just diagnosed with keratoconus

Hello Dr. Kaplan,

 

     After dealing with multiple images in each eye about 10 years, and working on vision improvement on my own, I finally went to a behavioral optometrist.  She diagnosed the beginnings of a cataract in the left eye and mild keratoconus in both eyes, more pronounced in the left. She said my brain is beginning to ignore the input from the left eye because of the distortion.

 

    This was shocking, for I've been working a long time both at vision and at understanding the family dynamics in my early life. I thought I'd been making progress, but apparently not enough.  I'm a professional musician (classical), and the downturns in vision are making it increasingly challenging to perform and teach.  I was hoping the optometrist I went to was going to assign or work with me on techniques and exercises.  Instead she delivered these diagnoses, stronger lens prescriptions, and said to come see her again in a year. 

 

    My interest in vision improvement began after my eyes spontaneously improved 2 diopters in their myopia prescription (-8 to -6) after I worked through some significant family issues.  However, that's also when I began to see ghost images. I don't know if the ghost images truly began then or had been there longer and had been corrected by the strong glasses I'd worn until getting new, weaker lenses.

 

     The ghosting has fluctuated over time, but now is much worse in the left than the right, and apparently has reached a degree that evidence showed up on the corneal topography map. From your books, I know that the left eye carries the maternal influence, and I am indeed working hard at understanding the influences my mom had in my early life. 

 

  I'm anxious for ideas of what to do to help my eyes, both from physical and psychological angles, and look forward to your suggestions.                   Thank you,   Marcia

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Permalink Reply by Roberto Kaplan on April 24, 2010 at 3:07
Wow, Marcia, lots going on and long history too. The EyeCode® steps to gain a deeper insight on what is going on is best dealt with in this order:

i) Get some good photographs of your iris and send them to me in jpg format.
From the photos I can do an EyeCode® iris interpretation of the genetic influences.
ii) The Keratoconus, cataract and nearsightedness suggest that their is an unconscious perceptual influence either in your family or in your life directly that is leading to this continued deterioration of vision. This can be explored once I have seen the iris photos and done an interpretation. I will know what questions to ask you to awaken the memory of the destructive perceptions, that my be at the unconscious level.
iii) Are you wearing contact lenses or glasses most of the time?
iv) What exactly are you currently doing as an integrated vision therapy approach. Patching, exercises etc?

I await to hear more so that I can offer you more practical suggestions. It may be worthwhile to set up a phone consultation as well.

Best wishes,
Roberto
Permalink Reply by June R. Pacheco on April 24, 2010 at 7:54
Marcia, I truly hope EyeCode/ may assist you. I was wondering, can any of this ever be related to diet? Allergy symptoms? reaction to a major stress? resulting in deterioration of vision? Thanks, June
Permalink Reply by Marcia Hauff on April 26, 2010 at 0:20
Hello Dr. Kaplan,
Thank you for your answer. To reply to your questions,
i. How does one take the picture of the iris? Does one use a digital camera? I could find a friend who has one.
ii. Yes, I'm sure there's a lot going on at a unconscious level, including some dissociative stuff that I'm just now finally getting some insight into. There's a considerable history of trauma in my own life and in my famly in general.
My family's vision history is disasterous, and suggests telling trends. BOTH parents had detached retinas in the left eye. My dad struggled with poor vision in both eyes after cataract surgery (before the lens-implant days), then lost usable vision in the left. My brother also has had a detached retina in the left eye and currently has uveitis in the left.
iii. I'm currently using glasses so I can take them off at any opportunity. They are under-corrected as far as the mulitiple images, but wearing my stronger ones is like putting on too-tight shoes and I resist using them.
iv. My self-treatment is inconsistent, and includes the doing a pranic-healing vision procedure several times a week, walks without my glasses, Magic Eye pictures, clock rotations, neck exercises, some patching, and good intentions to do lots more stuff, includng palming, but I tend to get fidgety and have trouble staying at it, no matter how much my eyes crave the soothing. There is some inner conflict about whole-heartedly applying myself to self-treatment, and I'm hoping that as I get closer to understanding the dissociation and past, that conflict will be relieved.
Thank you, Marcia


Roberto Kaplan said:
Wow, Marcia, lots going on and long history too. The EyeCode® steps to gain a deeper insight on what is going on is best dealt with in this order:

i) Get some good photographs of your iris and send them to me in jpg format.
From the photos I can do an EyeCode® iris interpretation of the genetic influences.
ii) The Keratoconus, cataract and nearsightedness suggest that their is an unconscious perceptual influence either in your family or in your life directly that is leading to this continued deterioration of vision. This can be explored once I have seen the iris photos and done an interpretation. I will know what questions to ask you to awaken the memory of the destructive perceptions, that my be at the unconscious level.
iii) Are you wearing contact lenses or glasses most of the time?
iv) What exactly are you currently doing as an integrated vision therapy approach. Patching, exercises etc?

