Question:
Vision changes???
I am 4 months post-op and down 110 lbs. I am noticing significant changes in my eyesight. I was searching the data base and didn't see anything on the subject and wondered if anybody else noticed problems in their eyesight during rapid weight loss. — kechols15 (posted on August 17, 2006)
August 17, 2006
What kind of problems? Night blindness would be vit A problems. Just
things being blurry, like aging? Are you taking dry form vit A?
— vitalady
August 17, 2006
If iam reading this correctly You have done wonderful to have
lost over 100 pounds in just 4 months. It most likely is being
a firefighter that I am sure helped along the way. As for the
vision I would up my vitA & also Your vit d. I=Mine did change
somewhat but it was not drastic. Mine change more from all-
in-all aging reasons. Never needed glasses till 40 now that I am 52 can't
leave or do anything without them. I have not read anything to show that
wls patients have increase problems with their eyes. But get them checked
just to make sure the probelm is not realted to the surgery itself. Culd be
a
Vitamin difficiency causing whatever problem you might be having.
— Marilyn C.
August 17, 2006
Water retention and/or loss of water retention (which is typical of wls)
can affect your vision. My vision changed a little when I was pregnant,
and now that I've lost my weight, my eyes actually improved. 2 steps up on
one side and 1 step up on the other Lots of things could be causing it,
but I do think the change in our body fat can affect our vision just
because of internal pressure...
— Dinka Doo
August 17, 2006
Hi congrads on the weight loss... and Yes I had a doctor tell me that WLS
carries Vision change ... and I as well as several other people that I know
just right here in my own little vaceity that we all have some vision
problems .....by the way I have new glasses.... and its not due to the old
age .... I notice that on certain days I have more trouble than other
days...
— Flo
August 18, 2006
You didn't mention whether you were a diabetic, but I am a type 2 diabetic,
and have lost 131 pounds in 7 months. When I went to my eye exam, the
doctor told me that my eyesight was better, and that I needed a weaker
prescription. He said that because I was a diabetic, that my eyes were
swollen and with the weight loss, the swelling has went down, so it changes
my vision. Who knew that along with all the other benefits of weight loss
surgery, that your eyesight getting better would be one of them...LOL. Hope
this answers your question. Congratulations on your weight loss! Keep it
up!
— IceyBlue37
August 18, 2006
I have actually heard of this and that it can be due to a particular
vitamin deficiency although I cannot recall which vitamin or nutrient it is
that is lacking. Check with your surgeon's office and see if they can
help. Sorry I don't know more details. Best of luck to you!
— cocoquanyin
August 18, 2006
I am currently 5 mounths out and on my visit last month my surgeon did all
my tests said I was a low on my vitamin a and gave me a perscript to help
boost I have been bad and haven't filled it yet! I know I know, I should
have filled it right away but I upped my other multi vitamin! So short
story long I am having vision problems right know I never thought a vitamin
defiency could cause that so needless to say I'm gonna go fill my vitamin a
perscription tonight!
Hailey
245/176/135
— HAILEY
August 18, 2006
I feel as if I didn't answer this completely. Vit A is just one deficiency
we can expect. The fat soluble vites (A, D, E) are always something we
will have to address. They must be delivered in certain forms to us.
Little balls of oil will do us no good. Vit A as beta carotene needs to
convert to retinol and we cannot convert. Vit D (D1 or D2) need to convert
to D3, but we have no converter. Same with Vit E in that it must convert.
We must now take these as supplements in the "final" form and
they must be dry, as in a capsule.
— vitalady
August 19, 2006
Ken, Make sure you are taking your vitamins as directed. Vitamin A plays a
significant part in eyesight. Locally on TV the media was talking about GBP
surgery, a female who was non-compliant in vitamins, lost her eyesight
because of the lack of vitamin A. Doctors were able to reverse her sight
before it was to late. Hope this info helps. Take care, Staci from NC
— smoore_911
August 20, 2006
Thanks for posting this question.... it is a very good one for me since I
am a diabetic for 33 years and your answers were very helpful for me too...
thanks. By the way.... the picture of your "reason" .... she is
so precious. I use to work at a firestation in Naples Florida... but I
wasn't a firefighter I just put out the fires in where the Chiefs stayed.
BTW.... I really love your union... you guys rock. Probably why my Chief
wasn't all that happy with me at times... always caught "talking with
the other side". Shoot next time I am going in as a Union
Secretary!!! Take care and good luck to you!!! I am only a lil over a week
out.... but doing fantabulously!!!! Very Blessed!!!
— Gail T.
August 21, 2006
My vision has changed, I now have to use reading glasses. But then again,
almost everybody I know my age is moving into reading glasses. it would be
easy to say yeah, I had surgery and my sight changed, must be the surgery.
but that would be ignoring the simple fact of aging going on in my life.
our bodies and everything in it are going to change after surgery, but they
would have changed with out surgery as well. It just may be that surgery
is not the cause of every change. It seems that since ihad surgery some
people ant to blame every single thing on surgery, Have a witchy felling
day - oh musst be because of the weight loss surgery. Ingrown toenail -
that gastric by pass myst have caused it. Stomach ache - the wiehg tloss
surgery caused it ( we are no longer allowed to get a simple stomach flu or
food poisioning - it HAS to be the gastric bypass. wish I had a $ for
every time I have heard "I knew someone who had that surgery - and
they died" Hell, everybody dies. I know a lot of people who died from
being fat. way more than I know who died afte weight loss surgery. (0) so
far. Oh well being witchy today - must be because now that I am thin I
think I am "all that" LOL LOL LOL
— **willow**
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