I promised this would be my last inquiry so please have patience
and answer :)
I recently got a pair of new eyeglasses and end up quarelling with the
optometrist as she didn't want to change the glasses nor refund

I have a tiny sty on the right eyelid. My doc told me to apply hot compress
3 times a day and it should go away. My question: How to apply hot compress?
I have never done that before.

if one buys a one month soft contact disposable like the accuvue
oasys silicon hydro and one only uses it once a week,
can it be extended to 2 or 3 months if they would be soaked
with the all in one solution that includes protein remover, etc.?

I have a somewhat unusual question.  For the past year or so I've used
ProClear Toric lenses with pretty good results.  While distance vision
is outstanding, near vision is negatively impacted, requiring reading
glasses.  In fact, removing the contacts significantly improved my

Tension
By W.H. Bates, M.D.
The tension of the muscles and nerves of the human eye is a very
important subject for various reasons. Perhaps the most important of

Better Eyesight, November 1927
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It is a good thing to know how to increase the tension  of the eyeball
voluntarily, as this enables one to avoid not only the strain that

My prescription is SPH +1.75, ADD +2.25.
I want to get a pair of safety glasses that I will use only to look at
things within 5'.
Would it make any sense to change the prescription to SPH +2.5, ADD +1.5, or

I left the IOL brand name off the title this time. The reason being, as
I search on the net here and there about my new lenses, an earlier post
I did here keeps showing up in the search engines. Eeeek. Considering
other usenet groups where I've become really casual about what I ...

I'll look for a third optometrist tomorrow and want complete
checklists so she won't miss anything. My first optometrist
didn't use florescien pattern for tear inside contacts
evalution nor the 2nd who didn't even use trial lens.

My name is Maria and I live in Sofia (Bulgaria). My daughter Irina has
leucaemia. She is only 9 years old. We got the diagnosis 2 months ago.
She needs an immediate transplantation of medulla. The operation costs
130 000€. I am a teacher and my husband is a mechanic so we cannot pay

The Southern California College of Optometry announces "Shared Visions
2009-2010", an exposition of works by artists who are blind or legally
blind.
The the Eye Care Center at the Southern California College of

It started happening two weeks ago. When I lie down and strongly close
my eyes or sometimes after immediately lying down. I can feel some
vibrating
at the back of my eyeball (or even the ears) for 0.5 seconds to 1

My eyes myopia is -9.0 power. I have been using Rigid Gas Permeable
for
the past 20 years and my power is maintained without changes for 15
years.

A while ago. I got myself corneal topography done in order
to determine objectively the base curve and diameter of an
RGP lens replacement (I live in a third world country where
many optometrists haven't done RGP lens fitting because

http://studymyhealth.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/silicone-hydrogel-contacts-the-new
-wave-of-high-oxygen-high-discomfort-lenses/
http://www.clspectrum.com/article.aspx?article=12834
I plan to switch to soft contacts for daily 8 hour use and after some
reseach, thought the silicone ...