Despina: Is he Serious?
Written by DespinaContributing OptometristLast week was not great. Until Wednesday I had the most stinking cold, which was cured within minutes by some mysterious cold and flu tablets bought at my local pharmacy. Green, they were. Slightly suspicious looking. I have no idea what was in them, but I was desperate. I felt terrible. And my normalized prescription was waiting for me, in the drawer.The fact is, they worked like magic and I lived to tell the tale. On Friday, I woke up, fully recovered, dying [...]
Went To See Optometrist For New Contact Lenses
There's so much great e-mail coming into @endmyopia everyday, I really wish we could get a lot more of it into the blog. I think of a lot of what I'm reading, like small cracks in the mainstream, old- timey lenses-are-forever narrative of retail optometry. Take a look at this one, for example:More and more people continue to have this kind of experience. Their optometrist gets to measure reducing myopia objectively, and before long there will be enough open minded, forward thinking professionals asking the right questions.He [...]
Fluorescent Lights Part II – Headaches & Fatigue
Yesterday we talked about fluorescent lights and vision health.It's rather quite difficult sometimes to stick to just myopia when we talk about vision health. Things very quickly branch out into lots of related topics, which I often try to avoid getting into. While I know a whole lot about myopia, I'm no expert on the many related subjects.Sometimes we broach subjects like lattice degeneration and macular degeneration and cataracts and LASIK, and depression. Your eyes are your window to your reality, and so much of [...]
Fluorescent Lights Vs. Vision Health
Fluorescent lights. Those things have always given me the creeps.They belong in horror movies and movies about sitting in an office cubicle all day, and in mental institution abandoned hallways. They have that creepy noise too, especially when the ballast is less than new. Everything about fluorescents, just feels like they were invented by the same people who formulate fast food artificial flavors.Why this, today? Because Kellee posted this comment in the forum:I’ve been thinking a lot about feelings and eyes, because taking note [...]
Vision Improvement Secrets (Low Myopia)
Here's something you probably already noticed, in your personal life. You may have heard something said a hundred times. You heard it and heard it, but it never sank in. You never somehow translated in your own head, to make it meaningful to you. You go, yea yea, I know, got it, but it doesn't actually "click" for you. This happens quite a bit, with me and students and BackTo20/20. I say all these things, really key pieces, as often as possible. I try to [...]
It Could Happen To Me: Link Between Myopia & Glaucoma
By DespinaContributing OptometristOver 40-check. Hereditary factor-check; Female-check; High myopia-check. So why was I in a state of shock after being told I had glaucoma? Well, because it was another eye disease that I studied at university and screened patients for and warned them about throughout my career. Helping save people's eye-sight meant it wouldn't happen to me. But it doesn't work that way. Luckily, being in the right place at the right time (ie. an optometrist's consulting room, not such evil places after all!) meant [...]