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Old 08-01-2009, 10:36 PM #1
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Default Had my eyes checked today

We have a medical expense account that runs out at the end of September so I was finally able to convince my DH to get his eyes checked. He has to actually put his fingers and pull back his eyes like a little Chinese man to read sometimes. And I was having to take my bifocals off to read the paper at times! So in we go. I knew I had the beginnings of a cataract. But now I have one on both eyes and macular degeneration in my right eye! But no optic neuritis. I was shocked. I'm 59 years old, just having to take glasses off to read again. Going mainly so I could get my husband in. I already had an appt to see my PCP this week so I will ask him about it and have him explain it better for me. He understands me, how I learn and have to have things explained. But the eye doc says I probably won't have to have anything done for another year. He did give me names that he refers to so I could check my insurance. Really assuring!

My DH did have to get bifocals. He has never worn glasses, always looses his cheapo sunglasses. This should be fun. I tried to get him to get a fun pair of sunglasses but he picked the same frame for sunglasses that he did for his regular ones. Boring!

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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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