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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2012 17:59:05 GMT
This morning I woke up with an eye irritation, something which almost never happens to me. I have some eyedrops somewhere in this damned apartment, but all of my searches were fruitless.
So I chose another sort of self-medication. I put on a DVD that I knew would make me cry profuse tears. Problem solved.
No, I will not tell you which DVD I used.
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Post by LouisXIV on Apr 1, 2012 20:32:15 GMT
LOL
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 2, 2012 2:34:32 GMT
I know! I know! I know! I know!
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 5, 2012 23:20:24 GMT
hehe! self medication at its best. tried and tested safe formula.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 19, 2013 11:32:10 GMT
One of my eyes (not the eye itself, but around the eye socket) hurts a bit this morning, and my eye is puffy underneath, as if one side of my body had been drinking profusely late into the night in a smoke-filled bar (I actually went to bed at 9pm last night, and slept soundly until 5:30 am - my cat woke me up, as he refuses to abide by the time change). The swelling has gone down, but it was worrying. I'm wondering whether riding my bicycle yesterday in very strong winds could have something to do with it
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Post by lagatta on Nov 19, 2013 19:00:09 GMT
I'm just bumping this, as the "ageing parents" discussion is always the one last updated.
(My parents are both dead... )
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2013 19:19:02 GMT
Yes, it's easy to get crud in your eye when riding a bike, not just in the city either. It will go away, probably very quickly.
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Post by htmb on Nov 19, 2013 20:13:46 GMT
How's your eye now, Lagatta? Hopefully it's improving.
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Post by mich64 on Nov 19, 2013 20:31:49 GMT
I hope your eye feels better soon Lagatta.  |
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Post by lagatta on Nov 19, 2013 21:59:54 GMT
It is, but still hurts a bit. It was EXTREMELY windy yesterday. I had to get off my bicycle a couple of times.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2013 22:12:22 GMT
That definitely explains it then.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 20, 2013 0:48:05 GMT
Il y avait des rafales jusqu'a 75 km/h...
I removed the acute accent on the a as it was making strange signs...
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Post by mich64 on Nov 20, 2013 1:26:37 GMT
The winds were really high here the past two days as well Lagatta. We were at a funeral/cemetery yesterday and the winds were reported to be up to 90 km/hr.
Do you wear eyeglasses?
Good to read that it is getting better.
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Post by htmb on Sept 28, 2016 14:28:09 GMT
The adults in my family are feeling pretty stupid. It seems my seven year old granddaughter has vision problems and none of us realized it. The child is extremely bright and very studious. She's interested in science, particularly insects and other small creatures. Though she's a very fluent reader, she has so far refused to read chapter books and other books with small print, saying they just didn't interest her. It seems she has figured out a way to compensate for her inability to read small print by only choosing picture books and books with large type.
This week V donned a pair of my daughter's readers just for fun since there are now several pair lying around the house. Next, figuring out she could actually see, she settled down on the couch and proceeded to read one of her sister's very long, small print chapter books! At my house last night we showed her a very advanced reading level passage in a small font on a tablet, and she said it looked just like a lot of blobs. After increasing the font, V proceeded to read every word fluently.
The next step will be a trip to the optometrist.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2016 16:33:11 GMT
Yes, please get her to an optometrist, she sounds like she's missing out on a lot. I remember a few years ago I stopped reading novels, after decades of being a voracious reader, and I couldn't figure out why. Then I had my eyes tested. Yay for progressives.
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Post by rikita on Sept 29, 2016 22:16:49 GMT
glad you found out!
wondering - is it uncommon there to do routine eye tests on kids? here, if both parents have glasses (as is the case with mr. r. and me) they recommend going to an eye doctor at around age two (where they put some eye drops into agnes' eyes and then after a while did some tests with her), and at the regular check-up at the pediatrician at age three, they do one of these normal eye tests for all kids, where the kid has to recognize different shapes in different sizes ... so far it seems her eyes are alright ...
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Post by htmb on Sept 29, 2016 22:32:35 GMT
V had always had typical eye tests at annual checkups with the pediatrician, and she had a vision screening at school, but nothing too detailed. There were a few red flags after the school screening, but since V was so young then my daughter just assumed she wasn't cooperating. Since neither parent had worn glasses in the past, I guess there wasn't any obvious concern (my daughter's glasses are just a slight correction for reading due to normal aging).
V now has an appointment with a pediatric opthamologist in mid-November, the earliest available date.
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Post by tod2 on Nov 8, 2017 12:40:01 GMT
Has anyone any knowledge and information about a mild stroke that can affect the sight in one or both eyes.? I have Googled the condition but the therapy suggested is not available in this country. What I actually would like to know is - can one recover their sight either partially or completely without doing anything?
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Post by whatagain on Nov 8, 2017 12:56:22 GMT
It can be nothing and it can be serious.
Without knowing more and that is the job of a doctor no advice is good.
This is the advice of a eye surgeon : see an eye specialist AND a neurologist
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Post by tod2 on Nov 8, 2017 13:51:35 GMT
Quite right Whatagain - I did phone my optometrist and she explained the basic cause.
I just was hoping some Anyporter may have had a relative or friend that has this happened to them and what the outcome was.
