So cute that he keeps apologizing for possibly making people feel bored about his topics. Dr Glaucomflecken: We love it when you nerd out and we can learn something new, so please feel free to be as nerdy as you want ❤
I kept pressing on my eyes (in order to "see the tunnels" from mechanical stimulation of retinal cells) when I was a kid and that's the only reason why I became a -4.00 in both eyes. DON'T DO IT!
I did that because Dr. Oz said it would help relieve eye strain. I developed myopia and astigmatism in my 20s because of it. Mind you, this was a couple years before he became a parody of himself as a snake oil salesman.
I used to mess with my eyes all the time as a kid and now i cant see for shit .... Wonder if i made it that way or if it was hereditary - my mom has terrible vision and my dad has perfect vision :/
As to being perplexed at people being interested in eyes.... I think a lot of us follow you so much because it IS very interesting to hear professional docs talk to each other on a professional level. People always like learning about things
Because of your videos, I started a career at an ophthalmology practice -- Delaware Ophthalmology Consultants". I owe you a big THANK YOU!!! I couldn't be happier with my new position at DOC! I just passed my 90 days😊 Thank you again for being an inspiration!
Professionals who find their own work interesting, often are super interesting to listen to! Thank you doc gloc, this is the second time one of your vids has kept me company in the middle of the night while unable to sleep due to sickness.
I have an HLAB 27+ eye condition in my left eye, 20/200. I’ve had it since I was in 3rd grade. My parents took me everywhere to have everything done to my and I saw well known doctors to help my eye. I almost thought about becoming an ophthalmologist but I just didn’t see it working out. Dad joke aside, I did think about it because of my eye condition . I bring all this up to say how much ophthalmologists and eye surgeons mean a lot to me. I really appreciate what you are doing educating us on the eye.
What a delightful surprise to hear you speak fondly of Keith Carter! I worked with him at the University of Michigan decades ago and he was wonderful then, too. It was clear that he had special talents and understanding. I really missed him when he left, but it’s great to hear that he continued to influence others so positively. Thanks for sharing your stories and expertise-I always look forward to your podcasts and videos. Be seeing you! 😎
Love hearing all the tech details. I had cataract surgery on both eyes at 56 (yes, I live in Australia) and it changed my life. Best thing that ever happened to me. I was -7 in both eyes and changing out the lenses in my eyes made me glasses free for the first time in 40 years. If you have to have cataract surgery, don’t sweat it! Just find a good ophthalmologist!
Got Keratokonus myself, diagnosed at 15/16. Thankfully don't need cross linking yet and the left eye is still good/only starting. Edit: Would love you to talk about horrorfusionalis
Topic suggestions for future videos, please: blepharitis and ptosis. I think all of us with blepharitis are horrified after you've just informed us we're damaging our eyes every time we rub them! 😳🙈🤦🏻♀️
The Knock Knock Eye episodes scratch my itch about wanting to hear eye stuff. My family has told me they no longer want to hear anything about my work for an ophthalmologist so it's nice to hear others find this stuff super interesting!
I personally like your eye episodes because my parents who are in their nineties have eye issues that I’d like to avoid, if possible. I also just love to learn stuff. Of course, I can’t get enough of your skits 😊
Mom has become a member of the Glauc flock and has been enjoying the Knock Knock Eyes (as do I, of course). You’re making the eye accessible to us non-ophthalmologists, and that’s a good thing.
Hi doc. This video means a lot to me. I'm a sufferer of keratoconus (bilateral), most likely caused by my childhood habit of eye rubbing. The light halos at night are quite a pain.
Heres one for ya.. I read a paper about some researchers who where studying if the human eye could percieve IR light. Near the end of the paper they described their findings and the color green.. Ive seen these rings of green LED lights around security cameras as far back as I can remember. I rationalized that these cameras where deturent cameras and tbats why they did a ring of green lights so criminals could see the camera and maybe think better of their actions and move on. So I asked my sister if she has seen these deturent cameras... she had not seen them.. ever... she works in law enforcement... so I guess I can see into part of the IR spectrum. Go figure. Would love to participate in a study about odd peepers like my own.
