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Is my optician joking?

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Kristina - 11 May 2007 19:15 GMT
Hi
My optician says that the eyes of shortsighted people "can drift outwards
when not with glasses", is that true? We were talking about how much I wear
contacts, which is 90% of the time, the other 10% I don't think I'm so blind
I can't go without indoors. He said how do I find that and I said mostly fine
but sometimes what I called an eye headache, then I put on my glasses. Then
he said the headache could be because my eye(s) drift outwards if they don't
have the prescription.

Have you heard of that before?
William Stacy - 11 May 2007 19:28 GMT
>Hi
>My optician says that the eyes of shortsighted people "can drift outwards
>when not with glasses", is that true?

When there's no wind and the tide's going out that happens to me.

Just kidding.

> We were talking about how much I wear
>contacts, which is 90% of the time, the other 10% I don't think I'm so blind
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>
>  

Only if you also have exophoria or exotropia, which you can have or not
have independent of your myopia, although without your glasses you are
most likely exophoric at near.  Certainly other things are more likely
to cause headache than exo deviations.
spammer - 12 May 2007 02:54 GMT
> >Hi
> >My optician says that the eyes of shortsighted people "can drift outwards
> >when not with glasses", is that true?

Yes, it's true. Thats how my mother was able to yell "I've got eyes in
the back of my head".  They must've drifted pretty far. :)
otisbrown@pa.net - 12 May 2007 01:57 GMT
Y E S !

> Hi
> My optician says that the eyes of shortsighted people "can drift outwards
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michael toulch - 12 May 2007 14:44 GMT
> Hi
> My optician says that the eyes of shortsighted people "can drift outwards
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probably more to do with your simply seeing more clearly with the
glasses on.
 
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