There seems to be some interest in personal experiences with the new
drug Restasis, so I'll share mine.  For about three years, I've been
suffering from dry eye and meibomitis (dysfunctional oil glands near
the eyelashes).  I've had an absolutely miserable time of it.  But

I dont think a +1 or +2 is enough. For fast improvment You need more.+4
or +5,So Im taking them off for hours a day and when I do put them on
there just strong enough to see close with a little blurr.

In Sep, 2004, I had an eye exam in an optometrist and ordered a pair of
glasses. When I picked up my glasses, I also asked and received the
prescription for it. Recently, I ordered a new pair of glasses with the
prescription from another office not associated with my optometrist. ...

Can we please stop the Otis bashing. I am a lurker that reads the group on a
regular basis. When I went to the messages today, most of them were Otis
etc. bashing. Now Otis, don't get me wrong; I kill-filed you a long time
ago. But I still come to this group and get a ton of traffic ...

Report of today March 15th.
Our lady-hero is doing very well.
She can now read the fine print Snellen Chart line calibrated for 1,25
feet at more than 18 cm, in good light, and the great result is that

I'll be having cataract surgery, both eyes, one week apart. I am
extremely near sighted and wear progressive lenses. Once the first eye
is done, the lense in the eyeglasses will be useless. I'm told I will
be measured for a temp lense one week after the first eye is done and

Dear Prevention minded Friends, and R. Izaac,
Subject:  Separating engineering-scientific issues from
     "medical" issues.
Re:  What is the proven effect of a -3.0 D lens on the refractive

I'm wearing soft toric contacts for eight years now. First four years I was
wearing Focus Toric lenses and then I switched to Softlens 66. I'm
satisfied with both, but I have few question and I hope you guys can help
me.

I have completed a Visual Therapy course and want to start treating my
patients with V.T.
I would like to know how to measure the tropic angle with strabismus
patients. If there are any good online V.T. guides I would also be

Dear Ms. Melvin,
I have asked Ciba Vision to look into this matter. They consider this as
very serious, and are very supprised that a box labelled as Progressive
+2.75 would have been adulterated with other lenses. Lenses are manufactured

I've noticed in the past few weeks that things have started getting
just slightly blurry.  It started with computer screens and then menus
(at a distance), etc.  So today I saw the eye doctor and got some
glasses.  The prescription is for:

How long will eyeglass makers honor an eye exam
prescription?
If its over a year are they legally supposed to not
honor it?

Dear Friends,
I personally do not support the use of a "bifocal"
on the THRESHOLD of nearsighdness.  If you are
going to go for true-prevention, then use

Firstly I want to be clear that I'm not attacking people in this newsgroup
like Robert, Specs31 (if he's still around), et al, who in my opinion have
given consistantly great advice and have greatly increased my knowledge.
But, this is my recent experience of visiting opticians to ...

I have been in a LASIK surgery and have been studying related knowledge to
some extent. But so far I haven't found information on how starburst effect
is formed in eye optics. What is the exact theory behind it and where can I
study about it? Camera optics is ok too if information ...