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Old 08-05-2009, 12:45 AM
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That's great that there was no ON! And hopefully the other stuff can be helped along or treated or won't be bothersome for you.

I went to the eye doctor recently too. Thought I had ON because I thought I had a blind spot in one eye, although I couldn't tell if it was a blind spot or a lot more floaters suddenly.

Turns out I have a PVD (in laymans terms a "Posterior Vitreous Detachment"), where the gooey vitreous in the eye breaks away from the back wall.

Apparently this is "age" related and isn't anything too serious. It can cause more floaters when it detaches, so that might have been it and not a blind spot from ON after all.

Eye doctors are funny people. The opthalmalogist seemed almost giddy when he went running in to the neuroopthalmalogist to drag him into the room to show him what he'd found in my eye, the PVD. You'd think it was Christmas and he had opened a present under the tree, he seemed so eager.

That's also amazing how I no longer needed my glasses (for distance but I have astigmatism so I need them to read to correct that) for reading once they dilated my eyes, yet still needed them for distance. But the dilation drops corrected the problems with reading and I no longer needed my glasses to read. That was kinda fun.

Oh the fun times we have at the eye doctor...
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