an adolescent, then terrible rosacea of the eye (mainly left eye) from when I was 50 years old. And I was very vA toxic, I now realize. It went away slowly with lipophilic thiamine supplementation, then disappeared totally when I added the low vA diet. Sometimes it comes back for a few days, very light nothing painful really, when I get a big vA detox.
For example when we caught Covid. It did not last, and was never severe again. Epsom salts baths help, bains derivatifs too.
Good luck!
Thanks @ourania. That’s very interesting about the lipophilic thiamin - is that benfotiamine?
For some reason covid seems to have really messed me up this time. I’d have thought having been low vA for 3 years I’d have had more resilience. It seems to have caused a big vA dump. I’m guessing it’s shown up my nutrient deficiencies/weaknesses. My long gone terrible jaw tension and teeth grinding has also returned and I’ve lost a small piece of my front tooth. I’m not happy!!
I don’t know if any of the Bs I’ve added have made things worse rather than better. I suspect I’m deficient in some (B1, B2, B3, B6, B9, B12??) but adding them does not always go well. Greedy unhelpful enzymes can steal them away. Adding B6 has been extremely helpful for my anxiety so I’m not stopping that again.
When I started low VA eating, my eyes were getting bloodshot daily, and my iris color started losing the yellow/brown color covering the blue. My eyes very rarely get red now, but did recently after a long air travel day, thought it might be related to air pressure changes.
@jaj, I have always been big on trying to see patterns, so will apply my life long predisposition now. I think many will call me a conspiracy theorist, tin foil hat and some such, so bear with me, please.
Your eye is affected, I have post covid anosmia, many got tinnitus and of course lung damage that looks like damage by altitude sickness - as one New York’s doctor said at the beginning of it all. So we are talking about delicate tissues of the eyes, ears, nose, lungs, maybe nerves. Most of us also think that we “caught” covid, i.e. highly infectious organism (that was actually never properly isolated and exists in the computer model rather than a petri dish).
Since I started studying the German New Medicine, I learned to look at health from a different angle. According to it, the symptoms (cough, sweating, fever, inflammation, etc) are bodily attempts to remove the offending influence / agent.
So, we had covid but what if it was not caused by a virus but the body was trying to get rid of something. But what? My tinnitus appeared right at the start of the pandemic, soon after they installed the 5G tower 200 ft away. For a very long time afterwards I wasn’t feeling great - not really sick, but not healthy either (I still don’t feel like my old self from *before). My family members reported the same. Then I ‘got covid’ - mild flu like symptoms for about a week then fatigue for a month and came out of it without smell and with altered taste. So, what if the body couldn’t handle the constant low grade damage and decided it was time to purge. But the influence is still there, and we are under constant “attack” by it, having our epithelium and nerves fried. 5G is hailed as the next step of human evolution. Well, others say that it damages biological systems. It damages us.
Well, there - just a crazy theory from a disturbed brian? But what if there is something to it?
I don’t really know if any of this is plausible. I just wonder because it is difficult to find a truly healthy person nowadays. But maybe I am wrong. 🤔
@jaj I had started a thread called Thiamine Story a couple of years ago and explained in detail - https://ggenereux.blog/discussion/topic/thiamine-story/. We also suffered a set back from Covid but I hate to think what could have happened if miraculously we had not started our vA detox more than two years ago. It is tempting to be sad because the progress is not regular but it could be worse!
Today I am in a good mood because even though my body hurts like hell and I feel as though I was ninety years old, the dreaded and terrible eye pain has gone and I can SEE. Also all my scars are slowly normalizing and even fading. And my hair is horrible but it is growing back! Also spring is on the way and we are not dead. And I found the energy to start learning Portuguese a couple of months before I turn seventy years old.
Hugs!
@orion I used to suffer very bad eye pains after flights and I now think that it was due to the disinfectants in the air of the plane. It happened too in museums etc, so it must be in the odorless disinfectants. Some airlines from poor countries were OK though. Not rich enough to put in the poison? I have not flown for more than four years but will next week so it will be interesting to see whether the vA diet has helped in this regard.
Thank you for all the helpful comments.
I’m having some success. I’ll detail later what I’ve done. I’ve added all my measures at once, not very scientific, but I just want improvement.
Just wanted to post this paper link that Caroline posted on Garrett Smith’s network.
https://interestingengineering.com/antabuse-drug-alcoholism-retinal-degeneration
Quite remarkable! They are saying that retinoic acid causes retinal degeneration. Disulfiram (Antabuse) blocks ALDH. We would all agree with this, however, I’ve never seen mainstream admit that vA bad for eyes!!?
