What CATARACTS do to your vision..

Today we talked about cataracts. Cataract is a term that is used when the crystalline lens inside your eye turns milky and cloudy.
It is caused by oxidative damage - most notably Sun exposure. Cataracts is something that everyone will eventually come across although some may develop it quicker than others.
Cataract surgery is a common practice to remove such opacities, and the technology has come a long way dating all the way back to the fifth century BC.
00:00 Introduction
00:39 Cataract vs Normal vision (Scarecrow)
01:14 Cataract vs Normal vision (Power Grid)
02:02 Cause of cataract
03:06 Cataract vs Normal vision (Give Way)
03:28 Cataract vs Normal vision (Day vs Night)
04:15 Driving with cataracts
04:44 Other causes of cataracts
05:18 Cataract vs Normal vision (Petrol Station)
05:42 Cataract vs Normal vision (Indoors)

[@williamjones7163]

I had a Cataract removed from my left eye a week ago on Monday. Today is my one week follow up with my eye doctor. I told him something I have never said in my 62 years. I have had glasses since I was 5 years old. I can see clearer now, WITHOUT my glasses than I can see with my glasses. I can stand in front of a mirror and see every wrinkle, pimple, and hair on my face.

[@horatiomh]

Had cataract surgery on one eye last week and am having the other next week. I notice a drastic improvement in the vision in the operated eye so am looking forward to having both eyes improved. My specialist told me that 50% of the population can expect to suffer from cataracts by the time they reach 70 years of age, I'm not there yet but have noticed difficulty in reading which has caused a reduction in my quality of life.

[@spvillano]

After my first cataract was removed and doctor removed the eye shield and cone collar, was remarked on when my wife and I walked outside. "I can see blue again!" I'd nearly forgotten what a blue sky looked like. First eye done in 2009, lens capsule lasered in 2017, the other eye was done a few months ago.

[@DoctorEyeHealth]

Great to see you again, my friend. Great video. Love the oxidation demon lol

[@stellasmom9926]

Just found your videos and I’m really enjoying them. My husband just had cataract surgery in November and the second eye in late December. He had more than normal swelling and took additional medication for healing, but now that it’s been over 3 months for the first eye, the doctor said that an additional laser procedure will need to be done to get rid of the remaining cloudiness. BTW- my husband’s cataracts were classified as severe, and he had never gone to the eye doctor. My point is to say that regular eye check-ups are necessary for the best possible vision.

[@slavasSE]

Appreciate the quality of your videos.Keep going !

[@woollyclouds2677]

Always learn so much from your videos Antonio, thanks as always🥰

[@Christopher070]

I'm so glad I found this video because the side by side comparison is exactly what i'm experiencing for the past 3 months and it's been freaking me out terribly. To put this nightmare into context, I became profoundly deaf 20 years ago (i'm 54 now) so to have my vision suddenly go haywire would be catastrophic. I've had 4 eye exams at optometrists and they all thankfully say my eyes are healthy and the retina and optic nerve are healthy too. The last exam I had was at an ophthalmologist and he said I have small cataracts and that made me breathe a huge sigh of relief because I know surgery can restore vision back to normal. It's just scary when this happens because to look at the world like in that right side of the video can be very jarring and I really wondered if I was going blind. For the last 3 months i've been sleeping with the lights on I was so afraid lol. I'm glad a video like this exists because it really does show exactly what my vision has been like these past 3 months, and now that I am certain it's cataracts doing it, I can calm down (though I still sleep with a light on!). It will take me a while to save the money to have the surgery done, but seeing a video like this and knowing it's treatable makes be be able to live with it until I can get it done. I also live in Florida so i'm sure the UV from the sun contributed to the cataracts forming. I always thought getting old wouldn't be so bad, but boy it really is just one thing after another. It reminds me of the Golden Girls episode (the first one) when Rose says "I'd kill to be 20 again" and then Dorothy retorts back "I'd kill to be 40 again!" lol It's SO true because i'd take 40 again in a heartbeat!

[@DoloresJNurss]

The biggest problem cataracts give me is the warping. It's like somebody used a "pinch" effect in a photo manipulation program. Whole letters can disappear into this. On top of that one of my eyes has double vision because of cataracts, which can appear to add extra letters. This has made editing text very hard!

[@thomaspaine6496]

It came upon me without warning. Left eye went blurry. Look like the pictures. Thanks for showing me.

