Re: Unusual Eyeglasses Dilemma

On Mar 8, 11:18 am, "Mike Tyner" <mty...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thank you. Knowing your age, a .25D decrease in your _far_ prescription is
COMMON. Your nearsightedness wont go away, but it's typical for it to
_improve_ a tiny bit at your age.

No. The 0.25D decrease is because her machine is faulty and
read my old glasses 0.25D less. I was able to confirm this by
letting 3 independent optometrists read my old glasses
which show -8.25 OD -9.0 OS. While the optometrist
who made my new glasses machine show it to be
-8.0 OD -8.75 OS. I just told her to copy my old glasses
prescription since it shows perfect image far and she
agreed but her machine was faulty making me pissed
off and quarrelled with her. Therefore there is no decrease
in my far prescription yet.

The concept you're asking about is presbyopia. Yours is only beginning to
encroach on your near vision.

Well. If I try to reverse my old glasses where the ear rest is in
front
of me (where I can see it) and the end pointing upward (hope you
can imagine it), the image is clearer same as new glasses so I
guess the problem is that my eyes are not at center of the
old frame but more upward of the frame and the lens is kinda
slant producing not sharp image.

At your age, it's natural to have fatigue trying to read all day. Ask your
optician about a bifocal lens with a low-power 'add' of +075. That's about
the smallest difference they will incorporate in a progressive bifocal.

I'll visit the 7th optometrist next week for this aspect. I heard
there is a standard test for presbyopia that involves "blur"
something? In the malls where I visited the hired optometrists,
they always say I have no presbyopia because I can
still read the reading chart. But I guess there is more
complete tests for this which they lack that I have to
find in a more high tech optometrists in the city? What's
the presbyopia tests that United States optometrists use?
I can't just tell them to give me bifocal with +0.75 without
any objective confirmation of my presbyopia.

you think that contacts getting stuck is a sign that the
eyes may be too dry for them to be used. How many
percentage of your soft contact users have difficulty removing
them at the end of the day because they are stuck? Is
it normal?

I need to know whether you mean soft contacts or RGPs. It isn't normal in
either case and it's potentially dangerous.

Soft Contact Focus Dailies disposable was the one I
used yesterday. I had a hard time getting them out
and had to put wetting solution and flushing the
eyes with water flow before I can take the soft contact out.
This is because my eyes got dry after 8 hours of wearing
them. I have no problem with RGP but just wanted to wear
soft contact yesterday because it was an important outing and
my RGP can't last with strong wind as dusts can easily get
inside and sting the eyes.

What possible damage can happen in one attempt to
take out stuck soft contact lens? If my cornea got aberration
from that one incident. Could it heal in a day or two.
Maybe my ephithelium get some scratches by the
pinching? Today I wore Silicone Hydrogels and my left
eye didn't feel very comfortable so I took them out after
4 hours. I found out it's easier to remove the Silicone
Hydrogels with just one pinch. Maybe it's harder to
remove the Focus Dailies disposable because daily
disposable is thinner than other contacts?

Anyway. I guess I'll rest my eyes for a few days without
wearing any contacts and return to RGPs where I already
got my order and ready to wear. I've worn RGPs for
20 years and more comfortable with them and can
easily remove them within a second. I guess RGPs and
eyeglasses are the safest for me. My only complain
with RGP is that dusts can easily get inside and sting the
eyes. Do you know where I can order zero power glasses
(maybe at Amazon.com?) with complete covering in all the
side (like protective glasses) yet they normal and don't
look like swimming goggles but look like normal spectable?
There is none like this locally but I wonder if this is
available at the states.

Many thanks.

Pia


The above concerns daily disposible. I also own a
trial pair of O2Optic Silicone Hydrogels and haven't used
them for one week and they are soaked in the same solution.
In your knowledge, how often should soft contact solutions  be
replaced (daily? twice a week? one a week?) if the
lens is rarely used (twice monthly for example)?

If it's been more than two weeks, rinse before inserting. If it's been more
than a month, change the solution the night before wearing them again.

-MT

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