I have the same with my left eye, everything is duller and off colour slightly.
**this is not a diagnosis**I had (suppose I still have) a central serous retinopathy some years ago, nothing mega serious.
Could be a vast number of things but worth mentioning to a professional who is in a position to take a look in there.
Optometrist or similar. Opticians make glasses.
Both seem the same with that.
*Ophthalmic* opticians test your eyes and supply glasses (means the same as optometrist). *Dispensing* opticians just supply glasses to a prescription you supply.
Yippee! Someone who knows how to spell "ophthalmic" correctly - ie with a first H after the P and hence a "PH = F" diphthong.
Too many people spell and pronounce them as opthalmic, diptheria, dipthong.
Tim Streater snipped-for-privacy@greenbee.net wrote
It is very arguable indeed whether cataracts do that.
Certainly the flexibility does change with age.
You don?t know that either, it could in fact by the eyeball changing shape.
Cutting out the blue might help as most scattering is in the shorter wavelength.
Deprecated terms my friend.
Same with my left one.
Well I do actually as that is what the optometrist told me.
By...? (I ask as optometrists and dispensing opticians are still the terms used in the legislation and by the NHS when explaining who does what for eyes.)
Oh dear., wrong as usual
"A cataract is a cloudy area in the lens of the eye that leads to a decrease in vision.[1] Cataracts often develop slowly and can affect one or both eyes.[1] Symptoms may include faded colors, blurry or double vision, halos around light, trouble with bright lights, and trouble seeing at night.[1] This may result in trouble driving, reading, or recognizing faces.[7] Poor vision caused by cataracts may also result in an increased risk of falling and depression.[2] Cataracts cause half of all cases of blindness and 33% of visual impairment worldwide.[3][8]
Cataracts are most commonly due to ageing but may also occur due to trauma or radiation exposure, be present from birth, or occur following eye surgery for other problems.[1][4] Risk factors include diabetes, long standing use of corticosteroid medication, smoking tobacco, prolonged exposure to sunlight, and alcohol.[1] The underlying mechanism involves *accumulation of clumps of protein or yellow-brown pigment in the lens* that reduces transmission of light to the retina at the back of the eye.[1] Diagnosis is by an eye examination"
--wiki
I think you are rapidly becoming one of those posters one can rely on to be consistently wrong every time they touch a keyboard
Fair enough, the term 'dispensing' has stuck* but you are unlikely to see an ophthalmic optician these days.
By who? The governing bodies I suspect, who have little to do but generally describe themselves as 'working tirelessly".
*But not necessarily accurate, though keeping it is in my opinion helpful as dropping it causes confusion.
Once again you peddle misinformation. Cataract is the symptom, in reality the lens undergoes changes. One of them is cloudiness, another is change in refractive index, in fact myopia is common in symptoms of cataract.
Yes we can all copy and past, but doesn't prove anyone is wrong.
And you have history of posting crap, based on prejudice.
Tim Streater snipped-for-privacy@greenbee.net wrote
But the optometrist has no way of knowing if the cataract caused that or it happened independently of the cataract.
"John Brown" is in Australia, could it be a Rod Speed nym? :(
Oh yes. Even the legislation was changed to replaced them by "optometrists"
The Natural Philosopher snipped-for-privacy@invalid.invalid wrote
We'll see...
Says nothing whatever about the composition causing a change from long sighted to short sighted.
There you go again, attempting insults when you have ended up face down in the mud, yet again.
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