[@aqhasassy]

Very helpful. My cataracts are worsening, just saw my eye Dr. Due to an autoimmune disease I’m delaying surgery but she didn’t take the time explaining the changes I’m experiencing. Difficult to focus-read, etcreading lamp or sunlight is almost painful, I shut my eyes, shield for a few minutes, difficult to focus. I wear a hat & sunglasses outside, keep the sun out of the side of my eyes. After having lamp light in my L eye, I “saw” a hazey circle in my vision, left eye, abt the size of a nickel. It went away after a few minutes. Your illustrations were helpful. Thank you.

[@hornet224]

Excellent demonstration and explanation. Thank you.😀

[@luckyugwu]

You didn't explain to us what could be done about cataracts, or how they are managed. I would have loved to see something about that.

[@viviennesunny]

I have videos explaining. Im not a doctor but I studied it for 4 months to help mom. There are supplements and eye drops.

[@ArinSauls]

Maybe that will be the next video.

[@ArinSauls]

And cataracts aren’t managed by supplements or eye drops. It’s managed by having cataract surgery if the glare/halos get bad enough to where it’s affecting your daily life or if it makes it to where your vision is worse than 20/40 in whichever eye(s) has the cataract. It’s usually a bilateral thing, but one cataract can progress faster than the other. I’m not sure the logistics on why that is, but it does happen. I’m not a doctor either, but an ophthalmic tech, so I’ve had plenty of experience with cataract patients.

[@viviennesunny]

@@ArinSauls this is not true. Cataracts can be put stable or even reversed with eye drops and supplements. Lanosterol, L acetyl carnosine and cineraria maritima eye drops. Also the vitamin complex and omega 3. They are formed because of those reasons:. Oxidation of cristaline, glication when we eat even who s not diabetic, who is diabetic is totally lost, calcium going to the cristaline, some medications like steroids but also to high blood pressure, fluoxetine, sertraline. Having diabets or high blood pressure. Maybe ultra violet egen from sun rays and blue light from the screens, leds, leds lamps. So take omega 3 n vitamins especially A, C, E and supplements like vitamin K2 against the calcium to go to the wrong place eyes or veins and arteries. Anti glication n acetyl cisteine, coenzime q 10 and L carnosine and lutein and zeaxatine to the retinas and who knows for the cristaline they may work too. Astaxantine to the cristaline and finally spirulina. Its a good combo. Doctors should stop to push patients for surgeries. If there are alternatives since the surgeries have a risk and a good part dont end well.

[@viviennesunny]

@@ArinSauls I know the doctors dont know that much about any disease in our bodies. They should research more like I did in 2020 for 4 months and I got the same conclusions of doctors that study more natural remedies area and nutrition. After I had the work of doing my own personal researches I found a video of a doctor that said the same.

[@bevvaor2320]

Great video and explanation.

[@bentzenfabio]

Very good explanation

[@iquemedia]

thanks for making this video it gets so tiresome having to explain to everyone i know wtf a cataract is lol and having a visual aid is so much better than me describing my experience

[@AlexHop1]

Thank you!

[@nessesseda]

Thank you for all your amazing videos. I just binged a whole bunch of them! Say, could you make a video about aphakia? I have that condition and it would be really neat to have a video I could show to my family to help them better understand, as they have expressed the wish to do so.

[@takerouw]

This is the most accurate symptoms of catatact that i used to experience.

[@dominadorpahuwayan8457]

Good day Doc..can you explained about BRVO w/t macular edema..the cuase & treatment..thank you..new subscriber here.

[@abhisheksathe123]

Hey as a kid I discovered that I can blur and focus my vision on command, its something related to ciliary muscles of the eye. Would love if you make a video on it.

[@emanuelmartins3726]

You should talk about keratoconus and irregulars astigmatisms, how see the people and treatments.

[@HellRider69]

Make a video about keratoconus, I think it would be interesting Thank you

[@darianprotho6622]

Thank you. I would like to see vision of patients with cataract vs myopia

[@bubbasizemore4556]

I currently have cataracts and this is accurate.

[@collinzheng7518]

Hi Antonio, I was wondering if you have a new favourite contact lens?

[@TychoKingdom]

Hmmm. I still have my baby cataracts. I wonder how much my vision is impacted.

[@SanjayKumar-jb3qq]

Doctor Sir, If the doctor has not transplant the lens of the right power during the cataract operation, can it be replaced by a lens of the right power ?

[@autumn_3989]

I was born with cataracts and glaucoma but I have regained some of my sight since they removed the lenses and added in tubes for pressure regulation I still find it weird how I can see somewhat without my glasses considering I have no lenses though

[@kath3832]

Please do a POV farsighted video. I am +4.00 and really want my family to be able to see what it's like xxx

[@DL-lt5ly]

do you have a video about ceratoconus?

