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Any cure or recommendation for optic nerve damage?

I had a optic nerve damage in my right eye when I was a kid (25 yrs ago). This was a result after an object got in to my eye pupil and damaged a part of it. However, I had a surgery back then and the vision wasn't really fixed but If I close my left eye  then i can see objects in the right part of my right eye but very blurring. I can almost sense it when it moves and etc. Anyway, I did follow up with some eye specialist after that and they advised me to wait for the technology. So I have seen any specialist in the past 8 years and I wonder if there is any fix for it yet? or any recommendation is appreciated?
Any other additional information is appreciated and I can be reached at zering.***@****

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233488 tn?1310693103
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If you have damage in one eye and your are not having your "good" eye examined every year by an eye MD ophthalmologist then you are indeed foolish.

Where there are hopeful techniques that at some point in the future that may help (stem cell transplants, nano-technology, electronic retinas there is nothing right now that is widely available or that works for most people.

Best you try you best to keep you good eye healthy and in that you are deficient.

Find an eye MD at www.aao.org

JCH MD
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740516 tn?1360942486
Friend, I do understand you must be crazy about some answers, but please, stop posting the same text here...
Wishing you good luck and more eyes improvement
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177275 tn?1511755244
answered on your 3 other posts
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Hi Doc,

I had an injury via blunt trauma to the eye, which resulted in retinal detachment and damage to the optic nerve 4 month ago. Initially the doctor was treating the resulting hyphema with steroids, but now has suggested enucleation as the final resort.

Is there really nothing that can be done or explored??
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hi doctor
im from the phillipines may i ask if my boyfriend had a chance to revive his right eyes? because the doctor said that his vein in his eyes is dead. Theres have a possibility to revive?
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Hi,
Sir am from Pakistan but now am in UK from last 5 years. In child hood when i was only 2 years old, i lost my left eye, it is fully blind now, now am 32, and am really feel bad when some one says about this, my left eye is bit smaller then right eye like as 80% and 100%. What i do now i need any suggestion, about this please tell me can i fixed a stone eye, is it possible?  because i want to make same colour of both eyes, please tell me what i do??

Kashif
  
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Hello,

My husband 40 yo has the optic nerve atrophy. The right eye is no visibility, the left eye is 10% visibility.
Our doughter 4 yo have the optic nerve atrophy. the right eye is 30% visibility, the left eye 90%.

I read about oncomodulin. i find a medication with oncomodulin on internet market ( USA). it's ok if i buy from there? I am from Romania.

Where i can do some test to find if is the same problem both of them.

Where i can read about the side effects of oncomodulin? i din not find yet.

Thank you so much for help
Otilia
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Did you get an answer? I have also been diagnosed with optic nerve atrophy.
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Hi,
I am from India.. My father was born blind(1963) and now he is 55 years.. The cause for the blindness was his optic nerve was weak and his eyes are alright.. As the way back in 1963 there were no technologies to treat the optic nerve, doctors told it cannot be cured. Now is there any technology or procedure where the nerve can be strengthened and my father can get his sight?
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H Doctor
In continuation to my previous post with regards to my son (a pre matured 24 weeker) who had brain bleed of level 4. The latest MRI shows that the blood clot is dissolved .
He had ROP and had retinal detachment in both eyes. His right eye is partly detached (attached in lower side and a part of macula but upper side is still detached) where as left eye is completely attached.
He keeps his eye ball down in both eyes for most of the time and doesn't track or look at any toys. He look at them at times but not always.  He looks towards light always but at toys at times yes but most of time no.
Please advise if you can help us out. At the moment I am running from one doctor to another but no one is taking any interest in the case since he doesnt respond to light in right eye (where he ahs detachment) but he respond properly (when light is flashed) in left eye.
Please Please Please advise where I should go..I am currently in Raleugh North carolina.
Please advise
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Hi Doctor
My Son was born premature and stayed in NICU in Raleigh Wakemed hospital for almost 4 months. During the stay he had a lot of episodes and surgery and developed ROP. He was treated two in his right eye with Laser twice and left eye was treated once with Laser. But due to inefficieicny of my doctor, he could not detect that my sons retina is detached and we waited for almot 2 week before he told us.
We move to Duke hospital in Durham where Dr Toth performed surgery in both eye for Retina detachment (Right eye complete detachment and Left for Partial detachment). His left eye was attached within a week where as righ eye developed a membrane. She performed another surgery on righ eye but even that was not successful. Its almost 1 month and right eye is still detached.
Now he responds to light in his left eye but doesn't track or see any thing from left and right eye he doesnt even respond to light.
Please advise what we should do now...I am in North Carolina and can travel to any place/ hospital if required.
He is now 3 month old. Please response ASAP

Regards
Desperate & Helpless Father
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sir, i m a father of 1 year old son who has problem in his eyes, dr. says his optic nerve is slightly thinner, at present
he has some improvements in his vision as 3 months earlier he doesnot response to light even doesnot able to see me. now he responds to light and move his eyes to a torch and also make eye contact to me and also sometimes follow my movements right to left and up and down. doctors says that there is no treatment for optic nerve. suggest me if i can try ayurvedic, homeppathy or allopathy treatment. it is possible to improve his vision by using some exercises. how can we make him able to do his daily routine plz tell ........waiting for ur response.plz mail me at ***@**** as soon as better.
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9414437 tn?1406088553
Hi EyeRaj,

I have same issue in my left eye. Please let me know if you find any medical treatment. Even I went to Shankar Netralaya. If you are ok then I would like to talk to you more on this topic.
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I am 42 year old Computer Architect in US, recently (3 months) fell from a motor cycle ride (40 KM/hr) on a bump in India during vacation and impacted my head on the side walk and lost 70% (see things in negative effect) of my left eye vision. Left is not able to take light from farther distance and I can see SUN blazing in midday directly into the eye without any eyelids twitching . The Doctors say it I have 60X20 vision now. 3 Days from the accident, I went through Steroid doses for 6 days, not sure about improvement. The diagnosis from India (Shankar Netralaya, JIPMER) research centers is that, I have optic nerve damage and not recoverable, pending research possibilities. I am a US citizen, live in Boston on and off, and resigned to this inevitable reality which affects everything I am & I do now a days. Is there any hope or Doctor/Medical institution/New procedures that can give me hope ?

