On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 at 6:04?PM, Caroline J via <gcarolinejoyce= [email protected]> wrote: Hi Chiarina, From what you are saying, it sounds like you have NAION permanent blurriness (scotoma) versus near or far-sighted blurriness. If you can see details better close up, but less so farther away, then that part of your vision can be treated for myopia with a prescription with a (-) Rx. If you can see between your blurriness a little farther away, but not close up, then you can try a stronger reading glass (+) magnifier. Dollar store readers of different strengths can help figure out if your reading strength needs a higher (+) number. I need both, and it is a very careful balance between balance between the far-sightedness Rx strength and the near-sightedness strength. I use contacts to correct my far-sighted blurriness and wear Rx readers for my nearsightedness to help me read and see the computer when my far-sighted corrective contacts exacerbate blurriness up close. I have found my progressive glasses to be frustrating at times with seeing my computer or reading my phone. It is why I prefer to do up-close reading with no corrective lenses and live in my myopic world. As far as strengths, I found this online: ¡° Mild: -0.50 to -3. Moderate: -3.25 to -5.00. High:?-5.25 to -10.
What are your Rx strengths?
As far as the permanent scotomas, that blurriness cannot be corrected, so we have to focus on correcting the vision around the permanent vision field losses or permanent blurred areas.
So, the more you understand your complex vision ¡°blurriness¡± the better you can describe specifically to your optometrist which blurriness you feel can be improved. Describe how you see what you are able to see with your phone or a book¡ªat the distance is it the least blurry. Describe how you can see around the scotomas, to make out colors, but the shapes and lines are blurrier when you are looking across the room. The changes in your vision since NAION should be correctable.
I hope this helps!
On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 12:23?AM Chiarina Blake via <jc.blake2= [email protected]> wrote: Hi dear Caroline. You have helped me before so much and I appreciate. Thank you. Both my eyes are in bad shape. I have had a dragged retina since born in my left eye so I have less than 20perce t vision in that eye and NAION effected my only good right eye 4 years ago. I have always relied on my once good ey to see. My left one just went on holiday lol. I can see colour well and I don¡¯t have any streaks or blind spots. My vision is just blurry. I have lost a lot of contrast and I find detail difficult to see. I just assumed that if they made my lens stronger, it would get rid of the blur I was but nothing g seems to work. I just don¡¯t understand how I can have a weak script when my vision is still blurry yet my Optometrist has tried so hard to lift my vision. All a mystery to me X? On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 at 1:00?AM, Caroline J via <gcarolinejoyce= [email protected]> wrote: Hi Chiarina,
You need an optometrist who sees beyond your lab results and listens to your needs. With my bilateral NAION, my dominant eye is centrally blind with many scotoma streaks. My left eye has a few scotomas with good peripheral vision. My brain has adapted and improved over the past 1 1/2 years, but my dominant right still spreads the gray gloom to my overall vision. With myopia, too, I recently went back to contacts because I feel I need ALL of my vision, including my peripheral. They strengthened my RX, and my new contacts felt off. Then I realized my dominant eye was responding to the stronger Rx and trying to dominate with the gray smears. So, I put my old weaker contact lens in my right, use my stronger Rx in my left, and for the first time, my left eye is dominant without battling my right.? I am ecstatic over the clarity.?
I know we are all unique in our experiences, but for those if us who have a ¡°good¡± eye and a poor eye, it may be worth trying to lessen the Rx strength of the poor eye to help establish a stable dominance of the good eye.
I hope this helps some of you!
On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 2:42?AM Chiarina Blake via <jc.blake2= [email protected]> wrote: Hi there. Why can¡¯t my glasses help me see clearer? Why do they say that I have a very light eye script why can¡¯t they just make the script stronger? Thank you?
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