Starry Eyes: Forest Whitaker's Ptosis Explained | Knock Knock Eye

[@josephinedykstra3383]

Oh I've got no reason to know about eyes- I don't even wear glasses- but I like medical info and hearing knowledgeable people talk about their thing!

[@Amandaaa2244]

Talking about people putting multiple contact lenses in their eyes, I had a patient who came to the urgent care because she said she had a colored contact lens stuck in her eye. There were actually six of them. She had put them one on top of another to try to “combine the colors” because she thought it would look cute. The giant corneal ulcer did not look cute. I thought that was almost as stupid as the time I had a patient who combined tapwater, table salt, and baking soda to create a makeshift drop for his “dry eyes” right after eye surgery. Urgent care is wild.

[@neen42]

Why!????! Quality eye drops for dry eye are readily available at every pharmacy and grocery store and are well worth paying for. Plus after surgery, wouldn't you call the surgeon first to see what they'd recommend?

[@Amandaaa2244]

@@neen42 he said he couldn’t afford $15 eye drops after dropping like $10,000 on a cosmetic surgery (blepharoplasty) 😂

[@neen42]

@@Amandaaa2244 🤦. I'm broke, but i need my eyes to be comfortable.

[@emilioguerrero3964]

As a medical student starting rotations, an episode of the worst fuck ups/ being yelled at would be great

[@robertoguerrero8063]

Very excited about the upcoming Radiation Oncology x Ophthalmology crossover episode!!

[@Ensorcle]

I work as a health care researcher and I never get tired of learning bits and bobs of specialty medicine. The perspective and the drive is just endlessly interesting.

[@fabrisseterbrugghe8567]

Experts sharing their expertise are fascinating. As a layperson, I have two potential topics. The first isn't strictly speaking eyeball related, more eyeball adjacent. My mother had a stroke in her sleep and lost her peripheral vision. What surprised me was how many different peripheral visions there are. I think most of us use peripheral for sides, but lower and upper and even diagonal. If you do a podcast with a neurologist or neurosurgeon, discussing how strokes/TIAs effect vision and what each of you can do to help the patient. The other is about why some of us can't get used to bi- or tri- focals. My father wore bifocals for 40+ years and had trouble with stairs the whole time. Mom had no trouble at all adjusting to hers.

[@hollish196]

I watch these because they are about subjects I don't really have knowledge about. And I really enjoyed the specialist episode. More of these would be great!

[@neffsnicker]

I would complete a pop quiz for CME!

[@RowanJacobs]

I think it would be really cool to see a video about inborn errors of metabolism and their effects on the eye. As a biochemist I'm a sucker for all those pathways stuff. Or figure out a way to fit my favorite eye protein, lengsin, into a video

[@RumTumTaver]

I'm a lay person. I love learning too much about medical stuff once I bump into it. MS Optic Neuritis is what got me learning about eyes. Celebrity eyes section could be called Star Gazing.

[@nikkiewhite476]

Oh yes this is the best name suggestion I have seen!

[@aymala]

It's hard to actually see someone when you have a major vision loss

[@DrMollusk]

Please do an episode on Horner’s Syndrome. My cat has chronic ear infections, to the point that (on the recommendation of two veterinarians) we used the canine otic antibiotic, Claro, to treat them because other treatments had failed. I was aware of and accepted the potential risk of deafness from using Claro, but my cat responded beautifully . . . until she was stricken with Horner’s Syndrome. It came on very suddenly; I thought she had had a stroke. She was unable to walk without falling, her pupils were unequally dilated, and her third eyelid covered half of one eye. It took about three months for her to recover and she is currently doing well. However, even today, her pupils do not dilate equally. I only learned later that Horner’s Syndrome affects humans as well.

[@42389459]

Very cool info.

[@LMoM0MoM]

My daughter was born with BPES due to a spontaneous genetic mutation on FOXL2. Because it was a spontaneous mutation it is neither Type I nor Type II. It is unique to her and phenotypically manifests, differently from both types. On the subject of the connection between eyes and other parts of the body, in the course of learning about BPES, we discovered that Type 1 is associated with POI (premature ovarian insufficient), a gynaecological issue. Eyes and ovaries, who knew?!

