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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 00:01:37 JST Charlie Stross

   Achievement unlocked: new varifocals. It's a holding action—better close-up correction for writing, but the cataracts are still there and require surgery—but I'm looking at my computer screen and it feels like tense muscles are unkinking already, so it was worth it.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 00:13:28 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Guitarsophist

     @jredlund I've had floaters before (I've had microsurgery on the back of an eyeball for a bad detached retina).

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     Guitarsophist (jredlund@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 00:13:29 JST Guitarsophist

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     @cstross I had cataract surgery about a year ago. For about three weeks it was amazing. The world was brighter, sunlight was whiter, and I needed glasses only for reading. Then the floaters came. Apparently, the changes in eye pressure caused by the surgery often cause stuff to get knocked loose. You get used to them after a while, but they are always maneuvering, usually right where you are trying to look.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 00:34:08 JST Charlie Stross

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     @FeralRobots @jredlund Yup: the flashers persisted for about a decade in my case! Weird comma-shaped persistent flashbulb white-outs that slowly orbited the centre of my field of vision before disappearing after a few seconds. (I still get them occasionally, 35 years later.)

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     FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 00:34:09 JST FeralRobots

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     @cstross
     Just curious about something: Do you remember getting wild light shows during & immediately after your reattachment surgery? With colors & patterns you hadn't ever previously seen as eye flashers?
     I saw these cobalt-blue flashing lights in intricate patterns, almost a little like a throbbing cuttlefish. They persisted (with decreasign frequency) for around a day & a half after the surgery.
     @jredlund

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 04:58:37 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Ivor Hewitt

     @ivor I've had bad varifocals (from a high street chain) and incredibly good ones (from a specialist ophthalmologist). There is no comparison, and even though the specialist's glasses are twice the price they're well worth the money.

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     Ivor Hewitt (ivor@social.ivor.org)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 04:58:38 JST Ivor Hewitt

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     @cstross nice, 👍 I gave up on varifocals despite the optician insisting they were what I needed. I've gone back to a selection of different strengths to switch depending on task.