Comments | lurkingheretic: Dental implant and LASEK part 8: Is that a Paxil in my pocket?

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Dental implant and LASEK part 8: Is that a Paxil in my pocket?

Dec 13, 2016 10:04

No, as it turns out. The dentist was honest with me in telling me that it's a muscle relaxant, Sildalud by name. I wasn't scheduled to go in to the dentist but I was getting pains in the molars surrounding the implant and didn't want to take any chances. After all, if I hadn't ignored teeth shifting around on that side for as long as I did we ( Read more... )

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vicar December 13 2016, 10:52:24 UTC

I'm kinda stunned you have to argue with eye doctors! I was blindly following them...pun and all.

lurkingheretic December 13 2016, 23:40:29 UTC

I do find it irritating. Some things I understand--if the guy always does monovision on patients of a certain age, it's easy to miss the exception. As for eye tests coming up perfect when I'm in fact nearsighted, that's a little more complicated. It could be the tests are wrong. It could be the fact that if my eyes are in fact off that the surgeon has to fix them for free, per our agreement, and nobody wants that. It could also be something as prosaic as timing. Before the main eye appointment I have a 2 1/2 hour train ride, and I love to look out the windows. That's a lot of distance vision exercise! Before the local check I had been reading over morning coffee. Could muscle tone account for this? I don't know.

I do know it's easier to argue with a doctor than with an eyeball. 8)

A quick note lurkingheretic December 20 2016, 12:13:12 UTC

Apparently the steroids, not the menopause, were holding back my periods. For the first time since the surgery I have a normal, even heavy period.

lurkingheretic December 22 2016, 12:05:06 UTC

Trying to get or make a picture of the lovely webby starbursts I sometimes see. So far this is the closest I can get.

http://il9.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/9195839/thumb/5.jpg

It's like two starbursts overlaid on each other with the rays at right angles to each other but only one center. Or maybe it's the bubbles that show up under tinting film on a car window, only in light.

I suspect what I'm seeing is in part a matter of my brain trying to reconcile the slightly different special effects coming from each eye.