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- From: yozzo@watson.ibm.com (Ralph Yozzo)
- Subject: Re: Myopia
- Sender: news@watson.ibm.com (NNTP News Poster)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.183714.40225@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:37:14 GMT
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- Keywords: Myopia, lenses, close work
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- In article <1992Nov16.195854.2329@draper.com> storch@draper.com (Joel Storch) writes:
- >I have been sufferring from myopia since my college days and now at age 43 it
- >still is progressing. It has been my experinece that after each increase in
- >the lens prescription, my eyes accomodated and my vision deteriorated
- >further. This vicious cycle continued each year until I took matters into my
- >own hands. I decided to only use the full correction for distant vision
- >switching off to the old prescription for reading and other close work. When
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- Did you ever consider bifocals? Or have you made a conscious choice
- to avoid them?
-
- --
- Ralph Yozzo (yozzo@watson.ibm.com)
- From the beautiful and historic Mid-Hudson Valley area of NY state
-