The Boston web site states that their Boston 7 lens "utilizes
innovative technological innovations in basic polymer chemistry to
achieve a lens that offers a balance between the effects of low and
high dk materials."

I was interested by a recent joke by RT about immortality (he was
basically taking the piss out of the biography of Bates that I posted
a while ago). He and "Brainy" seemed to find it very funny, but I
actually started thinking about it seriously.

I am switching back to RGPs after wearing soft lenses for a year.  I
have an appointment with my eye doctor tomorrow and he is going to fit
me with Boston XO2 lenses.   He said that they can be plasma treated
to increase wettability and I have some questions about this.  Of

Can anybody explain this, and tell me what to do about it?
I get double vision.  This not the effect of seeing two images, one from
each eye.  If I look with either the left or right eye individually, I see
two clear images, one a bit above the other.  Reading normal print at ...

I tried wearing my contacts in the ocean and swimming and the contacts
worked wonderfully. My question is, is it relatively safe to reuse my
contacts after I rinse and rub them off with contact cleaning solution, or
do they need to be replaced?

I know Acuvue Oasys lets the eyes have lots of oxygen, but how much oxygen
does Acuvue 1-day moist let the eyes have, in comparison.
Where do you get the numbers from, also, so I can find out on my own later.

Both of my eyes had Vitreous Separations (with small Retinal Tears) 60
days apart.
Does anyone have any thoughts on lens for someone with the above
problem. My polarized sunglasses are giving me problems. I'm also

I have acute nearsightedness (-11,-10).  On a recent trip the right lens
of my high-index eyeglasses were scratched by scissors which were in the
same toilet kit.  I know that I should have had the glasses in its case
and was neglectful.  So now the right lens has a light but ...

I've been wearing a minus 14.5 in my left eye only.  I wear Focus
Monthly's.  Lately, they've become difficult to wear.  I found an
older -14.0 Precision UV, and that feels great.  So, I'm thinking of
asking my doctor to change my prescription.  I'd like to find out

News Item:
"Robert B. Mandell, OD, PhD
and Kenneth A. Polse, OD, MS
(along with Richard M. Hill, OD, PhD; Ohio State University College of

When gas permeable hard contacts get scratches. What
actually happens to the lens? Can anyone point me to any
site with magnified view of a lens surface? I'd like to understand
what goes on when polishing is done to "remove" the

I read that plus prescriptions and minus prescriptions are very different in
the way they affect people's eyesight.
For example, my husband wears a +3 full time, I wear -3. I read that +3
equates to vision without glasses of 20/100 while a -3 is like 20/300. It

I've noticed my eye to be twitching a lot lately.
Its only the right eye and the bottom right side is what twitches a
whole lot.
I'm wondering what I can do to stop this.

Today for the first time I saw many starts on my vision. What is the
cause of this? Lasted about 6 to 8 seconds.