Does it significantly increase the risk of the surgery? I'm meeting with my
surgeon on Monday and want to get more information.

when I was a kid I remember when I went to the shoe store and the guy
there told me that my feet had grown bigger and that I needed larger
shoes.  I got those larger shoes and then loe and behold my feet grew
bigger still!!  I relayed that story to my friend and he said the same

Dear Prevention minded friends,
Subject:  An engineer helps his children avoid entry in to
     nearsightedness.
Re:  The primate eye behaves as expected.

for the docs on this group, here is a pair of pics I took of this 50 yo
wf the first one taken a little over a year ago:
http://www.obase.net/combs1.jpg
and the second one today:

B&L soft contacts are supposed to have an "inversion indicator", to indicate
which side of the cl goes on the outside, and which on the inside, so people
don't put them in backwards.
I'm test wearing a pair of B&Ls (Purevision Multifocals), and I don't see

I defend Otis because he is right. I wore the minus lens and look what
happened to me? My vision is very bad, worse than 20/400 now  :(
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~schw0709/stories/VisionTherapy.html
If you read this link, the plus lens saved him. He was 20/40 and -1 and

http://www.revoptom.com/index.asp?ArticleType=SiteSpec&page=osc/apr01/lesson_0401.htm
Excerpt below:
Fortunately, a larger NEI-funded study of bifocals is ongoing. The
Correction of Myopia Evaluation Trial (COMET) is studying more than 400

1. What is the minimum prescription someone has to be for you to
prescribe glasses?
2. Do you double check the subjective manifast refraction to be sure
its correct, accurate and repeatable?

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/10010.jpg
He must have started wearing glasses from birth, inducing a very high
negetive refractive state! He could have real problems as a teen with
such high myopia. Scary!

I'm a loooong time AOSept user, and recently found that Clear Care had
seemingly replaced it.  Now I'm having difficulty finding Clear Care.  What
gives?
I hatesssss those all-in-one solutions.  They feel gooey.

http://www.babyart.org/store/en/articles/img220.jpg
http://www.calvarycdc.com/cdc/images/gal_boy-w-glasses.gif
Glasses at a young age and reading without taking your minus glasses
off will led to stair-case myopia and your eyes will be really bad in

I need a new pair of glasses (progressives, need hi index material due
to a strong prescription) and am shopping around. Lenscrafters says
they use a Pentax material, Costco uses Essler (not sure about that
spelling) Naturals.

The other Ciba solutions are back on the market here (USA), but I have not
seen any Softwear Saline for several months. Does anyone know what has
happened to this solution? Has Ciba discontinued it? If so, why?

When a patient is to be fitted with monovision contact lenses to control
both myopia and presbyopia, how is it decided which eye to fit for distance,
and which for near work?
I have read before about "dominant eye" and "non-dominant eye", but I don't

Got a question for those more in the know.  When DS was young the current
literature at the time said that it harmed infants/toddlers to sleep in
rooms that were not pretty much darkened.  I am now hearing that this has
been found fallacious.  Does anyone have current good ...