Podcast 166: Q&A

Today I'm going to take a question from a patient who is dealing with farsightedness, astigmatism, and wearing progressive lenses. And she asked the question about her new progressive lens prescription. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS astigmatism, progressive lenses, prescription, lens, eye, farsightedness, progressive, wear, glasses, vision, computer, remember, warping, drive, moving, screen, chose, intermittently, hear Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey folks, it's Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. Today I'm going to take a question from a patient who is dealing with farsightedness, astigmatism, and wearing progressive lenses. And she asked the question about her new progressive lens prescription. And you'll hear my response. Hey Leanna, I wanted to respond concerning your new prescription and what you're experiencing. So there's three aspects to the new progressive lens prescription that I want to report on. Number one, in this new prescription, it is very different than your old progressive lenses. First of all, the lenses are balanced so that each eye has the same prescription. And this is revolutionary for you. Because you're all prescription had very different prescriptions in your right eye and left eye. And whenever you wear a different prescription in each eye, what it does is it actually reinforces that difference. So by getting the lenses to be the same, it's a vision exercise to encourage both of your eyes to collaborate better, and that's what we're aiming to do. So it's moving you in a direction of integration. The second aspect of the progressive lens prescription is that I completely took out the astigmatism correction. So when a person wears in the stigmatism prescription for a long period of time, what it does is it creates it creates a warping in their visual perception. And so when you take the astigmatism out, it can be really weird because the warp is gone, but it's what you've been used to. So you go wow, this is like is it more magnified? Is it what's going on here. So it's introducing a way for you to reduce the warping in your eyes, in your mind, in your brain and in your body. Now, that's going to be a process of unwinding. It's not like an instantaneous. W ow, I don't have the astigmatism, I really get it. Now we did introduce the computer prescription remember, that was the single vision prescription, and that had no astigmatism in it. And in my notes, it looked as though you really liked it that there was no problem in adjusting to it. But with the progressive lenses, that's a whole other animal because remembering the progressive lens, it's splitting your vision into three different levels, and it's cutting out I would say 70 to 80% of your peripheral vision. So the non astigmatism progressive lenses, I could see where that might be an adjustment for you. Okay, now, here's number three. When I created the new prescription, one of the things you wanted was some help in the distance with your farsightedness. So I gave you that. And then the middle part of the lens is the same exact prescription as your current computer glasses that you chose. And remember, you went to the drugstore, and you tried on different magnifiers and you chose the plus two. And that's what I put into the center of the lens. Now below that is the reading prescription,