On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:55:07 +0100, Daytona was popularly supposed to have said:
In my case my local optician used some sort of wide-field camera to take a photo of the back of my eye, and saw something on that which he didn't like the look of, and referred me to hospital.
I then had the standard "drops in the eye" routine to let the opthalmologist get a really, seriously good look in my eyes 1 and concluded that the camera routine had just found unusually thin eye retina. I was also tested for unusual eye pressure; normal. 2
Subsequent to that I was given a field of view test; staring striaght ahead into a white hemisphere thing, pressing a button every time I saw a flash of light. According to the nurse operating it, the results were in the normal range.
Finally, a last eye exam and another eye pressure test (done very slickly, I might add; completely sensation-less). Conclusions: nothing at all to worry about.
Phew!
Does this tally with what Boots do with you in any way?
1 DO NOT attempt to drive if you know you're having this done. Everything gets not exactly blurry, but a sort of halo effect from dilated eye pupils; it is NOT safe to drive.
I got a taxi; probably the only non-Avensis taxi in all of Burnley. A diesel Astra, it was, and a tractor-like dog of a vehicle. Now I know why all other taxis use Toyotas.
2 Thank goodness for that; I have a horror of glaucoma and the creeping blindness that brings; the vision in the sides of the eyes goes first, I'm told, and you're unlikely to notice until you've lost rather a lot of peripheral vision.
Hence the field testing and insistence on pressure testing.
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