How's the eyesight?

GLaDOS · 12-04-2012 08:25PM

My 'bad' eye is -2.75, clearly not that bad!

Acacia · 12-04-2012 08:29PM

short-sighted and getting blinder by the day. thankfully, the hipsters have made thick glasses cool, so I'm no longer slagged for wearing them!:D

rain on · 12-04-2012 08:36PM

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

I promise you that there is nothing to it. All you see is a complete blur from start to finish (from the drops they put in your eyes), and then a cool light show. Within a few mins, you've got perfect eyesight!

I can't even stand having drops put in my eyes - I have been known to back away across the room until the drop-administering person has my back against the wall, and then has to give me a Stern Talking-To to get me to let them at me. Do they sedate you at all? If I was sedated it'd be alright.

44leto · 12-04-2012 08:41PM

I notice only recently its not as good as it once was, it's one of those deteriorations that happens first slowly then suddenly.

KKkitty · 12-04-2012 08:43PM

I need glasses for looking at tv and stuff. I don't mind wearing them but often sit squinting at the tv forgetting to put them on.

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Thomas828 · 12-04-2012 09:07PM

KKkitty wrote: »

I need glasses for looking at tv and stuff. I don't mind wearing them but often sit squinting at the tv forgetting to put them on.

I'm just the same. When I was a boy I had very good eyesight. But then after 15 or 16 I had to start wearing glasses to read the blackboard in school. I've been slowly getting more short-sighted ever since.

44leto · 12-04-2012 09:14PM

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mike65 · 12-04-2012 10:27PM

MaroonAndGreen wrote: »

hard to believe that 60% of the people on the poll needed glasses, contacts etc.

would have thought it would be way lower than that :eek:

self selecting poll results, most 20/20 types haven't bothered to tell us. Or they didn't see the poll options....:p

LH Pathe · 12-04-2012 10:55PM

not great for the distance but I refuse to answer my ma's repetitive suggestion of 'you need glasses' just cos I'm squinting at the epg on her tiny screen from 10ft. fùckin old school Tootsie head on her if I tried that image on I'd look like buggles.. sex-ay

12-04-2012 11:08PM

It's always been wonky. I was born with a lazy eye and had two operations to try to correct it in 1990/91. My left eye still drifts slightly when I'm tired. I've also had glasses for short sightedness since I was 11.

Also, my binocular vision is screwed (can't focus with both eyes at the same time), rendering me unable to see 3D movies or stereogram images.

Wilberto · 12-04-2012 11:14PM

I'm short sighted in my left eye but as long as my right eye continues to be 20/20 then my vision will be perfect!!

Auldloon · 12-04-2012 11:25PM

Wore glasses for more than 20 years but my devotion to the blessed virgin finally paid off and have been 20/20 for 3 years now. 3.5k lasik surgery may have helped her a bit.

Palytoxin · 12-04-2012 11:32PM

Eyesight is grand, probably still 20/20ish, but I have noticed the left eye is not as good as the right since I started college, probably down to less carrots.

CrazyRabbit · 12-04-2012 11:40PM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Oh yeah, and they clamp your eye open and you can smell your own flesh burning during. Don't forget that bit

There is no burning....no heat involved at all. The smell is the tissue being atomised by the 'laser' which is actually vaporising the tissue with high frequency vibrations.

As for the 'clamp', you can't see it due to the blurriness and can barely even notice it being applied. It just holds the eyes open.

CrazyRabbit · 12-04-2012 11:43PM

rain on wrote: »

I can't even stand having drops put in my eyes - I have been known to back away across the room until the drop-administering person has my back against the wall, and then has to give me a Stern Talking-To to get me to let them at me. Do they sedate you at all? If I was sedated it'd be alright.

Well because it's an anaesthetic eyedrop, you just feel a cold 'blast' for a split second...then nothing. I swear, they could poke you in the eyes afterwards and you wouldn't even notice it. It's actually the only part of the entire procedure that I could consider 'not enjoyable'...but it is soooo minor.

Max_Charger · 13-04-2012 01:06AM

barbarians wrote: »

Off-topic, anybody else suffer from floaters ?

yup,pretty bad. I get white flashes of light too from condition called PVD ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior_vitreous_detachment . Also have tears in both retina's with a 5% chance of detaching permanently leaving me blind at any given time. Great craic :rolleyes: perfect vision though, but anytime i hear "wish i had your eyes" i have to laugh.

Jimoslimos · 13-04-2012 01:32AM

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

There is no burning....no heat involved at all. The smell is the tissue being atomised by the 'laser' which is actually vaporising the tissue with high frequency vibrations..

Or to put it more simply.....burning.

I'll not bore you with the science, but what do you think vibration of the tissue causes? Friction perhaps........leading to what?

