Is increasing myopia associated with developing exophthalmos and/or early Graves'? I understand that the eye muscles are generally responsible for pushing the eyeball(s) forward from the socket but I can't figure out if this might increase myopia.
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Wooly myopia is a Latin word meaning being nearsighted. I have been nearsighted all my life. It became progressively worse until I was in my fifties. Now that I am going in my seventies, I had again a change in my sight, this time because my muscles are getting older and strangely enough, my sight is getting slightly better. You should go to an eye specialist. (not the person who sells glasses, but a real DR.) and let him or her take a close look at your eyes. And for everyone in the group. Once you are in your mid thirties, you all should have your eyes examined once a year. There are many eye disabilities; you might never notice until it is too late to do anything about. (I have a brother-in-law who is an eye specialist in the Netherlands and he has everyone in the family well educated about good eye care).
So Wooly, have it looked at, so you do not worry anymore.
Els
PS if anyone wonders why the spelling and sentence structure looks so perfect......This comes with a new computer, spell check but also gramar and puctuation (Victor Borger comes to mind....LOL)
Els
Well dammit, this ended up in the wrong damned list - which fact escaped me for several hours because I was at my weekly knitting group!
Whoops!
PS -- I've been wearing glasses for 35 years :)
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LOL I love him!
Higs, Katherine
I have been wearing glasses a bit longer than that, but I am also a bit older, I am sure.....LOL Beer bottle bottoms.....LOL
Els
So do we and we miss him a lot, and watch any rerun they show
Els
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:27:16 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@telus.net (Els van Dam) spewed forth :
Quit bragging!
Tell me about the bottle-bottoms. My last Rx for one eye was -9.75. I'm just glad some bright boy invented high-index polycril!
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Only -9.75, you say. On the Rx from my most recent exam, it's -16.25 for the right and -17.75 for the left. I started wearing glasses more than 60 years ago. After I needed bifocals, I finally decided to get contacts which give me better (far from perfect) distance vision than glasses. Of course, I still need glasses for reading with the contacts.
Yes so am I. my glasses are 10 something and 11 something......I have three layers in my lenses, so I can see far away, inbetween, and up close. I now have bought the magnifying glasses that clip on, so I can see the spaces in my reed, hoping I will have less threading mistakes. That does help.
Els
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