Eye-sight confusion

"Gilbert" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

During driving or at places having a lot of people, when I look around the
people, here & there, I feel that my eye-sight would become confused. Why?
Any herbs or foods which can improve my problem.

I would talk to your doctor. It could be visual changes from cataracts or
macular degeneration or just aging.

Jeff

Gilbert said:

During driving or at places having a lot of people, when I look around the
people, here & there, I feel that my eye-sight would become confused. Why?
Any herbs or foods which can improve my problem.

Are you taking a STATIN? Statins, including Zocor (simvastatin)
Pravachol (pravastatin) Lipitor (atorvastatin) Crestor (rosuvastatin...

Statins can cause a myopathy that affects the ability to focus. Statins
can also cause more serious vision changes some of which can be
devastating and permanent. It happened to me.

Zee

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J Ocul Pharmacol Ther. 2004 Apr;20(2):179-82.

Ocular hemorrhage possibly the result of HMG-CoA reductase
inhibitors.

Fraunfelder FW.

Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland,
OR 97201, USA. [email hidden]

This retrospective case series describes the association between
ocular hemorrhage and 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl conenzyme A (HMG-CoA)
reductase inhibitors (statins). The clinical characteristics of 95 case
reports submitted to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and
Drug Administration, and the National Registry of Drug-Induced Ocular
Side Effects are summarized with classification of this ocular side
effect according to WHO criteria. The average time to onset of ocular
hemorrhage was 300 days with 11 positive dechallenge reports and 2
positive rechallenge cases. Some patients also received medications
known to increase bleeding times. From the collected data, ocular
hemorrhage is "possibly" due to statin therapy.

Publication Types:

* Review
* Review of Reported Cases

PMID: 15117574 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

AND:
I am unable to get the abstracts but your physicians should be able to
if you are taking a STATIN, and this side effect applies to you.

Engel WK.
Reversible ocular myasthenia gravis or mitochondrial myopathy from
statins?
Lancet. 2003 Jan 4;361(9351):85-6. No abstract available.
PMID: 12517506 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Parmar B, Francis PJ, Ragge NK.
Statins, fibrates, and ocular myasthenia.
Lancet. 2002 Aug 31;360(9334):717. No abstract available.
PMID: 12241896 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Zee