I am 20 and allergic to dust particales and cat hair (and we have a cat at home that just looves to snuggle with me so i let her sleep in my bed, call me stupid) so eye rubbing is part of my routine. i had very good eye sight but now i suffer from headaches whenever i am in a room with a lot of light , and it's hard for me to focus on things that are very far; now i know why !!! thank you doctor
Can you please talk about floaters? Can you explain what can be done to prevent, reduce the occurrence of floaters? Also, as a senior, what can I do to improve my vision? I have astigmatism and have had cataracts and PRK correction. I see a “double “ moon when I look at it and the car headlights are like sparkling. I have glasses but don’t use them since I don’t drive. What causes double vision? I really enjoyed your podcast today. Very informative and interesting!!❤❤
I am exactly the medical student you're talking about who hates research but who feels like she should be doing it at all times. Thank you for the reminder that there are different ways of being in this career!
You asked for feedback on when peope might turn off early so here it is.... You rambled for first 15 minutes before really talking about the prob of the week. I notice you do this on other vids as well. Is that because your brain is actually scrambling trying to fill a certain amount of content - or is a requirement of your producers to do 30+ minutes but your specific content only takes 15 minutes so you ramble the rest?? I woud prefer shorter if it means getting on to the topic. Love Love Love all you videos so keep them coming.
Haven't watched the whole video yet, but my ophthalmologist told me rubbing my eyes too much definitely contributed to my near-sightedness, especially in my adult years when my eye shape should have stabilised. Edit: I developed a 1.75 astigmatism too
1. I have had to wear eye correction from the age of 31. I have near sightedness and astigmatism, so thankfully, putting fingers in my eyes is harder. 2. I am an old nurse, so all things medical fascinate. 3. I like to see and would like to continue seeing, so knowing what I should be concerned about and run, not walk, to my local ophthalmologist.
I have been affected by Keratoconus. I lost a lot of vision between November and February a few years ago. The after-effects of the operation that I went through to stop it was the most painful thing that has ever happened to me. I wish I had known about Keratoconus earlier. Thank you for spreading info about this stuff.
One time when I was checking a patient's pressure (applanation - glaucoma clinic), I had to raise his eyelid. When I raised the lid, I took care to only lift the top part of the lid and touch the brow bone. He moved his head or his body and the next thing you know, his eye was protruding out! I immediately rushed out to get the doctor and by the time we walked in, it corrected itself. Apparently, this has happened to him in the past and never bothered to tell us, so it was never documented. It scared me so bad I started to cry a bit. Patient (and doctor) was totally cool about it and I couldn't stop apologizing to him.
I'm planning on finishing the whole thing, but your comment on viewer retention made me giggle enough to try to find where someone else might leave. 19:16 is my answer. Keep up the good work doc!
As a kid, I rubbed my eyes so much that I wound up needing hard contacts for few years to stabilize my astigmatism. It took years, but my astigmism eventually almost completely went away once I left my eyes alone. Nothing like putting a piece of hard plastic in your eyes to keep you from rubbing them. Really wish I'd listened sooner to everyone who told me not to rub my eyes.
As soon as you mentioned "keratocomus" I looked it up on Wikipedia and I saw the picture of the "cone shaped cornea" and I got a little queasy...but I didn't switch off, I kept watching!
You expressed exactly what I feel about nursing! I'm not interested in supervising, managing, etc. I like hands on care of patients! Your eyes look a little tired today. I'm thinking you recorded this late at night after some late night holiday wrapping! 😂
I dont know why but "What would happen if your eye was ripped out? Well, you would be blind. Because it would be gone." had me absolutely cackling. Like yeah, that tracks lmaoooo. Also just so you know, I turned the episode off approx 36:27. Credits and all homie.
