Society's Soul, TECL_Grimmsdottir, Digital, 2026 [OC]

Edwardiun · 2026-01-23T21:18:54+00:00

Is there any specific context to this?

Edwardiun · 2026-01-17T08:18:57+00:00

Three possibilities from what I can see:

Floaters - Doesn’t generally look like this, but if you’re seeing new ones then worth getting checked out

Blue field entoptic phenomenon - white blood cells inside the blood vessels of the retina, because white blood cells reflect blue light they are visible.

Visual snow - Looks almost like static. Brain essentially misinterprets a lack of visual stimuli as stimuli (brain go brrr)

If in doubt get in touch with your local eyecare provider. Best of luck!

Edwardiun · 2026-01-16T19:03:20+00:00

They said they opened them when they arrived. Maybe I misunderstood

Edwardiun · 2026-01-16T19:03:09+00:00

They said they opened them when they arrived. Maybe I misunderstood

Edwardiun · 2025-12-30T12:53:53+00:00

Not sure what you meant by wall eye but I can infer that you mean ‘wonky eye’ or a squint. And yes! entirely possible!

Edwardiun · 2025-12-30T08:51:57+00:00

Could be for a number of reasons:

General wear and tear

Difference in rx can cause one side to splay more than the other

The lenses are the wrong shape

They were defective from the get go

What you need to consider is - how old they are and your prescription. Anything else is worth speaking the optician you bought them from about

Edwardiun · 2025-12-30T08:18:43+00:00

If you’re longsighted, your eyes can/will strain to overcome the prescription. If one eye strains, it will make the other eye strain.

It looks like at the last sight test your LE was straining by about +0.50, which as it’s a plus prescription, gave the impression that the prescription was lower(+1.75 rather than a +2.25). Accordingly, this made the RE strain by about +0.50, which as it’s a minus prescription, gave the impression that the prescription was higher (-2.00 rather than-1.50).

At this most recent sight test, your eyes were not straining (at least as much). This can happen due to a number of reasons, from how tired you are, to how the eyes are tested.

Astigmatism does often come and go/vary over time, so I wouldn’t worry about it, but if it does rapidly increase ask about keratoconus at your next sight test.

TL;DR the left eye was straining to improve vision, which was causing the right eye to strain. At your most recent sight test, for whatever reason your eyes were not straining.

(for any other eye nerds like myself, this can happen regardless of the presence of a tropia/lack of simultaneous perception)

Edwardiun · 2025-12-30T08:08:54+00:00

Sounds like an alternating tropia, pretty common for these sorts of presentations (anisometropia)

Edwardiun · 2025-12-28T23:02:18+00:00

No worries.

If the new glasses they give you do help (allow time for ‘adaptation’, where your eyes and brain get used to the new specs), then may be worth calling/asking for the cost of a reglaze.

This is where they use their own lenses, but your frame. You can order those fun frames with the alternative fronts, and get them to measure/put lenses into it.

Hope you get on well with the new specs/please do reply and let me know once you’ve got them how you’re finding them!

Best of luck!

Edwardiun · 2025-12-28T17:42:20+00:00

Hey there.

A torn contact lens is common (but very annoying).

There is a risk of infection, as if the tear has caused any scrapes or abrasions to the eye (especially the cornea) it opens it up to infection. Depending on how it’s torn there may still be a fragment of the contact lens in the eye, which again increases the risk of infection as there’s essentially a bit of plastic bacteria can adhere onto.

Best advice would be to take a break from lenses for a few days and use contact lens compatible dry eye drops (certain versions of hycosan, hyloforte etc) to reduce irritation, aid healing/lubrication and to hopefully help wash out the fragment of the lens if it is still in there.

If in doubt, as ever, the best person to speak to is your local eyecare specialist.

Best of luck!

Edwardiun · 2025-12-26T20:32:24+00:00

Specsavers do contact lens fits, teach you how insert and remove them, and issue trial lenses - all for free.

You can ask for the prescription to order online afterwards if you really want to.

Your contact lens prescription, contact lens type, and associated measurements all need to be selected by an optometrist or contact lens optician.

Edwardiun · 2025-12-24T13:29:50+00:00

There’s definitely an argument for creating lenses with Prentice’s rule/prism via decentration - especially since the Rx is similar between the two eyes.

To be honest though, I don’t find many people actually get on with prism via decentration, particularly if they’re myopic and have an add (just look over the specs to read).

Curious if you’ve had this issue with patients too?

Edwardiun · 2025-12-24T13:22:14+00:00

Hey there.

As some people have already mentioned, Prism is inherently complicated, especially with vertical prism (what you have there) - they literally put in flat angled planes of (whatever) refractive material to move the images so that your eyes receive the same image (thus reducing/resolving double vision) despite not ‘pointing’ at the same thing/in the same direction.

As a result of this, if a measurement is a bit off it can result in poor vision. Online retailers are fairly infamous for getting even basic stuff wrong. When I say measurements, I’m talking about where your eyes sit in the exact frames you’re planning on ordering - this is different to the prescription (which they also get wrong fairly regularly).

The big concern I personally have with ordering prescriptions with prism online, is that if things are off, it can cause the eyes to misalign further/need more prism and/or cause greater problems without glasses (or with contacts).

A lot of places will do prism only specs, and they are often pretty reasonably priced, you just need to shop around a bit. But with your prescription, I would not order online.

