September 1, 2025 • 40 mins
Morgan White Jr. filled in on NightSide:
Your eyes are one of your top sensory organs that feed your brain information about the world around you, so it’s important to protect them from damage and keep them healthy. Board Certified Ophthalmologist Dr. Chirag Shah joined Morgan to answer eye related questions!
Your eyes are one of your top sensory organs that feed your brain information about the world around you, so it’s important to protect them from damage and keep them healthy. Board Certified Ophthalmologist Dr. Chirag Shah joined Morgan to answer eye related questions!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's with d Y.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm do you Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Few very very much Suzanne for my intro, Suzanne, is
your Mike's still open?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I can hear you.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
It's it's like old Home week. We haven't we haven't
worked together in what years since we used to do
Saturday nights together.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I know, I know I miss it.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I do too, And every time I hear you do
a report, I'm always kind of a rose that we
don't work together anymore.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well tonight a little bit right.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
That's true reunited.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Yes, you should play that song anyway.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Have a wonderful night.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Thank you very much for that. Good evening, everybody. I
have a very busy show planned. And even before I
start with this show, I'm gonna talk about both Tomorrow
night and Thursday night with the man who normally sits
in this chair, Dan Ray, tomorrow at nine. Both of
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these times will be at nine o'clock, because you know
he does that four to one. From eight to nine,
four different people are interviewed roughly ten twelve minutes each one,
and then at nine o'clock he goes into a full
interview with three or four various people He's got the
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State Police colonel tomorrow night, Jeffrey Noble. And I know Dan.
Dan is an excellent broadcaster. He is not going to
play paddy cake with the colonel. He will be asking
some tough questions because, as we all know, there have
been at least three or four major stories involving the
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Massachusetts State Police, and I'm sure Dan will cover those.
And on Thursday nine o'clock, one of the people who
wants to be mayor, Josh Kraft, will be on on Nightside.
This is Nightside. I'm sitting here tonight for Dan Ray.
He's got the holiday off. He'll be back tomorrow. How
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many people out there don't see as well as you
used to. You need to put on a pair of
cheaters you brought at the drug store supermarket just to
read the paper. I understand I'm in the same boat.
I used to have excellent vision. I cannot say that anymore.
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But I've got one of the leading ophthalmologists in America
on now. And I always preface anytime I have a
doctor on, a physician on. You need to speak to
your own physician, because your own physician knows your strengths
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and your weaknesses. When I have a physician on, they're
just to give you guidelines and the heads up on
whatever they come across their desk and they pass it
on to you. So I've got doctor Shaw and I'm
gonna say doctor, good evening, Welcome to Night's side.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Good evening, Morgan.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
How are you I am?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Oh, you're very welcome. And I'm not gonna let too
much slip about my business, but I'm going to tell
you something. You told me this a week ago, one
week ago, and by Friday and Saturday, your prediction came through.
You described a line that was visible to me in
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my left eye, and you said, give it a few days,
and then give it a few weeks. After that, you'll
be able to see much more clearly above that line line,
and that line will grow and grow as the days
go on to give you more field division. And you
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are so right.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Oh, that my heart to know that you're doing great good.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I just wanted to tell you that now good when
I told you I wanted to have you on. I've
got eight different medications that you see on TV for
your eye and various circumstances with the eye, and we're
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going to run over this list between now and nine o'clock,
and I want you just to give me your professional
opinion the pros and cons of each one of these,
because TV can't talk back to us. You know, some
of the commercials are cute, you know the verbism commercial
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where the people open an invisible eye and then everybody
walks through it and all the circumstances happened from there.
There may be negatives and positives, but there may be
some negatives that are not being explained clearly enough in
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these commercials. So let's start with Vibismo. What is your
opinion pro and khorn about that product?
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Oh, there are multiple medications for wet max degeneration as
well as diabetic ornopth and retinal vaineclusion, and Vibiso is
a very good medication. I know it's heavily advertised on TV.
Many people come in, Yeah, many case pations come in,
you know, asking specifically about vibizmo. I think it's actually
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the first time there's been, at least in my memory,
that there's been direct to consumer advertising. But in general,
it's a very good drug. It works in two pathways.
It's the newest medication we have. Unfortunately, it's it's also
an expensive medication. That's maybe the major downside. It's not
always covered by insurances. But it does work quite well,
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and it's a it's a it's a good medication, and
I think it's used in a large amount I think
around the US.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Okay. And by the way, if anybody wants to call
in to speak to doctor Shaw, six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty or eight eight, eight nine to nine
ten thirty, those are the phone numbers. And if you
have a question, something isn't just the way it always
used to be with your eye sight, this is the
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perfect place to bring it up. But again, you have
a doctor. If you don't, you should get one who
will learn all the idiosyncrasies of you Jane Doe, of
you John Jones. So the doctor can make a statement
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that will give you an indication of what may or
may not be your issue. But bring this up to
your own doctor. I cannot stress that enough. And we
just talked about for BIZMO. I'm also going to ask
you for those who wear contacts, there are different solutions
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involved with where you put your contact, how you soak
your contact, what can you speak to any of those
solutions out there meant to keep a contact fresh and clean.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Most of the solutions that people use are the multi
use solution, meaning that you just it's the very simple.
You just soak your contact lenses in the solution overnight
and then they're clean and sterile for the next day.
And for most people that'll work very well. Some people
can get almost like an allergy or an irritation due
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to their contact lens solution, and then they have to
go to something called clearcare, which is where you put
your contact lenses in this little contraption and you put
that contraption in this kind of tube filled with solution,
and then there's like this hydrogen peroxide bubbling up that
happens kind of like when you add baking sod and
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the vinegar, and then that kind of cleans the lenses
extremely well, and that can be a little bit gentler
for people who have very sensitive eyes and develop sensitivity
to the multipurpose solution. And so those are probably the
two biggest categories of solutions, and they're all good. I
think for most people the multipurpose one will work just fine, okay,
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but for people with sensitive eyes, think it's something like
clear care.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Let me take a break now, and when we come back,
I've got a button other six different products, and I'm
thinking over the past two or three weeks, every time
a TV commercial would come on and grab my pencil,
try to write it down, and write it down fanatically
so I can pronounce it properly. Most of the time,
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I think I got it right. We'll soon see phone
number here again. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten
thirty or eight eight, eight nine to nineteen thirty. This
is night Side. Dan Ray is off. He will be
back tomorrow eight pm sharp. I promise you time and
temperature eight sixteen sixty six degrees.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Dan will be back tomorrow eight pm. Nightside, and he's
been off for a couple of weeks, so he's starting
off with what I think is a home run guest.
He's at Colonel Jeffrey Noble from the Massachusetts State Police
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nine pm as a guest. Now Nightside starts at eight,
but I'm just letting you know as a programming note
that at nine that ought to be great radio listening.