[@lynnjoseph7359]

This is exactly what I’m dealing with from start to finish

[@Siano455]

Could you do a video on Visual Snow? It’s something I suffer from but have trouble understanding

[@luke7803]

Same

[@julianaamezquita5891]

Which are better polarized or non-polarized sunglasses considering the light show in a rave?

[@timeTegus]

can you make a video about noice in the vision or bight spots or that lage white bright surfaces create a strange light behavior

[@onceuponatime.]

Can you tell me how dangerous Central Serous Retinopathy is?

[@Jordan-gu3uu]

I am 37 and have cataract on my right. How other types of cataract affect the vision? I can identify that the cataract u put is not what I have. Currently having ghost visions (aka seeing double ) and not much of colour loss perception.

[@brentkeller3826]

47 years old, have cataracts, told "Oh, it's not a problem!" Easy for them to say, they aren't near sighted to begin with.

[@bettybaumann5824]

I was told I have cataract s. But I see very well at night. I have problems with daylight. Is this common.

[@mdrn5310]

Hi, would you mind if i ask but its not related with this video. I recently changed my eyeglass (due sensitive astigmatism) but there's something that i cant adjust with the new one. I returned to my optometrist and reexamined then changed my lens again. The problem is... I feel like im a midget when wearing my new eyeglass. Im still trying to adjust but the feeling still the same (more than a month already)

[@the_deathstriker]

My doctor said that I have a less powered left eye from birth! Does that mean a case of lazy eye? Will I be able to get it fixed at teenage?

[@barryhall7]

I struggle to see lcds and night driving is difficult. I use a torch to read small text.

[@Macias]

Please make stargardt vs normal?

[@juliesczesny90]

I didn't realize how many medications that I've been on, have a form of steroids in them: all inhalants, including allergy meds. I've tried to avoid my asthma inhaler, but a smoke filled room without warning? Need it. I have 2 central cataracts at #2, which affect my vision enough that I noticed dusky purples and slate blues, I can't tell the difference - unless I up the computer light! That then causes me more severe chronic migraines. I'm not recovering from bright lights during examinations, between each eye! Can't process, can't see, until that eye drops the bright light after vision, so the other eye can pick up the bright light, for it's examination. Driving at night, similar issue: LED lights cause after images, which disappear after a few hard blinks. Initially thought it was DRY EYES! Contacts give me clearer vision than glasses, but do war Polarized lenses only, with contacts. I feel it's time for cataract surgery, but told, not ripe enough. But I'm a Professional Artist! This is impairing my ability to work!I can barely see my art clearly. I don't get paind, if I don[t finish my art!

[@ryan3371]

Trying to look at a monitor is nearly impossible sometimes. Driving is like going on a high risk mission everyday. Without sunglasses, cant drive. at night im just hoping somebody's headlight doesnt blind me at the wrong time

[@Montork]

hmm one of my eyes is fuzzy in the middle... and it takes work sometimes to read.. but both eyes displace lights into big glare-filled halos.. and starbursts at night.

[@elceeuk3887]

What about congenital catarracts?

[@spvillano]

At night there frequently are rays as well, as in a street lamp has rays seeming to radiate from them, plus the blur and glare in general. I also couldn't see a blue sky at all, thanks to browning filtering blue into nothingness. The left eye became so severe in loss of function that to see something at all, it had to be 8 - 12 inches away. The right was removed in 2009, the left this year, both lenses replaced with intraocular lenses set for distance. Had the right lens capsule lasered in 2017, as it opacified. Unique experience, that ticking sound inside of my head, as microscopic sections of the lens capsule was vaporized. Quite unsettling knowing that's small shockwaves going off within the confines of one's skull (OK, orbit, but the orbit is part of one's skull). Oh, both of mine were nuclear cataracts, trauma induced. One side effect is, I now can see UV light as a deep violet color.

[@simonthomas5367]

Your cataract images are way out. I developed a cataract in my right eye recently and am waiting for surgery. Everything is completely blurred. No detail. Even close up. And it happened really fast, not gradually. Over a couple of weeks. Pretty scary but looking forward to treatment soon.

[@j7ndominica051]

I have notice a slight halo around bright objects. Becoming blind is a scary prospect. My grandma complained about a spot in front her eyes.

[@TehyaMai]

Um my cataracts are worse in the bright daylight, I'm almost blind on a summer day. And that sheet of text you showed lit up like Christmas, nope, I'd not be able to read that because it would simply be too bright for my eyes but then at night I get light streaks, I can't win at all. I have Posterior Subcapsular cataracts.

[@Virendra2106]

My daughter is -18 vision by birth .. I am very worried for her. Can you show me how she look at the world

[@somnteam1058]

With amblyopia you can do it?

