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Old 09-13-2012, 04:47 PM
BackwardPawn BackwardPawn is offline
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Thanks for the replies. I had my neuro appointment this morning and then got to work and had several tasks and never got back to check here. My neuro thought I should use tape over the lens and just correct for the vision, wait 6 months and then retry the prisms. My dad recommended the opposite, however, since the optometrist will remake lenses as my double vision changes for up to a year and I still need new lenses for blurriness. He thought I'd just be paying the difference in a few months when I went back to have it redone, plus he thought it would look bad at the office I work in. I might still call in the morning and see if its not too late to cancel.

I don't think they're trying to gouge me as last year they sold me plastic lenses, but this time the doctor wrote for such a high prism that she said it would be impossible to make with plastic, I'd be uncomfortable with standard high index and special high index was the only one that made sense. It didn't even occur to me until later that maybe I'm getting beyond what a prism is meant to correct.

Double vision was the first MG symptom I had and it was really bad DV. Add to this the Valium and Baclofen and my eyes no longer converge. The problem with the traditional eye patch was that my other eye would never stay open. The few times I've tried tape over the lens, I didn't have that problem as bad, but it drove me nuts, but I suppose you get used to it in time. At least maybe I should try it before spending too much on glasses. The biggest problem is I have to keep retaping the lens, unless you can learn to drive with it. Not driving is out of the question as I need to be able to get to work.

I'm already 15 min late leaving, so I need to head out. I'll think about it tonight. Even if they put the order in, I doubt the lab started working on it yet.
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