Okay... I hope at this point I don't need to explain who I am and say hi to the admin and the peeps I already know for a couple years... so let me just say.. I am replying to this post..
http://www.vaportalk.com/forum/forum/forum/topic/8863-vaping-and-cataracts/
And it would be awesome if someone can move it to that thread for me or post a link in that thread to this post? Or copy this post to that thread? Cause I don't have time to make 5 posts (nor can I think of 5 things I would say for no apparent reason since I am not a noob and have no questions lol!).
My reply...
I do not know where markarich's original post was, so I do not know if that was the full content of his post that Chris quoted... but if it was.. I am surprised that he did not mention that it may not be something in vapor... but rather LACK of something. The fact that our bodies are MISSING something from cigarettes which may have been preventing the worsening of any of these issues is a real possibility. I am not an eye doctor and it would be best to provide info for your doctors about ingredients of e-liquid and ask them if they think this could be a cause.
My thought was that cigs contain a lot of preservatives and crap and byproducts... SO many things that ecigs do NOT... and those things may have been preventing whatever condition manifested and then when we took it away... it made it self rapidly clear. I say someone posted about cig smoke being bad for the lens because of the organic particulates and metals and other crap in the smoke... but they did not consider what the body may be ingesting from the cigarettes.
Again.. I am not a Dr.. but I would suggest that people tell your doctor ALL the details of what you do if there is ANY possibility it could be affecting your medical condition. Dr's do their job better when they have all the facts.
I do think I should also mention that blurred vision was only mentioned as a side effect of nic overdose. It is copied off a list of side effects from a nicorette gum package. It has nothing to do with being a side effect of the chem's in nic liquid.. but rather as a symptom of nic overdose. Some of the listed "symptoms/side effects" of vaping were from nic overdose symptoms (rapid pulse, slurred speech, blurry vision, etc... ) and the rest were commonly found symptoms of quitting smoking (mouth sores, fatigue, sore throat, coughing, etc...).
So these were not things having to do directly with vaping necessarily.
Hope some of that is helpful...
PS.. Chris... try writing back to my emails and replying to my skype messages... I thought we were friends way back when? What did I ever do to you?
