Many patients find that certain over the counter and prescription eye drops do not help dry eye or even make their dry eye symptoms worse. It is true that many OTC drops contain preservatives which can damage corneal and conjunctival cells if used over time (we do not have hard proof yet that this included […]
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A wonderful patient’s husband bought her a session of Pellevé. A few hours after treatment she had terrible right eye pain that was debilitating. She has been through a great deal with her dry right eye after LASIK that this was a terrible, un-welcomed bump on the road to beauty. Pellevé is a non-invasive wrinkle reduction
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What is the Best Treatment for Spinal Stenosis? Who are the best in the world to treat spinal stenosis. These are great questions. I am not a back expert but a friend asked for some help on this issue so here is what I could find on the latest in treating spinal stenosis, a debilitating
We recently saw a young patient in her late 30’s who had blinding herpes in one eye that required multiple corneal transplants. She contracted herpes in college and it eventually destroyed her eye. She was a very pretty girl but after multiple failed corneal transplants and years of drops and frustration, she has given up
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Eye surgeons for years suspected for years the black spots we would often see under a woman’s eyelids were do to mascara. Now there is pathological proof.
Side effects of years of mascara use. Read More »
Azithromycin eye drops for dry eye appear to help symptoms, but studies have been conflicting. Some studies show it works well but others show it does not really help patients long term (see bold in Reference 2). Most of the studies I could find that say it does help are usually sponsored by the company.
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Doxycycline can cause neuropathy but it has been reported at 100mg by mouth and not 20mg per mouth. Furthermore, low dose doxyclyine usually helps treat neuropathy in certain cases by decreasing inflammation. Could low dose doxy cause neuropathy? Thus far I do not know of any patient where it has. If you are such a
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A patient came in noting he loved the below wipes. Has anyone else tried these? Let me know. SLC ZocuWipes
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We have been eagerly awaiting the launch of True Tear. My sister worked on the oculoplastics part of this machine at Stanford and she has used it on herself multiple times. She was hired as a temporary consultant but has no stock in the company. I have no stock in the company either and am
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