If you haven't already, could you talk about cornea scratches, why they are so painful (and does that mean cornea transplant surgery is painful?), how to tell if there's something in your eye versus a scratch (since trying to remove a scratch can of course make it horrendously worse) and what to do if you feel like you have a small tree under your lid that makes you frantic to remove it? I've heard of gently pulling your upper lid out to let your lower lashes sweep the inside of it, but that doesn't seem smart orbbĵ😂🎉🎉🎉😂 productive if m mi i,🎉🎉😢 you're wearing mascara. Thatsl
If you could add a white board to draw the eye parts, that would help me picture your definitions better. I find it hard to visualize from the text alone.
What exactly am eye (I) enjoying about the optomology stuff? Well, easy, I never received a user manual for my body... and this is a useful way to get it about one piece of it. If you could make a general one too that'd be rad.
Thanks so much for another informative talk! If possible, it would be great if you could add images/diagrams to help visualize the diseases you’re explaining.
I really enjoyed this video. It's an interesting topic and you did good at explaining without being so complicated that it confuses or overwhelms. I was a bit impatient for you to start talking about Keratoconus but that's okay. Please don't stop sharing. I have no doubt that you sharing your experience helped someone learning to be a doctor.
My brother in 1976 was injured when a spring hit him right around his eye. He always said it popped out. He did have some vision loss and ended up with having multiple eye conditiins through the years. ❤ So wherher it completely popped out, now I'll never know - just pasted. Thanks Doc. ❤
My spouse inherited keratoconus, cross linking hadn’t been approved in the US in time to help him, and even the contacts couldn’t help him. He can no longer drive at night or in bad weather because the light halos are too big. And some jerks tell me he should just wear glasses when I tell them my husband can’t drive somewhere…🙄
My dad was a drywall finisher, and like virtually every drywall finisher and gypsum miner, he developed an allergy towards gypsum toward the end of his career. His eyes were always itchy, and they were unbearably itchy on days when he did any sanding, so he'd rub his eyes. When he rubbed his eyes, he'd always get super dizzy. He had a super low resting heart rate at baseline (to the point that he still can be on a beta blocker). I don't know know how many times I talked to him about the the vagal response and explained that he got dizzy because he was dropping his heart rate to 35 (I took his pulse in his dorsalis pedis once while he was rubbing his eyes). Seriously -- what good is it to have a daughter who is a doctor if you're not going to listen to her? I finally told him that if he wasn't going to take me advice, I didn't want to hear about how dizzy he was...
It’s so hard to explain to other doctors that I’m a family doc because we are so looked down on. I didn’t specialize. Even my own husband told me (on our anniversary) how the family docs are not as smart as the internists (he’s IM). The hierarchy of medicine really pushed us to specialize and be “fancy.” It’s wild to me to hear that an ophthalmologist didn’t think that residency was enough, and felt the need to specialize. I still think about fellowship, but only bc working 18 hours a day for the rest of my life isn’t sustainable.
When I was getting my consult for lasik and getting all the instructions and getting to do my little kid 'why why why' routine with everyone helping me in the office gave me a 'first hit' of cool info about the eye and you are now my regular supplier!
Dr. Glaucomfleken, you are a wonderful teacher! As a non member of the medical community, you make concepts easy to grasp and interesting. I’m a stay at home mom, but have considered going to medical school one day. And the way you speak about opthamilogy has peaked my interest! Thank you for your content😊
Bilateral keratoconus patient here. I'm 28 now, and I developed keratoconus in both eyes at 17. I have environmental allergies (animals, pollen, dust), and was rubbing my eyes for a long time before then. I stopped after the keratoconus diagnosis, but unfortunately it didn't stop the disease progression. I wear scleral lenses in both eyes. I had collagen cross-linking on my right eye in 2013 as part of the clinical trials that supported its FDA approval, and my right cornea has been stable since then. However, by the time my right eye had recovered from the cross-linking, my left cornea had progressed to where it was too thin for the cross-linkimg procedure. It has been progressing since then, and I have very advanced keratoconus in my left eye now. Until now, scleral lenses have worked well enough for me, but I had an episode of hydrops in my left cornea last year and my vision is no longer okay with the scleral lens in my left eye. I'm probably approaching the time for a cornea transplant in my left eye, which I feel like I've been on borrowed time for a while now.
