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THE LASIK REPORT
A Call for the Discontinuation of a Harmful Procedure
August, 2006

From time to time I read some of the posts on this site. I am a little
confused about farsightedness. I have seen people post that they are
farsighted and have 20/100 vision. I was under the impression that a
farsighted person would need glasses for close work not distance. I talked ...

I've mentioned before on this forum how my RGP lenses are having the
effect of reducing my astigmatism when the lenses are removed.  I
estimate that, so far, 0.75 to 1 diopter of astigmatism is gone
relative to my pre-RGP prescription.  In my case, the residual is about

Has anyone in this newsgroup had a cornea transplant at Bascom Palmer
Eye Institute in FL?
I have Keratoconus in both eyes. My first cornea transplant was at
Kaiser, in April 2004 by David Gritz, MD, an Oakland CA based surgeon

Hi Otis.. What happened to the Vision Improvement Forum that I was
posting to you on 2 months ago?
Anyways, I wanted to let you know that I am close to seeing 20/20
vision with my once reduced 20/40 lenses. I am very excited - I guess

Need feedback from people who have had Clear Lens Extraction.
I have been offered CLE in London UK for my myopia of approx -11 in
both eyes with astigmatism in the range of ( 2 - 2.5). However, I would
like some feedback from people who have actually undergone this

Hi..
Just find out about this goggle group.
I am in my early 40's and starting to try contact lens.
My nearsighedness is not too severe (-2.75  - sphere, both eyes) but I

Hi...I've received a lot of great answers on here before, I figured I'd
try again.
So after all the questions I asked previously, I eventually did end up
getting contacts, and I'm happy with them. (They're Acuvue Oasys, 2

I have been wearing a RGP for about 2 years after switching from soft.
I only wear one lens as I had laser surgery in the other eye, it didn't
go well so I didn't risk having my other eye treated and wear a lens
instead.

Just to let those of you with age-related macular degeneration, or know
someone with this disease, I have published an update on the status of
Avastin for treating AMD.
The latest information is that the NIH is considering sponsoring a

I'm a translator in Paraguay, and I'm translating a text that would
literally read:
"[illiterate] patients were tested using the divergent lines/rays chart
to measure cylindrical refractive error."

Help! I am sitting on pins a needles over this:  My 5-1/2 year old was
diagnosed with what I though was some sort of lazy eye.  At the optometrist's
office she had 20/100  vision in her right eye and was told she was
farsighted in that eye.  Her left eye was at 20/30(normal for her ...

How bad does a person's astigmatism have to be to need toric contact lenses?
Someone told me it would be around a 1.25, is that true?

I recently got an updated vison prescription.  It has 2 parts:
the myopic correction, ~3 in each eye; and a reading
prescription (my first), +1.
Now, my question is: can I purchase one of those