# Recreating the optic nerve

Category: Health and Wellness

## Post 1 by buk buk buk (move over school!) on Friday, 26-Jan-2007 23:30:03

Hi guys! Does any body know a medicine that recreate the optic nerve?

## Post 2 by Blue Velvet (I've got the platinum golden silver bronze poster award.) on Saturday, 27-Jan-2007 0:22:27

Not yet, but maybe some day. That's why I don't want to give up and get artificial eyes because I keep hoping that if stem cell research leads to nerve regeneration, I want my eyes just in case my optic nerves can be fixed.

## Post 3 by bozmagic (The rottie's your best friend if you want him/her to be, lol.) on Saturday, 27-Jan-2007 7:54:30

Gosh, if I knew of a medicine that could re-create the optic nerve, I would most certainly have taken it. I had a Chorneal graft as a six-month-old baby, when no such thing could've been invented, so, three weeks later I had a secondary haemorhage which blew both my optic nerve and most of the cells in my retina, leaving me with just light and colour. Then my light and colour went just before I started school, so that was the end of that, so yes, I'd be taking that optic nerve medicine now if it existed.

## Post 4 by shea (number one pulse checking chicky) on Saturday, 27-Jan-2007 9:14:02

no such thing out just yet. they are working on many different things to help this though. smiles, shea has the same problems!

## Post 5 by buk buk buk (move over school!) on Friday, 02-Feb-2007 21:08:04

Well. I heard about a kind of fruit called magic fruit, or borojo, that can recreate the optic nerve.
Did any body hear aboutit?

## Post 6 by i love tequila (i just keep on drinkin shots of tequila) on Saturday, 23-Jun-2007 8:54:51

nope dus it work

## Post 7 by Blue Velvet (I've got the platinum golden silver bronze poster award.) on Saturday, 23-Jun-2007 12:20:17

I just did a very brief google search, and borojo seems to be a fruit from the Amazon that is supposed to be very nutritious. Some of the claims include lowering blood pressure, keeping blood sugar under control, and preventing cancer. I didn't see any claims about optic nerve regeneration.

## Post 8 by ezziejc (The Bathroom Skyper!) on Friday, 03-Aug-2007 23:57:53

put it this way, if such a thing was out already, I'd be screaming, hitting and bellowing until I got it.

## Post 9 by Blue Velvet (I've got the platinum golden silver bronze poster award.) on Saturday, 04-Aug-2007 14:00:14

Read Gemini's post about zebra fish stem cells being used for various eye conditions. It looks like science is getting closer.

## Post 10 by Dubstep1984 (I just keep on posting!) on Saturday, 26-Jan-2008 22:17:08

oh great. and i am due for surgery to get my eye taken out on the fourth of march. looks like this optic nerve regeneration is too late for me.

## Post 11 by Eleni21 (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Sunday, 27-Jan-2008 14:01:02

I place my faith in natural cures. Not the fly-by-night stuff, but things that are either tried and true or that were really studied. This is not to say I'm against surgery, but I'll always choose naturopathic over synthetic in everything except birth control. Now, I have ROP (rrtinopothy of prematurity). I went blind at two-months-old due to a detached retina, and I'm not sure if my optic nerve is dead or if it just didn't develop. Either way, I had nine opperations as a baby, which, thankfully, I don't remember. I had my eyerices and lenses taken out, but I still have my real eyes. Does anyone know of research that's going on specifically about rop or at least about reattaching retinas? Also, I've heard that since I haven't seen in 24 years, it would be almost impossible for me to see now.

## Post 12 by Dubstep1984 (I just keep on posting!) on Monday, 28-Jan-2008 14:01:45

it will be impossible. yes u can get your retinas reattached, but u still will not be able to see.