I've got doctor Shaw. He's an ophthalmologist, naturally renown ophthalmologist
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and I'm going over some of the commercials that we've
all seen on TV products to be used in the eye,
around the eye, and for the eye. So the next
one I have is my bow. Every time I read that,
when I hear that drum of the commercial and that
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kind of my bow, doctor, what do you think about
my bow?
Speaker 5 (10:58):
You know, I have a lot of patients who come
in on my mind. I don't manage dry eyes, so
I don't have a lot of experience that experience of
prescribing it myself. You know, the patients who are on
it seem to like it and it seems to help
with their dry eye symptoms of itchiness and you blurriness.
I will say that patients tell me that it's very
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expensive and not often covered by insurance. I think that's
the hardest part of just getting access to it. But
the patients who are on it seem to be happy
with it.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Is there a generic option I know that works a
lot for pills. There might be an expensive pill, but
there is a generic option that normally will save you both.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Yeah, so I think there are alternative options like artificial tiers,
which is not the same. But I don't think that
my bow is off patent yet, so I don't think
there's a generic off option yet. There will be eventually,
but right now, it's still an expensive medication.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
All right. And what about Lumifi. I hope I pronounced
that right. Are you selling with that name?
Speaker 5 (12:10):
I am familiar with it, you know, the retinal surgeon.
I don't often prescribe these medications, but I have so
many patients who are on it. I think Lumifi correct
me if I'm wrong. I think luminafhi is intended to
make the eyes wider and more bright. And if I'm
not mistaken, the active ingredient is an old global medication,
just maybe a little bit more delute. You know, it's
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over the counter. I have patients who swear by it.
They feel like their eyes are brighter and wider with it,
and I don't think there's much of a downside. I
don't think it's an unsafe drop since it's you know,
the active ingredient has been used for a number of years,
but it is It is definitely popular for people who
want to have brighter colored eyes.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Okay, let's this is a product that's been around for years, vizine.
Are there any pros and carns that you would like
to offer about the product called vizine.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Yeah, So, whereas lumifi kind of makes the white of
your eye brighter, vizine has an active ingredient in it
which causes constriction of the blood vessels of the white
part of your eye, which kind of does something very similar.
It makes sure people who have red eyes makes their
right eyes less red. The only downside about hyzine, which
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has a very low concentration of penel effrone, which constricts
blood vessels, is that when you stop taking vizine that
gets the red out, sometimes there is a rebound redness
that occurs because your eye kind of gets used to
the blood vessel is getting constricted by the vizine ie drops.
And so it's just one thing to keep in mind
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that if you stop hyzine, then you might find this
kind of rebound redness that occurs. So sometimes it's safer
just to use there's vizin without any medication to get
the red out, just lubricating drops. And sometimes that can
be a little bit better because then you can use
it as needed and you don't have to like keep
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using it to get the red out.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
All right, I'm going to step away from this subject.
I got several more to bring up. But floaters, everybody
has them. Sometimes they're an annoyance, other times you don't
even pay that much attention to them. I know they
used to be called photo fiends way way way back,
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and now I think it's universally known as floaters. First,
tell my audience what floaters are, and then how at
home you can address it, or maybe you need to
go to your physician and have your physician address them.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
That's a great question. So float You're absolutely right. Floaters
are one of the most common things that people have,
especially as we get older. I'm seeing all of my
floaters right now as I'm talking about them. Float The
most common cause of floaters are little clumps in the
vitreous shell, which is the jelly in the eye. When
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we're born, that virtuous shell is very clear, and then
over time that clear vituous shell gets clumpy, and so
people will actually see little gray specks and particles kind
of floating in their vision. It's more obvious if you're
looking at a blue sky or a white computer screen
rather than being in a dark room. So the lighting
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does make a big difference. The One important thing to
remember is that not all floaters are benign. So some people,
especially if you get like an acute burst of floaters
associated with flashing lights for example, that could be indicative
of a retinal tear. So if anyone has acute floaters
and flashes, they should be seen by an eye care
provider just to make sure that the rent is not
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tearing or detaching, because that can be a very serious problem.
Floaters can also represent bleeding or inflammation, and in rare
cases it can represent things such as lymphoma. And so
if there is a worsening of floaters, you know that's
significant or acute, it's usually worth being evaluated by your
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eye doctor just to make sure there's nothing pathologic going on.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Okay, And I'm going to guess a high number above
eighty five to eighty nine percent of the people spend hours,
whether it's for work or recreation, looking at a computer
screen and it's not like looking at a TV screen
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because it's more condensed, more focused, and a different type
of illumination that can't be good for people.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
It's a great question. I think I don't know if
it necessarily causes disease per se, And there are some
studies suggesting that the blue light from various screens like
phones and computers can sometimes increase risk of at least
in some studies, increased risk of macular generation. So there
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are blue light filters that one could apply to their
computer screen or even do it on their phone. I
don't necessarily think it's like harmful per se, but you
can get eyes strained with excessive computer you says, you
know you're asking get dry. We tend to not blink
when we're staring at a screen or reading a book
for that matter. That can dry our eyes out. A
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lot of people will get like blue light filtering reading
glasses when looking at a computer as a way to
kind of minimize some of that blue light exposure and
reduce ize strain. But I don't think it causes, at
least to my knowledge, any like severe disease, And thank
god it doesn't seem to other we'd all have severe
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eye disease from all of our all Right, I am at.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
The bottom of the hour. I'm going to take a break,
bring up the medications that I've yet to ask about.
But I will ask this and I'll let you think
about it. There's a product out there called plexiderm, and
its main focus is to shrink bags under your eye.
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And we've all seen those commercials how in four or
five minutes erases the bags under your eye. But anything
that close to an eye has me concerned. So when
we come back, I want you to talk about plexiderm.
I'm sure you've heard about it, and I'm sure some
of your patients have used it, and people up there
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if you want to call in, the lines are wide
open six one, seven, two, five, eight, eight, eight, nine
to nine, ten thirty. This gentleman is a nationally known
and respected ophthalmologist. He can answer a basic question if
you have one, and maybe even a detailed question. Here
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on night Side with a time and temperature, happen to
be good grief eight thirty in the evening, sixty six degrees.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Dan is off tonight. He will be back tomorrow eight
o'clock right here behind the WBZ microphone, which is the
way it should be. I'm Morgan. Every now and then
I get a chance to fill in as well. I
do my own show on Saturday nights. But enough about that,
I've got doctor Shaw here and doctor, we've got full line,
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so let me take phone calls. I still have the
medicines that you've yet to comment on, but I'll get
to them, but I want to give phone calls a
chance to speak with you. So Wayne and Saugust, you're
first welcome aboard.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Wayne.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Oh, thank you Morgan for taking my call. I just
had a question for the doctor. I came across an
eye product. I don't know if it was. If it's
already been brought up, then I apologize, but I saw
something that, uh, they were going to give give out
samples because it's probably new, I think, but it's a
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it's a a medicine called OCU gold oh C c
U G O L D.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Now.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
I don't know if the doctor has ever heard of it,
but it's it's definitely new out there.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
And what do they say and what do they say?