[@cendrillonatsea5006]

Could you please do an episode about idiopathic intracranial hypertension’s effect upon the optic nerves and how a patient’s ophthalmologist exams will change going forward after such a diagnosis? Thank you so much!

[@nancy9731]

I'm not in the medical field, but I've had a lot of on the job (motherhood) training in multiple disabilities, orphan disease, ADHD, anklyosing spondylitis, diabetes, strabismus, amblyopia, and for myself Dermatochalasis BUL (been waiting since April for insurance to ok the field testing). I'm a life long learner. I started watching your shorts when someone was reposting them (only know that because I saw the video where you had found them and I should subscribe to your official channel). Knock Knock Eye sounded interesting and I was notified because it was the same channel. I was wondering what could be about eyes for podiatry?

[@teri2466]

Eyeball shots! I had to look it up. People are insane 😖

[@awildbenneappears]

For PM&R, just get together and talk about thank-you cards you've received.

[@ryanc473]

How about "Starry Eyes" for the series name?

[@divisionisfakenews197]

Another topic you may have covered is eye dilation as a treatment for myopia. I had my eyes dilated daily as a child for about a year to try to treat my galloping myopia.

[@jonc4403]

I do healthcare IT - so CME isn't really necessary. But I also have eyeballs, and it's good to learn anyway. Also, I've got ptosis of my left eyelid. I've always had it, it's not blocking my vision, and I have no interest in plastic surgery.

[@wmdkitty]

Bring the CME!

[@GenderIsAnIllusion]

Honestly, my life hack for remembering to take my contacts out is to just wear coloured contact lenses. It not really necessary for me because the sensory feeling of a contact being in reminds me that I have them in, but yeah, if I wear coloured contacts then I'll look in the mirror at night and remember that my eye isn't normally green and I need to take my contact out (only one eye needs correction, the other has 20/20 vision).

[@nikkiewhite476]

Honestly I don't like most podcast style videos. Most of them are way too long. Your videos on eyes are the right length and you have a fascinating subject matter. I love medical/biology subjects; I have researched things on my own but with out knowing the jargon it is so hard to understand research reports and educational papers. You explain everything and that is fantastic! Thank you for reading my comment again, I will have to tell my son that you talked about him! For a subject... I used to get what I thought were styes. From the descriptions I have heard it doesn't seem to fit. I used to get clear bubble like protrusions on the edge of my upper eyelid. They hurt but mostly it was irritating. They never got very big probably as thick as 2 eyelashes. If they lasted for a long time I took a clean needle and carefully popped them. There never was any obvious discharge and my eye felt fine immediately. I don't get them anymore thankfully, it has to be about a decade.

[@ricci8497]

I work within a opticians have done for many years I enjoy anything medical or scientific even mechanical and architectural one is never to old to learn and advance.

[@BugMed]

If you want to bring in the True Crime folks you should talk about Madeleine McCann and coloboma eye defects.

[@mikekuschka998]

I am an automotive technician. This is just cool.

[@carlosflar]

I'm thinking... Is there any overlap between orthopaedics and ophthalmology? Because the eye bones and face bones are all ophto/ent/maxfax...

[@carlosflar]

We like looking at bones, and you like eyes...

[@marykirschman6625]

Another famous eyeball is with actor Jack Elam. I think he may have the third cranial nerve palsy. You just know talked about it on todays knock knock eye episode.

[@marykirschman6625]

Your beard matches your shirt color!!!

[@aymala]

I am not a medical professional, though medicine-adjacent. I don't really need to know all of the eye lore. But having a basic understanding helps when I receive a call from an ophthalmology office and have to interpret whatever condition the patient has and all of the conversation surrounding it. It may seem counterintuitive, but knowing correct terminology does not get you that far. You need to have at least a basic understanding of the processes and structures to be able to explain everything in-between the terms. You need to make it logical, not hyper-intellectual

[@crashx101]

Famous eyes? Max Scherzer!

[@renholo7113]

A podiatrist?