I just got a prescription for some eyeglasses and contacts and am
trying to make sense of it. First let me give you the numbers:
For the Eyeglasses:
OD Sphere -1.75, no astigmatism

I'd like to order a pair of single vision glasses with only the near
vision in them. Here's my current prescription:
    Sphere  Cylinder  Axis  Add  Prism  PD
O.D. -2.00   -4.25     097   1.25        Dist 63

i have redness in upper eyelid across the whole eylid, that is a very,
very dark red color...we have gotten things ranging from  popped blood
vessels....to tumors...........what you think it is?
doctors?

Ok folks here's my problem. I live in the U.K., and currently have
some problems with my contact lenses...
I play 8 ball pool at a fairly high level in a local league. Mainly
from playing pool I have noticed that my eyesight has deteriorated

I tried wearing contacts 10 years ago, but could after a month or so
could never get used to them.  I'm trying again now that they are
supposedly thinner and the technology has improved (so I'm told).
However I've been giving 2 week lenses and when I put them in I just

Dear Friends,
The second-opinion, that nearsighedness can be prevented
has a long history.
It is very easy to "quick-fix" a person with a

Otis> Dear Dr G.,
"You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time, but
you can't fool all the people all the time."

Last year I was put on a COX-2 drug for a month or so. Since one of
the side effects mentioned in the news is transient ischemic attack, I
am wondering if what I experienced was somehow related to this drug
while I was taking it - only because I am still trying to find a

 Could somebody give me some advice on vision problems and driving?
  I want to know how I go about finding out if I should be driving.   I
have a learner's permit from Oklahoma.  I live in Florida currently and I
don't drive, at age 28.  I know how to drive and I have alot of ...

Anybody out there here of a situation where a person only needed glasses for
reading and suddenly developed new onset myopia and the same time as horners
syndrom.  Neuro optimologist denied a relationship. Said the vision shift was
unusual. I had the horners workup and nothing no ...

At work I noticed that when I read my monitor (with a flourescent
overhead) or the printed page that the text seems to *move* and its
hard to focus on it but at home (with a similar monitor but lit by
incandescent  light) I do not have this problem.  However, at work if

I am aged 46 and have been using soft lenses for nearly 30 years. However,
as I now feel the problem with Presbyopia, I have tried to buy some Acuvue
Bifocals.
My near-vision with the bifocals is great, but distance view is blurry and

Question for you LASIK experts and eye docs out there: I'm 39 and
considering having custom LASIK done (my eyes are in the -7.5 range
with -1.25 astigmatism). I don't need reading glasses now. I work at a
computer all day, and believe I'd prefer having crisp far vision and

hi. i have some acuvue 2 colours in jade green, sapphire blue and pearl
gray for sale. they are all in a -0.50 prescription with an 8.3 base
curve. it is for people with almost perfect vision but slightly
nearsighted (0.00/plano is for people with perfect vision). they don't

Otis quotes a scientific study to back up his ideas about using plus to cure
myopia:
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