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 getting worse, Beverly, 3/04/2001
  getting worse, Beverly, 3/04/2001, (#1)
 improving vision, Debra Tennen, MD Agoura Hills, CA 3/04/2001, (#2)
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"getting worse"
Posted by Beverly on 19:58:36 3/04/2001
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If this procedure can't improve vision, can vision at least be stabilized
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1. "getting worse"
Posted by Beverly on 20:11:00 3/04/2001
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D.V. o.d. +1.75 sp -0.25 cy 120 axis
O.S. o.s. +3.50 -0.25 112
N.V o.d +200 ADD
o.s. +1.75
This is my latest eye glass presc. if this procedure cannot improve vision, can vision be stabilized with the procedure?
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2. "improving vision"
Posted by Debra Tennen, MD on 21:29:30 3/04/2001
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beverly- your vision seems to be getting worse because you have a vision problem called latent hyperopia. hyperopia means farsighted, and latent means that you have had this condition all of your life, but it has been latent, or controlled by the focusing muscles in your eye. as we age, those same focusing muscles lose their effectiveness. what you were able to see without glasses when you were twenty, now gets difficult to see. we notice it first with up close tasks, as it requires more focusing power to see up close than to see far away. but eventually, even the far away stuff gets blurry, and you begin to use glasses for driving as well as reading.
laser will not stabilize this process- but the natural history is that the vision does level out during the mid fifties. you shouldn't expect too much change in the correction after that.
good luck
debra tennen, md
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