#EyeSight

[incognitopolls]

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

[pauputoot]

reblog not for a “bigger sample size” but because polls like this are a fun way to help people reinforce their own self-concept and passing it along so that other people can also have the opportunity to strengthen their sense of self by pressing a button is a cool and nice thing to do

[carbon-fiber-internal-organs]

[reality-detective]

Why we are supposed to stay away from Radium...

Eyesight, and Lupus 🤔

[traumatizeddfox]

TW: the small text is very paranoia based, pease dont read if you struggle with that

[apuff-comics]

i need new glasses

[krumpkin]

I think she needs to calm down on the Gin 🤪

[rjalker]

There is no sign that says "you must suffer this much to be disabled".

If you cannot function in society to the same level as every single other person around you without an external device or accommodations, you are disabled.

Yes, if you require glasses, you are disabled. It doesn't matter that you think it's not "bad enough" to be considered a disability. There is no required badness level for a disability. You literally require an external manufactured device to be able to function in society. You are disabled.

Yes, even if it's "only" because you're getting older, and you need reading glasses now.

[allegorypaintings]

Allegory of Eyesight and the Sense of Touch

Artist: Balthasar Beschey (Flemish, 1708–1776)

Date: 1733

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: The Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

[bpod-bpod]

Split Reaction

Two people with the same condition might respond very differently to the same treatment. It’s a source of huge frustration for patients and doctors alike, so researchers are investigating why anti-VEGF therapies, which can improve vision in patients with the eye condition neovascular age-related macular degeneration by reducing the overproduction of VEGF protein, work in some patients but not others. A team compared protein levels in the eye fluid of patients undergoing treatment and found that the drugs can inadvertently trigger overproduction of another protein that may worsen the condition. When a factor (called HIF-1α, red in the mouse eye section pictured) that typically boosts this other culprit was blocked, both proteins were better managed and the conventional treatments worked better in animal models, raising hopes for more effective treatments for all.

Written by Anthony Lewis

Image from work by Deepti Sharma and colleagues

Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), November 2024

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[incognitopolls]

This isn't talking about "floaters", this is about your entire vision resembling a computer screen with visible pixels, an effect that might be more pronounced when you're in the dark.

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

[tumbler-polls]

Do you wear prescription glasses?

Yes, I put them on first thing in the morning and take them off last thing at night (nearsighted)

Yes, I put them on first thing in the morning and take them off last thing at night (farsighted)

Yes, I put them on first thing in the morning and take them off last thing at night (other)

Yes, but only to work/school or when I'm reading/driving (nearsighted)

Yes, but only to work/school or when I'm reading/driving (farsighted)

Yes, but only to work/school or when I'm reading/driving (other)

I wear contacts

I have glasses but I don't wear them

No

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[this-vs-that]

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[nemfrog]

Spectacles. Special offers in eyewear. 1930.

Internet Archive

[reality-detective]

Curing Eyesight - Dr. Sebi

[animentality]