@calliopemuse1266 I have a question. With keratoconus did you experience becoming nearsighted? Like rapid progression? I'm wondering because I had mild myopia in my 20s, then started rubbing my eyes due to allergies to polen, dust etc. and over course of 8 years have progressed to severe nearsightness. I guess I should go and check my cornea at opthomologist, because optometrician just prescribes stronger glasses with autorefractor and snellen and let's you off.
The cross link procedure causing a giant corneal abrasion sounds horrifying. I've had abrasions and injury and it's sooo painful. In fact, had surgery where the eye tape loosened and the eye pain was far worse than the surgical site pain. *shiver*
You should do a video on diabetic retinopathy, and if you could explain how it causes neovascular glaucoma, I would be interested to know how that happens. Also, a video on AMD would be interesting, I scribed at a retina practice for a year and I still don’t really get what actually causes AMD. Love the videos, I just got accepted to med school, so, I’m hoping to progress from a Jonathan to an actual ophthalmologist one day. These videos are always great and are something to look forward to every week.
Yikes! You educated me today. Gentle occasional rubbing only. I have allergies and eczema and used to rub my eyes very hard for a long time. I don’t do that now. Never knew that was a consequence. Thanks
@Dglaucomfleckin omg, my heart exploded when you mentioned Dr. Carter. He's a legend to this Iowa Citian. I've referred a few neuro patients directly to him for blepharospasm.
First comment(s) from me, retired from 40 years of hospital pharmacy. Videos by experts (who can also communicate and know their audience) yes, I love and respect all of you - great mind stimulation as we age (BTW-I do not follow pharmacy). Dr. Keith Carter- great story! I presume that the people who really want a sub-specialty push through his challenge, while the rest (like you) are relieved in some form. Speaking of challenge, thanks for the challenge to stay with your video. I am a moderate eye-rubber and always assumed that the main risk was corneal abrasion or some sort of high pressure damage. Keratoconus (the condition, not the actual word) was not on my list, but now I know. Luckily, I seem to have missed that, but with minor eye issues from using a CPAP, I know enough to work harder on protecting my eyes, just in case i have a Methuselah gene! Eyeball plucked out question-If I was her partner I'd get a bit nervous...Happy New Year!
From young adulthood I was always told I had a quite significant astigmatism in my left eye, less so in the right. I always did ok though with soft contacts and glasses. Fast forward to my mid fifties, after several years of some other pretty severe health concerns that made vision take a back seat, I could no longer ignore the fact that I really couldn’t see very well at all anymore. It took a while (since here in 🇨🇦 you need a referral to see a ophthalmologist since it’s a specialist and there is waiting unless it’s an emergency) to be diagnosed with some fairly significant keratoconus. I had crosslinking surgery in 2016 (covered by provincial healthcare plan!) and now I use scleral lenses. And I wear reading glasses over the sclerals for close seeing. I’m so grateful the surgery and lenses were an option for me, because my quality of life has been drastically improved. But I STILL catch myself rubbing my eyes!
My left eye was too far gone for Crosslinking, but not enough to consider transplant, so I got INTACS which completely stopped the progress of the conus on that eye. My vision is corrected with contacts
It’s nice to hear a doc take more than five minutes explain the many common issues that people face everyday. Whenever I visit a doc it seems to be a whirlwind interaction - except my Ortho Surgeon. There were times I had to kinda push it along. LOL!! ❤ my ortho.