Ocy gold will.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Address he did he to clean up the eyes, just
like the one that you just said before. Cleaner, doctor,
is what it's supposed to do.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Have heard?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Yeah, doctor, have you heard of OCU gold?
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Is it a vitamin.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Vitamin?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
I think it's a vitamin.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Yeah, So.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I haven't heard of that one specifically, but luckily I'm
looking it up right now. So ocucold is a is
a vitamin, and there's a very sort of common vitamin
called occupyte, and I think OCU gold is another is
sort of a combination of antioxidants as well. And I
think the I the idea of OCU gold is. I
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don't think it's the ARITZ formula r E D s
Age Related I Disease Study formula, which is the formula
that's been proven to reduce the risk of wet macar
degeneration and patients who have moderate dry mac degeneration or worse.
But I think ocuold is considered to be I'm just
learning about it now as we're speaking. I think it's
considered to be sort of a a general antioxidant vitamin
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supplement just to promote good eye health. But I don't
I don't think it's the megadoses of antioxidants as the
ARIDS formula has which reduces risk of wet exer generation.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Yeah. Now, how how how new is it? Doctor? If
it's going around for a while long.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
That's a great question. I'm not sure how long it's
been around. I don't you know, I know occupyte because
that's been around for a long long time and arids
the ERTs formula has been around for you know, a
couple of decades at least. Uh ocy Gold, I don't
I'm not familiar with ocay goolds. I don't know if
it's a new product or if it's been around.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Yeah, like I said, the show it on Instagram caught
my eyes because they were willing to send you some samples,
like a bottle like ten ten capsules or whatever, you know,
And that's that's what they want to do, is get
the product those you know, uh, based on you know,
do do a shample tech day.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Well, Wayne, I'm going to make a suggestion. I'm sure
you have a physician of your own before you go
accepting medications from wherever, ask your physician if he or
she would recommend that, and if they say, go ahead,
all right, So try try doing that. But thank you
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for the call. All right, all right, one open line
you want to grab it. I'm going to Ohio now
and speak to Tony. Tony, good evening, how have you been?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Good evening, Morgan, and good evening. Doctor what is his name? Please?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Shaw?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Doctor? Shaw? I was I was born with UH. I
was born early uh six and a half months. I
weigh two pounds of thirteen ounces. I was putting something
called an icelet, which is the nick U unit now,
for two months, and it destroyed my retinas because they
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didn't know to put patches on the baby's eyes back then,
but they do now. It cost a lot of children
their site, part of their site, or all of their sight.
Then later on I got cataracts. I had six operations
for that. I now have glaucoma, and I just had
a laser for that a couple of years ago. And
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I am on Rock Latan once a day and I'm
on Dorzilla made twice a day. And the left eye,
I've completely lost the sight in that, but I have
a tiny little bit in the right eye, and I'm
lucky to have it. So I just wanted to tell you,
and I just used. They told me just to use
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the tears, get the tears out, you know, put the
tears clean, clean tears, or whatever they call it, just
the tear eyes. Give me a name for it.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
I'm sorry, yeah, artificial tears. I think I'm sorry. You've
had such a sorry, You've had such a tough course
with all of these issues. That sound like many of
them are related to prematurity.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Yes, that's it, that's what I had, and I'm uh,
the tears do help some and when my eyes get
all gumped up, they I put that in there, and
they told me I could use it through or four
times a day if I want, if I needed to,
and I keep them around and I use them as needed.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
I think that's a good IDEA. Spatient tour on glaucoma
medications that glaud coma drops can be very effective at
lowering the pressure, which is how we treat claud coma,
but sometimes they'll cause irritation to the eye and the
eye can be read and uncomfortable. And then using artificial
tears along with the glove Homan drops can help. The
one important thing is just to wait, you know, at
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least five minutes so you're not washing out the gloucalm
and drop. You want that medication to really shirk in
before you use the r.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
You told me that good, But I just I just
wanted to let you know that I'm you know, I
don't think the eye has gotten any worse than the
last couple of years or so. But they said if
they couldn't prevent They said they're doing all they can
to stop it from going, but it it's gone real slow.
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And they said I couldn't get macular degeneration wet or dry,
which is another good thing. But I just wanted to
tell you my condition.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Well, you're telling me your story and sounds like you
have some doctors that are working really hard to hold
on to what you have. So I wish you all
the best.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Well, I got Sinetti I Institute, and that's a very good.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
The excellent place, a great reputation.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Okay, all right, Torgan, I will talk to you Saturday.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
I look forward to that.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Okay, good night, guys, Good night, good night, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Let's see if you can get one more in before
the break. Roberta and Rainham. Good evening, Roberta, welcome to
Night's side.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Good evening, and thank you for taking my carl.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
And good evening.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Where did you call in?
Speaker 6 (27:31):
I'm curious about something I had some little I had
cataract surgery four years ago and my right eyes started
to have a little bit of cloudiness. Nothing I couldn't handle.
So I went to my ophthalmologist. Well, with an opthalmologist
I had been recommended to by my obstrometrist, and she
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said I had starring in the right eyes. And she
was in and out of the room in like thirty seconds.
So I by the time when she left, I thought, hmm,
I wonder what happens if I don't get it done,
you know, she said later and then what's gone? Is
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that something that could progress or is that something that
stays stationary? How does that work?
Speaker 5 (28:24):
I just got some clarification. Did she say that you
had like a film behind your lens implant? Did she
say anything along those lines or clouding behind your lens implant?
Speaker 6 (28:35):
She only referred to it as our scar.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
Scar.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Okay, I think I don't know for sure, but I
think you're describing something called a post your capsular opacity,
which I guess someone could call could cause a scar.
They could call it a scar behind your lens implant.
But it's such like what she said, Yeah, okay, yeah,
So it's kind of like I usually use the analogy
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that it's like frost on a windshield and on the
back surface of the lens, they can get frosted and
I can make it feel like you're getting a cataract again.
But you know, something a little bit different. And there's
a type of laser called a Yag laser where you
can do something called a Yag capsule oted me to
create a small opening in that film, basically like scraping
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the middle of your windshields. You can see through the
middle of it, so that what you can see better Again,
So it's it's a relatively low risk procedure that could
allow you to recover your vision. It's very very common
after cataract surgery.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
While she did my coometer did say that after that
if I called her and I said, you know, with
an incomplete visit, because she left so quickly. But again
my question, I forgot to ask the question, or it
never occurred to me to ask something that could progress
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or that stay the same? How did that work? If
I get the laser, it does tend.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
It can progress. Sometimes it stabilizes, but post your capsul
opacity can progress. But the good thing is that it
doesn't cause any permanent harm. It might cause a little
bit more blurring, but if and when you have the
Yagg laser procedure, the vision comes back, so it's not
like you're causing permanent damage to your eye or to
your vision. But if it's tolerable. If your vision is
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tolerable right now, there's no need to do anything. And
if you get to a point where you're really getting
bothered by your vision, then the laser would help you.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
Okay, so you answered nice question. It isn't something that
if I delayed, it's not going to get worse. It's
just a matter of making this decision whether I want
it's a through it.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
Yeah, it makes it may get worse. It may get worse,
but it won't permanent damage. He'll just cause gradual blurriness.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Good luck, ROBERTA, thank you, thank you for the call.
