Hi, I am 33 yrs. old and I have had strabismus all my life.  I had two
surgeries before the age of five, which did not turn out well.
I then had  Dr Marshall Parks perform surgery around twelve years of
age which turned out perfectly.  For approx. fifteen years I forgot I

Not that I've ever done it, but this subject came up during the last card
night.  Something to do with the eyes turning inwards during orgasm.
Please help, Peter

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Time for new contact lenses.  I've been corresponding with the Boston
Foundation for Sight re: their Scleral Prosthetic Lens, but ... it's a
pretty radical (and expensive!) step.
I've been wearing (full atropinised wavefront Rx) scl's (actually

I wear Focus Progressives and I want to try a multi-focus gp lens.
The problem is finding a practitioner who prescribes and fits them.
Whenever I call someone in the yellow pages under 'contact lens', they
either say soft lenses only or say I have to make an appointment to find

I have had a cold for about a week.  A couple of days ago I developed a
blemish under my eye.  It made the skin under my eye puffy.    A day later I
developed a cold sore on my lip.    I didn't associate the two at first but
began to wonder if the eye problem was herpes.   I ...

An eye doctor detected this in me today and I'm only in my early 40s.
What can cause this in a younger age than is usual?  I'm trying to
find out more about this, and need to find a retina specialist, since
I initially set up an appt to see if I needed some vision correction,

I have a son who is 6 years old. He recently had his eyes tested at
Boots Opticians (UK) and had the following reading:
Right:
-Sph: +0.50

I am myopic, with ~ -5.00 diopters left eye, ~ -4.50 diopters right eye.
One year ago I developed a strange problem on my left eye:
I see a spherical distortion with my left eye as follows:
http://www.virtualcomposer2000.com/Misc/VisionProblem.gif

I have recently purchased some glasses from Shoppers Optical (their
Maxthon brand), and have noticed that even though my vision is clear,
they seem to make things appear slightly hazier, or dimmer.
This is the first pair of glasses I have ever worn, and I have a fairly

Is reading small print, in a dimly lit room for a long time actually
"bad" for your eyes?  I know it's not comfortable.  I know it requires
more effort.  But in the long run, is this bad for your vision?

I don't hang out in this newsgroup and don't know if
the question is appropriate, but here goes:
I am looking for an optician/optometrist/witch doctor
in northeast Ohio who sells/has even heard of the

My prescription is
R
sph -0.5
cyl -0.25

I had a PI in each eye before putting in Implantable Contact Lens (I
gather it was a precautionary step). As soon as PI holes were there, I
saw a slight second image when the tear meniscus at the eyelid edge is
over the hole; the image shifts as I raise and lower the eyelid while ...

Hi all. My 85-year-old mother is losing her sight (together with, sadly but
I suppose inevitably, her other faculties). A few months ago I bought her a
child's cassette player with really big, brightly-coloured knobs. She got on
with it OK until 'forward' and 'back' became just ...