Getting Eye Dr Attention

[Ron Lockhart]

Ive found you must be very specific and insistent with eye Docs,
to get them to understand you are not an "ordinary" patient.
I needed glasses with focal distance of 48 inches for job function,
took two sets of lenses to get it right, but they eventually did.

The person that noted looking out a window at a distant tree
may have a good approach.

Later, Ron Lockhart
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Caldwell" <4larryc at bscn.com>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: Variation on...... cataracts and flying pattern...new question


> Ken,
>
> My last couple of eye exams indicated 20/20 in my right eye, 20/15 in
> the left with my prescription I have been wearing for some time now.
> But I still see fuzzy airplanes.  My right eye has some slight retina
> damage that doesn't help, it seems to reduce the acuity some.
>
> At my last exam, I asked the doctor to experiment a little and see if
> she could simulate looking at 500-800', rather than the shorter distance
> that the exams are seemingly based on.  I ended up with a different
> prescription for one eye that seems to help most of the time.  My vision
> seems to vary some from day to day, even hour to hour sometimes, but I
> can't have that many prescrption to keep track of.  It may be worth a
> shot to have your doctor play with the prescription a little.  The
> doctor I go to told me that they frequently don't change prescriptions
> for samll changes in lense power.  She said that most people will never
> notice the difference.
>
>
> Larry Caldwell
>
>
>
> Ken Blackwell wrote:
> > Recently, I had my glasses updated, (Age 67, trifocals) and my medium
> > distance and close up vision is 20-15....according to the Dr.'s eye
> > chart. However, when I look off at a distance like flying, the glasses
> > do not sharply focus. In fact, I can see better without them. My problem
> > is that I wanted to get my sunglasses updated....but the prescription
> > doesn't work for distance and in fact my old prescription works better
> > at a distance than the new one. BUT the old prescription doesn't do an
> > adequate job at short to medium distances.
> >
> > Has anyone ever heard of this problem...solution....and maybe an
> > Internet med reference?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ken Blackwell
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