difference between hi index and thin lens?
precription card has both options - hi index is ticked?

Last year I purchased a pair of Rodenstock progressive glasses at Sams
Club.  I like the progressives just fine.  Today I bent over to pick
up some dropped mail, I whooshed a bug in front of my face, and splat
the glasses went to the pavement.  No lens scratches at all.

Dear Jan,
Subject: I declare that Otis' idea about preventing myopia in humans
    must be destroyed.  Jan (normally Dutch spoken)
    "The test of a first-class mind is the ability to hold two

Dear Friends,
Subject:  Majority Opinion and use of a minus on your children.
Re:  Otis and Second-opinion Optometrists WILL ANSWER -- but
you may not like the answer you hear.

Are Systane lubricating drops ok to use while wearing contact lenses?
Can't see any mention on the packaging.

I am a contact lens wears (many years) and currently use Biocompatables
Proclear (-5.5 14.2/8.6) without problem. I am considering asking my optican
about exteneded wear (purevision / night & day) because of the added
convience.

My mom has been going to The Quack for at least 10 years.  He has
diagnosed dry MD and glaucoma and has her visit every 3 months to check
on it.  About a month or so she noticed that her better eye (20/30)
seemed to be getting worse.  At her appointment last week it was 20/50

Have been reading with some interest about this monovision solution to
wearing reading glasses or bifocals.  Generally, I understand how it
works and how the brain can make one eye compensate for distance and
still allow close-up detail vision.  Was wondering how that the

Has anyone had a chance to try this out?
http://www.pulsedata.com/myreader/
Something BIG is coming...
Something that will reshape the way you think about low vision

I currently wear the Trilogy clear progressives from Younger Optics
and am quite satisfied with them.  I have a separate pair of
prescription sunglasses for outdoor use.
I'm considering getting the Trilogy progressive photochromic lenses.

Hello, all:
I'm a photographer who waited too long to have my cataract problems
solved by lens implants. My eyes finally got so bad tha I could no
longer focus sharply on the ground-glass screen of my SLR's.

Dear LarryDoc,
You ask for "proof" about the effect that a
plus or minus lens has on the refractive
status of the natural primate eye.

I was looking into some neck pain and saw this article I thought would
be of some interest.
http://www.holistic-online.com/Yoga/hol_yoga_pos_neckex.htm

I've been wearing contacts and glasses for the past 5 years for farsighted
vision.  The two optometrists I've had from separate practices had each
prescribed my glasses with +25 more than my contacts saying that because
glasses are further away from the eyes the magnification ...

Otis > Larry, I got'ta love you!  You are making my case that you
      ignore all scientific (primate-eye) data you do not like.
Judy > "Any hypothesis for prevention of myopia that is based on
      the evidence from animal studies is based on evidence that