Let's take our break, and I've got two people to
get I'll try to take a third if somebody really
can be brief with their question. Six one, seven, two, four,
ten thirty eight, eight, eight, nine, nine, ten thirty. This
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is Nightside. I'm Morgan, filling in for Dan Ray. Time
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Speaker 2 (31:35):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Dan is off tonight. I'm filling in. I'm Morgan. I've
got three people and I've got eight minutes to try
and let them speak with doctor Shah, my ophthalmologist. Let's
begin with Mitch. And by the way, Mitch, you know
you cheated. I'm taking your call. But Mitch, you know
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you cheated. You know you didn't call the main number.
You used the contest line.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Oh well, at least there's some consistency there. I called.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Yeah, well you called WBZ and you called to speak
to doctor Show. So what's your question, go ahead, question.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Doctor Sho. Good penguinary adhesion or uh in the corners
of the cornea you have? I have a look like
a growth on the cornea and somebody said it was
a penguinary something and a pinguculum.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Yes, And what's your question about it? Mitch?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
What is the treatment for that?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
A good question.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
So, pinguaculum is a growth on the white part of
the eye, or the kunjing taiba. It's often on the
inner corner of the eye because sun bounces off our
nose and hits that corner of the eye. If it's
not bothersome and if it doesn't grow onto the cornea
and affect your vision, then there's nothing to do for it.
If it's irritating, you can use artificial tears to lubricate.
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It's always a good idea where sunglasses and try to
minimize the risk of debris getting in your eye or
sun to minimize the risk of it growing. In the
worst case scenario, if it's unsightly or very irritating, it
could theoretically be removed surgically. But most of the time
we don't do anything about it except for occasional lubrication.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Okay, look, did.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
The course of leap lucrication and still troublesome turns of
eye of red eye on a constant basis, And I'm
just going to go see an ox them eyegious about
it because my friend said, ladies, golf a lot that
needs to be surgically removed.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
It may come to that you might have inflammation of
the pingweculum, which is called pingleculitis, and oftentimes an ophthalmologist
will try conservative measures first, like tweeting it with a
steroid drop, for example, to try to calm down the inflammation,
and that might calm it down and you might not
have a right eye anymore, and that might be all
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that you need. And if that doesn't fix it, then
they may consider surgery as one of the options.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
All Right, Mitch, You've got decisions to make, but I
got to move on, So thank you for your call.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
All right, it is it a dangerous surgery? That was
the last part of that.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
All right, hope in general note, Okay, so there's your answer.
It's not a dangerous surgery. Let's go to NATA and
speak to Brenda. Line one, Brenda to be.
Speaker 8 (35:01):
Good evening, Morgan, Good evening, Doctor Shaw. I think I
have a quick question. I have two distant family members
that live in different parts of the state and see
two different retina specialists for macular degeneration, and they get
the eye injections.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
Every couple months.
Speaker 8 (35:19):
One of the doctors has one family member on a
red and the other family member, a different doctor has
the other person on Macew Health. And I just wonder
is one better than the other. These are supplements for
people that don't know, like a vitamin.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
That's an next line question. There are many vitamins out
there for maxo generation, so it does get a little confusing.
To my knowledge, the two formulas that have been tested
in large randomized clinical trials supported by the National Institutes
of Health are the ARIDS formula and the air It's
two formula both of which have been proven to help
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reduce the risk of wet exter generation. So the doctors
probably have them on those vitamins to protect the other
eye that's not getting injections. Macew health is very similar
to RIDS. You have to look specifically, but you know,
the dosages are a little bit different than the regular
AERDS formula. I think it might not be quite as
high as the ARIDS formula, but I don't think there's
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I'll have to look it up specifically. I don't think
there's a humongous difference, So I think they're on similar medications,
except that Rod's formula probably is a little bit higher concentration,
and that specific formula has been tested.
Speaker 8 (36:37):
Okay, and it should be ARIDS too, correct, not just.
Speaker 9 (36:42):
ARODS.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
They're both arids. The original and ERDs too are available
as the original would not be appropriate for a former
smoker or a current smoker because it increases risk of
lung cancer and those who have smoke, so it's usually
just simpler to say ERDs too. Okay, that's safe for everyone.
Speaker 8 (37:02):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Brenda, thank you for your call. Good evening, and let's
take one more from Hopevale Massachusetts. It's Kathy. Kathy, thank
you for taking the time to call in to Night's side.
Speaker 9 (37:15):
Oh, thank you. Quick question, I have cataracts. Eighteen years ago,
I had Lasik surgery. I have progressive myopia. I've been
told all my life I have really, really bad eyes.
They have a fabulous result. However, here we are, eighteen
years later, I have cataracts. Two years ago, I was
told by the specialist that because I had had Lasik,
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I was not a candidate for cataract surgery. However, now
today or a couple of days ago, the same person,
same doctor tells me that yes, I can have it. However,
I have to have a specialized lens called an la
L I think there was, which, of course Medicare does
not cover. I'm in Medicare now. Am I a candidate
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for surgery or are they just trying to get ten
thousand dollars out of me? Second of all, do I
have to have that ten thousand dollars lens or what
a normal lens actually help me? I don't care about
having to wear glasses. I do care about losing the cloudiness.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
All great questions, and this I know I probably do,
as we only have you know a minute to discuss
the answers, But yes, cataract surgery is a possibility. After
Lasik surgery. The prediction of your lens power and your
ultimate refraction is a little bit less predictable because of
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because you had prior Lasik surgery. So an LAL, a
light adjusted lens is nice because then you can you
can dial in the prescription after you've put the lens
in and get it kind of just right. But if
you don't care if you have to wear maybe a
mild prescription after catarac surgery, then you can get it
right now lens. Your doctor will do their best to
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make calculations factoring in the fact that you had Lasik surgery,
and then you might need a mild prescription after the fact.
And if that's not a problem, then great new mning
glasses afterwards. But you can get a regular lens if
you wanted to. The only others this is a pretty
complicated question. But only other minor thing I'll put in
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is there something called an aura RA, which is a
machine that can measure the lens power after your CATORPCT
comes out in the operating room, and then you pick
a lens that way. So that's another way to get
around getting a very expensive La L lens placed in.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
All right, Cassy, I hope that advice has helped you,
but I got to go.
Speaker 7 (39:45):
So much.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Thank you and doctor thank you. As you can tell
every time you come on you get a passor of
phone calls that are all pertinent to the subject. And
I appreciate you giving me the time and tell you
what We'll do it again between now in the hall
fair enough.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
Yeah, I appreciate it, and thank you for always inviting me.
