Hi all this is a bit strange but my eye sight was really good and always has been, I became a eunuch late Jan 2012 and the summer has been fine but now here in the UK it gets dark very early and the lights all seem to blur the brighter the light the worse it is car lights are really bad, in the day time no problem and reading in the day or at night is still excellent. I know im getting old (45) but it just seems strange as my eyes have always been well above average and still are till it gets dark and then its just the lights.

Has anyone else had this, is it connected to becoming a eunuch, am I missing some thing? (yes I know they are now missing) Am I low in a vitamin may be or is it the low T replacement or vitamin D, B or calcium im taking.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

I am bespectacled and detesticled and I did not notice any vision problems. Later as I became a Type II diabetic my vision changed. I also have visual changes if my blood pressure is high. I would have your blood pressure checked and your blood sugar. A vitamin like Ocuvite which is formulated for eye health may be worth a try. If I take off my glasses images out of focus blur. On bright sunny high contrast days I see better than on cloudy days. I think it may be age.

Other aspects of eye health are a glaucoma test. A good eye exam will check your retinas to check for any tears or separation. If you have spent a lot of time in the sun cataracts are possible for someone your age. In the UK I do not know how much sunshine you might have.

I do not think one caused the other but do treat yourself to a good eye exam to make sure you are maintaining your eye health.

Could be cataracts. They come with age and creep up on you. Many of the symptoms you describe could be caused by them.

Cataract Symptoms

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Cataracts are usually gradual and usually not painful or associated with any eye redness or other symptoms unless they become extremely advanced. Rapid and/or painful changes in vision are suspicious for other eye diseases and should be evaluated by an eye-care professional.

At your age, you need to have a thorough eye exam once a year.

At 45, I had to get bifocals.

A couple years before that, I had to have my prescription upped from -1.0 to -1.25, after diabetes. Even with good control.

Now it's up to -1.5 with astigmatism in the right eye.

All part of getting older.

Definitely have your eyes checked. It sounds like Over 40 eyesight

I have many of the same symptoms. My eye doctor says I have cataracts and that's what's causing it. I suggest you see an eye doctor which is something everyone should do on a regular basis especially after age 40.

Does castration do anything to a mans eyesight? I would assume the eyesight would improve being the testosterone is lower causing a guy to then think with a clear mind and have even better vision than when T was pumping through his body.

knightbird111 (imported) wrote: Tue Nov 13, 2012 12:30 pm Does castration do anything to a mans eyesight? I would assume the eyesight would improve being the testosterone is lower causing a guy to then think with a clear mind and have even better vision than when T was pumping through his body.

Go on a diet rich with antioxidants,go easy on vitamin supplements, carrots, spinach and yams. Eyesight mainly deterioates as a result of the myelin surronding your optic nerves (they get thinner.)

Believe it or not my eyesight subscription slightly decreased the minute I started eating my greens.

It'll eventually fail but you can at least do all you can to delay the inevitable.

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knightbird111 (imported) wrote: Tue Nov 13, 2012 12:30 pm Does castration do anything to a mans eyesight? I would assume the eyesight would improve being the testosterone is lower causing a guy to then think with a clear mind and have even better vision than when T was pumping through his body.

Doesn't lack of androgens and/or higher-than-normal estrogen cause changes in eye shape or the way an eye reflects light? I swear I read that at one time, as a reason why when you switch from androgen driven body to an estrogen driven one the appearance of your eyes can change drastically (the difference for me had always been major). Someone please science at me.

One of the many careers at which I've failed over the years was as an optician. It's well known that changes in hormones can cause changes in people's glasses prescriptions. The best known examples are in pregnant women and in diabetics, both of which have fluctuating (different) hormone levels. I had several patients for whom I made three or four different pairs of glasses that they swapped out, sometimes on a daily basis. I had one patient who said she went back to her old glasses depending on her "time of the month." I know of no link with Testosterone, but it is unlikely that a patient would confine to his optician that he has just been castrated, when he had his glasses changed. Also teen's Rxs change more often during puberty than in adults. I would assume some of that is related to hormone changes.

Given your age, you are becoming presbyopic, that is your lens, and the muscles that change its shape to focus it, become less flexable and you become less able to switch between distance and near vision. This is not a decrease in the vision itself, but it usually requires bifocals, reading glasses or a change in Rx.

The symptoms you describe can be caused by needing a new Rx. (If lights appear blurred, they can blur together and be hard to resolve.) But as Slammr pointed out, they are also consistent with cataracts, glaucoma and a few other nasties. So the advice is what others have said. Make an appointment and see an ophthalmologist or optometrist. Tell him your hormonal situation. There is no need to explain why. Medical questions are best addressed to doctors, not online discussion boards.

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