(Part 2) Best products from r/optometry

This is a classic and very easy read:

https://www.amazon.com/Fine-Art-Prescribing-Glasses-Spectacle/dp/0937404667

I am in a similar situation. Since the eclipse, which I viewed with ISO approved glasses, I have struggled with light sensitivity and blurry vision (that comes and goes at all distances...like my eyes can't focus) to a point where I develop eye strain by mid-day and headaches by the end of the day and occasional nausea in the morning when the blurriness is worst. I do not seem to have blind spots but I am seeing more floaters.

I posted some of this info with my one-star amazon review of the glasses, and I am not alone. Check out some of the other reviews there.

I did go to the Ophthalmologist on Friday, and - good news - they couldn't find any damage to my retinas. Bad news - I still don't know what's wrong with me and am afraid it won't get better (or may get worse).

Please post updates!

http://www.amazon.com/ULTRA-Hard-Contact-Lens-Remover/dp/B0076LCMSE/ref=pd_sim_hpc_4

Just replace it every other month. It's hands down the least stressful way to remove contacts.

I haven't read them, but heard a lot about them when they were big. The TL;DR is that you should create a business that doesn't require your constant presence. He wrote one specifically for OD's too.

I use the Systane Complete Drops right now.

By gel, are you referring to something like this

Thanks for confirmation, already have https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003BG9Z8I/ but picked up a 2-pack of that cleaning solution you recommended.

Also it doesn't make a difference if I go lenses-up or lenses-down does it? I tend to have to have the lenses facing down since otherwise it's kind of hard to get them fully submerged.

I know this all too well.

This is pretty clearly hypochondriasis. I'd suggest you see a CBT based psychologist. You can also purchase the Book Brain Lock and read the help section in the back. It's about 15 pages or so. https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Lock-Twentieth-Anniversary-Obsessive-Compulsive/dp/006256143X

You can also find summaries of it online like http://hope4ocd.com/foursteps.php

You need to know that the more you wash your eyes the more sensitive they will get. The more prone to stuff getting in there that you will be. This can be droplets of whatever to debris floating in the air to the unknown. It's funny how when people suffer from anxiety, it seems like the anxiety finds them. These events don't really happen to other people but it keeps happening to you. Anxiety sufferers start to become aware of things everybody else is not aware of and may even start to scan and seek out anxiety provoking events.

My advice is to find a psychologist, ask if he/she provides CBT based therapy and try it.

In the mean time. Wash your eyes if you get something foreign in there. Don't go overboard though. Soap is pretty bad for the eyes so you should try to prevent it. But everybody uses soap everyday and most people aren't frantic over it.

We all have immune systems, well most of us at least. The chances of some infection are unlikely. Read on the hygiene hypothesis. If you want to not get sick you should try to eat bacteria.

I'd suggest getting some lubricating eye drops to lubricate your now dry eyes and make you notice them less. Give it a try. I think you should seek out a psychologist though. It may be a little bit of eye washing now but one trauma in your life and it could turn into a debilitating condition.

Both eyes are correctable to 20/20? Since you seem to be asking for a reference text, our collage felt as though Griffin was the Bible of binocular vision anomalies.

https://www.amazon.com/Plum-45981-2-Sterile-Eyewash-Solution/dp/B01N4U7BCG/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=eye+wash+bottle&qid=1556742188&s=gateway&sr=8-5


For example this! Also available as eye-droppers.


https://www.amazon.com/Aero-Safety-Solution-Buffered-Neutralizing/dp/B07D5PWPB9/ref=sr_1_20?keywords=eye+wash+bottle&qid=1556742188&s=gateway&sr=8-20

Sounds good.. I'm thinking about taking these. They are cheap, should last me 4 months, and doesn't appear to contain any soy, titanium dioxide, or other fillers.

You can cover the back surface of your glasses with scotch tape and it doesn't look quite so dorky.

Or go all out and get a pirate patch.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SE5SY6/ref=sr_ph_1_s_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1487568138&sr=sr-1&keywords=fish%2Boil&th=1

I take 1 per day in the morning with breakfast.

This stuff.

Got a stain on my pants. Tried everything. Then got this stuff. A miracle.

You probably are not taking them out correctly. Have you ever tried one of those suction things to take out contacts?

The E-Myth Revisited
https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-About/dp/0887307280

Aqui

System for Ophthalmic Dispensing is what opticians call the Blue Bible.

It covers everything after the exam about how eyeglass frames and lenses work.

Somebody wrote a book about this. It's written from the patient's perspective as an adult with strabismus. VT worked for her.
https://www.amazon.com/Fixing-My-Gaze-Scientists-Dimensions/dp/0465020739/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1543362553&sr=8-1&keywords=fix+my+gaze

I bought them here.

I have a question in to the manufacturer. Do these look damaged to you? I don't see any light through them at night, even staring into a lamp, and only the sun during the day, but the wrinkles on the left side look weird.