I get very frustrated when my new glasses arrive and the new
astigmatism perscrition creates a distortion in my vision.  I like my
new near sighted perscription I got with my contacts.  I can see far
away great and I can still read the dash of my truck.  With the new

I've been troubled with floaters since I was in my late teens (I'm in
my fifties now).
Last Summer a thug punched me in the left eye. The only symptoms then
were the classic 'black eye' - the flesh around the eye was swollen and

OK this was bizarre.  I was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
Before being diagnosed I was getting the usual symtpoms: unquentionable
thirst, blurred vision, etc.  The endocrinologist put me on insulin and
metformin and we still had a hard time controlling it, and they ...

Dear Majority-Opinion Friends,
Some of you may have noticed that I have made myself
just a bit scarce on sci.med.vision of late.
There are two primary reasons for this:

My 4 month old is diagnosed with accomdative esotropia (eyes crossing)
and has a +7 subscription for her +9 eyes. I have only found two or
three different frames that are even remotely apealing. any sugestions?
so far I found

I would like to have some idea about:
1. What is the frequency of CPC procedures in various parts of the world?
2. If there would be an efficient way to accurately guide the laser to the
ciliary body, and to follow up the cyclophotocoagulation in real time, would

Hi again,
I'm using a new product  since thursday: tears plus from allergan. It's a
kind of artificial tear for dry eyes. In the beginning it was very smoothing
but the good effects gradually seem to diminish and redness increased and

I have a rather bizarre situation that I've never encountered in my
nearly 20 years of wearing contacts.
For the past two or three years, I've had the same prescription: -3.75
in both eyes.  Recently, I was due for a check-up and went to a new

Silly question maybe but can one easily have rgp
lenses visibly marked for right/left identification?
I know some soft lenses have markings around
the periphery but they're a lot larger and well out

Over the last 5 years I have go through tremendous stress, so much so that I
have chronic muscle pain and have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia - but I
think it is simple stress and activation of the CNS from stress and
exhaustion.

I'm looking for advice on a progressive lens brand.
I'm 53 years old, have worn progressives fairly successfully about 4 years
and not so successfully 3 years before that.
My rx is:

Are they available yet?
(I see them advertised online already, at:
http://www.aclens.com/displaylens.asp?LensID=290
I know that online ads can be deceptive though--advertising something not in

I moved to California and I didn't know much about the requierements so
i will share them with you.
California New Residents
New residents to "The Golden State" are required to do a variety of

Maybe it was the phrasing.  Let me post the questions in this format.
Please feel free to answer asap.
1)      There seems to be a great deal of evidence that primates have widely
differing visual systems.  How is it that you feel so secure in saying that

My 6 year old daughter has low vision without a diagnosed cause.  We've
been great about getting her eyes checked yearly since she was a little
over 1 year old.  In a nut shell, here's what's transpired:
Tested slightly farsighted as a baby.