Loss of myelin is one of the major factors of age-related brain deterioration

Re:Loss of myelin is one of the major factors of age-related... by wallaBBB on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @03:22AM (#26473885)

if you have myopia, or high IOP I wouldn't look into Cipro for blame.

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Re:Loss of myelin is one of the major factors of age-related... by yalok on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @04:37AM (#26474257)

Could be a compound effect - myopia plus this drug - not a good combination.

I have pretty severe myopia, and had laser treatment for tears in it earlier, so have to be very careful about these drugs I guess...

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Re:Loss of myelin is one of the major factors of age-related... by selimthegrim on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @11:25AM (#26478022)

High myopia (between -5 and -6) but IOP was fine...

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Re:Loss of myelin is one of the major factors of age-related... by wallaBBB on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @05:20AM (#26488440)

Well that puts you in a high risk group. Any temporarily high increase in IOP can trigger a tear easily, e.g. an accidental poke. Giving birth is risky with such high myopias. Aging of course... once in 50s I'd do annual checkups on the posterior of the eye if I was a high myope. And drugs for sure didn't affect the shape of your eyeball.

I'm not saying antibiotics don't do any damage, I'm just saying that in such a case those would be at the back of the blame list...

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