Optical issues

Hi! It's been a while since I don't post anything. I've been felling good. But recently I got a virus, my baby had it and my mom too. I got 39.5°C fever and it lasted one day and then two days of 38°C fever. Now I'm feeling strange. Like a kind of brain fog... and the strangest thing is that I can see in the corner of my left eye a light "circle" it goes away and come back. I have floaters also but this is different of them. Do you guys think it could be a Herx? Anyone has that?

I see circles In my peripheral all the time. One of my treatment doctors says when the skull plates shift, it can put weird pressure on your eyes. This is most likely true because when I get cranial sacral massage therapy done, the circles go away.

Bailey said...
I’m struggling with going blind right now. Don’t think my issues are the same. For some reason that I don’t nor anyone else understands licorice root and lemon balm help my issues. But they both are creating mcas/issues for me. Right now I’m so sensitive to light I’m mostly blind and trying to wear various sunglassmams visors and use the shade. parts of my face are going numb.

I tried to look for commonalities but I still don’t know what is the reason they help. I’ve tried various other antivirals and anti fungal sand anti parasitic none of which help my eyesight. Mangosteen sometimes helps. My latest try was taking rutin... it does not have the same effect. I recently read they both can cause glaucoma because they raise your ocular pressure. I’m wondering if my problem is I need to raise mine. Because the way it fixes it i feel improvement very quickly after taking it... which makes me think not an infection but some other effect. His problem has been going since long before I started truly starving so I don’t think it’s because of general malnutrition.

Anyways if you’re looking for a neuro ophthalmologist I found a Lyme friendly one at Hopkins. He might be like the nicest doc I’ve ever had the pleasure of speaking with. I’m not sure if he’s still doing virtual appointments. I’m a bit lost on whether it’s ok to post his name here, so to be safe I won’t but let me know if you want his name and I guess I can email you?

Hi Bailey,
Can I ask what benefits you are seeing when taking licorice root and lemon balm? I'm forever curious. I use licorice root (along with a couple of other herbs to help with severe intestinal cramping). Most doctors don't understand that the studies done on licorice root most often use amounts of 5 grams daily or more - a good Herbalist would be hard pressed to suggest that a person use that much daily.

LOL, just say "I take herbs" and I'm interested! But, thank you.

I would greatly encourage you to look up "Herbs with Rosalee" - she's a really great herbalist that does free podcasts about herbs, how to use them, safety of the herb she's talking about and more, like good recipes.

For Lemon balm, which is a really wonderful and incredibly safe herb to use, here is a link to her podcast (it's her newest that I listened to just yesterday!):
https://www.herbalremediesadvice.org/podcast5.html

I usually listen on Spotify, since I'm there listening to music anyway (LOL), but her site is good as well, and you can find her podcasts on a lot of other podcast services as well.

It "might" be that the herbs you mention (licorice and lemon balm) are helping a touch with inflammation for you - or may be a completely different thing it helps with - without talking more to you, it's hard to discover the benefits you are getting. But, I say, if they aren't directly contraindicated with any other medications you need, use them!! They make you feel better!!

Herbs can be a life saver in many ways - for me, they were the only medicine I could tolerate for many years - and so I educated myself on them and their use by enrolling in an online school - but with patience, you can certainly learn a ton through podcasts! Just be sure you trust the person speaking (like Rosalee!) and do some of your own research to back up not only your own knowledge about what you are using, but making sure that you don't steered in the wrong direction by a misguided, although with good intentions, person.

And, I'll be here off and on and am happy to help anyone learn some about the herbs they are using/wanting to use.

I wish you a ton of luck with the lemongrass! There are so many truly wonderful herbs, and we each tolerate and benefit from a unique-to-us combination.

And Rosalee is a wonderful herbalist to poke around with! =)

Bailey said...
I did check her out and liked her site. I also checked out your forum. You have dogs??! *squeals* it’s sort of always been a lifetime ambition of mine to get a dog. Sorry if it’s too off topic, I’m still feeling my way around how off topic people stray here.

We often talk about our pets, our hobbies , our jobs… etc

It’s nice to get to know our fellow members!

Thanks you to everybody who has answered! I went to an eye doctor and they have told me that I had something like an retine detachment due to stress. It makes sense to me since my baby had a feverish convulsion I thought he was dying and I spent like 3 days soooooo stressed. So basically they told me it will go away in 3 months...

Happy to hear it!