My ophthalmologist told me excessive eye rubbing and rarely wearing sunglasses may have contributed my keratoconus diagnosis. I was in my early 20s at the time. Didn't help that I had itchy eyes due to hayfever and live in Australia. Got testicular cancer that same year. I swear 2016 was out to kill me lol. After a keraring implant in my left eye, corneal cross linking and ptk im mostly better now. Left is still useless, but the right eye is normal and hasn't progressed after cross linking.
While I'm not particularly interested in ophthalmology, i do still have eyes, so videos like this can inform me about risks I wasnt aware of. Particularly, i feel that myself and many others are the kind of people who need to be told the exact reasoning behind why something is harmful before we'll stop doing it. I was told not to rub my eyes as a kid, but never why i shouldn't, so i still did. If i had what you cover in this video explained to me then, it's more likely that i would have listened. Another similar example is from your video on Visine. My grandma had been using that for a long time to remove the redness of her eyes and as typical eyedrops. I explained to her the risks you discussed in your video, suggested she speak to her optometrist about it, and helped her pick out some artificial tears. She was resistant to stop using Visine because she felt the redness was a bigger issue, but was willing to swap once I was able to explain that the continued use could be more problematic in the long term.
You are who we like and what we come here for, that and the slightly gruesome and unknown nature of the eye. Your personality and the way you present information is awesome.
Watching you talk about a disease makes me long great teachers in my school just like you- wish we had more passionate professors with much love and vast knowledge and wisdom on their subject ❤
I went my whole life not actually realizing what I had was astigmatism. I went until 26 actually getting glasses and all my life I explained to people I've only ever called it, "christmas tree syndrome" cause everything looked like staring at a lit up ...christmas tree. Lol
Thank you so much for the KC video! My story was when I went in for a free lasik eval they took a corneal topo and within a minute knew I had KC. Doc let me know and said I'd have to come back to see if I'd need surgery. I was pretty dazed but the follow up appt they let me know it usually stops progressing by your late 20s (I was 28). It's not progressed and I barely have a use for my glasses. 🙌
I love knowledgeable people nerding out about their topics, AND I am interested in all biology (and everything else, I love understanding and knowing more about everything in the world).
After watching all of the KKE videos, I want to say thanks!! They are just the right amount of information and I always look forward to the 'don't do that', 'fun fact' & 'explain like I'm eight' at the ending. I always learn something in every episode!!!
My fiancé’s dad’d eye popped out. I’m told the he was sitting down to dinner one day, looked down and it literally fell out. He, of course, went to the hospital, but there wasn’t anything they could do. I think she said they ended up sewing the eyelid closed, but I never saw it. He wore an eyepatch and I only saw him once before he passed.
Going to “correct ya”, a boy 9 got kicked by a horse knocking his eyeball out. He grab it went go the house carrying it in his hand, his parents took him to ER they put back in his eye. He did have vision in his eye but had to wear a coke bottle lens.
I watch to learn and at 70 want to save my eyesight. Dry eyes are the pits, Sjogren's is a nasty thing but the fear of MacGen dry, which runs havoc in my dad’s side of the family!
Can you please talk about vitreous detachment. I’m 30 and it’s happened in both my eyes and I’m very concerned on what that means to me and the future if my vision. In one month the floaters tripled- 2 on the left and 1 on the right.
As an ophthalmic technician for a neuro-ophthalmologist and neuro-optometrist, I enjoy listening to these to hear topics that I run into every day and things I know about but I don’t see a lot. I also don’t like the cornea that much either, it’s fine and it’s there. The brain and the eyes are far more interesting to me.
Apparently, Deviant Ollam here on RU-vid (penetration tester) was told that he could go to work in a day or two after LASIK. He did both eyes and lost vision for a month, and only was on par after 4 months. Then came improvements. But he said that he was starting to plan his life around being blind the rest of his life. Why are medical practices allowed to be marketed at all? As a sidenote Deviant makes quality content to the point and professional.