It's always a pleasure of talking to you.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Take care of doctor Shaw. Thank you everybody else. We're
going to talk baseball next dour with Dixie because it's
September and this is where the rubber meets the road.
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Few very very much Suzanne for my intro, Suzanne, is
your Mike's still open?
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I can hear you.
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It's it's like old Home week. We haven't we haven't
worked together in what years since we used to do
Saturday nights together.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I know, I know I miss it.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I do too, And every time I hear you do
a report, I'm always kind of a rose that we
don't work together anymore.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well tonight a little bit right.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
That's true reunited.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Yes, you should play that song anyway.
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Have a wonderful night.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Thank you very much for that. Good evening, everybody. I
have a very busy show planned. And even before I
start with this show, I'm gonna talk about both Tomorrow
night and Thursday night with the man who normally sits
in this chair, Dan Ray, tomorrow at nine. Both of
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these times will be at nine o'clock, because you know
he does that four to one. From eight to nine,
four different people are interviewed roughly ten twelve minutes each one,
and then at nine o'clock he goes into a full
interview with three or four various people He's got the
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State Police colonel tomorrow night, Jeffrey Noble. And I know Dan.
Dan is an excellent broadcaster. He is not going to
play paddy cake with the colonel. He will be asking
some tough questions because, as we all know, there have
been at least three or four major stories involving the
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Massachusetts State Police, and I'm sure Dan will cover those.
And on Thursday nine o'clock, one of the people who
wants to be mayor, Josh Kraft, will be on on Nightside.
This is Nightside. I'm sitting here tonight for Dan Ray.
He's got the holiday off. He'll be back tomorrow. How
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many people out there don't see as well as you
used to. You need to put on a pair of
cheaters you brought at the drug store supermarket just to
read the paper. I understand I'm in the same boat.
I used to have excellent vision. I cannot say that anymore.
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But I've got one of the leading ophthalmologists in America
on now. And I always preface anytime I have a
doctor on, a physician on. You need to speak to
your own physician, because your own physician knows your strengths
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and your weaknesses. When I have a physician on, they're
just to give you guidelines and the heads up on
whatever they come across their desk and they pass it
on to you. So I've got doctor Shaw and I'm
gonna say doctor, good evening, Welcome to Night's side.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Good evening, Morgan.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
How are you I am?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Oh, you're very welcome. And I'm not gonna let too
much slip about my business, but I'm going to tell
you something. You told me this a week ago, one
week ago, and by Friday and Saturday, your prediction came through.
You described a line that was visible to me in
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my left eye, and you said, give it a few days,
and then give it a few weeks. After that, you'll
be able to see much more clearly above that line line,
and that line will grow and grow as the days
go on to give you more field division. And you
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are so right.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Oh, that my heart to know that you're doing great good.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I just wanted to tell you that now good when
I told you I wanted to have you on. I've
got eight different medications that you see on TV for
your eye and various circumstances with the eye, and we're
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going to run over this list between now and nine o'clock,
and I want you just to give me your professional
opinion the pros and cons of each one of these,
because TV can't talk back to us. You know, some
of the commercials are cute, you know the verbism commercial
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where the people open an invisible eye and then everybody
walks through it and all the circumstances happened from there.
There may be negatives and positives, but there may be
some negatives that are not being explained clearly enough in
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these commercials. So let's start with Vibismo. What is your
opinion pro and khorn about that product?
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Oh, there are multiple medications for wet max degeneration as
well as diabetic ornopth and retinal vaineclusion, and Vibiso is
a very good medication. I know it's heavily advertised on TV.
Many people come in, Yeah, many case pations come in,
you know, asking specifically about vibizmo. I think it's actually
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the first time there's been, at least in my memory,
that there's been direct to consumer advertising. But in general,
it's a very good drug. It works in two pathways.
It's the newest medication we have. Unfortunately, it's it's also
an expensive medication. That's maybe the major downside. It's not
always covered by insurances. But it does work quite well,
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and it's a it's a it's a good medication, and
I think it's used in a large amount I think
around the US.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Okay. And by the way, if anybody wants to call
in to speak to doctor Shaw, six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty or eight eight, eight nine to nine
ten thirty, those are the phone numbers. And if you
have a question, something isn't just the way it always
used to be with your eye sight, this is the
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perfect place to bring it up. But again, you have
a doctor. If you don't, you should get one who
will learn all the idiosyncrasies of you Jane Doe, of
you John Jones. So the doctor can make a statement
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that will give you an indication of what may or
may not be your issue. But bring this up to
your own doctor. I cannot stress that enough. And we
just talked about for BIZMO. I'm also going to ask
you for those who wear contacts, there are different solutions
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involved with where you put your contact, how you soak
your contact, what can you speak to any of those
solutions out there meant to keep a contact fresh and clean.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Most of the solutions that people use are the multi
use solution, meaning that you just it's the very simple.
You just soak your contact lenses in the solution overnight
and then they're clean and sterile for the next day.
And for most people that'll work very well. Some people
can get almost like an allergy or an irritation due
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to their contact lens solution, and then they have to
go to something called clearcare, which is where you put
your contact lenses in this little contraption and you put
that contraption in this kind of tube filled with solution,
and then there's like this hydrogen peroxide bubbling up that
happens kind of like when you add baking sod and
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the vinegar, and then that kind of cleans the lenses
extremely well, and that can be a little bit gentler
for people who have very sensitive eyes and develop sensitivity
to the multipurpose solution. And so those are probably the
two biggest categories of solutions, and they're all good. I
think for most people the multipurpose one will work just fine, okay,
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but for people with sensitive eyes, think it's something like
clear care.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Let me take a break now, and when we come back,
I've got a button other six different products, and I'm
thinking over the past two or three weeks, every time
a TV commercial would come on and grab my pencil,
try to write it down, and write it down fanatically
so I can pronounce it properly. Most of the time,
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I think I got it right. We'll soon see phone
number here again. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten
thirty or eight eight, eight nine to nineteen thirty. This
is night Side. Dan Ray is off. He will be
back tomorrow eight pm sharp. I promise you time and
temperature eight sixteen sixty six degrees.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Dan will be back tomorrow eight pm. Nightside, and he's
been off for a couple of weeks, so he's starting
off with what I think is a home run guest.
He's at Colonel Jeffrey Noble from the Massachusetts State Police
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nine pm as a guest. Now Nightside starts at eight,
but I'm just letting you know as a programming note
that at nine that ought to be great radio listening.
I've got doctor Shaw. He's an ophthalmologist, naturally renown ophthalmologist
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and I'm going over some of the commercials that we've
all seen on TV products to be used in the eye,
around the eye, and for the eye. So the next
one I have is my bow. Every time I read that,
when I hear that drum of the commercial and that
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kind of my bow, doctor, what do you think about
my bow?
Speaker 5 (10:58):
You know, I have a lot of patients who come
in on my mind. I don't manage dry eyes, so
I don't have a lot of experience that experience of
prescribing it myself. You know, the patients who are on
it seem to like it and it seems to help
with their dry eye symptoms of itchiness and you blurriness.
