Issues and options in eye health cannot be put in 25 line limit effectively.

[Anthropositor]

I'm new here.  66 yr old American Male with cataract in right eye.  Determining my options for correction.  I have many questions about many options.  Looks like the constraint here is about 25 lines.  There is a place for brevity, but I would not have thought that the various elements of eye care called for it.

Guess I'll go think about ways of putting some complex ideas into sound-bite form, or find ways to break them up into 25 line sound bites.

I am a regular contributer on another health related forum.  They have no such space limitations.  So I guess the first question is; How do you folks like this requirement and the other little oddity, not being able to include your Email address?  On the other forum, with a membership of over eleven thousand, well over a hundred have lected to communicate with me by E-mail.

These things tend to inhibit communication, which is what forums are about.

[alchris]

Well I have to agree for one thing I personally dont see the harm in emails.  though I know on this forum people have gotten kicked off for posting emails and for even posting mri/ct scan films.  WHy I dont know because we are all just looking for help.  What forum do you go to.  can you post it here I would like to check it out.  thanks.

[Gichuki]

I concur with you about the difficulty of posting a concern in just 25-30 lines. I  had to cut my posting down about 10 times before it would fit.

I, too, would be interested in other forums where one may post more liberally in a single post.

Thanks.

[Anthropositor]

Wasn't ignoring you.  I had password issues that I didn't get sorted out until now.  Now that I have straightened them out, I should return more regularly.  I have started several health oriented threads in the General Health section of Skin Cell Forum, and a Nutrition subsection has some extensive comments about fermenting wine and other beverages and making exotic cheeses as well.

I have also made some perhaps abrasive comments about the practice of dentistry and ophthalmology as I have experienced it, and I expect that I will continue to do so.  I doubt that a doctor has ever attended that forum, and perhaps I haven't given them any added incentive to do so.

But I am going blind and don't particularly like the only options currently available to someone in my circumstances.  I am acutely aware that I need a good doctor, and the potluck method of finding one just hasn't worked out in the past year and a half.  I am not well experienced with doctors.  Prior to the optometrist and the ophthalmologist I sort of randomly selected,  I had not seen a physician for over two decades, since, as luck would have it, I find myself to be robustly healthy if you don't count the stroke a few years ago, which made me almost to stupid to take care of myself.  The stroke worked out alright though, and I still teach my weekly group chess lessons and some private lessons as well.

But in my studies about eyes and lenses, I have found some really exciting things that I would really like to share and get some outside input on.  I'm sure my current ophthalmologist is not up to the task, although I think she is a nice lady and means well.  More on my next post.  I think I've reached the length limit.

[AnnaE]

Try the Ask a doctor eye care forum here. I have posted more than 25 lines there.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS]

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[AnnaE]

The last message indicates that my idea is OK--post on the other forum I dicated above.