Maybe it’s because I’ve had glasses since I was in the second grade, but I’m very protective about my eyes. I don’t want to put contacts in them. I don’t want folks carving ’em up with frickin’ lasers. And, frankly, it would take a lot more myopia than I have for me to have artificial lenses installed. Yeesh.
Which reminds me — I still need to get my new presecription.
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Same problem here I’m afraid.
Lots happy good times ensue whenever the Glaucoma test is done. Nothing is more fun the having the Eye Doctor holding the back of your head while his assistant is tonging you eyelids open while the big blue thing approaches your eye. This is of course after four previous attempts were made and I backed out of the contraption whenever the probe touched my eyelashes.
Good times…good times.
I managed to stand still through that, but the basic idea gives me the yim-yams.
Get a different optometrist! There is a newer machine for the glaucoma test that does not need to touch your eyeball. It works using a puff of air. You should vote with your feet and go to an eye guy with the newer tech.
Get a different optometrist! There is a newer machine for the glaucoma test that does not need to touch your eyeball. It works using a puff of air. You should vote with your feet and go to an eye guy with the newer tech.
It seems to me that I have had, in the same KP clinic, both the “air puff” and the “blue light” glaucoma testing, so I don’t know if the two tests are exactly the same.
Interesting. I remember being very relieved when my optometrist discarded the test that touched my eye in favor of the air puff test. If they really test for different things, then it’s odd that he discarded one in favor of the other.
No clue, I confess.
A little investigation on the internet reveals that there are two kinds of commonly-used glaucoma tests that examine the internal pressure within the eye. The material I found suggests to me that these tests (the air-puff test and the one that touches your eye) test for the same thing, so unless I am misunderstanding the situation, there doesn’t appear to be a good reason to do them both.
However, internal eye pressure is only an indicator for glaucoma, not a definitive diagnostic test. To determine if a patient has Glaucoma, a doctor may use two other tests, one that examines peripheral vision, and another in which he or she examines the retina. Even these tests don’t catch Glaucoma until it is fairly advanced, so new tests have been developed that are apparently not yet in common use. One of these is a laser optic nerve analyzer, and the other is a blue-yellow visual field test similar to the standard peripheral vision test but using different frequencies of light.
The two sources I used are this one and this other one. The second one was much more informative.