I will say that patients tell me that it's very
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expensive and not often covered by insurance. I think that's
the hardest part of just getting access to it. But
the patients who are on it seem to be happy
with it.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Is there a generic option I know that works a
lot for pills. There might be an expensive pill, but
there is a generic option that normally will save you both.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Yeah, so I think there are alternative options like artificial tiers,
which is not the same. But I don't think that
my bow is off patent yet, so I don't think
there's a generic off option yet. There will be eventually,
but right now, it's still an expensive medication.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
All right. And what about Lumifi. I hope I pronounced
that right. Are you selling with that name?
Speaker 5 (12:10):
I am familiar with it, you know, the retinal surgeon.
I don't often prescribe these medications, but I have so
many patients who are on it. I think Lumifi correct
me if I'm wrong. I think luminafhi is intended to
make the eyes wider and more bright. And if I'm
not mistaken, the active ingredient is an old global medication,
just maybe a little bit more delute. You know, it's
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over the counter. I have patients who swear by it.
They feel like their eyes are brighter and wider with it,
and I don't think there's much of a downside. I
don't think it's an unsafe drop since it's you know,
the active ingredient has been used for a number of years,
but it is It is definitely popular for people who
want to have brighter colored eyes.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Okay, let's this is a product that's been around for years, vizine.
Are there any pros and carns that you would like
to offer about the product called vizine.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Yeah, So, whereas lumifi kind of makes the white of
your eye brighter, vizine has an active ingredient in it
which causes constriction of the blood vessels of the white
part of your eye, which kind of does something very similar.
It makes sure people who have red eyes makes their
right eyes less red. The only downside about hyzine, which
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has a very low concentration of penel effrone, which constricts
blood vessels, is that when you stop taking vizine that
gets the red out, sometimes there is a rebound redness
that occurs because your eye kind of gets used to
the blood vessel is getting constricted by the vizine ie drops.
And so it's just one thing to keep in mind
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that if you stop hyzine, then you might find this
kind of rebound redness that occurs. So sometimes it's safer
just to use there's vizin without any medication to get
the red out, just lubricating drops. And sometimes that can
be a little bit better because then you can use
it as needed and you don't have to like keep
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using it to get the red out.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
All right, I'm going to step away from this subject.
I got several more to bring up. But floaters, everybody
has them. Sometimes they're an annoyance, other times you don't
even pay that much attention to them. I know they
used to be called photo fiends way way way back,
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and now I think it's universally known as floaters. First,
tell my audience what floaters are, and then how at
home you can address it, or maybe you need to
go to your physician and have your physician address them.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
That's a great question. So float You're absolutely right. Floaters
are one of the most common things that people have,
especially as we get older. I'm seeing all of my
floaters right now as I'm talking about them. Float The
most common cause of floaters are little clumps in the
vitreous shell, which is the jelly in the eye. When
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we're born, that virtuous shell is very clear, and then
over time that clear vituous shell gets clumpy, and so
people will actually see little gray specks and particles kind
of floating in their vision. It's more obvious if you're
looking at a blue sky or a white computer screen
rather than being in a dark room. So the lighting
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does make a big difference. The One important thing to
remember is that not all floaters are benign. So some people,
especially if you get like an acute burst of floaters
associated with flashing lights for example, that could be indicative
of a retinal tear. So if anyone has acute floaters
and flashes, they should be seen by an eye care
provider just to make sure that the rent is not
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tearing or detaching, because that can be a very serious problem.
Floaters can also represent bleeding or inflammation, and in rare
cases it can represent things such as lymphoma. And so
if there is a worsening of floaters, you know that's
significant or acute, it's usually worth being evaluated by your
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eye doctor just to make sure there's nothing pathologic going on.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Okay, And I'm going to guess a high number above
eighty five to eighty nine percent of the people spend hours,
whether it's for work or recreation, looking at a computer
screen and it's not like looking at a TV screen
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because it's more condensed, more focused, and a different type
of illumination that can't be good for people.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
It's a great question. I think I don't know if
it necessarily causes disease per se, And there are some
studies suggesting that the blue light from various screens like
phones and computers can sometimes increase risk of at least
in some studies, increased risk of macular generation. So there
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are blue light filters that one could apply to their
computer screen or even do it on their phone. I
don't necessarily think it's like harmful per se, but you
can get eyes strained with excessive computer you says, you
know you're asking get dry. We tend to not blink
when we're staring at a screen or reading a book
for that matter. That can dry our eyes out. A
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lot of people will get like blue light filtering reading
glasses when looking at a computer as a way to
kind of minimize some of that blue light exposure and
reduce ize strain. But I don't think it causes, at
least to my knowledge, any like severe disease, And thank
god it doesn't seem to other we'd all have severe
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eye disease from all of our all Right, I am at.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
The bottom of the hour. I'm going to take a break,
bring up the medications that I've yet to ask about.
But I will ask this and I'll let you think
about it. There's a product out there called plexiderm, and
its main focus is to shrink bags under your eye.
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And we've all seen those commercials how in four or
five minutes erases the bags under your eye. But anything
that close to an eye has me concerned. So when
we come back, I want you to talk about plexiderm.
I'm sure you've heard about it, and I'm sure some
of your patients have used it, and people up there
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if you want to call in, the lines are wide
open six one, seven, two, five, eight, eight, eight, nine
to nine, ten thirty. This gentleman is a nationally known
and respected ophthalmologist. He can answer a basic question if
you have one, and maybe even a detailed question. Here
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on night Side with a time and temperature, happen to
be good grief eight thirty in the evening, sixty six degrees.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Dan is off tonight. He will be back tomorrow eight
o'clock right here behind the WBZ microphone, which is the
way it should be. I'm Morgan. Every now and then
I get a chance to fill in as well. I
do my own show on Saturday nights. But enough about that,
I've got doctor Shaw here and doctor, we've got full line,
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so let me take phone calls. I still have the
medicines that you've yet to comment on, but I'll get
to them, but I want to give phone calls a
chance to speak with you. So Wayne and Saugust, you're
first welcome aboard.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Wayne.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Oh, thank you Morgan for taking my call. I just
had a question for the doctor. I came across an
eye product. I don't know if it was. If it's
already been brought up, then I apologize, but I saw
something that, uh, they were going to give give out
samples because it's probably new, I think, but it's a
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it's a a medicine called OCU gold oh C c
U G O L D.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Now.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
I don't know if the doctor has ever heard of it,
but it's it's definitely new out there.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
And what do they say and what do they say?
Ocy gold will.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Address he did he to clean up the eyes, just
like the one that you just said before. Cleaner, doctor,
is what it's supposed to do.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Have heard?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Yeah, doctor, have you heard of OCU gold?
