How are your eyes?

[Rickw]

Good Luck!

Good luck Laura! I hope it works well for you!

I am having the lasix thing this thursday. I am somewhat farsighted but it is the astigmatism that is the real pain. I doubt it will do much for my pool game because I have not played long, but am looking forward to having everything not look blurry and fuzzy.

Laura

 

[biGhuK]

Thanks for the info guys. My dad had lasik for both of his eyes about a year ago and went from 20/800\20/600, to 20/20\20/30. He loves it but the only thing he hates is that his dominate eye is 20/30 which messes him up (Archery, Bowling). The only thing that scares me is the fact that if something goes wrong sometimes there isn't much they can do to fix it :/. I'd consider lasik/lasek but I am only 18 and my cornea's have yet to stop hardening. It'd be pointless to blow grands on my eyes then 5 years later i'd be in the same dilemma I think. I'm going to my dads eye doctor who put him with gas permeables to get his opinion on my eyes and maybe try some hard/gas perms. He could actually see better than he can now with his old gas perms.

I think the thing that messes me up the most is the fact that my right eye (dominate eye) is worse than my non dominate. That's what probably messes up my aim the most.

It's amazing how badly a CRT computer screen can destroy you vision in such little time. Only two years ago did I see 20/15 outa both eyes.

 

[Brandon79ta]

It's amazing how badly a CRT computer screen can destroy you vision in such little time. Only two years ago did I see 20/15 outa both eyes.

That's kinda wierd you mention that, it must not hurt my eyes nearly as bad. This last time I got new glasses, last winter, it had been like 4yrs since I got my last pair and only my left eye changed enough for me to see a small difference. I've been wearing glasses since I was around 10, I'm 20 now. I have a pretty bad astigmatism, 2.50 correction and that was at 16 I don't even wanna know what it is now, and I'm nearsighted. Up till a couple years ago I was a pretty good shot maker, extreme thin cuts were no problem, now forget it. I think alot of that has to do with switching back and forth from bar tables to 9fts tho. Still pisses me off sometimes when I totally blow a cut shot that a couple years ago I would of bet $50 I'd make 9:10 times, and I'm only 20. Oh well bout time I learn to bank anyway I guess, lol.

 

[fxskater]

Hi all,

This is only my second post (my first one disappeared somewhere before I could post it) so please bear with me. I'm 50 years old and have worn glasses for 40 years and played pool just as long.

My eye problems are: astigmatism in both eyes, floaters, spots, dry eyes, one eye looks higher than the other which causes double vision, nearsightedness, for the last 5 years I've needed reading glasses, slight glaucoma in one eye, and I think that's all---that's enough I'd say.

Anyway, because of glare from the pool light on the inside of my glasses, I thought I'd give contacts a try about 5 years ago. Well, it's been quite a ride determining what works and what doesn't.

The first problem I forced myself to overcome was double vision due to one eye looking higher than the other. This took almost a year. An eye specialist for this problem (he's a ping-pong player and really took an interest in my pool playing--he spent 3 hours with me!) told me that doing the mono-vision thing ( that yobogua does) wouldn't work for pool, as long cut shots would be impossible to see properly. So I quit that strategy and am gald I did. He told me that billiards was probably the best exercise I could do to correct this problem, but that it would probably return to me when i reach 65 or so---we'll see (get it?--we'll SEE---somebody stop me!).

The second problem was finding the right nearsightedness correction.
I, too, have an opthamologist, but he doesn't understand that I want to see the pool table and don't really care about 20/20 vision. After all, I spend probably 95% of my time indoors and rarely need to see eagles on the horizon. I originally wanted lasik, but he is verrrry conservative (that's good, btw) and won't do my eyes (yet, anyway). So his contact lady and I have been trying various daily contacts to find my best depth of field for pool.