It is not my eye that is in trouble but that of my long term house maid. I am trying to get her the best treatment possible. The stroke caused loss of oxygen to the optic nerve in one eye and so has resulted in loss of clear sight. She says she can see just a little with it which in itself is good news.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 8, 2017 23:30:19 GMT
I hope there will be an improvement.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2018 14:55:54 GMT
I had my annual eye exam this past week.
While my vision has not diminished radically I have noticed a lack of clarity and blurriness at times.
The exam showed that I have cataracts. One in each eye.
The Dr. told me that was what was causing the blurriness.
On a scale of 1-4 mine are at a 2.9.
Surgery is suggested sometime in the next year.
I remember when my mother had them and she waited a long time before addressing it.
At least I know what the problem is as I was a tad alarmed it was something else.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 5, 2018 1:40:46 GMT
Casimira, I have several friends who have had cataract surgery and nowadays it is rarely dangerous, or require horrible thick lenses. My mother never had cataracts and lived to 98, but I don't know about my paternal side as dad died when I was 15, at about the age I am now, and I'm really not in touch with that side of the family.
Here that is 100% covered by our national health plan. If only the same could be said about dental problems - I've always had soft teef due to a potemtially lethal cow milk allergy as a child, when there weren't the many cow milk substitutes and properly assimilated calcium sources (hint, it requires magnesium) that there are now.
By the way, mich, I had very mild myopia as a young teen and wore glasses due to that, but I certainly didn't have to wear them all the time; I was happy to have them as I've always read a lot. Now I wear mild reading glasses, being over 50, but other than reading a lot of very fine print, I can pretty much see fine without them. I'm lucky about vision as an old git.
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Post by whatagain on Mar 5, 2018 8:00:17 GMT
Basically a cataract is an opacification and rigidification of the cristalline. Nowadays they just cut your eye remove the cristalline and put an implant instead. Clear as glass. My wife does that all the time. One eye at a time though. The more you wait the more the cristalline gets solid and the more she has trouble removing it. Or so I think I understand. It costs a few hundreds euros I think here as most is refunded. Definitely cheaper and quicker than teeth.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 5, 2018 10:45:38 GMT
Whatagain, do most people opt to have their vision corrected at the same time? Also, is it the implant that corrects the vision?
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Post by bjd on Mar 5, 2018 12:04:36 GMT
Whatagain seems to know more about it than I do, but I believe the eyes are done separately if both have cataracts. It has become a fairly benign operation, but just in case there is a problem, doctors prefer to not touch both at the same time.
I would also guess the implant corrects the vision. My mother-in-law had one after a cataract operation and was pleased not to need glasses any longer. My mother had cataracts removed but her vision remained unchanged and she didn't mention anything about an implant.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2018 13:27:28 GMT
Yes, they do each eye separately.
It's performed by lasers so, I don't know what Whatagain is referring to when he says "cut".
Implants are optional.
I have not explored if my insurance would cover them.
They are not considered to be hereditary.
I know of at least six friends (all women) who have or had them.
All are over 65 years of age.
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Post by breeze on Mar 5, 2018 14:39:21 GMT
Recently I had cataracts removed. Here in the US I had a choice of the deluxe, enhanced, and Medicare-pays-all packages. With the deluxe they would give you perfect vision, which might take several tries. I opted for el cheapo so I still need bifocals. Medicare paid for new frames and lenses and a few possible add-ons as well.
Both eyes needed the surgery and were done two weeks apart. Both times it was extremely easy on my part. The nursing crew was very chipper. They kept bringing me warm blankets as I lay waiting my turn. The rooms were very cold and as one of them joked, "When we're not using the suite they store meat in here."
I had thought I was out of it the first time, but the nurses laughed on my second visit. "You were awake through the whole thing, you just don't remember. You were able to follow the surgeon's instructions." Nice to know that I'm good at following instructions under mild anesthesia since at other times I have trouble with that.
At first I was amazed at how much better I could see. (Now I'm more used to it.) I hadn't had good distance vision for 40 years, even with glasses. I tried to tell my optometrist I could do without glasses but he convinced me I shouldn't.
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Post by mossie on Mar 5, 2018 16:47:59 GMT
When I had my first one done I was amazed at the strength of the colours I saw, for bureaucratic reasons had to wait a year to get the second done. Both no fuss, painless, conscious throughout all over in about 20 mins, but keep an eye patch on till next day and put in some eye drops for a while.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 5, 2018 16:54:25 GMT
Both of my parents had cataract laser surgery in Florida and were quite satisfied with the result. There are so many old people in Florida that one of the big clinics in Tampa has a shuttle service to pick you up and take you home even from 100 miles away, since obviously you can't drive a car right after surgery. Once I brought my mother to France, I noticed about halfway through the first year when she was staying with me that something was wrong. (She was one of those people who would never mention anything being wrong if there was even the slightest chance that the medical profession might be involved.) Ever since she was in France, she would stand at my living room window looking for me to come out of the metro (since I have a direct view of the metro exit) and she would wave to me the moment she spotted me. And then she stopped waving. I could still see her at the window, but she couldn't see me. So I took her to the ophthamologist and learned that the cataracts were back. I took her for the operation (totally free of charge here!) and everything was fine after that. The operation only lasts about 15-20 minutes at the most.
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