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Medicinal progress is one of the best things that has happened to us. From the invention of antibiotics to organ transplants, from vaccination to new artificial intelligence techniques changing the ways we spot, examine and cure diseases, it has been making us live longer and healthier.

No wonder medicine has captured our imagination, fueling pop culture with shows like Grey’s Anatomy and making us reevaluate how much we know and don't know about some medical conditions. And Kelvin Fiagbe, a Ghana-based medical student and video creator, has a lot to say about the topic!

Kelvin has been creating educational videos on the most fascinating medical facts and explaining mysterious conditions to his 476K TikTok followers. Recently, he made a whole video series showing how people see with various medical conditions, such as diabetic retinopathy or glaucoma.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't find it that very desciptive of how it is to experience an aura. I think a more precise description would be to imagine looking at a very colourfull patcwork under stong sunlight for a minute or two. The aura acts like the "after-image" on your retina being superimposed on what you see. It is kind of there and not there at the same time, and not something stationary you can focus on. Another peculiar phenomenom is that your periferal vision just vanishes at the same time. It does not go black, it just does no longer exist. It is like the way you cannot see what is behind your head, but you do not see your head as a black obstacle, that part of the world is just simply not seen.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Me. I have so much myopia that I cant really read without glasses or even recognice nyself in the mirror without them (obviously i know that its me but i cant see it)

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Bored Panda reached out to Kelvin Fiagbe, the creator of these medical videos that are going viral on TikTok, to find out more about him. Kelvin is a 2nd year physician assistantship student in Ghana.

“I joined TikTok in May 2020. I started with comedy and found out that it wasn't really for me,” he recounted. “So I switched to medical content since I'm already in the medical field. I make medicine-related videos, from rare conditions to how people see, to guessing the name of the medical equipment.”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Oh, squiggly line in my eye fluid. I see you lurking there on the periphery of my vision. But when I try to look at you, you scurry away. Are you shy, squiggly line? Why only when I ignore you, do you return to the center of my eye? Oh, squiggly line, it's alright, you are forgiven."

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

as someone that has this one... i'm not sure if the inset is the full color, or the skewed one

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Kelvin said he’s been interested in medicine for as long as he remembers. “I used to have a first aid kit at home and usually play with it. But I realized that in medicine, I can actually help so many people and that makes me happy.”

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When asked what rare medical condition fascinates him the most, Kelvin said it’s mirror-touch synesthesia. “Imagine feeling what other people feel just by seeing them, but there are many more.” Turns out, he learns these interesting facts from the medical shows that he likes so much as well as studying them in class.

The TikTok creator also said that he’s really glad to be able to “give people value and educate them every day.”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

or when i let my friends try on my glasses. "HoW cAn YoU sEe WiTh ThEse??"

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have astigmatisms in both my eyes and I don't have the distorted, just blurry. That photo is still not blurry enough for me when I don't have my glasses on lol

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same here. The above 'astigmatism' picture doesn't look anything like mine.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow these posts are so far from the truth. I have astigmatism and it's not at all like this.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

From other comments, it's clear that a few people with astigmatism do have distortion but very few. I'm one of the ones who doesn't, and find this image very unhelpful - as most generalisations are.

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Nikki Sevven
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The worst part about astigmatism is the haloes around lights at night.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s not true. Astigmatism means that I have problems with distance assessment or no clear border of light. But all lines are straight.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have astigmatism and believe me, the vision is blurry but not distorted at all!! The second picture made me nauseous!!😶😑

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is not astigmatism. Period. There is distortion like that. Lines get blurred, the "middle" of the blur stays in it's place.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is totally NOT accurate so I'm guessing most of the conditions they list here are also not accurate

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't have distortion or blur from mine. I have a second slightly offset image

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have slight astigmatism which is more like seeing through a slight grid, when I am tired.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's not how I see things. Light is distorted, so the screen and hanging lights would have long streaked lines coming from them. Everything else is just very blurry and blended together.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nope. I have astigmatism and don't see anything like that.

