Joel Corwin, M.D. - His Cure for My Sudden Loss of Vision in One Eye Mike Taylor December 17, 2013 Dr. Joel Corwin at Miramar Eye Specialist Medical Group is my new best friend. I woke up unable to see the clock. A week later, I couldn’t read, drive or work. Dr. Corwin restored my sight. If you’re my age and in Ventura Co., he may save your sight, too. (Newswire.net -- December 17, 2013) Ventura, CA -- One morning I couldn’t make out the time on the bedside digital clock very well. The numbers were fuzzy and I had blurry vision in one eye. Something had happened overnight.
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I made an appointment with my optometrist to have him take a look. I thought maybe I had scratched my eye. The fuzzy area was getting bigger.
Then the lights started. Little, fluttery lights like mosquito wings. The fuzzy area grew and was covered with flashes, first just little blinks of red or white. By the time my appointment rolled around, those little blinks turned to pulsating blobs of light.
The light show was a Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion, or BRVO. The optician who looked at my eyes gave me the diagnosis, and told me I would never get my vision back. The optician did not give me any hope, but he did refer me to Dr. Corwin.
Dr. Corwin explained what had happened, “BRVO often occurs when retinal arteries that have been thickened by atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) cross over and place pressure on a retinal vein. When the vein is blocked, nerve cells within the eye may die.” (Image left shows my eye undergoing a blood flow examination)
In my case, a vein in the retina was blocked, and my eye wasn’t getting the blood flow it needed. It was also swollen so what light landed on it was out of focus.