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Wow, dreama. Your vision sounds a lot like my vision -- totally depends on lighting. I also close my eyes in bright light but often they spring open. And other times I can't get them to open if the lighting is too bright.

I couldn't agree more with you about psychosomatic illness. There is really no way of telling them apart. The only difference is the treatment that works.

I'm sorry about your bad experiences with doctors. I hope you're able to find a doctor that can find the true causes of your blindness and other pains, who understands that psychosomatic illness is legitimate and as much effort should be put into treating it as physiological illness.
 
Nika said:
Wow, dreama. Your vision sounds a lot like my vision -- totally depends on lighting. I also close my eyes in bright light but often they spring open. And other times I can't get them to open if the lighting is too bright.

I couldn't agree more with you about psychosomatic illness. There is really no way of telling them apart. The only difference is the treatment that works.

I'm sorry about your bad experiences with doctors. I hope you're able to find a doctor that can find the true causes of your blindness and other pains, who understands that psychosomatic illness is legitimate and as much effort should be put into treating it as physiological illness.
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Thanks Nika. It's interesting that my eye condition is similar to yours even you have a physical eye condition. I've read about blind people who have a lot of pain with their glycoma removing their eye and for it to help matters. Have you ever thought of that?

Unfortunately I have more or less given up on doctors. I'm supposed to see an Audiologist as I want this gadget called a tactaid 7 but unfortuately it can't be bought directly by me. They only sell to Audiologist. I just hope the firm that makes it hasn't gone out of buisness by the time the Audiologist gets round to seeing me.
 
one of my best friends who has glaucoma had one of her eyes removed and she was sorry she did it. the artificial eye they fit her with created even more pain than what was caused by her glaucoma headaches. she's thinking about having her eyelid sewn shut so she no longer has to experience pain.
 
dreama said:
I've read about blind people who have a lot of pain with their glycoma removing their eye and for it to help matters. Have you ever thought of that?
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My glaucoma headaches aren't in bad enough pain for me to consider having my eyeballs removed. If they start to get really painful, I might consider it. Plus they are only painful sometimes, but the headaches come and then go away. If they start to get really severe or if I have pain all the time, then I might consider it.
 
typeingtornado19 said:
How are you today Nika?
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In a lot of pain as usual. My hands are feeling very arthritic -- I might have to go Hear Again's way and do all lowercase.

On a bright note, I signed up for my Spring Semesters courses. I'm taking General Psychology as well as Semantics and Pragmatics. I'm excited about both!

How are you doing today, typeingtornado?
 
I've always wondered why they use artificial eyes. is it something about preventing the eye cavity from collapsing???
 
Hear Again said:
one of my best friends who has glaucoma had one of her eyes removed and she was sorry she did it. the artificial eye they fit her with created even more pain than what was caused by her glaucoma headaches. she's thinking about having her eyelid sewn shut so she no longer has to experience pain.
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That sounds awful. All the more reason to wait. I think I should stay with my natural body parts for as long as possible before going to artificial ones.
 
Jiro said:
I've always wondered why they use artificial eyes. is it something about preventing the eye cavity from collapsing???
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From getting infected. If it's exposed to the air it can easily get infected.
 
Nika said:
That sounds awful. All the more reason to wait. I think I should stay with my natural body parts for as long as possible before going to artificial ones.
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exactly. my friend saw her prothestic doctor who made all kinds of adjustments to her arficial eye. it was shaved down, softened, you name it, but nothing helped.
 
Nika said:
From getting infected. If it's exposed to the air it can easily get infected.
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...and this was yet another problem my best friend experienced. her artificial eye kept watering which made her feel even more miserable.
 
That must have been awful. Did she end up having her eyelids sewn shut?
 
Nika said:
On a bright note, I signed up for my Spring Semesters courses. I'm taking General Psychology as well as Semantics and Pragmatics. I'm excited about both!
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your courses sound really interesting, nika -- especially psychology. i wish i would have taken more psych courses in college because i really enjoyed psych 101 and a course i took in mental illness symptomatology.
 
Yes I'm definitely excited. I have always been interested in psychology. I read a psychology textbook cover to cover several times, and have always done research, and talked to my therapists about psychology. So I'm excited to start studying it formally.

Maybe when you move to AZ you can go to a nearby college and take a course?
 
Nika said:
That must have been awful. Did she end up having her eyelids sewn shut?
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no, not yet. she's going to talk to her opthamologist about it soon though. she's thinking about having her other eye removed and having both eyelids sewn shut. that way, she won't have to worry about her glaucoma spreading to her quote unquote "good" eye. for your information, in terms of her vision, she has LP.
 
Nika said:
Yes I'm definitely excited. I have always been interested in psychology. I read a psychology textbook cover to cover several times, and have always done research, and talked to my therapists about psychology. So I'm excited to start studying it formally.

Maybe when you move to AZ you can go to a nearby college and take a course?
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i'd love to get my ph.d. in psychiatry. i might even get a master's in psychology. it's so hard for me to decide since i'd like to enter the field of social work *and* psychiatry!
 
Hear Again said:
i'd love to get my ph.d. in psychiatry. i might even get a master's in psychology. it's so hard for me to decide since i'd like to enter the field of social work *and* psychiatry!
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why not both!? lol :laugh2: you've got smart and time to do it!
 
Jiro said:
why not both!? lol :laugh2: you've got smart and time to do it!
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thanks, jiro! the more i think about it, the more i'd like to get a master's in psychology and my ph.d. in psychiatry. that way, i can have the best of both worlds when it comes to my interests in social work and psychology/psychiatry.
 
Hear Again said:
thanks, jiro! the more i think about it, the more i'd like to get a master's in psychology and my ph.d. in psychiatry. that way, i can have the best of both worlds when it comes to my interests in social work and psychology/psychiatry.
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there you go! don't forget to buy the Jiro's Special Edition Sunglasses as well!
 
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