loss of vision in right eye

[Ariel Badger]

I have worn specks since I was nine years old for short sightedness, I should use glasses for reading as well but I don't as I am ok if the book is close up, last eye test was Dec last year for my ACU licence and I had new specs at the same time.
This morning I noticed I can not focus my right eye for distance, so much so that I thought the lens had popped out of my glasses and I just noticed that I can not focus that eye close up. I guess it is the opticians on Saturday.
I have no idea how long the eye has been rubbish for as the left compensates.
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[CaNsA]

You're gettin' old lad!

[Ariel Badger]

It seems quite sudden but as I said the other eye compensates for it so it could just have been a rubbish eye test and I never clocked that I could not see on one side. My mother is almost blind from glaucoma so it is a slight worry even though it is only one eye and the ACU should licence me with one good eye next year if it is stuffed.
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[CaNsA]

Thats proper fucked up :/

Do you thing the magic laser knife men will be able to do anything?

[-Matt-]

I wouldn't be too worried, past a certain age and once the eyes start going downhill it tends to be an ongoing progressive thing - doesn't mean you're speeding towards losing your sight in most cases though, just you tend to need more regular and more customised glasses than you do in the past.

Good thing is with regular eyetests once you know you need them is they'll slow the deterioration down and also should catch things like glaucoma in the early stages if they ever are a problem.

[Ariel Badger]

I am not over stressed yet, I doubt it is serious and even if it is I still have a good eye.
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[stinkwheel]

[-Matt-]

If one of the eyes is deteroirating at a faster rate, you aren't likely to notice it as much due to the other eyes lense being okay still.

If you get into a routine of regular tests once you know one of thems going 'out of sync' for whatever reason, you can get the appropriate lenses sooner and aren't going to be straining the eye for long periods of time, and its going to pick up anything else thats causing that eye to change sooner - such as glaucoma.

[Yoyo]

I have severe Retner damage in my right eye to the point, I only see black and white, with occasional misty coloured blobs, along with nerve damage too, which causes it to half close when tired or stressed.

Never really had a problem until closing left eye, then I am pretty much blind.
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[Skudd]

My eye sight dropped off a cliff when I started wearing glasses three years ago. Lately it seems to have dropped off another cliff, but that may be due to tiredness and wearing my glasses 12 hours a day on a pc screen.
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[stinkwheel]

So age-onset focusing problems are a problem with a weak muscle, rather than congenital problems which are to do with the shape of the eye itself. Correct (genuinely not sure on this point)?

The muscle controlling accomodation is striated muscle, just like the muscles that move your arms and legs.

So why would making it easier for that muscle to focus make it stronger? Seems to me it's like putting a support bandage on an injured leg, all you do is make that muscle weaker and dependant on the bandage.

You don't fix a weak muscle by stopping using it as much or by p[utting a bandage on it. You fix it by physiotherapy and exercising it. Why is it different for an eye?

So how do glasses slow down deterioration? Surely they just compensate for it until the weakness progresses further? I'd imagine if anything they'd speed up the problem.

Always seems to me that people can hold off needing glasses for a long time but once they have them, they need progressively stronger and stronger prescriptions.

And there stands the basis of my optometry conspiracy theory. Put people whose income is soley reliant on the selling of glasses in charge of deciding who needs glasses and you'll find you need glasses.
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[Hetzer]

Ditto on glasses making your eyes worse. I recently got new glasses (pair for TV and driving/riding, another pair for the PC) and my focus without them has become worse.
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[Derivative]

I didn't mean optical power (i.e. needing simply stronger glasses over time). It might depend on whether you're near or long sighted as well.

Without my glasses or with lower power glasses I would be squinting 24/7, I can't see a few feet past my face without them. If I wore specs that were three or four years old, I'd have a constant headache from having to stress those muscles - if I didn't wear them at all I'd basically become disabled.

I could well be talking complete nonsense but I can see that causing more major damage than just lacking the ability to focus. For me the latter is just an unavoidable given.

I'd fork out for laser eye surgery if I could be sure it'd be useful for more than a few years.

[iooi]

[goto10]

[Nexus Icon]

My eyes are improving as I age. I've dropped 1.0 on my prescription over the last couple of years.

That seems counterintuitive but there you go.

Eyes are weird things.
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[Ariel Badger]

I went to Specsavers (not my normal branch) and they were brilliant. They said they could see me straight away Over the next hour and a quarter I was examined three times with everyone agreeing my eye was rubbish, they had my details from the branch I normally attend faxed over (it seems Specsavers are franchises and not a single entity with central records)and this confirmed my eye was ok last January (with specs).
To end a long story I have a cataract on the eye and am expecting to be called into hospital in the next few days.
Specsavers, I am so impressed. Thank you.
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[Ariel Badger]

Seems a fairly easy operation
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[iooi]

Its not a bad op. Most likely under local anaesthetic.

In and out in a couple of hours.

Bright side is free eye tests now
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[Furrybiker]

This guy is excellent, also website is informative.

https://www.eyesite.org/cataract/

[Ariel Badger]

Why would I not use the NHS? Thanks for the link but I have no wish to know the details, just do it and pump me full of morphine
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