Eye screening

Just had mine done yesterday. After years of invariably getting a migraine afterwards no matter how careful I was about sunglasses and being in dark spaces they agree to do the test without the drops. Apparently drops are used to limit recalls due to dark images. But this means those of us that struggle with side effects might well be having the drops unnecessarly as many of us can still have a good quality image without the drops, although as we age our eyes dilate less well on their own. They can see then and there if the image is likely to be good enough. As the room wasn’t that dark I cupped my hands around the eye being tested to maximise natural dilation and it look like it worked. Just waiting on official notification it was ok (and hopefully so are the blood vessels). Theres is also the option of half strength drops more usually used on pregnant women.

So if the drops cause you issues beyond a couple of hours of light sensitivity and blurring ask rathr than suffer.

Oddly other than a bit of stinging i got very little blurring. It’s the migraines that then wipe me out bedridden for 12 to 36 hours I want to avoid

Sarah69 said:

Just a question on this, I have a pupil that doesn’t dilate at all I’m guessing they’re still getting images from it?

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I’d have thought they would have recalled you if they weren’t getting an image they could assess