My left eye is supposed to be -5.75and the right is supposed to be -5.25 (for 20/20 vision). I've been wearing -4.25 in the left and -3.75 in the right, and this provides clear vision from 2 to about 12 feet---perfect for pool. It's just good enough for driving, but I may get glasses to make up the difference for those tired, late night drives. The added benefit here is I rarely need reading glasses anymore---whoopee!

I also have settled on a .75 astigmatism correction in both eyes. It isn't perfect but my brain has overcome the fact that my left eyes sees my cue as curved to the left and my right eye sees my cue as curved slighty to the right. When I first played this way, I thought my cue had become warped. This took maybe 6 months to overcome.

He also put in punctal plugs that "dam up" two of the four drains in my eyes. This I would recommend to anyone who hangs in smoky bars. It's painless and takes about 10 seconds to put in. They're like teeny tiny funnel shaped plastic plugs that are left in my eyes forever (or until the doc wants they out). I still sometimes use drops, but rarely anymore.

I sometimes use a special herb to keep the glaucoma pressure down (went from the high 20's to the high teens). I can't tell you the herb, but you can probably figure it out.

For the spots and floaters (imagine looking through a moving window screen), I just sometimes have to shake my head to move them out of my line of sight.

My point is basically the same as Gerald's: My eyes are what they are, but my mind belongs to me and I have complete control over it. This is how I beat those hawk-eyed punksters. They can see better than I; I can think better than they.

Thanks for reading and excuse me if this post is redundant.

Jeff Livingston

I use that 'Special Herb' too, but unfortunately for me i think my use of this 'special herb' does alot more for my opponents than it does for me. I think it knocks about a ball or 2 off my 9-ball game.

 

[fxskater]

It's amazing how badly a CRT computer screen can destroy you vision in such little time. Only two years ago did I see 20/15 outa both eyes.

Im not Sure that it is the CRT monitor doing that to your eyes. I look at a computer monitor 8 to 10 hours a day for the past 8 years and my vision has always been 20/20 in both eyes.

 

[mjantti]

Huh?? I'm glad YOU said that about the eyelids and not a caucasian, it could have been very easily twisted into political incorrectness and claimed as a racial issue. -6 isn't all that terrible and contacts will have you seeing like a hawk. Some people have smokey atmosphere problems and others don't. Go ahead and spring for them. But on the eyelid issue...couldn't you get elliptically shaped contacts? (Couldn't help it Mikko, the devil made me do it)

Umm, I am a caucasian. But Finns aren't generally considered racists nor politically active... at least outside of Finland. But, that thing about Asians and contacts was just a "fact" I've heard some time ago. I wasn't making a racial statement, I thought I made a question which shouldn't have insulted anyone. Sorry if I did. But, I guess I was wrong and someone was pulling my leg on that one. Shouldn't be so gullible...

Maybe I'm hesitant over getting contact lenses, because my cousin had them 10 years ago. When wearing them for the first time, she couldn't get one of the lenses off and it took 2 cry-filled hours to get it off. Girls, sheesh...

Uups, with the last remark I became a chauvinist as well. Sorry. How intolerant and inconsiderate of me

 

[drivermaker]

Umm, I am a caucasian. But Finns aren't generally considered racists nor politically active... at least outside of Finland. But, that thing about Asians and contacts was just a "fact" I've heard some time ago. I wasn't making a racial statement, I thought I made a question which shouldn't have insulted anyone. Sorry if I did. But, I guess I was wrong and someone was pulling my leg on that one. Shouldn't be so gullible...

Maybe I'm hesitant over getting contact lenses, because my cousin had them 10 years ago. When wearing them for the first time, she couldn't get one of the lenses off and it took 2 cry-filled hours to get it off. Girls, sheesh...

Uups, with the last remark I became a chauvinist as well. Sorry. How intolerant and inconsiderate of me

I've never had a problem getting contacts off. Think about it, you might be more appealing to a greater number of women without glasses. (Mikko is currently hauling ass down to his local optometrist) BTW, chauvanism is 100% acceptable. (Now watch me get clobbered)