Hey Jonsy,
I have read your posts and sorry about what you are going through. How
old are you? Are you in a career field that you are required to have
20/20 vision or better? Military or civilian aviator, etc? If not, why

My Dad has been told he has "incipient cataracts", and that lasik is too
risky at this point (he could go blind if they attempt lasik). His doctors
have said that they would feel more comfortable performing the lasik once
the cataracts have fully formed. (that sounds depressing!!)

I went to my contact lens specialist recently and in one eye I was told I
had the beginning symptoms of corneal neovascularization (new blood veins
growing into the cornea). I also see halos and "starbursts" around lights at
night. Should I stop wearing contact lenses ? And when ...

Can drusen be seen by the patient?
Don W.

I am a big film buff and nothing annoys me more than missing
something which was on the screen in the cinema, yet was mysteriously
absent from the TV version.
So can I have an opperation to burn out the top and bottom of my retina

Is there a difference to the eye between 5" letters at 20', 10"
letters at 40', 20" letters at 80', etc.?

In all my readings here, I have tacitly assumed that optometrists always
used thin lens formulas without ever using thick lens formulas. Am I
mistaken?
I guess that in the days before ocular implants, the "coke bottle" lenses

My grandmother recently had a cataract removed. During the procedure,
the doctor completely cut out her capsule. The next day, he had to
relieve pressure that had been building up that had caused a horrific

Do contact lenses become thinner after using them a few weeks? I have
been wearing a pair of Biomedics 55 for three weeks and they seem
notably thinner. Is this the typical evolution? Or is it only my own
appreciation?

I don't know if this is the right place to post. Anyway there it goes.
I'd always have, I think, problems eyes, but only when I've been adopted,
when I was almost seven I'd have  find out some of my problems.
My first glasses was  basicaly +12,00 -2,75 and +12,75 -2,00 with others

Does anyone have experience with the Macrolens from C & H. I recently
switched from RGP toric lens to the Macrolens because I wanted that
would be more stable in the eye and reduce the flaring I was getting
from my RGP'S. While I like the comfort and the lene not moving

Not strictly medical, but I noticed this group had posts about
spectacles/lenses.
Briefly - I have uniform starburst scratches on both lenses of my
glasses. The optician says they are scuff marks, I'm not convinced.

Optical glasses were once classified as light (crown) and dense (flint)
glass. The denser (mass per volume) glasses had higher indexes than the
light glasses. Except for some special formulations, expensive rare earth
glasses for example, it was difficult to get lighter lenses of ...

Glass is definitely heavier but is it better, optically.

Hi and thanks in advance for your help.
I want to buy contact lenses online.
My prescription is . BC: 8.6, D:14.2, PWR: -2.25.
However, everytime I go to fill this out online, I am unable to get the