Natural Awakenings Twin Cities September 2020

She has a history of surgery in her lower
right eyelid due to a childhood cyst removal.
Her Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
scan shows drusen in the retina and macula
in both the right and left eye.
This patient received a course, visits and
followed a home program of massage, nutrition
and exercise. In the office, her visual
acuity tests had dropped two lines each. Her
right eye dropped to 20/250 and her left eye
dropped to 20/160. The results from the
Amsler grid showed that she was not seeing
a distortion in her right visual field any
longer. She also experienced significant sleep
improvement and reported feeling more
resilient to her emotional ups and downs.
As recommended, she visited her ophthalmologist
to receive a follow-up OCT scan to
confirm improvement in her eye health. In
a highly unusual outcome, it was found that
she had no visible drusen in either eye.
Patient number two is an 86-year-old
woman. She had been diagnosed with macular
degeneration 10 years before beginning
the macular regeneration treatments and
has been coming in for visits for eight years.
She has also followed the home program of
massage, nutrition and exercise. Her vision
is stable and has shown no signs of degeneration
for the last eight years. The health
marker she chose for herself is her comfort
with reading for long periods. When she
began the program, she was able to read for
only 10 to 15 minutes at a time. She would
experience extreme eye fatigue, mild headaches
and mild temporary visual blurring.
When she follows her schedule, she does
not experience any of these symptoms and
reports that she can read until she is tired
of reading. When she is unable to keep her
regular schedule, she will start to experience
fatigue with reading. It subsides again when
she gets back to her routine. Through this
all, her macula has not shown any degeneration
in eight years. In the most common
outcome, her vision is stable.
Both vastly different patients are successful
at continuing to see, read, drive,
work and live their best lives. You can, too.
Cassandra Rose, L.Ac., is a
licensed acupuncturist
specializing in macular
regeneration, a program that
benefits degenerative eye
diseases such as macular
degeneration, retinitis
pigmentosa, dry eye and more. To learn more,
visit RoseLAc.com. See ad, page 3.
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