I was just wondering:
Why are Toric contact lenses bigger? ~14.4, 14.5 DIA and normal sph
lenses ~ 14.0, 14.2 DIA
What is the appropriate equivalent of a 14.5 toric lense for a normal

ACCK! I am a -2 myope who is having trouble working at my computer. I
see ok, but my eyes are very fatigued and get so within an hour. Also,
my current glasses no longer work as well for distance. Sigh. A sign of
the inevitable? I will be 43 next month.

thanks for your advice Mark. (I wasn't able to reply to your reply,
some error with retrieving addresses...)
I live in the Netherlands, and there is no walmart here.  could you
(or anyone else) recommend any particular brands which offer the 1.6

Here's the story..
I've been wearing glasses for 5 years now, I'm 24 year old. I decided
it was  time for a change to contact lenses, as glasses started to
really get on my nerves.. feel traped and constrained with them

I recently went in for my annual dilated checkup. They had just gotten
in the equipment to do an Optomap Retinal Exam (
http://www.optos.com/ ) and suggested that I have this done in lieu of
the dilated exam. It cost $40 extra, as my medical/vision insurance did

Does anyone who makes lenses without AR coating?  I've called about 10
different opticians and they all tell me that the AR coating comes
automatically with the lens, that there is no option to get uncoated
lenses.

I accept the idea of WH Bates that refractive errors are the result of
incorrect seeing habits. Myopia is learned very easily during the
formative years at school where incorrect reading habits are acquired.
A minority of pupils learn to stare at printed text and lose some of

Some people claim their myopia gets better as they age. Is this true? If so,
will Lasik to plano result in hyperopia later on?

I ordered soft contact lenses via mail, and due to my own
forgetfullness they sat in the outside mailbox for a couple days in
10-20 degree weather.  Are they ruined?
Thanks,

July of 2003 I had surgery on my right eye at the
Wilmer Eye Institute at John Hopkins to correct a
macular pucker.  This entailed a vitreectemy.  Post
surgery I had a fairly large black spot below and to

I'm not sure if this is the right group for this.  I think it's time to
upgrade my glasses.  Any way to find out what's in style for men nowadays?
Thanks,
Mike

Here I am, 8 months after I posted the following messages.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=f38f589b.0401081500.5
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2Bhelp%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3Df38f589b ...

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I made a post here about 6 weeks ago regarding my (awful)
experience with Lenscrafters progressives.  Based upon the
advice of some people here, I went to a "real" optician.
The woman I dealt with was obviously far more knowlegeable

I just picked up my pair of Pearle Vision
"computer" glasses and aaahhh.
There seems to be 2 small "water marks" in the center sides of
each lens, a total of 4.  One looks like this (ignore the dots,