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[amateur51]

>>need to go back for more pressure tests


Just pressure tests, amateur ?

That's what the man said, Paul

[Paul Sherratt]

>>http://www.paperpen.com/glaucoma/

There's a very brief description of four regular tests which can check for glaucoma.
The visual field test being part and parcel of the examination, and can be carried out
on a variety of machines where the patient responds to 'random' lights flashing.

[amateur51]

>>http://www.paperpen.com/glaucoma/

There's a very brief description of four regular tests which test for glaucoma.
The visual field test being part and parcel of the examination, and can be carried out
on a variety of machines where the patient responds to 'random' lights flashing.

He's done the flashing lights test, I recall now Paul. The pressure test showed a slightly raised result and he wanted to do it again to check his initial finding.

I must make an appointment.

[Paul Sherratt]

[salymap]

Whilst we are on eye matters, do any of you young men have Macular Degeneration? It's very strange as straight lines have twisty bits in them and a big black 'sun' sits in the middle of everything. That is about the same but no worse, thankfully.

[Paul Sherratt]

>>do any of you young men have Macular Degeneration?



No, but I have fairly recently invested in another piece of kit that should detect signs at a very early stage.

[amateur51]

Brilliant warm sunshine here in beautiful downtown Willesden Green - I'm going slightly (slightly?) doolally as a result

Have I been terrible thick, Paul? Are you hinting that you are a professional eye person, viz an optician?

My father and his sister and their mother were all opticians - proud starters-up of the NHS (optical branch) in North Wales

I always remember fondly my father's assertion that he wasn't going to go into contact lenses because they weren't 'going to take off '

Bless!

A business man he was not, but in the Summer he often took deliveries of fresh tender runner beans, broad beans & new potatoes, or huge punnets of fresh raspberries & strawberries from farmers & smallholders in lieu of cash for spex on market day. My mother was less impressed when he once accepted an intact but definitely dead wild rabbit instead.

[Paul Sherratt]

amateur,

Everyone can call themselves an optician ! PM Thatcher de-regulated the title in one of her funny moments.
No, I'm not a professional anything but I do own a practice with my genuinely marvellous OH and we do drive it to be
progressive in all aspects. And the most important of those is investing in the latest* weapons which will help to detect sight-threatening
conditions.


* Truly the latest as opposed to what is currently being marketed nationally by one chain as 'the latest technology' which is
a device we've been using for 18 years ....

[Serial_Apologist]

I've been using cheap reading glasses from the chemist's for more than 10 years now, and as a 65-year old, really ought to get my eyes tested. Sight's definitely not what it was, though the deterioration has been extremely gradual, usually more noticeable when the season declines, and differs from one eye to the other. Everything appears through the right as if through a slight mist, or lightly condensation-covered window; colours are less brilliant than through the left, and vision can only be improved by copious vigorous blinking, to get the tear ducts going - so it could just be a problem of "dry eye". As for my left eye, anything close to hand appears pixillated to the naked eye when I'm in poor light. On the other hand there always seems to be less light somehow coming in through my right eye, producing a strange, slightly surreal, and occasionally dizzying impression of reality, for which "the brain" seems to compensate after a little while so as to make the problem less noticeable. Er..... drink has nothing to do with any of this, btw! - a friend who has just undergone cateracts-removals suggests that I may possibly have first signs of a cataract in the right eye. No blind spots or "linear distortions", thank goodness, so I don't think it's macular degeneration: just a minor nuisance!

Oh - and a Happy Birthday to you, Sigolene xx!

S-A

[Paul Sherratt]

>>I've been using cheap reading glasses from the chemist's >

S_A
They're just magnifiers and another of PM Thatcher's foolish wheezes


Do you drive ????????????????????

PS
The government pays for your basic eye exam.
You don't even have to hunt for a dead rabbit !

[Serial_Apologist]

No I don't drive, PS. I ride a bicycle!!! <biggrin>

In fact, it's so nice outside at the moment, I think it's time to make the most of this early sign of spring.

[Paul Sherratt]

[BBMmk2]

What a lovely day today is!! Quite like spring!

[eighthobstruction]

A golden day, like a trumpet to the world.... the ground in the woods, verily a jossling jumble sale of bulbs elbowing each other to poke them selves first to the light....moss and lichen [taking their turn before the tree leaves come] acidy in their luminous colours...lovely lovely....

S-A, you knowing me a while....you must surely know , what I think you are, ref your not having your eyes tested....

[Paul Sherratt]

salymap, amateur et al,

Here's a reasonably straightforward link to this latest aid available to assist in the early detection of
serious eye problems. The instrument shown is the one we bought for our practice 18 months ago
http://www.maculacenter.com/Procedures/OCT.htm.