My wife was said to have a horseshoe shape tear on the retina of her
right eye. Her opthalmologist said she needs laser treatment. What
made me wonder was the treatment only took the doctor 30 seconds. I
was in the same room with her while she lied down and the doctor was

I am a new rigid gas permeable wearer. after many many fitting
attempts, my doctor was able to find lenses which fit my eyes without
causing "3 and 9o'clock irritation". I am now getting used to these
lenses. The comfort is much better than when the problems before were

The lower part of the white part of my right eye is reddish and soft.
Normally the white part is hard but I can deform it by pushing against it
with the lower part of my eyelid.  The soft part ends at the iris.  Is this
just conjunctivitis or some other condition? It doesn't really ...

How much improvement in my vision should I expect if my eyes are 20/60 and
20/50?
My best before cataracts was about 20/30 (corrected).
Thanks very much!!

Sick of glasses still thinking of Laysic, but got a contact
prescription and simply cannot get my contacts in. Spent hours at the
doctors office trying to get them in, finally had to sneak the
prescription from him and order some online so I can practice from

I was just recently diagnosed with KC, and found some excerpts on web,
about studies done because "few elderly patients, age 60 or more with KC
attended their clinics". To cut it short, those studies confirmed that
there is no difference in mortality rates between genereal ...

long story:
eye history: i am a 25 years old male, prescription is around -6.00 in
both eyes. wearing only glasses for about 2 years now.
i started to wear glasses when i was in the 5th grade (-2 to -3.00),

I am a patient writing to ask for fitting hints for
RGP lenses on orientals.
The fitter and the store owner have worked very
hard on getting the correct fit, but we are on

Have been wearing trifocals for several years.  Just got a new prescription
& new lenses.  The 'segment lines' at the top and bottom of the trifocal
lense seem much more noticeable than with my old pair.  There are now these
two thick horizontal blurs at the segment lines, one ...

Since birth, I've had scarring on my left retina from toxoplasmosis.  I have
some peripheral vision remaining in the eye, but can't see well enough to
read, for example.  This also resulted in my left eye turning outward --
enough that people sometimes had a hard time knowing where ...

Are there gas permeable soft contact lens?
What's the maximum hours you can wear soft contacts if in case there
is no gas permeable version.
I'm get used to Gas Permeable Hard contacts and it seems uncomfortable