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Is it a vitamin.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Vitamin?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
I think it's a vitamin.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Yeah, So.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I haven't heard of that one specifically, but luckily I'm
looking it up right now. So ocucold is a is
a vitamin, and there's a very sort of common vitamin
called occupyte, and I think OCU gold is another is
sort of a combination of antioxidants as well. And I
think the I the idea of OCU gold is. I
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don't think it's the ARITZ formula r E D s
Age Related I Disease Study formula, which is the formula
that's been proven to reduce the risk of wet macar
degeneration and patients who have moderate dry mac degeneration or worse.
But I think ocuold is considered to be I'm just
learning about it now as we're speaking. I think it's
considered to be sort of a a general antioxidant vitamin
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supplement just to promote good eye health. But I don't
I don't think it's the megadoses of antioxidants as the
ARIDS formula has which reduces risk of wet exer generation.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Yeah. Now, how how how new is it? Doctor? If
it's going around for a while long.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
That's a great question. I'm not sure how long it's
been around. I don't you know, I know occupyte because
that's been around for a long long time and arids
the ERTs formula has been around for you know, a
couple of decades at least. Uh ocy Gold, I don't
I'm not familiar with ocay goolds. I don't know if
it's a new product or if it's been around.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Yeah, like I said, the show it on Instagram caught
my eyes because they were willing to send you some samples,
like a bottle like ten ten capsules or whatever, you know,
And that's that's what they want to do, is get
the product those you know, uh, based on you know,
do do a shample tech day.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Well, Wayne, I'm going to make a suggestion. I'm sure
you have a physician of your own before you go
accepting medications from wherever, ask your physician if he or
she would recommend that, and if they say, go ahead,
all right, So try try doing that. But thank you
(23:29):
for the call. All right, all right, one open line
you want to grab it. I'm going to Ohio now
and speak to Tony. Tony, good evening, how have you been?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Good evening, Morgan, and good evening. Doctor what is his name? Please?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Shaw?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Doctor? Shaw? I was I was born with UH. I
was born early uh six and a half months. I
weigh two pounds of thirteen ounces. I was putting something
called an icelet, which is the nick U unit now,
for two months, and it destroyed my retinas because they
(24:11):
didn't know to put patches on the baby's eyes back then,
but they do now. It cost a lot of children
their site, part of their site, or all of their sight.
Then later on I got cataracts. I had six operations
for that. I now have glaucoma, and I just had
a laser for that a couple of years ago. And
(24:32):
I am on Rock Latan once a day and I'm
on Dorzilla made twice a day. And the left eye,
I've completely lost the sight in that, but I have
a tiny little bit in the right eye, and I'm
lucky to have it. So I just wanted to tell you,
and I just used. They told me just to use
(24:55):
the tears, get the tears out, you know, put the
tears clean, clean tears, or whatever they call it, just
the tear eyes. Give me a name for it.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
I'm sorry, yeah, artificial tears. I think I'm sorry. You've
had such a sorry, You've had such a tough course
with all of these issues. That sound like many of
them are related to prematurity.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Yes, that's it, that's what I had, and I'm uh,
the tears do help some and when my eyes get
all gumped up, they I put that in there, and
they told me I could use it through or four
times a day if I want, if I needed to,
and I keep them around and I use them as needed.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
I think that's a good IDEA. Spatient tour on glaucoma
medications that glaud coma drops can be very effective at
lowering the pressure, which is how we treat claud coma,
but sometimes they'll cause irritation to the eye and the
eye can be read and uncomfortable. And then using artificial
tears along with the glove Homan drops can help. The
one important thing is just to wait, you know, at
(26:07):
least five minutes so you're not washing out the gloucalm
and drop. You want that medication to really shirk in
before you use the r.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
You told me that good, But I just I just
wanted to let you know that I'm you know, I
don't think the eye has gotten any worse than the
last couple of years or so. But they said if
they couldn't prevent They said they're doing all they can
to stop it from going, but it it's gone real slow.
(26:37):
And they said I couldn't get macular degeneration wet or dry,
which is another good thing. But I just wanted to
tell you my condition.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Well, you're telling me your story and sounds like you
have some doctors that are working really hard to hold
on to what you have. So I wish you all
the best.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Well, I got Sinetti I Institute, and that's a very good.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
The excellent place, a great reputation.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Okay, all right, Torgan, I will talk to you Saturday.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
I look forward to that.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Okay, good night, guys, Good night, good night, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Let's see if you can get one more in before
the break. Roberta and Rainham. Good evening, Roberta, welcome to
Night's side.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Good evening, and thank you for taking my carl.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
And good evening.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Where did you call in?
Speaker 6 (27:31):
I'm curious about something I had some little I had
cataract surgery four years ago and my right eyes started
to have a little bit of cloudiness. Nothing I couldn't handle.
So I went to my ophthalmologist. Well, with an opthalmologist
I had been recommended to by my obstrometrist, and she
(27:55):
said I had starring in the right eyes. And she
was in and out of the room in like thirty seconds.
So I by the time when she left, I thought, hmm,
I wonder what happens if I don't get it done,
you know, she said later and then what's gone? Is
(28:15):
that something that could progress or is that something that
stays stationary? How does that work?
Speaker 5 (28:24):
I just got some clarification. Did she say that you
had like a film behind your lens implant? Did she
say anything along those lines or clouding behind your lens implant?
Speaker 6 (28:35):
She only referred to it as our scar.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
Scar.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Okay, I think I don't know for sure, but I
think you're describing something called a post your capsular opacity,
which I guess someone could call could cause a scar.
They could call it a scar behind your lens implant.
But it's such like what she said, Yeah, okay, yeah,
So it's kind of like I usually use the analogy
(29:01):
that it's like frost on a windshield and on the
back surface of the lens, they can get frosted and
I can make it feel like you're getting a cataract again.
But you know, something a little bit different. And there's
a type of laser called a Yag laser where you
can do something called a Yag capsule oted me to
create a small opening in that film, basically like scraping
(29:26):
the middle of your windshields. You can see through the
middle of it, so that what you can see better Again,
So it's it's a relatively low risk procedure that could
allow you to recover your vision. It's very very common
after cataract surgery.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
While she did my coometer did say that after that
if I called her and I said, you know, with
an incomplete visit, because she left so quickly. But again
my question, I forgot to ask the question, or it
never occurred to me to ask something that could progress
(30:02):
or that stay the same? How did that work? If
I get the laser, it does tend.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
It can progress. Sometimes it stabilizes, but post your capsul
opacity can progress. But the good thing is that it
doesn't cause any permanent harm. It might cause a little
bit more blurring, but if and when you have the
Yagg laser procedure, the vision comes back, so it's not
like you're causing permanent damage to your eye or to
your vision. But if it's tolerable. If your vision is
(30:35):
tolerable right now, there's no need to do anything. And
if you get to a point where you're really getting
bothered by your vision, then the laser would help you.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
Okay, so you answered nice question. It isn't something that
if I delayed, it's not going to get worse. It's
just a matter of making this decision whether I want
it's a through it.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
Yeah, it makes it may get worse. It may get worse,
but it won't permanent damage. He'll just cause gradual blurriness.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Good luck, ROBERTA, thank you, thank you for the call.
