Glasses or Contacts

[drivermaker]

What does a seance have to do with vision?

Oh, I see. You just wanted to post another meaningless flame.

Carry on.

Uhhhh Scott...OCULIST is correct when referring to the eyes. For a seance, I think you're referring to OCCULT. Oh, I see. You just want to post another meaningless flame. Carry on.

 

[JLW]

Thanks for your kind words, JLW.

I'm lucky in that I have no ONE big problem with my eyes....I have these minor problems:

One eye looks higher than the other but I've overcome that by myself, so my glasses don't have prisms anymore. My doctor ways billiards is the perfect exercise for this. He said when I'm about 65 it'll come back as my ability to control it will diminish.

Astigmatism, mostly corrected now via lasik. When I stroke my stick, it looks a little crooked to the left with my left eye and looks a little crooked to the right with my right eye....my brain straigtens it out, but not without the occasional error, especially on long shots.

Myopia, started at 20/600, now about 20/50 or so as it is still varying since my last surgery in May. I can see only about 4-5 feet away before it gets blurry, so playing pool requires glasses again. We were trying to undercorrect my eyes so my focus would be on the table size, but we failed.

Spots.

Floaters, along with the spots ,make it look like I'm viewing the table through a dirty aquarium.

Dry eyes made worse by the surgery and my feeble attempts at wearing contacts. My doctor implanted a little plug in each eye to keep the tears from draining as fast as usual. I recommend this for any pool player as we're in drying environments often. It took 10 seconds per eye and they are removable.

Presbiopia (need reading glasses) caused by aging. My lasik made it so I can now read withOUT glasses. This is the best result from surgery as not many 50 somethings can read without glasses.

Flat eyes creating various problems with contacts and surgery options.

Thin corneas, thus no more lasik ever.

A little pressure problem controlled by a special herb. Was over 25, now well below 20.

Light sensitivity, especially since surgery.

Other than those, my eyes are perfect. Actually I feel very lucky that I don't have detached retinas or some horrible thing like that.

I had to laugh at the article in BD this month by Tom Ross where he claimed eyesight isn't as important as one might think it is. Tom made the common error in thinking that bad eyesight results in fuzziness only. How I wish.

Gee, if we were doing this in person, you could look through my glasses and I could look through yours.

Jeff Livingston

Wow, I'm surprised they did Lasik if your eyes were that bad. Like I said, my eyes weren't that bad to begin with. And from what I've heard, those with eyesight such as yours seem to have more complications. I've been very satisfied with my Lasik experience. And that's why I say that I would recommend it. But ONLY to those that really can't stand wearing glasses or contacts, because there are people such as yourself who have fairly serious complications. Good luck with everything.

 

[chefjeff]

Wow, I'm surprised they did Lasik if your eyes were that bad. Like I said, my eyes weren't that bad to begin with. .

My doctor actually had me in limbo for over 5 years (!!!) before he'd do the surgery. He wanted to be sure I would not be seeing double, amongst other things. It was a gamble, and it works for most people. I'd recommend lasik for pool players in general. Like I said, I'm actually lucky compared to some cuz most of my problems have some treatment options.

Here fido...hand me my cue...now let me grab your collar and lead me to the pool table...Is this a twenty or a ten dollar bill that I'm betting with?...

Jeff Livingston

 

[BlowFish]

I wear glasses only when driving and walking. This happened about a little bit over 2yrs ago. My problem is Astigmatism and its very small according to my optometrist. Contacts is not an option 'coz it's small. He said it's only 0.25 and contacts are made at a minimum 0.75.

When shooting pool, my glass are off. I can see clearly upto 6'. I just need to concentrate well on things longer than 6'.