Optometrist?!
Question: I have an eye doctor appointment tomorrow. I am going there cause I can't see stuff that is kinda up close and other people can read it. I want to know what they are going to do to me. Please help!
Answers: I have an eye doctor appointment tomorrow. I am going there cause I can't see stuff that is kinda up close and other people can read it. I want to know what they are going to do to me. Please help!
I have been told the worst thing I ever did to people was tell bad jokes.
Mind you some of the jokes were pretty awful...
(that was largely the point, to get worried people to relax and not take things too seriously)
Nothing terrible happens. A puff of air in the eye, possibly, to check for glaucoma. Drops in the eyes, possibly (take some sunglasses, if you have them) that will make your pupils big for a few hours afterwards, if they're used.
That's to make it easier to check round the inside of the eye to make sure there's no sign of disease that's causing poor vision.
If it's closework that's blurry, then that might be worse for a few hours too, after the drops.
The glasses bit is a few lights and a few questions.
No need to panic. You won't get glasses you don't need, or the wrong glasses, for giving one wrong answer.
Nothing hangs on one answer: it all gets cross-checked.
Don't be afraid of saying "don't know" or "can't tell"
That gives us a lot on information. Enough to know the next thing to try, anyway, and that's all we're after.
It's much better than sitting there going "ummm, errrr",
taking wild guesses, or, worst of all,
telling us what you think we want to hear.
We do not stick things in your eyes.
We do not pop people's eyes out to examine them.
(that myth still comes around regularly!)
We do not ask impossible questions.
(remember "Don't know" is a good answer! It's our job to find a better question!)
Optometrist, retired.
Oh: why arent there any aspirin in the jungle?
Parrots eat 'em all.
Don't worry, nothing they do is painful at all. First, they'll have you sit at a table with a machine & rest your chin on a chinrest & put your forehed on a bar. They'll puff a little blast of air into your eye to check hte pressure in your eyes to make sure you don't have glaucoma. It's kind of surprising & you'll jump but it doesn't hurt. They may have you read an eye chart. Usually they want you to read the smallest line you can. They may have you cover one eye at a time & read it again. Then they'll have you sit in chair & pull a machine to your face,have you read through this & make adjustments to determine which helps you see better. That's pretty much it!