[@crocsy1439]

Weird how you didn't mention can cataracts can also be hereditary/genetic or congenital (you can be borm with cataracts)

[@haufaahussain2987]

Hi , so I've bought a new glasses for the first time & I've had them for the past 2 days, and everyone is telling me that I need some time to adjust, however, I don't feel that's the problem with my glasses, weirdly the dimantion of objects is off, specially whenever I'm holding my phone or using my tablet, dose anyone else have this problem? I'm a bit worried cus it's my first time, and I paid a lot of many for them 😭😅 instead of rectangular shape, they look like isosceles trapezoid (yes, I google the name, didn't know it 😅), sorry for the paragraph, hope you reply 🙏

[@viviennesunny]

Oxidation. Calcium that goes the lens. Glication even in whom is not diabetes are the causes. Yes the sun rays. Corticoids. Even my depression remedies. Sertraline, fluoxetine. There are supplements to help. There are three eye drops too. I dont understand. My eyes are white inside but I sse clearly for 20 years. Im just 49. Mom had also hers white and long ago they told us we didnt have it. But before she died in 2020 she had the symptons. Years before to see by near. No lens helped. Then in her last year she had 10 per cent in her left eye and the right was bad too.

[@stumbledotcom]

My 87-year-old father has been told he has cataracts but they're not "ripe enough" to justify surgery. Are there standards for determining when intervention is justified?

[@wernerwalther6048]

An eye doctor told me, when I was about 55 yrs. old, that I would have first symptoms. He said they would be "ripe" 5 or 10 years later. Then I went to the eye clinic, where my daughter was a patient. The doctor (a lady) said, I had cataracts developing, and I should make an appointment. I asked: "When, in two years, or in three years time?". She said, no, right away and I had the operations done in two weeks resp. in four weeks time. This was a very good decision, that was back in 2016.

[@mariannasarracino]

I don't have these symptoms at all. I see double, sometimes triple in one eye only. But my ophthalmologist says it's cataracts. I'm 49 years old. I don't want to have surgery right now. But the disease is getting worse.

[@lunausaball8465]

I only have some cataract on my left eye

[@benjib2691]

Me too, congenital cataract on my left eye, my right one is perfectly normal.

[@legend9181]

I have extremely bad cataract on my right eye, left one got surgery half year ago and difference is huge. When outside I can barely see anything, what seen in the video is not even that bad what I see.

[@iquemedia]

me, watching this video with cataracts: ah yes i can totally tell the difference

[@archyxwuff]

Ah, yes, the cursed modern vehicle headlights... So many "daylight white" LED light sources have a blue spike in the light spectrum. This irritating blue spike is why I still have a mixed set of cold and warm white fluorescent tubes at my work place for lighting, and I'll keep them as long as the tubes are available. (For the record, I do have four good Philips LED light fixtures I got for testing them but replacing all the lights with those would make the lighting excessive which would negate the "benefits of LED".) One of the prime reasons for me to hate blue light is that the current lens configuration of my glasses separates the blue slightly unless I'm looking straight at the light source (or reflection). Another is that intense blue light closer to UV makes my eyes ache.

[@kathiereeder2363]

Thank you so much for sharing this information. I’m 66 years old and have been told for years that I have on-set cataracts. I don’t know how fast cataracts develop. My mother had cataracts and had to have the surgery. Can I go years more or maybe never need surgery. I do realize you would have to check my eyes to know my personal diagnosis , but I wondered if you could give a (in your experience) answer? On the average answer? Yes I will try to talk to my personal doctor. Just want a little information on what to talk to him about or questions to ask. Thank you for your help.

[@sheilabutcher776]

Can definitely confirm big-time don't drive at night it's a dazzling nighmare😍

[@theresapittman205]

Can you do a video explaining how someone can have an astigmatism but never know it until they hit 40 and suddenly need glasses. If the astigmatism was there the whole time, why couldn’t I tell until I turned 40?

[@ArinSauls]

Maybe it wasn’t significant enough to notice until then. And also…is it astigmatism or presbyopia? There’s lots of people that don’t need glasses till they are in their 40s and 50s and it’s because of presbyopia and not with astigmatism. Presbyopia is the beginning stages of your crystalline lens starting to stiffen up…so it’s not as pliable as it was as a kid and therefore you have a harder time focusing in and out. Sometimes it becomes harder to read things that you once were able to without glasses.

[@theresapittman205]

@@ArinSauls Wow, I didn’t even know presbyopia was a thing. I just had 20/20 or better all my life then sudden I turned 40 and was told I had an astigmatism and thought those were things you had from the get-go, but your body just gets tired of correcting for it.

