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Treating Retinitis Pigmentosa with MicroAcupuncture™
Retinitis Pigmentosa
Retinitis pigmentosa is second to AMD in the number of patients treated at the MicroAcupuncture center™, often coming from far away to receive treatments. With MicroAcupuncture treatments the RP patient can, expect to regain about 15 degrees of the already lost vision field and will in most cases also notes some improvements in the outer peripheral vision, in cases where the central vision (macular edema) is affected, Microacupuncture’s effect on macular degen helps to regain the central vision.
The progress of the treatments: after 5-6 treatments improvements can be noted in the vision field and the acuity test, this confirm that the treatments are working, within the next 15-20 treatments patients will notes that things com back in to view, The more treatments the more vision until no further improvement are noted over a 10 treatments segment, with 12 to 14 treatments one or twice yearly it seems to stabilize the vision.
Hello, my name is Tenni, and I have Retinitis Pigmentosa. For the past four years my eyesight has progressively worsened. I was told there were no cure or treatments available, and it could lead to total blindness, and that I would simply have to learn to live with it. I could however talk to a therapist and take antidepressants for the rest of my life to be able to better cope with it. Sitting around watching the lights fade wasn’t an option for me. I felt like I had been sentenced to a life of darkness behind a glass door, I couldn’t look out but everyone else could look in, into my eyes that is. One day while searching the internet, I came across Micro Acupuncture treatments. I was willing to try anything even if there was only a 10% possible improvement it was better than doing nothing at all. I made my appointment April of 08. The staff at the Greenville clinic was friendly and immediately I felt relaxed and comfortable. I was there with no expectations just a little hope. My stay would be 5 days 2 scans and about 14 treatments. After the second day and 5 treatments later I began to see dramatic results. I could read the newspaper without my glasses and I could see my sister sitting in the driver’s side while I was looking straight ahead, something I hadn’t been able to do for quite some time, I Noticed these improvements before the second scan confirmed it. That summer I could forget about having vision problems. In August I returned for treatments with still good results’ I wish I could have known about this Micro Acupuncture when I was first diagnosed with RP. This Clinic is now Located in Beckley WV. Dr. Per Otte is the Acupuncturist, He does a great job and cares about his patients eyesight. I believe the sooner a person seeks these treatments the better results may be. For anyone with vision problems, if you have been told that nothing can be done and to just accept it, before giving up and just learning to live with it, at least try the Micro Acupuncture first, “It can change the way you see things.”
Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) is a group of eye diseases where about half the cases can be the inherited kind and the other half doesn’t show any family history of RP. The latest studies suggest that RP is connected with gene defects, some of these defects cause insufficient amount of a number of proteins and amino acids to be created, which cause incomplete photoreceptors with very short lifespan and week light sensitivity (predominantly rod photoreceptors).
That cause the light sensitive rods to weaken and night blindness occurs, this is the foremost first symptom in RP, after that lose of peripheral vision leading to tunnel vision and final some lose the central vision (total loss of vision).
Do to the complexity of RP it’s difficult to say when it start, there is forms of RP starting in 8-18 month infants, then some in 2-4 year infants, then 4-8 year kids,(age 2-8 the appearance can be mistaken be mistaken for Stargardt disease) and finally at 30 to 40 years of age.
So if you notice any change in vision whatever age you are. Time for the Ophthalmologist.
IF YOU ARE DIAGNOSED WITH RP PLEASE CONSIDER NOT TO USE BIRTH CONTROL AND ED MEDICATION.
Recommendations, take a good multi vitamin, at least 20mg lutein and about 25.000 IU of VIT-A and Phosphorus. We recommend: MicroAcupuncture™-vision supplement and drink plenty of water.
After evaluation of what information there is about RP and the other connected symptoms, comparing this with rules of acupuncture there may be a relation to the kidneys therefore drink plenty of water.