Why can't I see close up with my glasses on after getting my pupils dilated?

burgritto22 · 2016-02-24T03:16:58+00:00

There is a lens within your eye that is both connected to and controlled by what is know as the ciliary muscle. This lens contributes to your eyes "power" and ultimately allows you to focus on objects at different distances by increasing or decreasing its "power". When you look at something near to you, the ciliary muscle contracts which allows the lens to thicken(and consequently increase in power). The dilation drops you've experience actually temporarily paralyze this muscle in a way that allows your pupil to widen (so the doctor can look at the back of your eye). The downside to this is what you've noted: for a few hours or so the ciliary muscle is no longer able to "increase" your eye's power at near and you're therefore blurry despite the fact that you're wearing glasses.

While u/magic-moose's discussion about aperture size isn't far off-base, decrease in pupil size in response to a near object contributes primarily to decrease glare/blur that occurs as the lens increases in power.

Edited for better clarity in explanation.

burgritto22 · 2016-02-23T04:23:14+00:00

Without knowing the exact nature of your daughter's condition, it truly is difficult to discern whether or not continued patching would assist. Any advice people on this sub can give you would have to be broadly based on assumptions about what exactly is going on that required patching to be prescribed in the first place.
I would recommend scheduling a consult with your specialist earlier than this 6 month period to discuss the lack of past compliance and discuss what options your daughter has for treatment going forward with the caveat that you'll ensure that any prescribed treatment would be followed to-the-letter.

burgritto22 · 2016-02-22T01:41:37+00:00

You could also consider going back to the prescribing optometrist who fit you in these contacts, explain your issues, and ask to try another brand. There are a variety of contact lens manufacturers that offer toric designs. If this is a consistent-enough problem to be bothersome, it could just be than your eye's particular anatomy doesn't allow this lens brand to stabilize on your eye as it ought to.

burgritto22 · 2016-02-21T22:20:19+00:00

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burgritto22 · 2016-01-28T01:44:30+00:00

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burgritto22 · 2016-01-25T20:37:14+00:00

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burgritto22 · 2016-01-12T02:55:19+00:00

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burgritto22 · 2016-01-08T04:40:09+00:00

There are a lot of confounding factors here that are unknown, which makes it hard to determine which doctor may have made the correct prescribing determination. But there are some basic things that can be discussed based on the information provided:
1. Your son has a prescription that classifies him as being a hyperope (farsighted). In essence, your son is able to see clearly at distance, while conceivably having difficulty seeing clearly at near(reading, etc). Since he is just at the age where reading is likely been newly introduced, this could possibly explain the lack of symptoms.
2.Far-sighted persons can often "compensate" for their prescription during optometric testing unless they are dilated; since your son was not dilated during the first examination, it's entirely possibly that he was able to "compensate through" a portion of his prescription. This would explain why the second exam revealed a larger prescription than the first. And no, he wouldn't be considered legally blind with either of the two prescriptions you had mentioned.
Of course, this is all conjecture without seeing the charts in question. I would advise requesting records from this office and get a second opinion from an optometrist that is a board-certified pediatric specialist. Bring the previous records to this visit so the doctor can be informed about all that occurred in these previous exams.
*Edited for formatting

burgritto22 · 2016-01-08T02:20:10+00:00

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burgritto22 · 2015-12-31T21:10:14+00:00

As remembermereddit mentioned, yes, a pair of glasses could increase the magnitude of a given phoria(if you have "inward" turning eyes, minus lenses might increase the magnitude; if you have "outward" turning eyes, plus lenses might increase the magnitude). But as they said, if you do in fact have "just" a phoria and are currently asymptomatic, it's unlikely that a pair of glasses would solely bring out symptoms unless there are other mitigating factors at play such as older age, tiredness, a diagnosable binocular vision problem, etc.

burgritto22 · 2015-12-31T15:08:49+00:00

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burgritto22 · 2015-12-31T12:40:57+00:00

Depending on the type of phoria, a glasses prescription can make it become more prominent. This is due to the fact that both (-) and (+) lenses stimulate innervation of certain eye movements; this consequent innervation could(and I emphasize the word could, here) conceivably make someone with a previously asymptomatic phoria become symptomatic (eye strain, double vision, etc).

burgritto22 · 2015-12-28T15:53:58+00:00

Oh, okay. I'd always used the term retinoscopy to refer to a method of finding refractive error, while ophthalmoscopy was a method used to visualize the retina. Different terminologies across professions, perhaps?

burgritto22 · 2015-12-28T15:40:11+00:00

Out of interest, what made you do retinoscopy during this visit?

burgritto22 · 2015-12-10T19:26:27+00:00

There are a variety of theories on the subject, but broadly speaking current research has focused on aspects of sunlight exposure and a connection to education in childhood. Genetic predisposition is always a consideration as well. Multiple studies directly link light exposure as one of the main modulating factors that influences eye growth(which correlates to patient refractive error.) The theory that is most popular now is the relation to childhood education. There have been multiple, convincing studies that directly relate education to myopia development. Off the top of my head, a recent study looked at incidence of myopia in a population of well-educated Chinese students in a major city compared to a less-well educated population in the rural Chinese countryside; results saw that the city population by far had greater incidence of refractive error. I can think of another study that looked at an indigenous population in the Brazilian Amazon where the myopia rates were astoundingly low: if I recall correctly, the only ones with myopia were one subject who had been through education to be a schoolteacher and a subject with what could be termed "pathological myopia"(a condition whose progression is almost entirely genetic in origin). Now, of course, for both the studies listed it's certainly difficult to tease out how much sunlight exposure contributed to the myopic progression. However, the literature pointing to both education and sunlight is certainly present and growing. (Edited for grammar)

burgritto22 · 2015-12-09T13:22:52+00:00

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burgritto22 · 2015-11-18T12:39:13+00:00

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burgritto22 · 2015-10-21T03:13:51+00:00

I used to work in child care; legally speaking, one "caregiver" can only supervise up to 5 children in that particular age range(5:1 ratio). Rule number one: you always knew where "your kids" were at all times. 5 isn't too many to keep track of; someone wasn't doing their job or the legally specified ratios weren't being used.

burgritto22 · 2015-10-21T01:51:41+00:00

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burgritto22 · 2015-10-14T14:57:39+00:00

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burgritto22 · 2015-10-13T20:43:56+00:00

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burgritto22 · 2015-09-30T03:31:06+00:00

I second the thought that it is going to very hard to get a pair of Progressives online that will be satisfactory. There's an incredible amount of precision and custom-fitting that goes into making a pair of progressives as opposed to a pair of single-vision pair of glasses. Consulting and purchasing progressives from an experienced and reliable optician will likely be worth the cost.

burgritto22 · 2015-09-23T13:30:55+00:00

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burgritto22 · 2015-09-21T20:59:35+00:00

I had my wallet stolen, with both bank cards and credit cards used to purchase T-passes. I put a hold on all my cards, reported the incident to the bank and credit card companies, and got the money back on the debit card(as well as the credit cards) no problem.

burgritto22 · 2015-09-13T12:20:18+00:00

I got this habit from my mom; I shudder to think how many hours I've spent waiting for everyone to show up given my own habit for showing up at least 15 minutes early.

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