Methanol Blinded my Left Eye!

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Victim of Methanol Toxicity of Opthalmic Lens - 29 Mar 2004 20:37 GMT

My left eye is completely blind. I see nothing. I don't notice
anything in my left eye. Not dark. Not bright. Not black. Not white.
Just blank. Just nothingness. Why?

Methanol has attacked the lens in my left eye.

As I was injured, I began to see weird in my left eye. The left world
was just not there yet there. Blankness began flashing. Flashes of
blindness. Zig-zag lines of blindess. Getting stronger and longer.
Blind waves.

My left eye is now totally blind. Feels so eccentric.

Doctor says the lens in my left eye has been chemically damaged by
methanol.

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Mike Tyner - 30 Mar 2004 02:51 GMT

> Methanol has attacked the lens in my left eye.
> As I was injured, I began to see weird in my left eye. The left world

Did an injury produce the methanol? Was your lens injected with methanol? Did
you drink it? By chance was this methanol from aspartame?

> Doctor says the lens in my left eye has been chemically damaged by
> methanol.

Just one eye, huh? Usually it damages the optic nerve and retina. Zigzags and
variable blindness don't happen in the lens. You might get a better
understanding if you keep researching. Or not.

-MT

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Dan Abel - 30 Mar 2004 19:26 GMT

In article <79453fa7.0403291137.524801e8@posting.google.com>,
LensMethanol@yahoo.com (Victim of Methanol Toxicity of Opthalmic Lens)
wrote:

> My left eye is completely blind. I see nothing. I don't notice
> anything in my left eye. Not dark. Not bright. Not black. Not white.
> Just blank. Just nothingness. Why?

I'm a lay person, so this is just a guess. We see with our brains, not
our eyes. The eyes send information to the brain, which interprets this
information as an image. When an eye sends no useful information to the
brain, the brain just ignores what the eye is sending, and so we "see"
nothing.

For most of my life I was right-eyed. Then my right eye went bad and I
became left-eyed. Then my right eye got fixed. Then my left eye got
fixed so it is much better than my right eye. Now I am just totally
confused!

:-)

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Mike Tyner - 30 Mar 2004 20:24 GMT

> > Just blank. Just nothingness. Why?
>
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> brain, the brain just ignores what the eye is sending, and so we "see"
> nothing.

I think the methanol victim might be an aspartame shill. You're right - most of
the symptoms sound neurological. Most often, ingested methanol damages the optic
nerves, but direct injections are used to induce cataract in lab animals.

Sorbitol is blamed in some cataracts but it was the first I've heard cataracts
blamed on methanol. It's a conceivable byproduct in traumatic cataract, or
anytime proteins are broken down.

Acquired cataracts in young people usually result from trauma, and toxic
cataracts are often expected to be bilateral.

-MT

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