I await to hear more so that I can offer you more practical suggestions. It may be worthwhile to set up a phone consultation as well.

Best wishes,
Roberto
Permalink Reply by Marcia Hauff on April 26, 2010 at 0:37
Hello June,
Glad to meet you and to have your comments. Yes to all your questions. In my sudden research on keratoconus, I'm finding theories that allergies and mineral deficiencies can be factors. Since I spent many years with nutritional deficiencies before being diagnosed with celiac disease (gluten-intolerance) and, later, mercury poisoning, that would make a lot of sense. I had my dental work replaced and have completed the chelation to clear the mercury out of my body, but it took a long time and I had a rough time for a number of years. I follow a gluten-free and hypoglycemic diet, and am now adding digestive enzymes and even more supplementation. I've made huge strides rebuilding my life from physical and emotional struggles, and all along had assumed the multiple images to be a phenomenon of working out emotional factors. It was a shock to be told, at the recent appointment, that there are now physical symptoms. All the best to you, Marcia

June R. Pacheco said:
Marcia, I truly hope EyeCode/ may assist you. I was wondering, can any of this ever be related to diet? Allergy symptoms? reaction to a major stress? resulting in deterioration of vision? Thanks, June
Permalink Reply by June R. Pacheco on April 26, 2010 at 16:07
Marcia,
I believe you are wonderfully and beautifully created and the answers will come. I admire your courage and your honesty. I believe this brings much healing as well. I look forward to hearing how the EyeCode assists you and it is my hope to do EyeCode in the near future as well. Keep us posted will you? We can all learn from eachother. Be well! June
Permalink Reply by Roberto Kaplan on April 28, 2010 at 22:53
For pictures of the iris, I have made a short instructional video. It is fairly easy of you have the right small digital camera. You can then send me the photos in JPG format to look at. Go to the video "How to photograph an eye!"
Permalink Reply by Marcia Hauff on May 3, 2010 at 0:03
Hello Dr. Kaplan,
I looked at the video on how to photograph the iris, but so far haven't tracked down anyone with a camera. (Sorry, I'm technologically backward.) Is there other information I can send you that would enable you to offer suggestions for me while I seek a way to do the photographs?
In my last message I omitted, among the list of self-treatments I apply, that I go have a list of acupressure points for vision, and I frequently use "EFT" (Emotional Freedom Technique) meridian tapping for both vision and other physical and emotional issues.
Thank you, Marcia


Roberto Kaplan said:
For pictures of the iris, I have made a short instructional video. It is fairly easy of you have the right small digital camera. You can then send me the photos in JPG format to look at. Go to the video "How to photograph an eye!"
Permalink Reply by Roberto Kaplan on May 4, 2010 at 10:27
Perhaps a visit to an Optometrist. Enquire if the can photograph the eye.

Marcia Hauff said:
Hello Dr. Kaplan,
I looked at the video on how to photograph the iris, but so far haven't tracked down anyone with a camera. (Sorry, I'm technologically backward.) Is there other information I can send you that would enable you to offer suggestions for me while I seek a way to do the photographs?
In my last message I omitted, among the list of self-treatments I apply, that I go have a list of acupressure points for vision, and I frequently use "EFT" (Emotional Freedom Technique) meridian tapping for both vision and other physical and emotional issues.
Thank you, Marcia


Roberto Kaplan said:
For pictures of the iris, I have made a short instructional video. It is fairly easy of you have the right small digital camera. You can then send me the photos in JPG format to look at. Go to the video "How to photograph an eye!"
Permalink Reply by Marcia Hauff on May 27, 2010 at 22:34
Hello Dr. Kaplan,
Just checking to see if you received the iris photos last week, and if so, if they are usable?
Thank you, Marcia

Roberto Kaplan said:
Perhaps a visit to an Optometrist. Enquire if the can photograph the eye.

Marcia Hauff said:
Hello Dr. Kaplan,
I looked at the video on how to photograph the iris, but so far haven't tracked down anyone with a camera. (Sorry, I'm technologically backward.) Is there other information I can send you that would enable you to offer suggestions for me while I seek a way to do the photographs?
In my last message I omitted, among the list of self-treatments I apply, that I go have a list of acupressure points for vision, and I frequently use "EFT" (Emotional Freedom Technique) meridian tapping for both vision and other physical and emotional issues.
Thank you, Marcia


Roberto Kaplan said:
For pictures of the iris, I have made a short instructional video. It is fairly easy of you have the right small digital camera. You can then send me the photos in JPG format to look at. Go to the video "How to photograph an eye!"

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