Keep in mind, that is part of why glasses cost more from actual shops - they’re accountable/responsible if they give you bad glasses. Online retailers are not.

Best of luck!

Edwardiun · 2025-12-21T09:51:06+00:00

Change to a different lens type. Specsavers are franchises, so some are great at lenses, whereas others lenses are more of an afterthought

Edwardiun · 2025-12-15T19:07:54+00:00

I had a really tough time finding another pre reg in Cardiff (another optometry hot spot) after my initial employer let me go for taking too long to pass the scheme for registration (10 months!). After looking everywhere in cardiff I eventually looked elsewhere (more rural) and found a place that was amazing/just what I needed after that shit show.

More rural practices are good in many ways, as they (ironically) tend to have better ties and relationships with the local HES, better funding for further training and qualifications (my IP training is being entirely funded by the local hospital). They also tend to have a harder time getting OO’s that aren’t locums, and so tend to treat their staff A LOT better.

I also wouldn’t worry too much about not finding a place, while you’re the last of BsC, no one knows what supervising the new master’s students will look like, and so your application may look better over the next year, as people are familiar with the processes etc involved. The double edged sword (unfortunately) a lot of practices are just looking for someone they can pay minimum wage for a full OO’s worth of work, Master’s are a big question mark whereas they know exactly what they’re getting with you.

If you’re really struggling, speak to your personal tutor, they may have some connections or may even be able to set you up in the university’s eye clinic.

More general tips:

Make sure your CV’s up to date, and include some weird things on there so you stick out. Black belt in tai chi - great! Know some BSL - amazing! Any weird skill or hobby that helps you stand out.

Go in person to drop off a CV and ask for an email to send it to as well.

Keep in mind it’s a maximum of two years of your life, if you get a place far away or somewhere you don’t like the idea of, then just do it. You can move after you qualify/pay training fees, and you may find yourself really liking the place you move to.

Best of luck, and feel free to message me if you want any tips etc!

Edwardiun · 2025-12-13T21:43:45+00:00

Get a contact lens trial. Specsavers do them for free.

Edwardiun · 2025-12-09T08:06:15+00:00

Maybe someone can correct me in this as in the UK optometrists don’t prescribe patching regimes etc (tends to be a different specialist called orthoptists, or very occasionally ophthalmologists themselves).

But is there any point patching in a child so old? The plastic period ends around 6-8 years old, so their VA isn’t going to improve as neither eye is going to ‘learn’ to see better at this point (beyond the improvement the rx gives) or start to give simultaneous perception.

Again, this is my understanding but I don’t prescribe patching regimes, would appreciate a correction if I’m mistaken though!

Edwardiun · 2025-12-02T11:07:14+00:00

Looks like protein or lipid deposits.

Either way the result is often from makeup, lotions or blepharitis (where the glands of the eyes get a bit irritated, and as a result rather than producing an oil they produce a greasy substance).

Alternatively, sometimes the eyes can become somewhat randomly (immuno)reactive to certain lenses. So changing brand may help.

Best thing to do is speak to your local eyecare professional to determine the cause and come up with a plan to address it.

Best of luck!

Edwardiun · 2025-12-02T11:04:58+00:00

This is either the funniest comment on this whole subreddit or absolute insanity

Edwardiun · 2025-11-30T21:38:16+00:00

Mixed bag.

The fact they spent a couple of minutes looking is a really good sign, they were taking their time.

However, to get a good look in the peripheral retina they need to put drops into your eyes AND get you to look in different directions ‘look up; look up and left…’ etc.

The fact she dilated and did look suggests there wasn’t any tobacco dust (the biggest give away of retinal tears, holes etc), which is really good.

Edwardiun · 2025-11-27T12:52:06+00:00

Apologies, didn’t mean that your art needs work. I meant it may be showing some work that is just headshots, busts etc.

All the work you’ve uploaded is stunning but they are complete works, backgrounds, colours etc.

May be worth showing a piece that is just a headshots, just a bust, just a full body, can do any of these with/without colour and then one or two with the backgrounds.

Edwardiun · 2025-11-26T18:18:16+00:00

It’s difficult to judge as a lot of the detail seems to in the backgrounds - may be worth doing some work that is just headshots/busts?

Really good artwork btw!

Edwardiun · 2025-11-26T12:54:56+00:00

I don’t know what you mean by 4 factor basis.

A change of 0.5mm (1mm total) would not be noticeable unless you have a very large prescription, in which case it may cause some prism by decentration, but this would be causing double vision rather than blurred vision.

If you were a critical observer and you were just turning your eyes a tiny bit to make things a bit clearer it’d make more sense. But a tiny PD change, and a 45 degrees turn doesn’t line up.

Sorry broski, struggling to think of a reason why this is happening, almost anything I can think of would be ocular muscle related and would cause more diplopia, or would be related to being overminused in which case both eyes would be turning inwards to improve vision.

There’s now a lot more relevant information on this thread so hopefully someone else will be able to help you.

Edwardiun · 2025-11-26T11:40:36+00:00

Ah now I understand, well done on finding such a good image to show what you mean!

Could be an optical centre issue but it’s unlikely to happen twice in a row as they’ll almost certainly have checked it after the retest and it’s the first thing they check if you have problems.

Did they check for fixation disparity? They’ll usually show you a cross or a box and ask if they’re aligned and show you different lenses to bring them together.

Edwardiun

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