I'd like to solicit advice about choosing progressive lenses for two
pairs of eyeglasses, devoted respectively to generalized and
occupational uses.
I am 51 years old, with no history of eye diseases or surgeries.  My

At 45 years old, I just recently started with vision correction--
multifocal soft contact lenses. I have taken to them like a duck to
water, with no problems at all. I started with the ProClear
Multifocals, but disliked the D & N monovison-esque system, and found

"Macular Degeneration" by Drs. Mogk advises cryptically and
parenthetically on page 116 (Jan 2003) that one take Lutein
"at a different time from Beta-Carotene."   Can anyone explain
the reason for this separation in time?  It is remarkable that

My prescription is: OD -4.50 -0.50 135, OS -1.75 -4.25 175, BIFOCAL ADD: OD
+2.00 OS+2.00 (Half moon). There is no prism called for in the prescripton.
The thinnest point of the right lens is 3 mm higher than the left.  This was
measured from the seg line.  I think this is called ...

three days ago,  at my work,  i had to install  a free space optic
transceiver for some customer ,  its an infrared laser, around
830-860nm at 16mW power, class 1m, its used to connect two computer
networks between buildings.    Both tranceivers have a telescopes

When my son was 2, he had an eye exam with a pediatric opthamologist
(we thought he had crossed eyes).  She said his eyes and vision were
perfectly fine, and that his cross-eyed appearance was due to the way
the eyelids were shaped.

My 9yr old son suffered an eye injury and was operated 3months back
for corneal tear repair + anterior vitrectomy + belt buckle +
vitrectomy + fluid gas exchange + C3F8.
His other eye is completely normal with VA of 6/6. Right now he has a

My 5 year old was recently diagnosed with mild myopia (-.50, -.75 with
cycloplegia) and intermittent exotropia (or exophoria) with 20 prism
diopters and 25 prism diopters, which she seems to have fairly good
control over. She sees 20/25, but favors one eye for distance and the

I've had these occasionally over the past decade without problem,
sparkling zig zag lines that start somewhere towards  the middle of my
visual field and gradually move to the edges, then disappear.
More recently, over several months, I have a rather different in

If you were to choose an (r)GP lens material today, which would be
first on your list?
Assumptions: Normal tears, slight propensity for dry (computer) eye,
and no history of o2 depravation due to soft contacts.  Slight

I want a simple definition of the term
accommodative response sometimes spelled
accommo-dative response.
Is it as simple as how much the lens adjusts trying to focus?

Subject:  Refractive STATE is life-style dependent
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6117-lifestyle-causes-myopia-not-genes.html
Good second-opinion statement.

Glasses, contacts, LASIK, PRK etc.  We all know what's available now
to help our myopic vision.  My question is - is there anything
exciting and new  in the near or far horizon that could help?  Am I
crazy or did I hear that there was an idea of eyedrops that would