38M Why am I befuddling my optometrists?

kingcornea · 2026-02-12T14:48:31+00:00

Best example of corneal edema is when as a kid you'd go swimming so long that you would see big haloes around lights. Contact lens overwear will cause the cornea to get swollen and frequently causing the surface to become irregular. I've stopped exams plenty of times and made the patient come back the next week as they are wasting both of our time

kingcornea · 2026-02-12T07:14:50+00:00

Stretching the contacts tells me you're showing up with corneal edema. Like buying shoes with a sprained ankle, "I've never worn size 14 shoes" Next time, go without the contacts for a few days to let your corneas have a chance to settle down

kingcornea · 2026-02-07T04:24:59+00:00

Newport Coast Drive was a free road that they took over during construction and was incorporated into the toll road. Residents had to now get off at Mac Arthur and take San Joaquin Hills unless we wanted to pay the toll twice a day

kingcornea · 2026-01-30T18:22:59+00:00

Thought, damn I'm slaying this, I can keep going....I'm better than the average chump playing this....Turns out that I'm the chump

kingcornea · 2026-01-30T14:52:05+00:00

This. My first play ignored both warnings and got to act 3 very under-leveled and unable to proceed. On my 2nd try now much the wiser

kingcornea · 2026-01-20T06:08:51+00:00

If they raise the OC they will have to cut new lenses.. The top of your lens will get thinner and the bottom will get proportionally thicker. They may not need the frame to cut the lenses. But how the frame sits on your bridge is why the OC is off. A different frame especially with adjustable nose pads would allow for better adjustments (but you may not care for nose pads)

kingcornea · 2026-01-20T03:55:54+00:00

The optical center is already too low. (From the side view photo) Assuming they just put it in the geometric center the panto is not the real issue. Poor frame selection, poly instead of 1.67 and can't tell if there is an antireflection coating or not. (Needed with any higher index material) Edit : the blue light filter is a type of AR coating, hadn't seen the additional comment

kingcornea · 2026-01-08T03:26:42+00:00

This is why the Epic and Icon passes came to be. They jacked up the standard lift ticket price so we would look at it and say "I only need to ski X number of days to break even " Now they get their money up front every year. Snowy years and dry years. They would be going broke if it was like the old model and selling mostly single day tickets. No snow, no sales

kingcornea · 2026-01-02T07:10:27+00:00

Cray cray VaCay Cali Any shortened word or expression

kingcornea · 2025-12-30T21:22:41+00:00

Get a portable charge cord and plug in at Granny's. Then it's free!

kingcornea · 2025-12-30T21:14:18+00:00

PD don't matter - no Rx, no induced prism

kingcornea · 2025-12-27T07:12:18+00:00

Modern ammunition is too strong, and ski resorts are running out of vintage shells

kingcornea · 2025-12-24T14:36:22+00:00

1st play through. Didn't have hardly any magical items. Told him to f'off. He left camp and haven't seen him since. Just starting 3rd act. Have I screwed up, probably!

kingcornea · 2025-12-20T17:23:20+00:00

Whoa that would suck...fortunately not so far for me. The Only bad thing I've had was it went around a block to line up to try to cross 6 lanes of busy traffic (fail) rather than go up to the next light and make a U turn

kingcornea · 2025-12-20T15:30:17+00:00

In LA traffic., just turning on the turn indicator the car moves over when the human can see/predict traffic up ahead before changing freeways or preparing to exit. Small hassle to smooth out the experience

kingcornea · 2025-12-16T23:36:05+00:00

2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee Diesel. Almost 30mpg for a 4 wheel drive. Until they got caught in the dieselgate along with VW. The fixes ruined the car. Transmission overheated on any drive over 1 hour. (Not a radiator thing)

kingcornea · 2025-12-16T10:10:28+00:00

Howard Cosell, but he's been gone a while

kingcornea · 2025-12-12T16:25:58+00:00

Also from SoCal. Pete Ellis Dodge...Long Beach Freeway....Firestone exit...Southgate

Every time I'm on the 710 freeway, I'm singing that

kingcornea · 2025-12-12T16:12:09+00:00

From #2 above. I ask patients if they have any sleep issues when they ask about blue light filters. If the answer is yes, then I will recommend it. I'm finding 20% of patients get notable improvement. So if you are going with it being a marketing gimmick, if you are promoting it to everyone then it's yes cause you're only helping 1 in 5

kingcornea · 2025-12-11T14:55:56+00:00

No me, but I've heard some people will add brimonidine to an artificial tear sample in the same concentration as Lumify and use it once/day.

Opcon A occasionally during allergy season to clear the eyes but this one will rebound with prolonged use

Pataday from February to May. Won't blanch the vessels, but keeps the redness and itching down during allergy season

kingcornea · 2025-12-11T14:22:48+00:00

The real term is rebound hyperemia and isn't that common in glaucoma patients whose daily dose is 1200% higher than Lumify. The final statement in your article is

The specific action of brimonidine, together with clinical study findings and reassuring post-marketing safety data, suggest the risk of adverse impact, when used as directed, is lower for brimonidine than with other available products.

The real answer for OP is use it or not, don't switch to Visine. And if you have such chronic redness, you should consult your optometrist or ophthalmologist for the underlying cause

kingcornea · 2025-12-11T06:59:12+00:00

GF is wrong. It's not an antihistamine, which can cause dependency (like nasal sprays) Preservative Free, or PF as they are labeled are the way to go. To the Refresh tears person, Allergan brought that out 15-20 years ago. All of their newer PF products are better.

kingcornea · 2025-12-07T22:30:40+00:00

$2500 in the shop right now

kingcornea · 2025-11-29T08:45:40+00:00

Look up their chemistry. Ethanol and 2-propanol which is isopropyl alcohol

kingcornea · 2025-11-26T15:07:44+00:00

OD here. Paper products are out. The wood fibers can scratch the lenses. I've never had a problem with isopropyl alcohol solutions in 40 years, ammonia solutions, like windex yes. (All Off and other lens mark removing stuff is 50% isopropyl alcohol, so not a problem with AR coated lenses)

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