'Do you have a study that shows that this works though, outside of your own experience. Our own experiences can be quite misleading, because we do not set our lives up in order to study, we set our lives up in order to live.' Well, actually as a part-time social worker providing counselling services especially to the in-patients of the government-funded psychiatric wards and other special-care nursing homes (of my own home country which is less-developed), me as well as the others would quite often face some really difficult problems gaining the trust, faith and confidence from those people that we are trying to help, particularly the ones whose Tardive Dyskinesia syndrome, especially the rapid eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking symptoms have manifested for a long time (for months to a few years). Next, such people would tend to feel very much dejected, distressed and some times really aggressively frustrated over the physically incapacitating pains and afflictions that they have got no choice but need to live with to 'get on' with their miserable daily lives. So, out of the reasons of both sympathy as well as practical necessity to calm them down so that they will eventually 'listen to us', me and my other fellow social workers just recommend that suggested acupuncture method to them in the hope that it will ease their pains effectively. Luckily, the acupuncture technique that works out well for me actually turn out to be effective to them too and the successful cases just increase from time to time and these patients, having obtained reliefs from their Tardive Dyskinesia disorders (rapid eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking) also subsequently feel very much relieved and are willing to co-operate with us in the efforts of helping them to live meaningfully and more healthily with ever-greater levels of sanity. Therefore, it thus makes our works very much easier. So, by posting such articles about my / (our) healing experience from such debilitating disorder, I just hope that I can reach out to more and more people in need of that so they they will find reliefs through that technique too. One way or the other, I also wish to share my / (our) healing experience from such eye-related disorder with the intended readers / recipients so that they would at least get some additional cues / references about the causes and other alternative treatment for such disorder. Lastly, given that being merely social workers occupationally unrelated to the medical fields, and hence by no practical means that such a 'study' can be professionally and formally conducted by us to obtain duly accredited certifications and verifications, I somehow wish that a carefully-conducted studies will possibly be conducted one day by the related medical personnel / researchers to further explore the acupuncture treatment for full-findings of its other hidden therapeutical potentials

I had no idea that this problem was as common as it is as I have only encountered it in myself and my dad who also complained of night vision problems. I have had problems with depth perception at night since my 20's and can remember walking off of curbs or into puddles because I couldn't see them. Up until recently however, the problem was manageable. Now however, I don't dare drive at night because not only can I not see well, the lights have become so blinding and glaring that I feel like I am driving in a video game with limited vision to boot. Unless I can get behind someone and follow their taillights, I can't manage it at all and usually have to pull off the road several times. If its not the lights glaring and making it impossible to see, it is the absolute blackness and my inability to see more than a few feet in front of myself. On top of that, I can't walk around outside at night anymore unless it is well lit up. If its not, I barely shuffle forward as everything is dark and appears flat. I am almost completely blind at night. I am only 53 years old and when I mention this to my mother she scoffs at me and thinks I'm being silly. She is 83 and thinks she is the only person who has medical concerns and because of my age, it must be nothing. Personally, I'm getting worried. Its gotten so much worse in just one year. I can't afford health insurance and she won't help pay because she thinks its unnecessary. She has more than the ability to help out but won't. Anyone else think this is something to worry about?

os = oculus sinister od = oculus dexter oculus = eye in Latin sinister = left in Latin dexter = right in Latin With rigid gas permeable (RGP) lenses, three things affect whether lenses can be interchanged: correction for each eye, shape of each eye and how well the lenses fit. Over the course of 39 years of wearing contacts, there have been times when the correction and shape were so similar that I couldn't tell if I had reversed the lenses. Other times it was very obvious that I had reversed them because either the correction was "off" or there was physical discomfort because the shape of the eyes was significantly different. I also had one lens that fit so poorly that I kept thinking that I must have reversed the lenses. (I finally had it replaced.) At each exam and fitting, get your eye doctor to explain in non-medical terms what is going on with the eyes. If s/he can't or won't do this, it's time to find someone else.

..."my problems often stem from functionality . . .like where to put a big TV (the one thing DH insists on) in a small room." I hear you! And after DH purchases said t.v., there is no money for curtains, rug, lamps, etc. I had an epiphany a few weeks ago. Every time he wants a new gadget for the house, he needs to allow me to spend the same amount of money. (Either we can afford both or we can afford neither.) I mentioned my bright idea to DH fully expecting a huge argument. Instead he hung his head and said, "I wondered when you were going to catch on to that." I also think pictures can help in both directions. I often obsess about the little things, especially maintenance-related things. I need to repaint the baseboards and replace all the doorstops. It looks like some of the trim was painted over old, flaking paint so I need to sand it down and repaint. And so on and so on. I take a picture and realize that my guests won't even notice those things! But they probably will notice that my kitchen valance looks like severe bangs. (Actually, it reminds me of that pink tape that mom used to cut my bangs.)