Re: Curious - optic neuritis/ comment about glasses, not about optic neuritis

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Near-sightedness and/or far-sightedness and/orastigmatism (lines bend) are essentially, barringinjury to the lense or retina inherited.I had one very far-sighted parent, and one verynear-sighted parent, and my sister was near-sighted,all my brothers are far-sighted, and I have one eyewhich is almost normal and one which is extremelynear-sighted--just using my family as an example.There are some ethnic groups which seem to havea high rate of near-sightedness--you can tell whichyou have by looking at the glasses, if you have them.If your glasses lense magnifies, that eye is farsighted;if the other glasses lense MINIMIZES, that eye is near-sighted.My first really serious job was with an optometristnamed "Dr. Pepper!"Love to you,

, and to all hereTo: MSersLife Sent: Tue, February 2, 2010 12:36:44 PMSubject: RE: Curious - optic neuritis

My mom blamed my nearsightedness on too-close-to- the-TV... :-)

Haven't had anything yet that switches eyes, so maybe that's a good sign?

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Re: Curious - optic neuritis

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I can't tell you how to tell the difference.. . Turns out what I always

thought was eyestrain.. was actually optic neuritis in my case.. I guess

I've had the double vision, only didn't realize it was double vision (I

don't actually see two of things, which is what I always thought double

vision would be like).. I do suffer from.. I guess it would be blurred

vision.. but for the longest time thought that I just needed to have a

prescription change in my glasses.. until I realized that today it would

be my left eye, and tomorrow maybe my right eye.. and sometimes it

happens within hours.. I rarely don't have to turn my head to one side

or the other to read stuff on the internet, or email and such...

But the pain I was having.. is what I've always thought of as

eyestrain.. moving my eye right or left or up or down would cause what I

would think of as the eye muscles hurting.. and it turned out to be

optic neuritis.. (I've had that type of thing happen nearly all my

life.. but when I was a child.. I was told to take my nose out of the

books.. because that's what was causing the "eye strain".. hmmm.. got to

wonder now though)..

Hope this helps

HUGS

|)onna

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> How can you tell the difference between optic neuritis and just plain old

> everyday eyestrain? My eyesight is very bad, and I do a lot of small

> handwork and computer work that tires out my poor little eyeballs...

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