Nyan Cat · 13-04-2012 02:14AM

I'm so short sighted I had binoculars to see the blackboard in school. No word of a lie. There were t any lenses to help me as a kid so I had the binocular specs.

Glasses now. They don't help that much but I'm blind as a bat without sonar without.

CrazyRabbit · 13-04-2012 09:07AM

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Or to put it more simply.....burning.

I'll not bore you with the science, but what do you think vibration of the tissue causes? Friction perhaps........leading to what?

No heat. Therefore no burning. The laser just breaks the molecular bonds. But I won't bore you with the science.

Now please, stop trying to scare people who are perhaps already anxious about undergoing this procedure. It is extremely safe, and doesn't involve any James Bond type lasers.

Jimoslimos · 13-04-2012 05:31PM

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

No heat. Therefore no burning. The laser just breaks the molecular bonds. But I won't bore you with the science.

Now please, stop trying to scare people who are perhaps already anxious about undergoing this procedure. It is extremely safe, and doesn't involve any James Bond type lasers.

I'm not trying to scare anyone, just being realistic. I know plenty of people who've got it done and they swear by it, I also (having worked in the industry) have heard plenty of horror stories.

But all that is irrelevant, lasers burn tissue, a clean burn which is why they use them in precision cutting, but still a burn.

Simply: What is laser? A concentrated beam of light (of a single wavelength).
What is light? The visible spectrum of electromagnetic radiation (radiation - oh noes:eek:). Does 'light' burn - you betcha!

Here's a tip, take a magnifying glass on a sunny day and focus the sunlight on a spot on paper - spot should be no bigger than 0.5cm. Tell me then that light doesn't burn.

Bottom line: I never said lasers were bad, they're actually a lot better cut than the surgeon trying to use a scalpel......but that smell is burning tissue, and it's not unique to eye surgery.

RichieC · 13-04-2012 06:12PM

Eyesight of the gods, me.

metaoblivia · 13-04-2012 06:17PM

Short sighted, or near sighted as we say over here. I had laser eye surgery 5 years ago and have had perfect vision since, and will enjoy 10 more years of that until I go far sighted!

Potential-Monke · 13-04-2012 07:53PM

Short sighted, but only just (-0.75 & -0.5). I was the only person in my family that didn't wear glasses until i turned 24, everyone else had them since they were kids. I do wear them the whole time though. Optician said try not to wear them, but why should i only have good vision some of the time.

I had the piss taken out of me by one of the lads i worked with, until curiosity got the better of him and he tried them on. He was wearing glasses the following week! HA!

Would love to get laser eye, but i would be one of those unfortunate ****ers who goes blind!

13-04-2012 07:59PM

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Short sighted, but only just (-0.75 & -0.5). I was the only person in my family that didn't wear glasses until i turned 24, everyone else had them since they were kids. I do wear them the whole time though. Optician said try not to wear them, but why should i only have good vision some of the time.

I'm -2.25 in the left and -4.50 in the right. Blind, so I am! :pac: It's funny though, with lenses my eyesight is better in the right eye than the left, despite the fact the right needs a stronger lens.

I was the only one in the family with glasses.

mikemac1 · 13-04-2012 08:01PM

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Short sighted, but only just (-0.75 & -0.5). I was the only person in my family that didn't wear glasses until i turned 24, everyone else had them since they were kids. I do wear them the whole time though. Optician said try not to wear them, but why should i only have good vision some of the time.

Sound advice from the optician and your eyesight is not bad at all

Now you've gotten yourself dependent on the glasses and there is no going back

Teyla Emmagan · 13-04-2012 08:26PM

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

There is no burning....no heat involved at all. The smell is the tissue being atomised by the 'laser' which is actually vaporising the tissue with high frequency vibrations.

As for the 'clamp', you can't see it due to the blurriness and can barely even notice it being applied. It just holds the eyes open.

Yeah, but, I was there too. And there was definitely a big clamp, than I could feel very well. Also, a horrific smell, and the fear that if I moved my eyeball the wrong way during the procedure the wrong part of my eye would be lasered (otherwise, why was I told not to move the focus of my eye at all?).

I know there are anxious people out there, but that's the truth of my procedure. That and the fact it didn't work, of course.

mikemac1 · 13-04-2012 08:30PM

Ha, when I getting zapped I was given out to as they said I wouldn't stay still.
The nurse thought I was nervous [I certainly was] so she held my hand for the procedure, ah bless

One of my fears was they'd mix up the treatments and I'd get the settings for someone else. Hey, mistakes happen
I was impressed when I entered the room I was asked to confirm my name, DOB and all that
Very sensible

Duggys Housemate · 13-04-2012 09:10PM

Well you guys wudda been f*ck all use as hunter gatherers.

mikemac1 · 13-04-2012 09:13PM

We'd be back in the cave with the wimmins while you were out risking your life :cool:

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