I recently went to the optician, but she just felt confused by the results, so I had to come back another day, and then again a third time, some weeks later, without her managing to figure out what the heck was "wrong" with my test results. They measured my eyes to +3.10 or so, with a bit of astigmatism, but when they put the right strength of glasses in front before my eyes, I couldn't see a thing.
She told me to go to an eye doctor, to get an opinion before ordering glasses.
The eye doctor measured my eyes as well, and told me that +3.10 was what the tests showed. He then tested my sight without glasses, and I could read the tiny text. He then put +3.10 glasses in front of my eyes, and I couldn't see a thing. He tested this back and forth for a while, without telling me what strength of glasses he put in front of my eyes and then he said:
"you are adjusting your eyes in a way mostly only kids can do (I'm in my 40ies). This normally comes from you being SO TENSE in your muscular body, that I would like to ask if you are traumatized?"
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He ended up recommending that I don't use glasses, unless maybe a cheap non-prescription kind for driving, but never +3.00, rather +1.50, he said. He told me that as I heal from PTSD and/or get older, I'll no longer be able to adjust my vision like that, and finally relax, and thus I'll feel the need for glasses in a few years. Until then "just save the money, and enjoy going without glasses, as you'll not see with glasses until you can relax internally".
That's sort of a positive side effect of PTSD, isn't it......? Never so bad that it isn't good for something, I guess....? This saves quite a bit of money.
:-p
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She told me to go to an eye doctor, to get an opinion before ordering glasses.
The eye doctor measured my eyes as well, and told me that +3.10 was what the tests showed. He then tested my sight without glasses, and I could read the tiny text. He then put +3.10 glasses in front of my eyes, and I couldn't see a thing. He tested this back and forth for a while, without telling me what strength of glasses he put in front of my eyes and then he said:
"you are adjusting your eyes in a way mostly only kids can do (I'm in my 40ies). This normally comes from you being SO TENSE in your muscular body, that I would like to ask if you are traumatized?"
...
He ended up recommending that I don't use glasses, unless maybe a cheap non-prescription kind for driving, but never +3.00, rather +1.50, he said. He told me that as I heal from PTSD and/or get older, I'll no longer be able to adjust my vision like that, and finally relax, and thus I'll feel the need for glasses in a few years. Until then "just save the money, and enjoy going without glasses, as you'll not see with glasses until you can relax internally".
That's sort of a positive side effect of PTSD, isn't it......? Never so bad that it isn't good for something, I guess....? This saves quite a bit of money.
:-p
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