I've a question about the eye test I had done earlier this month.
I'm not completely convinced by the answers I was given to my questions
and I wonder if I could ask for some reassurance ?
For openers, my prescription is as follows:

After yet again being turnrd down for a job (this time, British
Telecom), I thought I would post here.
I have Protoanomalia (red-green colour blindness), and, athough I am
quite capable of working with electricity, and/electronics, I am not

I have double vision and dry eye caused either by a severe head injury
or a stroke.  The eye doc here is an older fellow that I guess doesn't
keep up with things as I learned this morning that therapy can be
effective but the doc never said anything about that; my solution for

I am now having double vision (actually triple vision) in one eye.  My MD
(Ophthalmologist) suspects an early stage cataract that 'could' have what he
calls 'spokes' that can refract light, possibly giving a second image on the
retina.  Before taking any action he referred me to ...

Let me start off by mentioning I am an engineer by trade, but have
almost zero experience with optics.  I am getting ready to get a new
set of glasses, and until recently was not picky about lenses.  I
currently wear a set of lens crafter's "featherwates completes" with

my son's vision diagnosis was OD: -2.00 + 0.50 x 180
OS: -2.00 sph
What does this mean in general? And would this be considered a
Negative 2.5, 3.5, etc? I am looking into buying my son goggles with a

I read that the earlier myopia starts the greater it becomes. Is it possible
to say what the average prescription might be for someone who developed some
myopia in the mid-20s?

I have been having a few problems with my left eye, in the morning its
very hard to focus or see much because I have an afterimage which does
go away when I close my eyes are reopen them.
The afterimage is just a white light which is the same shape of the

Please could someone advise why toric contacts don't start till the
prescription is -0.75?  What happens to people who have a prescription less
than that, is the astigmatism uncorrected with contacts?  Thanks

I got my new temporary glasses today, with a prism in the left good
eye and about 3D stronger Rx in the bad right eye.  It certainly
improved my vision in the right eye alone, though with considerable
distortion that apparently cannot be corrected, due to scars on my

Mesothelioma is a kind of cancer that is caused by exposure to
asbestos matrials, poor of mesothelioma information and less Knowledge
are support to increasing this case.
People who worked on jobs where they inhaled asbestos particles, or

Ok - Trying to keep from getting rear ended by 15 y/o tailgater while
snowmobiling.
I'm going to make2  brake/tail lights with 25 superbright LEDs with
each LEDl being fully programable. The two right and left would

Please point me at recent literature on this topic.
B.H.

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Reading through posts on this site I've noticed a lot about different
attitudes to tolerance of refractive error. Has any research ever been done
that addresses why people have different tolerances and what physical factors
in the eye/brain influence it?