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Thread: How do you know if your glasses are too strong?
Post: Re: How do you know if your glasses are too strong...

Nini, what may have caused the retinal detachment in your weaker eye and how did the doctor treat it?

lou_deg

Bates Method

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03-19-2013, 01:04 PM

Thread: How do you know if your glasses are too strong?
Post: Re: How do you know if your glasses are too strong...

Nini Wrote:I had flashes of light for some days about 6 months before the detachment and one single black floater. I didn't see such a black curtain like in the simulator, but a sort of a 'bubble' fil...

lou_deg

Bates Method

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04-18-2013, 06:43 AM

Thread: How do you know if your glasses are too strong?
Post: Re: How do you know if your glasses are too strong...

Thanks. So the flashing lights may be due to PVD, retinal detachment or as Andrew pointed out, an irritated or inflamed optic nerve. My wife's prescription is around -7D. She visits her retina speci...

lou_deg

Bates Method

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04-19-2013, 10:24 PM

Thread: How do you know if your glasses are too strong?
Post: Re: How do you know if your glasses are too strong...

I think so. To read clearly your eyes have to focus on the retina. Since you can read the chart at some distance clearly, your eyes must be focusing properly. If you put a negative lens on, then ...

lou_deg

Bates Method

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03-07-2013, 07:24 AM

Thread: How to buy lower prescription lenses.
Post: Re: How to buy lower prescription lenses.

You will also have to specify pupillary distance, which you may already have from your previous prescription. I'm curious how folks measure theirs. The pupillary distance changes depending on what d...

lou_deg

Bates Method

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01-21-2013, 07:07 PM

Thread: How to keep flashes of clear vision?
Post: Re: How to keep flashes of clear vision?

eaglevision Wrote:when i started I couldn't see any blackness on the chart at all never mind what the letters where! with -9 and -10 in each eye and now I have -3 and -3.25 in each eye.eaglevision Wro...

lou_deg

Bates Method

27,874

11-16-2012, 10:07 AM

Thread: Imagining infinitely compressing toruses inside the eye ball
Post: Re: Imagining infinitely compressing toruses insid...

thanks for bringing this post back up. I like what Elias wrote and the compression/implosion stuff applied to vision is intriguing. Some think the Bates Method is wacky. Oh what will they think of ...

lou_deg

Complementary Methods

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04-25-2013, 10:26 AM

Thread: Leo Angart - NLP and Pranic Healing
Post: Re: Leo Angart - NLP and Pranic Healing

I posted recently asking about him as well after seeing sections of his book on astigmatism in Google books. I just got his new book. I didn't realize his method deals with all these energy exercise...

lou_deg

Complementary Methods

17,888

02-11-2013, 11:25 AM

Thread: Medical video
Post: Re: Medical video

Thanks. The UCB video on the biology of the eye was very informative. I didn't have any prior interest in biology but that changed when my wife developed retinal bleeding and daughter dealing with st...

lou_deg

Off Topic

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10-29-2012, 09:24 AM

Thread: Multiple images driving me crazy!
Post: Re: Multiple images driving me crazy!

I have the same problem with the double/multiple images. Did you ever do any exercises with the astigmatism wheel that Clarknight recommended? I read Leo Angart's book and he also suggest practicing...

lou_deg

Bates Method

10,672

05-07-2013, 07:13 AM

Thread: Negative effect of reading?
Post: Re: Negative effect of reading?

A myope with -8 diopter prescription wrote in Bates forum many months ago that she doesn't use glasses to read on the computer. And she rubbed it in by saying it is easier for her to read smaller fon...

lou_deg

Complementary Methods

6,987

07-22-2012, 02:56 AM

Thread: New and don't know where to put this.
Post: Re: New and don't know where to put this.

ulhas Wrote:Can anyone help in assessing the reason/ error.I am curious what equipment the instructor used to measure your prescription? And did he intended the prescription to be a weakened pair (no...

lou_deg

Bates Method

11,801

05-30-2013, 07:00 AM

Thread: New and don't know where to put this.
Post: Re: New and don't know where to put this.

The instructor and doctors prescriptions are too far off to both be 20/20. I think the instructor gave you a reduced prescription, perhaps for 6/9. Besides, what kind of natural vision improvement i...

lou_deg

Bates Method

11,801

05-31-2013, 11:00 AM

Thread: no axis change for weaker glasses?
Post: Re: no axis change for weaker glasses?

Not sure what you mean by "axis change" but you can't just change the axis of the cylinder in your prescription. You could lower the cylinder power but not the axis angle.

lou_deg

Bates Method

3,966

10-01-2012, 02:24 PM

Thread: Pass the Drivers License Exam; Practice at home
Post: RE: Pass the Drivers License Exam; Practice at hom...

(03-16-2014, 12:29 AM)Bifocal Wrote: You are in truth suggesting,and providing people with defective vision a means of cheating on the eye exam...Bifocal, what material are you looking at? I went t...

lou_deg

Success Stories

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03-17-2014, 07:53 AM

Thread: Pass the Drivers License Exam; Practice at home
Post: RE: Pass the Drivers License Exam; Practice at hom...

(03-17-2014, 08:56 AM)Aethersky Wrote: driving with 20/40 vision is very uncomfortable, it's hard to imagine anyone dirving with less than 20/40. Yes it possible to "cheat" and pass the "test" by sq...

lou_deg

Success Stories

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03-17-2014, 09:34 AM

Thread: Pass the Drivers License Exam; Practice at home
Post: RE: Pass the Drivers License Exam; Practice at hom...

(03-17-2014, 06:42 AM)clarknight Wrote: See License below. Only thing I regret is the ugly picture.Clarknight, what are you talking about, you took a nice picture. The posts are getting too persona...

lou_deg

Success Stories

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03-26-2014, 07:36 AM

Thread: Pinhole Glasses for Centralizing Vision?
Post: Re: Pinhole Glasses for Centralizing Vision?

I think of pinhole glasses and prescription glasses as useful aids when I want/need clear vision for certain times. Pinhole glasses neither improve nor worsen your myopia, from my experience. The pr...

lou_deg

Complementary Methods

10,302

04-05-2013, 08:22 PM

Thread: Pinhole Glasses for Centralizing Vision?
Post: Re: Pinhole Glasses for Centralizing Vision?

I am not sure how much better the more expensive ones are but I purchased the cheap ones on ebay for a few dollars and they work fine. It has a triangular lattice type pattern. Probably the ones wit...

lou_deg

Complementary Methods

10,302

05-09-2013, 06:28 AM

Thread: Plus Lens therapy in combination with the Bates method
Post: Re: Plus Lens therapy in combination with the Bate...

lfernand Wrote:You have two persons, one with -3 diopters myopia, and the other with -1.5 myopia. What would be the difference between both while reading if the second person uses a plus 1.5 lenses?Th...

lou_deg

Complementary Methods

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11-20-2012, 09:12 AM

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