Please advice.
Raj
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dear doctor,

i am chandra sir,  i met an accident at last month. it is not so severe accident ..but my right eye vision be lost at some part only..and other part vision be in some dark ness but seen..the other part be seen not clearly is there any cure..is it cure or not sir...plzzz help me sir...in accident some blood is come in my nose ..sir...my eye bright be some lost...rply me sir
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Dear Doctor .,

my sister both eyes are no vision in the past 4 to 5 years . we are living in India. we get advice from various doctors in India.the doctors says that she's optical nerve is damaged by an wrong treatment earlier.ie  no treatment for regain the vision . (some of the doctor says that the optical nerve was dried.others says optic nerve carry blood and others never carry oxygen).
please advice me

thanks
basheer
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My right eye is damage. I can not anything. So what i do?
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Hi,

I am paimel from India, I have sister who is 7 year old and she is not able to see from left eye as 2 months back she fall down and she had a small injury on her right eyebrow and also some blood came from her nose. After few days from the injury she told us that she is not able to see anything from her left eye and so we consult to the eye specialist who told us that the eye sight is perfectly fine and the eye specialist recommend us to consult the neurosurgeon. We consult a  neurosurgeon in Max Hospital, Chandigarh India where they informed us AFTER DOING THE MRI and VEP test that her eye nerve which is connected to her brain is damage at one point where it passes between two bones. The doctor have given her some medication for 3 weeks and than again did the MRI and VEP tests and said there is some improvement however she is still not able to see. Also, the doctor said they cant give her more medication and she might cure herself or it can also be a permanent damage.I request you to please let me know if there is any way with the help of which she can get the vision back.

Email ID:paimel.***@****
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Hello. i am aliya. my 6 months old niece has a problem actually when she was born she did not breath for 5 minutes her all organs were failed and doctors put her on ventilators and after 5 minutes she started breathing and slowly her all organs start working. she was on ventilators for 28 days. now her eye specialist in DUBAI checked her and said that may be she cant see. today she had a retina test doctor put some liquid drops on her retina and actually she did not respond to the light. so they are saying may be she is blind. they recommended VEP test by which they will see if the nerve coming from brain to the eye is damaged or not .. so please can you help us in this regard and is there any cure of it . please get back to me as soon as possible.. i will thankful to you
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I see this was posted in 2008..is there any new information ? My boyfriend damaged his optic nerve in an accident and I just can't believe with today's technology that there is nothing they can do??? Any studies we can look into?? Anything?!?
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Hi all, my name is Terry. I have had vision problems in my left eye for 15 years, i.e., blurred vision, halos, etc. I was doing some yard work, weed eating last week. It was hot, and my glasses kept sliding off when I was bent over pulling weeds from my flower bed, so I took them off. I jad a pile of stuff and fired up the weed eater to chop it up, and got smacked HARD in the left eye by a piece of the stuff I was chopping up. I thought it had stuck IN my eyeball! The pain was intense. It gave me a black eye, and a visibly bruised eyeball, and vision fogged, like looking through milk. It hurt pretty bad for a few days. I was sitting on the couch a couple mornings ago, and suddenly realized the vision was clear in that eye! No more haziness, fogginess or halos around light sources. I can read without glasses now! WTF? Did I give myself eye surgery by weed eater or what? Will it stay "cured"? I am highly gratefull for this happening to me, and while I don`t recommend this, are things like this fairly common, or is this a happy freak accident?
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Hi Dr. my husband's mother lost her sight and the hospital did not declare why one often said a brain clot hit the optic nerve and again when he said they took her back means spinal cord injured optic nerve ...If allowed Are there processes restore her sight and if it is I want the name of a doctor or hospital or phone number I'm from Jordan please help me
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my mother aged 74 lost her left eye vision after 3 months cataract surgery. She had severe pain for 1 and half month in left head. but unfortunately disease was not deteceted. Doctors are saying optic nerve became dry. She is not  diabetic. She has been given steroid treatment. from last 1and half month. Wherther any chances to recover?
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Can you locate which doctors are having this success with placenta?

More info--detailed information.  

Also-- do you know if these people are seeing again with optic nerve damage? If anyone cn locate this info-- PLEASE post.
Many blessings and peace.
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Hai since i have met in an accide on 8th September 2012. Had got a head injury and had lost my left eye. When i approach one of the eye specialist he mentioned the following damage To the eye
1. Dense vitreous hemorrhage
2. Multiple orbital fractures
3. Enophthalmos
4. Partial optic nerve avulsion
and i have been under went to operations
for this amd the doctor said i got my optic nerve cut of 3/4th n there is chances of getting back my eye. Will get my eye back or can i get any other references if so plz mention it.
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