Vision Digest

Michael asked:


I need to improve my vision and i was wondering if there any eye exercises i can do or if there is a vitamin i can take.

Melanie asked:


Both Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson had a specific vision for the future of this country by 1794. Whose vision of America’s future was closer to reality by the end of the Reconstruction era in 1877?

10 points to good answer. Thanks!

outlaw_aisha3000 asked:


Right before I get a migrane, my vision gets partially blurry/staticy. Why does that happen?

cici asked:


I have just recently started eating carrots in order to help improve my vision. I’m extremely near-sighted but I want to know how often I should eat them. I don’t want to over do it either.

I wear glasses almost all the time, are there any “excercises” I can do?

Carlos I asked:


If I move my eye to the left quickly, I see lil dots that’ll move to the left too, same if I move my eyes to the right, up, and down. I have 20/20 vision but I forgot to ask my eye doctor.

Helping Hands asked:


My friend who is 68 noticed her distance vision getting blurry a couple of weeks ago. Then a few days ago she noticed double vision while looking at a turning arrow traffic light. We went to the optometrist today and was told her vision had changed for the better, so the far sighted segment of her tri focals were now too strong and causing the current vision problems. Other two segments of her glasses seem to still work fine. Her vision has gone from a 2.50 needed correction in both eyes to a 1.25 needed correction in both eyes. Being trifocals they are expensive glasses and due to changes occurring in last 3 days we are wondering how wise it would be to immediately get the new glasses. If her eyes are still in transition then wouldn’t we risk having to get yet another pair of glasses in the near future? As an expierament we went to the dollar store and got a single vision pair of 1.50 glasses and she drove home seeing better (while driving) than she had since her visin began to change a couple of weeks ago. She has been wearing her current prescription glasses for past five years. So what to do? Get prescription glasses now or wait awhile and continue using the new “driving” glasses as needed? If she needs to wait awhile, then how long should she wait? Thank you in advance for your help.
PS, This is not real important but I am curious. The eye doctor asked her if she ever saw “lightening”. She hasn’t, but why did he ask her that and what does seeing “lightening” just within you individual field of vision mean? Thanks again !!
You are right about the cataract!!! Doc told her she had a small one just getting started, but its nothing that needs to be immeadiatly dealt with. Are you suggesting that the presence of the cataract is reason her vision improved? It is my understanding that cataracts are relatively slow growing when they are first starting, so is first responder correct in suggesting that we go ahead and get the glasses now?
Sorry, got the answers mixed up in my head withouy being able to look at them while writing. Thanks for the information I will tell her about this and any other info that may come in! Thanks Again!
I will also be asking her the questions asked by first responder and post the info in here. We were both kinda baffled by what Doc said, and he is a well known and highly reputable Doc so I believed him. There is normally about a 2 week wait for a new patient to get in to see him, but when she told them what was happening they got her the very next day. I think he may have been a little rushed or would have explained more. She will be seeing him again and the information and questions from these answers will help tremendously in the list of questions she is taking with her on the next visit!! Thank You!

vietman39 asked:


I was reading a book on medical careers and its says one of the things you should have to be an optometrist is to have “good vision”. What does that have to do with anything? One of the reasons I want to become an optometrists is BECAUSE I have bad vision.

Link asked:


I just saw a UFO and I was wondering if maybe I was hallucinating. What does it feel like to have divine vision or to hallucinate? Can you easily tell the difference between that and “reality”?