[@savannah6508]

i searched for this video because of my dog LMFAO

[@Psychiatry.321]

Usually Cortical Cataracts is the most annoying type of Cataracts, generally it causes the following symptoms 1. Sensory Strabismus (eye deviation / outward drift) 2. Monocular Diplopia 3. Ghosting Vision (layer over layer image) 4. Glare and Photophobia 5. Palinopsia (After image) and/or induce overstimulation of Trigeminal Nerve (Ophthalmic Branch) 6. Eye Strain (irritated the lens and spams of ciliary muscle due to over work to clear image)

[@amb3rmous3]

I have this type of cataract. I’m only 38, but I was on a medication last year that most likely contributed to their development and my eyesight is so different now. My night vision is awful. I have insane issues with afterimage. The eye deviation thing and eye strain. All of it really. I’m eventually going to have surgery on both eyes. Seeing this video was helpful, but it didn’t touch in afterimage or night blindness. He did say he was focusing on nuclear cataracts, tho.

[@Psychiatry.321]

@@amb3rmous3 Most eye doctors don't go deep explaining what's going and they don't have enough time and experience regarding some eye diseases, particularly Cortical cataracts since this type of cataracts develops due to autoimmune diseases or drug induced, and usually most patients are young between 25 - 45 years old. So please check your thyroid gland functions you may have hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism also too much sugar or issue with insulin metabolism (false diabetes). After image is contributed to the overstimulation of the trigeminal nerve and amygdala inside the brain and neck problems or rarely benign tumors on occipital lobe, Do Brain MRI (check for nerves compression or any abnormalities) and Lumbar Puncture to exclude any high pressure (IIH) or CFS Leakage. I will give you this advice and according to my test on the patients this should dissolve the cortical cataract within 6 months in most cases (most be less than stage 3), use NAC 4.2% eye drops 3x daily.

[@amb3rmous3]

@@Psychiatry.321 I actually did have a brain MRI and it showed enlarged optical nerves, but my lumbar puncture and pressure were normal 🙁 my cataracts are most likely from the medication I was taking, that’s what my psychiatrist and doctor believe anyway. As far as I know, my thyroid is functioning fine (was last tested in July) but that medication did also cause my blood sugars to be higher than normal too. The afterimages are worse now than they were last year and I do have more floaters and was also told I have retinal degeneration so there’s a lot going on right now. I get frequent migraines with aura as well as just finding out I have silent seizures. So my eyesight and my brain seem to be going through a lot. My neurologist wants me to start lamictal for seizures, but it will also help my bipolar 1. The ophthalmologist didn’t tell me there was any treatment for my cortical cataracts, tho.

[@Psychiatry.321]

@@amb3rmous3 Regarding Enlarged optic nerve ( its called idiopathic Optic neuritis if the pressure is normal Opening pressure: 10-20 cm H2 O), Regarding Cataracts treatment (Cortical cataracts only) usually I put patient on a NAC eyedrops 4.2% daily for 6 months and in most cases (cortical cataracts type only) the cataracts will dissolve or start dissolving, this eyedrops is over the counter (buy online) and very safe to use you can try it before doing the surgery it worth the try, also it helps with retinal diseases too. Regarding your eye disease and brain functions (memory, migraines, brain fog etc..) you can use Omega-3 (total omega3 :2000mg 2x daily after a meal) and Niacin (1000mg 2x daily : it causes flush lasts 2 hours max when starting it ). Also you may have Visual Snow Syndrome (Floaters, Afterimage, Static Vision, Night blindness, Light sensitivity).

[@amb3rmous3]

@@Psychiatry.321 thank you, this is helpful!

[@veryboringname.]

3:27 There's also something wrong with the left image. It reads "ULP 167.9" which can't be correct.

[@wantsomecoffee]

3:30 $1.67?! Boy, I’d love to pay that again! 😂

[@ottomaier7127]

Great video, thank you. But the hidden KFC promotion would not have been necessary... ;-)

[@blindtraveler844]

blume off blume on

[@Michele.t]

The waffle house has found its new host

[@CDGMR1]

Avoid all sugars, alcohol, smoking, fast foods, and carbohydrates. Fast and eat only twice a day. Is that simple. Food affects your eyes. This guy doesn’t know nothing.

[@Virendra2106]

My daughter is -18 vision by birth .. I am very worried for her. Can you show me how she look at the world

[@Virendra2106]

My daughter is -18 vision by birth .. I am very worried for her. Can you show me how she look at the world

[@Virendra2106]

My daughter is -18 vision by birth .. I am very worried for her. Can you show me how she look at the world