Let's take our break, and I've got two people to
get I'll try to take a third if somebody really
can be brief with their question. Six one, seven, two, four,
ten thirty eight, eight, eight, nine, nine, ten thirty. This
(31:25):
is Nightside. I'm Morgan, filling in for Dan Ray. Time
in temperature eight forty six route sixty six degrees.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Dan is off tonight. I'm filling in. I'm Morgan. I've
got three people and I've got eight minutes to try
and let them speak with doctor Shah, my ophthalmologist. Let's
begin with Mitch. And by the way, Mitch, you know
you cheated. I'm taking your call. But Mitch, you know
(32:02):
you cheated. You know you didn't call the main number.
You used the contest line.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Oh well, at least there's some consistency there. I called.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Yeah, well you called WBZ and you called to speak
to doctor Show. So what's your question, go ahead, question.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Doctor Sho. Good penguinary adhesion or uh in the corners
of the cornea you have? I have a look like
a growth on the cornea and somebody said it was
a penguinary something and a pinguculum.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Yes, And what's your question about it? Mitch?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
What is the treatment for that?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
A good question.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
So, pinguaculum is a growth on the white part of
the eye, or the kunjing taiba. It's often on the
inner corner of the eye because sun bounces off our
nose and hits that corner of the eye. If it's
not bothersome and if it doesn't grow onto the cornea
and affect your vision, then there's nothing to do for it.
If it's irritating, you can use artificial tears to lubricate.
(33:22):
It's always a good idea where sunglasses and try to
minimize the risk of debris getting in your eye or
sun to minimize the risk of it growing. In the
worst case scenario, if it's unsightly or very irritating, it
could theoretically be removed surgically. But most of the time
we don't do anything about it except for occasional lubrication.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Okay, look, did.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
The course of leap lucrication and still troublesome turns of
eye of red eye on a constant basis, And I'm
just going to go see an ox them eyegious about
it because my friend said, ladies, golf a lot that
needs to be surgically removed.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
It may come to that you might have inflammation of
the pingweculum, which is called pingleculitis, and oftentimes an ophthalmologist
will try conservative measures first, like tweeting it with a
steroid drop, for example, to try to calm down the inflammation,
and that might calm it down and you might not
have a right eye anymore, and that might be all
(34:31):
that you need. And if that doesn't fix it, then
they may consider surgery as one of the options.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
All Right, Mitch, You've got decisions to make, but I
got to move on, So thank you for your call.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
All right, it is it a dangerous surgery? That was
the last part of that.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
All right, hope in general note, Okay, so there's your answer.
It's not a dangerous surgery. Let's go to NATA and
speak to Brenda. Line one, Brenda to be.
Speaker 8 (35:01):
Good evening, Morgan, Good evening, Doctor Shaw. I think I
have a quick question. I have two distant family members
that live in different parts of the state and see
two different retina specialists for macular degeneration, and they get
the eye injections.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
Every couple months.
Speaker 8 (35:19):
One of the doctors has one family member on a
red and the other family member, a different doctor has
the other person on Macew Health. And I just wonder
is one better than the other. These are supplements for
people that don't know, like a vitamin.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
That's an next line question. There are many vitamins out
there for maxo generation, so it does get a little confusing.
To my knowledge, the two formulas that have been tested
in large randomized clinical trials supported by the National Institutes
of Health are the ARIDS formula and the air It's
two formula both of which have been proven to help
(36:01):
reduce the risk of wet exter generation. So the doctors
probably have them on those vitamins to protect the other
eye that's not getting injections. Macew health is very similar
to RIDS. You have to look specifically, but you know,
the dosages are a little bit different than the regular
AERDS formula. I think it might not be quite as
high as the ARIDS formula, but I don't think there's
(36:23):
I'll have to look it up specifically. I don't think
there's a humongous difference, So I think they're on similar medications,
except that Rod's formula probably is a little bit higher concentration,
and that specific formula has been tested.
Speaker 8 (36:37):
Okay, and it should be ARIDS too, correct, not just.
Speaker 9 (36:42):
ARODS.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
They're both arids. The original and ERDs too are available
as the original would not be appropriate for a former
smoker or a current smoker because it increases risk of
lung cancer and those who have smoke, so it's usually
just simpler to say ERDs too. Okay, that's safe for everyone.
Speaker 8 (37:02):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Brenda, thank you for your call. Good evening, and let's
take one more from Hopevale Massachusetts. It's Kathy. Kathy, thank
you for taking the time to call in to Night's side.
Speaker 9 (37:15):
Oh, thank you. Quick question, I have cataracts. Eighteen years ago,
I had Lasik surgery. I have progressive myopia. I've been
told all my life I have really, really bad eyes.
They have a fabulous result. However, here we are, eighteen
years later, I have cataracts. Two years ago, I was
told by the specialist that because I had had Lasik,
(37:38):
I was not a candidate for cataract surgery. However, now
today or a couple of days ago, the same person,
same doctor tells me that yes, I can have it. However,
I have to have a specialized lens called an la
L I think there was, which, of course Medicare does
not cover. I'm in Medicare now. Am I a candidate
(38:03):
for surgery or are they just trying to get ten
thousand dollars out of me? Second of all, do I
have to have that ten thousand dollars lens or what
a normal lens actually help me? I don't care about
having to wear glasses. I do care about losing the cloudiness.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
All great questions, and this I know I probably do,
as we only have you know a minute to discuss
the answers, But yes, cataract surgery is a possibility. After
Lasik surgery. The prediction of your lens power and your
ultimate refraction is a little bit less predictable because of
(38:42):
because you had prior Lasik surgery. So an LAL, a
light adjusted lens is nice because then you can you
can dial in the prescription after you've put the lens
in and get it kind of just right. But if
you don't care if you have to wear maybe a
mild prescription after catarac surgery, then you can get it
right now lens. Your doctor will do their best to
(39:02):
make calculations factoring in the fact that you had Lasik surgery,
and then you might need a mild prescription after the fact.
And if that's not a problem, then great new mning
glasses afterwards. But you can get a regular lens if
you wanted to. The only others this is a pretty
complicated question. But only other minor thing I'll put in
(39:26):
is there something called an aura RA, which is a
machine that can measure the lens power after your CATORPCT
comes out in the operating room, and then you pick
a lens that way. So that's another way to get
around getting a very expensive La L lens placed in.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
All right, Cassy, I hope that advice has helped you,
but I got to go.
Speaker 7 (39:45):
So much.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Thank you and doctor thank you. As you can tell
every time you come on you get a passor of
phone calls that are all pertinent to the subject. And
I appreciate you giving me the time and tell you
what We'll do it again between now in the hall
fair enough.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
Yeah, I appreciate it, and thank you for always inviting me.
It's always a pleasure of talking to you.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Take care of doctor Shaw. Thank you everybody else. We're
going to talk baseball next dour with Dixie because it's
September and this is where the rubber meets the road.
Time and temperature here on night side eight point fifty
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