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Experience with eye drops that will soften cataracts.

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hilary13182
hilary13182

Anyone with experience using the various eye drops that are being marketed to dissolve cataracts?  I'm trying to avoid surgery like the plague.  My optomotrist reccommended Can-C brand w/Nac.

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  • SimonEye
    SimonEye hilary13182

    Posted

    no scientific evidence this or any product has any merit for this purpose!
  • mrsmop
    mrsmop hilary13182

    Posted

    I agree with Simon.

    You don't have to have surgery unless the cataract is really bothering you, then you will ask for surgery.

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      hilary13182 mrsmop

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    • liz12234
      liz12234 mrsmop

      Posted

      Wish i had thought like that, worse thing i ever did was to have mine done, wont be in a hury for the other one thats for sure.
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      hilary13182 liz12234

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  • janice30449
    janice30449 hilary13182

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    I had never heard of drops to dissolve cataracts.  Wish I had known about them before I had the cataract surgery done.  Prescription was wrong in both eyes, had to have a piggyback lens inserted in right eye, I am going to see if they can put one in the left eye also.
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    mrsmop hilary13182

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  • mrsmop
    mrsmop hilary13182

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    The Royal College of Ophthalmologists don't recommend the drops.  The treatment only appears to have been tried on dogs

    Are you in the UK Hilary?

    • hilary13182
      hilary13182 mrsmop

      Posted

      Of course the people who gain the most $ from the surgery will object....
  • agnes90839
    agnes90839 hilary13182

    Posted

    Hi Hilary

    I wouldnt expect anything to get rid of cataracts other than an op, it would have been so lovely to have thought that this would be possible but I doubt it very much, does anyone else agree with me

    Regards Agnes

    • hilary13182
      hilary13182 agnes90839

      Posted

      OK, maybe your optomotrist doesn't know about possible alternatives.  They all read the same journals....

    • SimonEye
      SimonEye hilary13182

      Posted

      The product you refer to has not been proven of merit in human clinical trials.

      iF it had been so proven it would have gained recognition as a medicine by relevant agencies eg FDA and EMA etc 

    • hilary13182
      hilary13182 SimonEye

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      Do you ever consider these agencies might have an incentive to block do-it-yourself cures?  And as I said, studies these drops has been published in pubmed. Look for yourself.
    • hilary13182
      hilary13182 SimonEye

      Posted

      Also, the FDA sometimes approves drugs that prove to be really harmful. 
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