eye check-up

[cellio]

(Post by email. Let's see if the formatting works this time. If not, I'll fix it tonight.)

I saw my opthamologist again this morning. She noted a small problem and gave me some new eye drops (along with instructions to return in a week).

She said the drops are a mild steroid. Steroids are supposed to make you strong, right? But they're drops, not pills, so I don't think I get the usual benefits. I don't imagine that my eyeballs are going to be doing push-ups or lifting impressive weights or the like, so what effect do I get? I'm kind of hoping for X-ray vision, myself. :-)

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[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Andro-sterones make you small, hairless, infertile, give cardiac symptoms...

Steroids are a more generic category. :-)

(The steriods I sometimes take for their anti-inflammatory value, also make me hungry, crankly, sleepless and gain weight...)

[cellio]

Thanks for the information. I don't object to my eyeballs being hairless, and I'm fine with infertility for myself, but as for the rest... :-) Anyway, I assume that one week on steroid eyedrops won't do the kinds of damage you have to deal with.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

I tend to take them for 10-12 days. But the dosage is far different.

[ariannawyn.livejournal.com]

LOL!

My eyeballs could use the exercise of push-ups, I think. I get tired of looking up from the computer to find that everything more than 18 inches away is blurry, even with my glasses on. *#^!@ presbyopia.

[cellio]

If they start doing jumping jacks at dawn, I'm going to have to lay down the law. :-)

I guess in one way I'm lucky: most of my world has been blurry for as long as I can remember, so at least I haven't had to get used to that as I get older. And cataracts can't touch me now! (Sure, I'd rather have had something approximating 20/20 somewhere along the line, if nothing else to find out what it's like to be normal, but we don't always get what we want.)