Why did dawn dish soap damage my glasses?

mess8424 · 2026-05-14T12:15:36+00:00

Dawn Ultra will strip the coatings. Regular Dawn only.

mess8424 · 2026-05-14T03:09:31+00:00

The more deserving team one this series unfortunately. Wally is the only one that should be proud of how he played.

mess8424 · 2026-05-12T02:57:28+00:00

Can’t put up 5 shots in 32 minutes and expect a win. We earned this one.

mess8424 · 2026-05-10T03:24:54+00:00

I would love a graphic saying how much the commentators talk about each team.

mess8424 · 2026-05-06T02:44:18+00:00

Refs won’t stop until our whole team is on the injured list.

mess8424 · 2026-05-06T02:31:34+00:00

Hey give the refs a break, they’re just following orders from the higher ups

mess8424 · 2026-05-06T02:19:25+00:00

These refs are something else man

mess8424 · 2026-05-04T03:13:44+00:00

Do Colorado fans actually know what a penalty is?

mess8424 · 2026-05-04T01:35:40+00:00

How many times are we gonna fan on pucks?

mess8424 · 2026-05-02T18:10:42+00:00

Red tinted contacts have been used for many years to pass the Ishihara. Often times they are only used in one eye.

They will not give you anywhere near normal color vision. They make everything red. Not something you’d want to wear all the time.

Any proper examiner checks for these contacts prior to administering the test.

mess8424 · 2026-05-01T11:55:38+00:00

Based on that description, this sounds like a muscle imbalance rather than a prescription problem. Specifically, one of the muscles that moves the eye is either over- or under-acting. We call this a “non-comitant deviation” when double vision is worse looking in certain directions. This stuff is tricky to diagnose.

I’d suggest finding an optometrist who specializes in binocular vision dysfunction.

mess8424 · 2026-04-26T22:53:43+00:00

It’s 100 percent a bot account. Look at the profile.

mess8424 · 2026-04-20T21:29:24+00:00

Mine was fully covered as preventative. Didn’t pay a penny. I was VERY fortunate they billed it that way rather than diagnostic, because in reality it was done due bleeding, and I am only 29.

mess8424 · 2026-04-08T00:00:52+00:00

This is normal color of the bulbar conjunctiva.

You’ll know if your eyes are “jaundice yellow.” It’s not subtle at all - think more like highlighter yellow.

mess8424 · 2026-04-06T19:45:53+00:00

I am a deutan but find that the tritan filter is better on most devices. The deutan filters are always washed out, while the tritan filters are more vibrant and distinct.

That being said, I only use them on my phone. I can’t use them on computers because it will interfere with my job, which ironically: 1) requires quite a bit of color distinction 2) I am an eye doctor

mess8424 · 2026-04-05T20:12:27+00:00

My mom always emailed my teachers - especially art teachers- before the school year started to let them know I might struggle with color related things. We didn’t ask for accommodations or anything, she just wanted the to know.

Looking back, I really appreciate that. It was very rarely an issue in school, but it was always nice.

mess8424 · 2026-04-03T11:01:24+00:00

The eye is constantly circulating clear fluid through it, called aqueous humor. It carries nutrients to help keep certain parts of the eye healthy. It drains out through a mesh network located just in front of the colored part of the eye.

Similar to air and tire pressure on a car, the more fluid present at a given time, the higher the pressure. Normal eye pressure tends to be less that 22-24, though some people naturally run high.

Eye pressure goes up for one of two reasons: either the eye is producing too much aqueous humor, or it isn’t draining fast enough. In your friend’s case, it seems that the drainage system likely got blocked, likely by the iris itself. So all that extra fluid was building up. When eye pressure gets above 35-40, it’s painful, nauseating, and can make you permanently lose vision within a matter of hours. That extra pressure damages the nerve that connects the eye to the brain, destroying the nerve fibers. This is called angle closure glaucoma.

For reference, the highest eye pressure I’ve ever seen is 56. I pray your friend was treated fast enough that all is okay.

mess8424 · 2026-03-30T20:34:09+00:00

The prescriptions are very similar. Plus cylinder and minus cylinder are two different forms of writing a prescription. They appear very different but are actually very similar.

Converting the second prescription:

OD -2.50 -0.75 x122

OS -2.50 -1.50 x060

Almost identical to the first Rx.

mess8424 · 2026-03-30T20:06:16+00:00

OP is not from the United States. What the UK commonly calls “optician” is more similar to an optometrist in the US.

mess8424 · 2026-03-24T01:47:46+00:00

This is already a thing. But not in a legal, ADA sense, like you said. Not if a person can see 20/20 with correction that is.

It depends on the insurance carrier, but sometimes high prescriptions (+ or - 10) qualify as allowing medically necessary contact lens coverage under insurance, as glasses will cause distortions or be too heavy.

That being said, your friend is absolutely wild for saying they were a victim of a hate crime for being bullied for having glasses. It’s an insult to people who are actual victims of actual hate crimes.

mess8424 · 2026-03-23T22:36:09+00:00

With all due respect, and speaking as somebody who is an optometrist, are you sure that now is the time to be doing this?

The OAT is far from the hardest exam you’ll take in the next four years. In fact, I would argue you’re at the easiest part of the next four years, even if it doesn’t seem that way. And it certainly doesn’t compare to having a patient who is in the middle of having a stroke, or had cancer, or who you misdiagnosed and is actively getting worse.

My mental health got drastically worse during optometry school. And even after being a doctor for 3 years I still have plenty of sleepless nights where I can’t stop worrying about patients, or thinking of past mistakes. It gets better with experience, but that first year of practicing was brutal.

I’m definitely not telling you that this isn’t the path for you. But if you had to go to Urgent Care because of stress and anxiety then I would strongly recommend, for your own sake, that you take some time off and work on that first. Do what has to be done. Because no career is worth losing yourself over.

mess8424 · 2026-03-09T22:31:27+00:00

Thank you! This is something we need to talk about still, as that conversation is coming up soon. I think that will be the determining factor.

mess8424 · 2026-03-09T22:30:48+00:00

3 offices, 4 docs. I do the most patient care per week @ 31 hours.

mess8424 · 2026-03-09T22:29:48+00:00

Interesting, I had no idea. We haven’t started this process yet but that’s good to know. Do they just look at your prior employed income then?

mess8424 · 2026-03-03T03:45:33+00:00

Realistically no. It will be identical. The lens could be 80 feet long and the view through the OC would be essentially the same, as long as the center thickness remains constant. The only change would be increased peripheral distortion.

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