On Nov 18, 12:11 pm, "Laura via MedKB.com" <u36039[at]uwe> wrote:
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If that is your uncorrected (no glasses) vision and you can be
corrected to 20/20, you have mild to moderate refractive error. You
will need to use the glasses for driving, movies, seeing the
blackboard at school, sports events, recognizing faces of people more
than a few feet away. Depending on the nature of your refractive
error, you may also need glasses for reading.

But, as I said before, uncorrected vision is not of much concern.
Corrected vision is the most important thing. If your best corrected
vision is 20/200 in one eye, 20/100 in the other then although you are
not legally blind, you are visually impaired. You may not be able to
get a driver's licence, may need special visual aids for some tasks
and may not be able to do some jobs.

Dr Judy

Dear Laura,

Since the "lines" have no clear meaning, as per the ODs, perhaps
it would be better to read this chart and report your
visual acuilty in terms of 20/60, or so.

Just click here:


http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/oph/ped/IVAC/IVAC.html

And then on "Display" several times.

That will give you 20/60 which you can check at the
standard 20 feet.

You can also change the size of the letters by
clicking on "larger" and "smaller".

Enjoy,

Otis





On Nov 18, 12:11 pm, "Laura via MedKB.com" <u36039[at]uwe> wrote:
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"Laura via MedKB.com" <u36039[at]uwe> wrote

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That's a little more informative. For driving a vehicle, your vision is
"pretty bad," so you should wear glasses when you drive. It might help to
know that 20/100 to 20/200 vision from nearsightedness is often considered
"mild to moderate".

But people have 20/200 vision for lots of different reasons. Most likely
your doctor measured your refraction. Those results reveal much more about
your vision than just "20/200."

-MT

Now I'm getting more confused - he said the result was 20/200 & 20/100.




Dr Judy wrote:
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On Nov 18, 11:18 am, "Laura via MedKB.com" <u36039[at]uwe> wrote:
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Depends which chart was being used. On my projected chart I can show
4-5 lines. One possible view has 20/25 at the top, three different
20/20 lines and one 20/15 line. Another view would have 20/80 at the
top.

The more important question is whether you could see better with
refractive error corrected. If your eyes can see 20/20 with glasses,
you have excellent vision.

Dr Judy

Sorry - I'm not sure I understand the question.



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"Laura via MedKB.com" <u36039[at]uwe> wrote

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Not necessarily. It's common for people with bad _far_ vision be compensated
by excellent vision up close.

Others can't see far _or_ near without glasses.

Which group are you in?

-MT, OD

I had an eye test yesterday and I could only see the first line and the
second line. Is this a really bad standard of vision?

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