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Yoga and PVD

Yoga and PVD

This is a question for the doctor:
I have flashers and floaters mainly in one eye, but several eye exams
over the past year indicate no problems.  My doctor is at Mass Eye
and Ear, a well respected retina specialist, a wonderfully great
doctor.  He says that I can do physical activity as normally I do and
I forgot to ask him about doing yoga within several days of seeing
a few new floaters. Among several yoga styles, I do beginners hot power yoga, in a room heated around 85 degrees.  Would that have an effect on my eyes?

I notice also more after images around the times I've had my
first flashers and floaters increasing.  I remember with my first
diagnosis of PVD seeing a bush of pink rhododendron and then a
bright after image of the pink flowers along side the real flowers
as my eyes moved.  Weeks after that first onset of flashers/floaters,
the after images stopped.  I wonder if the PVD causes some stress
on the retina and hence more after images?

One eye in particular has had more floaters and flashers, flashers nearly gone now, and I think just phosphenes when I see them in that eye.  That may be due to an eye injury 25 years ago when someone hit me in the eye with a microphone they were swinging around on a chord and my cornea had a small tear that healed.  I also have benign posterior polymorphic dystrophy in both my corneas.  Many doctors who are residents, interns, etc. freak out when they see it, not knowing that it is a rare congenital cornea condition.

I've had five slit lens eye exams in the past year for regular checkups of cornea and PVD symptoms plus a couple extra for small
number of new floaters, mainly in old injury (left) eye. My eye pressure is 12 and 13 in left/right eyes respectively and vision
20/40 or 50, Left to right eye.

Any comments, suggestions, especially about doing yoga?

Sabella


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yoga is fine, no matter the temperature.

'I wonder if the PVD causes some stress on the retina and hence more after images?'

no.

'That may be due to an eye injury 25 years ago when someone hit me in the eye with a microphone they were swinging around on a chord and my cornea had a small tear that healed.'

no cornea anything would ever cause a retinal anything.

so no...i dont have any comments or suggestions.  you are fine.  fine to do yoga, and no corneal injury/condition could or would ever affect any pvd/retinal problem, etc etc etc etc


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