Hubby rubs his eye all the time, and it gets inflamed and swollen medial aspect of his eyelids & caruncle. He’s already had one visit to the acute care centre when his eyelids swelled so much that he couldn’t open his eye
thanks for this vid. I have had to explain KC to my medical professionals over and over, cause it shows up in my medical record and I guess I explain it okay. I had the corneal graft, but recovery really wasn't that long. Had to have it before my cataract surgery, because the cornea was too fragile in that eye. The other eye has been fine and I correct with glasses now, after some twenty years of RoseK contact lenses. (piggy backed with soft contacts - so annoying and so expensive). Heard about collegan cross-linking since my clinic was part of the final trial. I was told that I was too old for the study and was my doctor, who also had KC.
My husband has kerataconus (3 corneal grafts) and I described it to people as sort of varicose corneas, because lumpy, thinning veins are more easily understood. Was I accurate?
I have scars on my corneas. A different placement for the scar on each cornea. Therefore, I have irregular astigmatism. One scar resulted from a deeper wound to the cornea. That happened in 1981. I have had one far sighted eye and one near sighted eye because of that since I was in my 23rd year. Then, when I was in my mid-30s, I sustained a paper cut (don't ask how that happened) to the other eye. That resulted in corneal erosion that took months to resolve fully. I was finally fitted with a contact lens that corrected the near sighted eye so it came closer to normal, and glasses over everything so I could see 20/20. However, I am now ... older. They tell me I also have cataracts. My ophthalmologist tells me I am very close to being uncorrectable past 20/40, so that means surgery. I watched your video all the way through. I found your explanations clear, relatable, and sometimes even entertaining. Keep up the good work!!!
To answer your question as to why we might like the eye videos...well, as a Medical student, watching your videos is like the fun-based-learning moment of the day within procrastination itself😂🤷🏻♂
2:20 my eyes are awful so I want to know everything I can about what ELSE might go wrong! And, what not to do, so I am listening keenly to today’s show.
Suggestion for future episode...if you haven't already talk about eye infections when it goes beyond the commin pink eye. Ive recently had infection lasting a month and then heard about others with significant problems. What is the source of infection, bacteria?, virus? . Is it from our hands? Was it that sinus?
Pro tip, make sure your eye dr. isn't mis diagnosing uveitis as pink eye. I had 8 bouts of reoccurring pink eye before I learned I had a genetic autoimmune disorder
Speaking of cornea transplants, something I have always wondered about is... where do they come from? People that passed away mostly? Cause isn't the cornea the front of the eyeball and kinda of needed to protect the inside?
I like eye stuff… I have anterior and posterior cataracts since late 2000s (dont know which type on the Knights Templar pediatric eye chart), lazy eye, torsional strabismus which was after effect of the surgery to fix my incomitant strabismus which was caused by my inferior rectus going haywire due to broken orbit, I had floaters and flashes as a kid.
I there a good way to get questions to you? Here's mine in case you read this: If I need glasses, and I wear the glasses all the time, am I just training my eyes to focus in a way that relies on having glasses all the time? I suspect my eyes went myopic out of a childhood packed with books, so if I tried to focus on things slightly too far for me, would that be countering the inability to focus even slightly?
To funny, my Grandma would tell us - rubbing your eyes is bad for you...don't do that, you'll loose your eye. This was the 60's - she was born in 1899. She knew her stuff. ❤😮❤
It is so true for many of us that after college or trade school you just want to go to work. I have a chemistry degree but had no interest in doing research.
I have keratoconus myself and i got it when i was about 20 and have now had collagen crosslinking (don't know how to spell this) in both eyes at this point. Luckily I'm stable in both eyes now but my left eye is now my dominant eye and my depth perception has suffered. I'm lucky to even have it diagnosed because the first opthalmologist misdiagnosed it as lazy eye.
Appreciate you sharing your wealth of knowledge with us! It's always fun learning about something when it's from someone who is so enthusiastic about his expertise! You've taught us so many helpful things about our eyes and I look forward to learning more!😘
I rubbed my eyes A LOT as a child which I later learned because I was allergic to perfume and it was causing constant irritation. My eyesight do be trash now
