Dear Mike,
I am fair-minded engineer who appreciates
the difficulties of true-prevention.
I received this letter from

Dear fellow eyeball fans:
I'm a 54 y/o male in South Carolina. I'm quite myopic, as in -8. Last  
April I had a posterior vitreous detachment in the left eye that resulted  
in 2 retinal holes at the 10 o'clock and 1 o'clock positions  

I am preparing for Lasik in a couple days.  Yesterday, my eye doc
dilated my pupils for one last pre-examination.  It's now 26 hours
later, and my pupils still aren't completely back to their normal size.
They're taking a very long time to go back to normal.  Is this

I have had intermittent cloudy vision with halos in my right eye (which
has amblyopia)for several years. I have been to an opthalmologist and
it was determined that on one occasion I had elevated pressures (30 in
left, 32 in right). Almost all other times it was about 20/21. I now ...

Greetings to all,
I recently totaled my car and broke my glasses.  It gave me a chance to
get a new pair.  I have tried to research this group and found it
interesting, but some of the info I don't completely understand.  I

Dear MikeT,
Subject:  99 percent nearsight go further "down" at West Point.
MikeT> If you believe one percent survives four years without
negative refractive change, then you believe 99% DID

Good Day All,
Which lens would you recommend for my wife for the best vision?
Her prescription is:
O.D. +1.50 SPH

This day:
1. As slow day for old Otis:  6 of 53 posts.  Still greater than 10% of
newsgroup traffic.
2. Same old posts and same old inability to provide even the smallest,

I've got a fairly rare condition which is getting worse as I get older (age 76
now).
My opthalmologist also calls it "map-dot-fingerprint" and corneal dystrophy..
The outer layer of the epithelium on the cornea flakes off, only in my case it

Hi all.  Since August 2004, I have been suffering with pain and vision
troubles in my left eye, and at this point, no one has a good
explanation as to why.  Long story short, I've got pain around the left
eye and in the cheek bone area, along with some focus troubles

Hello, I am very interested in this group. I would like to receive all
your interesting questions.

All,
In Aug 2004, at age 61, I experienced flashers and floaters in my left
eye and consulted with my ophthalmologist. He advised that my
experience was not unusual for males over 50, a shrinking vitreous

I recently suferred from mild "Iritis" in one eye caused by "Trauma".
I was prescribed "Prednisolone Acetate" (a Steroid) and "Mydrilate"
(Cyclopentolate Hydrochloride) to "Dilate" the pupil.
The "Mydrilate" is used in conjunction with the Steroid to prevent

I have a question about my eyeglass prescription. I am near-sighted and
have some amount of astigmatism in both of my eyes.
My question is about the prescription. It is written as
Sphere     Cylinder      Axis

I'm 49, I got a prescription done in April 2004 and was recommended
bi-focals. However I never went through with it and stuck with my old reader
and distance glasses. I got a voucher for a free eye test which was a day
ago. When I comared them I was suprised that the sph has ...