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Eye Conditions | Last Active: Jun 28, 2021 | Replies (17)

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@stuckonu

TY Lacy for responding. YES YES YES to medication! I want to post the complete list. I think everyone with vision problems should read this before taking any medication and assess the NEED for the medication and risk and consequence of taking it

I always thought the “ double vision was left to write. Never ever considered that it could be double up and down and consider this it can be both at the same time! I needed at times to wear a patch or I tripped over a door saddle or smash my shoulder into a door jam since I couldn't judge the opening with two eye open.

The phone doctor told me to study and understand certain words that will help my communicate with the new doctors two words are “ FIELD” and “ a·cu·i·ty “

I hate trying to navigate with my vision as it is.

I've said this several times already but it's worth saying again. ( your hammer analogy is one of my favorites! ) BEWARE ABD BE AEARE of this doctors who have only three tools in the tool box! Don't allow them if possible to read what another doctor has written in your records. We are all so screwed by electronic records especial since most doctors think that electronic records see “ The Cats Meow “ ( sorry you yungens that I'm using a saying that is older than me.

But when I think about my doctor visits I notice that basic doctor visits look ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LIKE THE NORMAN ROCKWELL FRONT COVER OF THE SATURDAY EVENING POST: no stethoscope around the neck no little red rubber hammer in breast pocket. No flash light with pointed tip to look into offices, no physical examination only its of questions. As for a copy of your records and see if you wonder if doctors have body cameras as pages about you visit are in your records by the next day at the latest. How does that happen? No more jokes about “ Okay take you clothes off because I don't remember the last time my clothes can of except for a pain shot in my butt and the nurse came in to give me that.

I imagined the next evolution of a doctor visit: you walk in with a handful of sealed envelopes the doctor now wears a black cape and and has a red jeweled swamp turban you hand him one envelope at a time which he places up to the turbin he makes a Karnac like statement then tests the envelope open and reads the questions to the answers he just give. You insurance company or medicare has three charges which is his last envelope before he says Allah-his- mala-dick which means may God remain with you and don't let the don't hit you in the ass as you depart. ZFunk and Wagnal gets a “ stypen “ for keeping the envelopes in a Mayonaise jar for 7 years are you leave or until you get The Itch!

For you Yunguns this is a repeat of an old Johnny Carson routine but the back to the future state of health Care

Stuckonu over and out

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Hi..well I vaguely remember Johnny Carson and something about choosing an envelope or ?? Agree, don't take clothes off very often at doctors now... and it seems they don't even want to touch your skin. Even had blood pressure taken on arm when wearing a thick fluffy sweater... how accurate is that? So now when I have med. appointment I wear a short sleeved top...maybe it doesn't make a difference but instructions with our B.P. kits say bare arm is best.
Am 77 and eye issues began while still working, long story short: after many many years with no problems started to get red eyes and very sore at work, ok when got home, back to work,eyes same... I can't tell you the problems it caused and disbelief etc. and I ended up being off my job for 18 months with no income. Because they hadn't done paperwork correctly, the job was still mine and I went back to it! But we had to remortgage our house and I sold any jewellery I had, my childhood stamp collections etc. to make ends meet. (Just want to say that some people thought I was home having a great time, I wasn't).

Anyway, what was discovered ... over a year later, was that the Filter on the office Xerox machine had not been put back on by repair man to make it run better; discovered when office manager noticed black powder on the walls and ceiling. By then I was mentally worn out and did not pursue... no one had my back. The xerox had been outside my office ... when I returned it had been moved into a closed room - but still to this day if I go into an area with a photo copier, my eyes get red. That is Nothing compared to what followed, but wont write that now. It's just to say that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it IS a duck and the way I was treated took its toll: thing is, I was the ONLY one in an office of 12 that had this problem... and this is the thing... majority rules ... when we are the odd man/woman out and they make comparisons with people who don't have the problem, then they think its our imagination or ???
I have more comments about my eyes as now have Glaucoma but the double vision isn't all the time and no one I have seen seems to think its important! I hope that it will be possible for you to find out "what" the cause is , and get some more support dealing with it, sooner rather than later. It's very scary having eye issues/vision problems and the fact that it is now being said that medications can cause is frightening. J.