• linux2647@lemmy.sdf.org
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        28 days ago

        I feel like I always have to apologize to the tech because I hate the sure thing so much. My eyelids preemptively want to close because they know what’s coming

        • Lucien [he/him]@mander.xyz
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          29 days ago

          If you wore glasses, you’d get it. It’s an almost universal image shown inside of a glaucoma test device, which puffs a quick burst of air into your eye. It doesn’t really hurt, but it startles you and initiates your blink reflex and causes your eye to water. The blink reflex part is the kicker, though, because blinking before the test is done will invalidate the test and they’ll have to do it again. I’ve sat there upwards of six times through this torture device. Lately, though, my eye doctors use a bump test after putting numbing drops in the eye. I think it’s probably more accurate, and it doesn’t initiate a blink reflex like the puff test does.

  • Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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    28 days ago

    Took me long enough. Thought it was like the fancy pooh bear meme or something.

    Glasses can’t be that bad though right? This looks more like a scope.

    Edit: oh shit, I still didn’t get it

  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    I got LASIK when I was 19. Doctor at the time was like “You may want to hold off since you’re still growing.” I said “What do you know doc, shut up and slice me!”

    So imagine my surprise when I’m going to get glasses 12 years later, and they’ve now got all these fancy machines doing shit. My eye appointments in my teens were dark room, eye drops to dillate, read some letters, then the thing with the lenses “which is better, 1 or 2?”

    Now you go in and hit machine after machine after machine, and that house/balloon decides when it’s clear for you. Really incredible shit.

    • minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      That’s an autorefractor machine and it’s not exactly accurate (they over-correct a lot), nor is it legal or ethical to prescribe a medical ophthalmic device with it alone. You need subjective refraction done by an eye doctor so you can get the best lenses that you need. Also you could possibly need prisms for any tropia.

      • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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        27 days ago

        Oh sure, yeah we end up going in the room and doing what I assume is subjective refraction, based off my understanding of the English language, but it seems like the machine kinda narrows down the starting window, that’s my layman vibe. You seem like you are more than a layman and I appreciate your input.

        I have asthigmastism. My daughter likes prisms, but those are rocks.

        Back to the subjective refraction, sometimes I can’t decide between 1 and 2. And yeah we go to 3 and 3 is shit, and so we are back to 1 and 2, and it’s a stalemate.

        Overall, I like going to the eye doctor. They are the antithesis of dentists as far as the doctor world goes.

  • isar@lemm.eeEnglish
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    27 days ago

    A C F H K G X (I’m sure if I say random letters I’ll at least get some right!) - Sir this is a house, the letter test comes later…