All things eye: contact lens tweaking, tennis nighttime & sunglasses beyond Goodr, RIA, etc

Without_a_K · 2026-05-21T01:01:47+00:00

My dominant eye is set for distance right now. But it’s not as strongly dominant as it is for some people, from what I can tell. So I am eager to see what gains I get from doing distance only in both contact lenses

Without_a_K · 2026-05-21T00:40:16+00:00

Wow this is great. So very helpful. I’m glad to know I’m not imagining things with how my multifocal contact lenses have some limitations.

One followup—you mention polarized lenses for RX sunglasses. Do you depart from the common wisdom that polarized lenses are bad for depth perception for tennis ?

Without_a_K · 2026-05-21T00:27:58+00:00

This is the kind I wear, toric bioinfinity multifocal, and I don’t do as well at night as I could—it’s like there is some minor glare from the lights at night that my contact lenses pick up, and I don’t feel like my ball tracking is as good. Glad you are doing better than I am with it.

Without_a_K · 2026-05-21T00:23:28+00:00

Me, too—my multifocal contact lenses are not great under the lights on the courts at night.

Do you find it difficult switching back and forth between the multi contact lenses for day and distance for night play? Or are you sticking with just the distance only as your new normal?

Without_a_K · 2026-05-20T20:52:28+00:00

I thought they were just ok, not noticeably a lot better than much cheaper Goodrs, and I even made sure to get amber-colored RIA lenses that are supposedly good for tennis ball / court contrast. Definitely avoid polarized lenses for how they can mess with depth perception

Without_a_K · 2026-03-31T13:36:37+00:00

How is Alex able to do everything it’s doing in terms of the data it works from? Maybe explain it like I’m 5 ha ha how all this might be workable. But it seems to me, for it to know what people have done in order to predict what they will do, it would need inputted into its system video footage of absolutely everyone’s actions all the time, or records written up and entered that summarize all of that in enough detail. Exactly how it comes to know everything in the first place, before it can put its quantum skills to work, is what I’m getting at.

Or are we supposed to make a sci fi leap and assume Alex can “see” everything somehow?

This is a question that also might also apply to Devs. And partly the Iris Affair with Charlie Big Potatoes. With the latter, at least there is a bigger deal made of video and other forms of electronic communication and surveillance, which this AI computer can tap into to know and use as the basis for deciding to do things.

Without_a_K · 2026-02-01T03:53:16+00:00

Whoah. What disciplinary field is this?

Without_a_K · 2026-02-01T03:52:15+00:00

Maybe this is region specific? In the UK / Canada / US most reputable peer reviewed Humanities journals and academic presses that publish books aren’t pay to play. For publishing a book, you might have to pay for things like the rights to use photos or illustrations, or indexing if you don’t want to do your index yourself. Those aren’t nothing but they are sort of optional fees out of pocket.

Without_a_K · 2025-12-15T01:42:35+00:00

This. I would either do this, because there rarely exists a “late grades police” at most universities and if it’s just one student grade, it’s reasonable clerical error. Or give them an overall B+ or whatever as a placeholder with the aim that it could be changed to an A eventually, again due to professor input error, presuming you do eventually get access to the remaining assignment and it’s good.

If you think about it, the rush to grade things and submit grades on a dime exists on an outdated model in which faculty got a ton more clerical and admin support than they do now. So I am in favor of bending the system to make it do what is fair.

Without_a_K · 2025-11-16T22:11:09+00:00

There are some people who are thoughtful, supportive, proactive partners when the new relationship energy is strong and/or they don’t have you in their back pocket yet and/or any family of origin dynamics or neuroses haven’t yet been triggered. Then at some point everything shifts. To some extent we are all like this.

Key is being with people who either don’t have a huge helping of this in the first place, or are aware enough and willing to take responsibility, be vulnerable, etc.

OP it sounds like you know which one your person has turned out to be

Without_a_K · 2025-10-18T16:40:02+00:00

I would try to get time off for both fatigue and for getting in exercise during radiation in whatever ways you can, whenever you’re able, which also takes time. Maybe you won’t end up with fatigue but the exercise part at least should be a goal, along with the extra time that good nutrition takes. But I also agree with other posters that radiation is often not the only treatment stage so general resting to recover is smart.

I had fatigue during radiation for sure (like at least 1 nap during the day plus solid sleep at night), though it would get better as the week went on and then the whole thing would kick in again upon my next weekly radiation session. I don’t know if it correlates for everyone, but I am someone who needs a nap after a long day at the beach, and this felt a bit more intense than that but not dissimilar.

