Episode 014: Eye on Ocular Myasthenia Gravis

[@teena1054]

Thank you so much Dr. Banik. I am struggling with this and am grateful to be able to watch your videos. I look forward to the up and coming ones that you mentioned. I hope to reach out in the not so distant future.

[@dr.ranibanik]

You're most welcome. I'm so glad the information in my podcast was helpful!

[@robertwright1084]

Currently watching this video holding my eyes open with my hands LOL. Never knew this condition existed until a month ago. I was diagnosed 3 weeks ago with MG by my ophthalmologist, and I unfortunately have to wait until almost January before I can get into a neurologist, so my symptoms will go untreated for at least another month. I am currently using the last of my vacation time at work to scrape by until then. It took about 8 months to go from functional to where I am now having to hold my eyes open to see. My eye lids work for about 5-10 minutes when I wake up and then I have to hold my lids open for the majority of the day. Luckily my symptoms are mainly ocular right now. The fun thing is I now get to add this condition to my other condition I was diagnosed with about 5 years ago called Essential Tremors which is also for the most part untreatable. I thought the shaking was bad, being essentially blind is much worse. At least I could still work with the tremors. 😟

[@christychrissy5226]

Thank you so much Dr. My mom spent years suffering from MG. All the docs had her on for years was prednisone orally every day, poor thing. Her livelihood was reading , and she had all of the generalized symptoms of MG. Probably caused by stress from family living up near her for decades. She was from Cooperstown, NY area where I grew up until I turned 20 and moved to Florida! I pray it doesn't settle in me also! I was on statins for thirty plus years, then finally heard the truth and stopped taking, also had vaccines all of my life until I again heard the truth, unfortunately after 2 of the jabs in 2021, no more thank you! Thank you so much for all of the quality info you share with an audience that craves the truth and preventative measures.

[@dr.ranibanik]

Your comment made my day- I am so glad to hear that you learned from my podcast! Please share it with friends and family so they can better understand MG.