There are more and more complications from wearing contacts lens, with
introducing  new contacts lens products.
There are hundreds of completed and   ongoing research showing the
harm causing by soft contacts lenses  (microbial keratitis, papillary

I have been using zaditor eye drops twice a day and now I just started
using pataday which is only in the morning.  When i take my contacts
out at night my eye is a little dry I guess, is there anything I can
put in it now that Im not putting in the eyedrop,

Is time now for new pair of eyeglasses and after shopping and
researching a bit I ended leaning towards the Silhouette titanium
rimless/no ringes frame with the best lens available for my
prescription.

I have polycarbonate lenses with crizal-alize treatment. Is it possible
to tint them now so to make them become sunglasses lenses?
What is the normal procedure, do opticians buy already-tinted lenses or
do they tint transparent lenses just before cutting and mounting them?

I am wearing glasses for 10 years and now I would like to wear soft lenses.
My eyeglass prescription is
VOD sa -1.75 = sa -0.50 dcyl ax 170 = 0.7 - 0.8
TOD dig N kPa

I have no-line bifocals and want to determine the fit height of my
lenses. Aren't there some kind of engraved marks that show where the
lens transitions to the add portion? I've noticed a couple of circles
or o's in my lenses and am wondering if that is the markings.

I have always wondered about something for a very long time. I know
that people have been enabled, with the current technologies, to
extract the genetic makeup from one type of animal and then to
reproduce that makeup and create a clone of that characteristic. So I

I finally decided to check my vision using the Snellen chart
recommended by Otis.  My vision was instantly improved dramatically!
I set the distance to 10 feet from the computer screen.  The chart
generate the letters size adjusted to the specified distance.

Here's something I don't think I have seen much of here as I perused
previous posts-  I autorefract to require a plus lens for distance,
but the subjective refraction with the phoropter gets me a negative
lens.  I have some serious astigmatism (-4.5) in one eye, less in the

I work in a community where I deal with naval fighter pilots every day. I
always considered their careers exciting and fun-looking, but definitely
off-limits due to my poor vision. I'm otherwise fit for the job. I have
myopia.

Greetings, newcomer!
Welcome to sci.med.vision, home of extreme comedy theatre, including
everything ranging from stupidity to genius, from ordinary to
downright creepy. There are a number of strange and exquisite beings

In looking at a fundus photograph, how do the professionals here on
the board, differ the arteries from the veins (arterioles from
venules)?
Don W.

Bloody docs always have to start waffling on about "well, you have a few
bright spots on your brain, it could be demyelination, but if it is, it
won't be MS", yeah, how do you know, how do you know it's not really
really really really really really hyper early.

This is the eyeglass prescription (that I got today) for my left eye,
which I'm copying exactly as written:
-50  -1.25 x 85
I was just surfing around to try and gage how bad that is, and the -50

The learned men on this forum should explain to the weak people that
come here to ask for advice why:
1) A man goes to the doc and complains about his own imperfect sight
2) Doc prescribes glasses