[Help] Glasses help! Updates to this post /post/291522-glasses-help Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:48:58 +0100 Reply from Dr. Ralph /post/291522-glasses-help#reply-5114350 Spending a lot of time outdoors seems to improve your vision. I’ve had 20/90 vision and 20/15… always worse in the left eye. Reading and playing on the computer will ruin your eyes! Watching a lot of television is really bad too. Any time you look at a fixed object for a very long time your eyes adjust to that distance and it is hurting your eyes. Being outside and studying things at varying distances helps. You can do eye exercises and improve your vision too. Your family will always ***** at you, that’s what they’re there for.

]]> Dr. Ralph Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:26:36 +0100 Reply from Dorian /post/291522-glasses-help#reply-5114292 Do you need to tell your family you’re booking an appointment? Just tell them you’re meeting a friend and get one of your mates to provide you with an alibi

]]> Dorian Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:41:58 +0100 Reply from ☞T☜ /post/291522-glasses-help#reply-5114289 LOL. It also appears that you have the type of family that thinks they know everything. If you doubt it, just ask them. Somehow however, I’m willing to bet that none of them are opticians either. So I’ve got to ask - what in the hell can they possibly know about YOUR eyes that your doctors, who all spent YEARS in medical school, do not? Of course it is possible for any doctor to be wrong, but most doctors I know do not go about will-nilly referring their patients to expensive specialists just for fun. Your doctor is trying to protect your vision. Your family is trying to protect their egos. Ignore them and take care of yourself.

Incidentally, what you’re experiencing is normal, at least from my experience. When you wear glasses, you are correcting your vision. When the glasses come off, you are no longer correcting it and your eyes will obviously have to adjust to the new conditions. If it persists, though, I recommend consulting your doctor about it again. If you can describe the issue, it may be something that he or she can discuss with you over the phone and you won’t have to worry about making another appointment.

]]> ☞T☜ Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:40:23 +0100 Reply from Dorian /post/291522-glasses-help#reply-5114286 It sounds like you really need to get away from these people. My advice: start looking for an apartment you can move into when you start working. Again, if you feel your family won’t like the idea, don’t tell them about it.

]]> Dorian Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:37:32 +0100 Reply from Cecilia /post/291522-glasses-help#reply-5114279 I am paying for them myself! I work during the year, but not the summer. So my money has slowly dwindled to nothing. I will have plenty when I reach September because I will be working full time then. But yeah, I do pay for them myself. But you know what family is like! That doesn’t matter to them. If they feel you are wasting your money, they feel they have a right to make your life hell about it!!!! And it’s just easier not having them give me grief about it all the time.

]]> Cecilia Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:33:33 +0100 Reply from Dorian /post/291522-glasses-help#reply-5114277 If you’re paying for these things yourself, then your family have no business telling you what to do. If you’re not, then just tell your optician (NOT your family) that you want any future payments to go out from your account and not your family’s. That puts you back in control.Have you got a job at the moment?

]]> Dorian Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:31:23 +0100 Reply from Jubilee /post/291522-glasses-help#reply-5114273 then to be honest it sounds like you have a bigger problem to deal with than your glasses

]]> Jubilee Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:29:21 +0100 Reply from Cecilia /post/291522-glasses-help#reply-5114271 yeah, I guess! I just wanted to see if any one else had the same type of problem, or knew someone who had. The thing is, my family already think I am ridiculous. The reason I didn’t get glasses the first time was because they said I was being stupid and didn’t need glasses. Then this time around I really felt I needed them, and the optician actually said it had gotten bad so quickly that I needed to go to a specialist, and she gave me a letter for my doctor to refer me. Even still, when I got home, my family said I was such a hypochondriac, and there was nothing wrong, and I was wasting money on glasses and going to an opticians in the first place. And they constantly give out to me about it and say there’s nothing wrong with me and that all the tests are just jokes and mean nothing.

So I don’t have the guts to go back and ask for help. If my family find out, they will kill me. And this makes me sound like I am a teenager, but I’m not. I’m in my twenties!!! I just have a very controlling family!!!

]]> Cecilia Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:28:16 +0100 Reply from Me.Myself.and.I /post/291522-glasses-help#reply-5114268 Ya it sounds like a good thing to ask the doc about.

]]> Me.Myself.and.I Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:26:02 +0100 Reply from Dorian /post/291522-glasses-help#reply-5114266 Yeah, I’d ask an expert on that one.

]]> Dorian Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:25:21 +0100 Reply from Jubilee /post/291522-glasses-help#reply-5114262 what an interesting problem, although i would have thought that when you see ‘normally’ and your eye is compensating that was causing some sort of strain on the good eye. like when you limp, it causes gradual damage to the healthy leg because it is doing extra work it isn’t designed to. maybe it’s a good thing that you wear the glasses more, but this is just speculation; it sounds like a question for your optician.

]]> Jubilee Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:22:46 +0100