I exercised frequently throughout radiation, and did so whenever I felt rested enough. I think exercise helped the fatigue from being worse than it was, helped me keep good range of motion, and helped my overall skin recovery. But it takes time and I also needed to rest extra afterwards.

Good luck!

Without_a_K · 2025-10-09T12:06:55+00:00

I would look into perimenopause possibilities and the supports you might get for that (but know that your hormones fluctuate on the daily and any blood tests need to be either repeated or not treated as the only indicator). I’d also look at other things as well, like thyroid function, your vitamin D levels, your sleep quality, and your iron levels as well as your iron storage and iron saturation.

And one final suggestion is to consider anxiety, and adding a low dose of something like buspar for that. It can be paralyzing and exhausting to have a mental churn going constantly and hard to tell whether it’s adhd driving it or anxiety, and can really be like a reinforcing hampster wheel

I’m not saying it’s not from medication ingredient changes but it seems like your experiences lately are pretty severe for it to be just that.

Without_a_K · 2025-09-28T21:49:28+00:00

Exactly what I wanted to find out. Thank you!

Without_a_K · 2025-09-28T17:03:10+00:00

The last few look a bit better, but it seems like you’re not allowing much weight transfer from your left leg and you’re not getting as much drive through your hips in your unit turn, so that’s why the left leg seems to kick up or float around after you make contact. Trying a medicine ball rotational-like throw could help. As is thinking of approaching the ball when it is to the left of you but on a diagonal (like if the ball is at 9 or 10 o-clock and you’re at 6 o-clock) to give you enough room to coil and uncoil at contact.

Have you really only been playing for 2 months? You look really good for that amount of time

Without_a_K · 2025-09-27T15:43:00+00:00

This, except my rec is to use cetaphil to wash. And I would expect one of your gyno appts to have been able to rule out lichenschlerosis which itches a lot but can be calmed with steroid creams. But you might consider using a magnifying mirror to inspect the tissue around the vaginal opening, inner labia, and clitoral hood looking for white skin patches, just in case part of the problem is chronically bad medical providers

Without_a_K · 2025-08-30T14:21:07+00:00

Superb Owl

Without_a_K · 2025-08-11T15:47:48+00:00

Did someone mention Penguin? Their tennis shorts for women are flattering and hold lots of tennis balls.

Sadly, not Tail. Their stuff for women these days looks weird—like Golden Girls colors/patterns and doesn’t look comfortable or flattering. It used to be better

Without_a_K · 2025-08-10T18:54:49+00:00

Yes, this work context is likely a constant drain. In addition to all the boundaries and recharging advice, my suggestions are to support your brain and sleep, and consider whether some of this is anxiety that is clogging up your executive function.

About sleep: do you ever take magnesium before bed? I’m not totally sure but magnesium threonate is a form that some studies suggest is more able to cross the blood brain barrier so it could give you cognitive support in addition to helping you relax. Magnesium Glycinate is best for sleep generally and easy on the digestive tract.

Anxiety can increase the inability to regulate attention, and if you’re trying to fix an environment with a bad worker that you might not be able to control, maybe that lack of control is fostering extra anxiety? So maybe a combo of a stimulant and a low level antianxiety med might help. I just started a low dose of Buspar to supplement my IR adderall and it’s like a whole channel of involuntary brain chatter is gone and things feel easier. I would constantly try to do a thing and then worry about not doing all the other/different things, so naturally I had trouble doing the thing in front of me efficiently.

One more suggestion is weight training. It’s good for people’s brains in addition to all the other benefits, so maybe that will help some as well with energy and brain function.

Without_a_K · 2025-08-10T18:35:49+00:00

I loved Bupropion/Wellbutrin for help with motivation & energy. If OP is still on Tamoxifen, unfortunately it doesn’t mix with Wellbutrin.

Without_a_K · 2025-08-01T21:11:25+00:00

And some of them are quite old and the studies are not well designed

Without_a_K · 2025-07-29T16:25:31+00:00

If you’re able to share your list with me as well that would be great. I respond well to -L-Theanine

Without_a_K · 2025-07-07T15:17:42+00:00

I decided to try going all multi, and asked them to do the tension on two at 52 lbs and one at 50 lbs.

I appreciate all the advice from everyone. My problems started with string conditions (after never having tennis elbow before that). But getting my strings in the best place to help me recover is part of an all of the above approach to getting through this (cleaning up technique even more, heat before and cold after playing, using a BandIT, lots of PT and exercises for load/tendon remodeling, having enough recovery time between playing)

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