My wife recently switched from Frequency 55 lenses to Acuvue Advance.
The trial Advance lenses she used were very clear and lasted over two
weeks. Upon ordering a batch of lenses she is now finding that after a
couple of days the lenses feel coated with something and are scratchy

I smell a flame war about to start.
The temptation will be strong to join.
Don't do it.
w.stacy, o.d.

I am ABOC optician from Wisconsin, and I'm actively preparing for my
advanced testing.  I only work in one practice with only a handful of
Doctors. I was curious to see, as OD's, what you think makes a good
optician. I have learned more on the job and through personal research

should the glasses rest on the nose bridge or just the nose pads. i
can't get my glasses not to slip down my nose, and i don't know what
i'm doing wrong.
thank you

Hi, all. I am wearing (I believe) Silicon HydroGels; they're night&day
lenses, and I am satisfied with them overall.
The only occasional issue is dryness at night. I try to offset that by
using a drop of TheraTears before I turn in, and again in the morning.

I've been informed that cooper-flex and frequency 55 are the same lens
marketed by cooper under 2 brands, the former being sold only to Kaiser
Permanente. I have no problem with that except the base curves are
nominally different, 8.6 in the former and 8.7 in the latter.  To me

Otis, what is your position on the Bates Method?
The Bates Method is based on emotional problems and says they are to
blame for the beginning of all eyesight problems.  This very
subjective.  Your method is very objective, which says that the eyes

Is there a tendency that the astigmatic axes of the left eye and the right
eye are mirror images?
I was wondering because they are in my eyes (right  S-4.00  C-1.5  110°,
left  S-5.50  C-1.5  70°).

I had wavefront-guided LASIK about 8 months ago and sometimes my left
eye goes blurred.
I'm pretty sure it's just a bit of dry-eye. I take flax-seed oil and
that helps somewhat.

I just joined. I have been in the optical field for 9 years. I am a Lab
Manager for one of the top optical chains (No, not Lencrafters..LOL). I
would love to help out is any way I can. Thanks for having me here. I
also have a group that I just created....Please feel free to check it

When a vitreous detachment occurs and a Weiss ring floater appears,
this is tissue that has been pulled away from the optic nerve head,
correct? From what I have read, this event may occasionally be
accompanied by optic disk hemorrhage. Would this ever cause damage to

I have it at the moment and it's hard to describe.  I can see
everything in focus, especially what I'm looking directly at & I can
see colours normally but it's like flashing white & blurring around the
periphery, almost like looking through water.

I believe that this test has been proven; when they gave chicks 10
diopters of plus lenses to one group and 10 diopters of minus lenses to
another group.  Thus this plan cannot fail.  Now all you need to do,
Otis, is to make this federal law.  As soon as the child is born, and

According to Lenscrafters, the horrible vision I have at the age of
sixteen is genetic.  According to Lenscrafters, it is natural to only
be able to see four inches in front of my face without glasses.  It
was, for lack of a better term, my "crappy genetics".  The genetic

1- Do both lenses have to be the same type? My wife has a toic lens to
correct asigmatism in one eye, but why does she have a toric lens for the
other eye? Are we getting screwed?
2- With soft disposible lenses is there really any risk to different BCs