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Mina
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like many commenters, I have had astigmatism for over half of my life and that picture is not accurate. The blurring, yes, not the distortion.

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Brooke Weber
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have moderate astigmatism and this is nothing like how I see. Mostly things are just blurry and words look like someone got them wet and the ink it starting to bleed

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is imagine this might be severe astigmatism of both eyes. . I have one eye with astigmatism. It's more blurred edges when there are differing light conditions and glare can be pretty bad. Occasionally I'll get an entire focus blur. .... don't rub your eyes people.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The halos around lights would have been a better example of most people's experience of astigmatism.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was told I had astigmatism, hadn't noticed, but the glasses which corrected it drove me mad with the distortion.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Astigmatism which has improved somewhat as I age but not much. Astigmatism right along with eyes that work independently. Also a little better might be that I am so very very aware of it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Astigmatism is much more fun than the regular vision when on hallucinogenics at least

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm told I have astigmatism in my left eye, but I've never had that problem as shown above. Thanks to daily vitamin E, I have been able to go w/out glasses, except for reading, for decades. This year I started experiencing blurry distance vision and traffic lights that look like Mickey Mouse shapes in red, yellow and green. Glasses have helped.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not for me either. I see all vertical lines as blurry and horizontal lines as sharp, but other than that, there's no distortion.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our brains don't perceive the "warp" or distortion. It just makes our glasses very expensive.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For all the people saying that this is cute, maybe it adds nice aesthetic to one picture, but would you really want live you life seeing this the entire time??

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According to the Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, more than 4.2 million Americans aged 40 years and older are either legally blind or have low vision. The leading causes of blindness and low vision in the US are primarily age-related eye diseases. These include macular degeneration, cataract, diabetic retinopathy, and glaucoma, amblyopia and strabismus.

Refractive errors are the most common vision impairment in the US that makes it hard for a person to see clearly. It’s estimated that there are more than 150 million Americans with the condition. Reflective errors happen when the shape of your eye keeps light from focusing correctly on your retina (a light-sensitive layer of tissue in the back of your eye).

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Other common eyesight conditions include cataract, which is a clouding of the eye’s lens and is the leading cause of blindness worldwide, and the leading cause of vision loss in the US. They can occur at any age and in some cases can be present since birth.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have this and it gets worse if i'm tired or have a fibro flare up. Looking at anything with close stripes is a nightmare and really hurts my head and eyes. Sometimes the edges of things look like they have faint motion lines like you would see in a cartoon when something is drawn to look like it's shaking.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of my friends has this and that's why he always wear black and white outfits only, otherwise he could look ridiculous to other people.

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Diabetic retinopathy (DR), which you’ve seen in the video, is the condition that results from a common complication of diabetes. It progressively damages the blood vessels of the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye that is necessary for good vision. DR usually affects both eyes.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sheldon kind of explained it perfectly. The things that bother him sensory wise is like an itchy sweater on your brain that you can't scratch and can't ignore.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have visual snow (found out after talking to my eye doctor this year and she said it was my brain and not my eyes). Mine doesn't quite look like that, think an out of tune tube TV. Where you can see the show and the color but there is static everywhere. It makes it really hard to see in the dark too. If you're curious about it look it up, it's crazy how uncommon it is.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I heard that this is not a disease and people with synesthesia are good in certain tests of memory.

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Glaucoma is another common group of diseases characterized by damage to the eye’s optic nerve, which occurs when the normal fluid pressure inside the eyes slowly rises. However, recent findings now show that glaucoma can occur with normal eye pressure. It can lead to severe vision loss and blindness.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not like that though... (don't have it but I know about it). It's just that they don't notice/remember the subtle differences that make a face stand out from others.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have visual snow, and I guess it's different for everyone because the first two pictures with the ripples I don't see, but the third picture it pretty much what I see.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not saying that it would be cool to always see like this, but the first picture actually looks nice.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

More like Glaucoma that wasn't controlled and killed that person's peripheral vision. I was diagnosed with it over 20 years ago and other than being nearsighted, I see fine.

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