I will try to make this story as short as possible.  Two years ago, I
suffered from what appeared to be an anxiety induced event that caused
a neurological change in my brain as well as my abdominal area.  I was
a long-time GERD (acid reflux) sufferer who took a medicine called

I'm wearing O2 Optix but my practitioner says no more than 12 hours a day or
5 days a week. But I thought these were extended wear. I don't want to wear
them to sleep in but there are the odd occasions when I'd like to be able to
wear longer than 12 hours or for more than 5 days a ...

I've had punctal plugs placed in the lower puncta.  I was wondering
what the procedure is for getting them out, when they have sunk into
the canal.  Does it involve physical extraction, or flushing with a
miniature hose or something?

I'm a new member here and I would like to inform those of you who have
wet AMD, or know someone who does, that a new clinical trial is
starting soon to test Evizon, a new treatment now in stage II and III
clinical trials.  The drug, put out by Genaera Corp., looks very

I am just wondering if these two topical eye drop / gels are already
available in the US or Canada ? If not does anybody know if they are
available in other parts of the world ?
I am highly myopic and recently my 8 year old son was found to have

No one has posted re Crystalens since March '06.
Haven't new data surfaced?  How does a patient
choose intelligently between Crystalens and a simple
monofocal IOL?  How many years can one expect

A quick query, anyone know if while wearing a toric lens, does it alter the
eyes accomodation abilities?
TIA
Gary

I recently went to an eye center to get contact lens and an eyeglass
prescription. The eyeglass prescription was:
RE: -2.50 +0.25 145  (sph/cyl/axis)
LE: -2.50 +1.25 020

Over the past few months, I've been doing a lot of close work which has
aggravated my lazy eye (which started when i was 9 and i never got it
treated). I use the term "lazy eye" loosely, as I don't have amblyopia
as such, as the vision in my good eye is actually worse than in my ...

I hope someone here can point me in the right direction (if there is
one!)  My husband has been nearsighted all his life, and wears glasses.  
Due to age, his nearsightedness has reduced itself somewhat, and he has
a new problem.  He likes to read or use his laptop while watching ...

Imagine, that you go on the automobile and that accompanies with you by
the helicopter with a certain person to whom you absolutely trust and
with which you support constant contact. You see the helicopter above
yourself and perceive it as conductor which will correctly specify to

Dear Ace,
   Thanks for your commentary.
   I should clarify what I state -- and believe -- about
the dynamic nature of all fundamental eyes -- when

I'm having a surgery on 7/12. What's really killing me nowadays is not my
blurry vision but anxiety. Just thinking about the surgery depresses me and
almost causes a panic attack! I know that it doesn't do me any good
whatsoever to be in that kind of negative mood. But I guess I ...

I'm going to Hawaii in 3 weeks and I wanted to get a pair of Maui Jim's
for the trip, but if they're cheaper in the place where the sunglasses
originated, then I can wait and buy them there.
Does anyone know if Maui Jim sunglasses are cheaper in Hawaii?

Dear Majority Opinion Friends,
Subject: which me is me?
I have two separate e-mail accounts.
I may post via one or the other, depending