Strabismus isn't double vision, though double vision can be a symptom of it, but it isn't always.
My kiddo had strabismus surgery. She'll probably need it again someday.

The 50k IU is vitamin d2 that's meant to be taken once or twice a week. I had a similar problem when I worked 2nd and 3rd shift. My doc put me on it twice a week for 8 weeks, then started a 5k unit daily regimen. It got my levels up, but they were still suboptimal. It really didn't get back into normal range until I started working regular hours and stopped being so nocturnal. Make sure you're taking it with some food that has a little fat in it since it's a fat soluble vitamin.

Heferito said:

bridbran said:

50k IU? DAAAAAMN
My vit D is low and they're like "keep taking your 1000iu supplement :)" and I'm like, I've been taking 5000?? and they're like, "okay keep doing that :)"

Yeah, it’s a high number for sure but my D was like really low. Apparently this is a common short-term approach with the end game being that I take a much smaller daily dose after the 12 week ramp up.

Did you notice symptoms when yours was lower?

Idk it's been low for years so I couldn't pinpoint any symptoms. Maybe autoimmune shit and depression. I'm just impressed and kind of mad my doctors didn't suggest/offer a mega dose like that, especially given I had it tested in summer and was already taking 1k and spent a lot of time out in the sun so it's like yo this is peak levels right now

bridbran said:

50k IU? DAAAAAMN
My vit D is low and they're like "keep taking your 1000iu supplement :)" and I'm like, I've been taking 5000?? and they're like, "okay keep doing that :)"

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Heferito said:

Yeah, it’s a high number for sure but my D was like really low. Apparently this is a common short-term approach with the end game being that I take a much smaller daily dose after the 12 week ramp up.

Did you notice symptoms when yours was lower?

bridbran said:

Idk it's been low for years so I couldn't pinpoint any symptoms. Maybe autoimmune shit and depression. I'm just impressed and kind of mad my doctors didn't suggest/offer a mega dose like that, especially given I had it tested in summer and was already taking 1k and spent a lot of time out in the sun so it's like yo this is peak levels right now

bridbran said:

They told me my cit D was 4. And my iron was really bad. They gave me an iron infusion and then yeah the Vit D. I feel like I hear about low vitamin D more and more.

Vit d. What he fuck

lmao

Sepharo said:

JD I've got the same bullshit I think.
I can only focus one eye at a time...
Like they both have clear (though slightly different) vision individually, but I can't seem to make them work together.
It's bizarre because there is like no dominant eye, and focusing one unfocuses the other.
I need to go to the eye doc bad I guess, but in the back of my mind I keep thinking they aren't going to be able to do shit about it.
... but what you described sounds extreme too
ugh

I was blaming my two different kinds of laser eye surgery I had 15 years ago. One has the flap and the other doesn't... and it kind of seems like they drifted in quality ever since then. But it was only recently that I sort of self discovered it was more of a consistent focusing issue than any myopia.

Welp, eye insurance is turned back on for this year.

depending on your country and level of insurance - get it looked into. it would get better and worse at times... Sometimes I'd be watching TV with one eye closed, driving with one eye closed...

I went for one testing session and she gave me a $60 plastic thing to stick on my glasses and it utterly changed my life. It's not perfect or I wouldn't be going for surgery... I've had it on my glasses for at least a year though... and you can also just get glasses built that work better (but cost more)

is it one of those plastic novelty eyeball on a spring things

loool
its called a fresnel prism

it bends the light from where my eye should be looking to where it is looking

nice
but the eyeball cheaper

I guess I should check in.

I am doing well. Surgery was monday morning and once the anaesthesia wore off and they gave me back my glasses there was an immediate, noticeable change/improvement. My prescription is 10 years old because i was repeatedly advised not to get new glasses in case I had to get glasses with prism built in or something... so I've been having somewhat of a problem differentiating between blurry and double vision.

But I can sit in my comfy chair and watch a movie and not have to squint or close one eye and that's been pretty amazing.

My eyes still feel dry and a bit heavy and if i look different places too much it feels tiring/sore but I had 2 muscles connected to my eyes cut and reattached so that's pretty normal i think

I did an hour of weightlifting the other day, and that didn't bother my eyes at all (makes sense but you know.) In fact it was nice to do something and really I could just close my eyes for most of it, which was nice.

I was invited to go for a 6-7 hour hike tomorrow, which normally I would have loved to do, but I have declined, I don't want to be out on a mountain with tired eyes, trying to wind my way down rocks and whatnot.

Light sensitivity shouldn't really be a thing with eye muscle surgery but i'm finding i do enjoy some ambient darkness a little more than before. My wife took me to the grocery store yesterday, normally my happy place, and I found I wanted to get out of there within about 10 or 15 minutes

nice, glad it worked out for you

^excellent news!
I'd be so worried about eye surgery
/total wimp

Yesterday, my wife and I went out to a mall and a few stores and just forced myself to spend basically the whole day changing my focus and depth of focus

At first it felt like a little bit much, like I'd turn my head and my eyeballs would lag behind

But by the time we got back a few hours later, it felt like it made a big improvement.

I also ran into my surgeon at Ikea - coincidence of all coincidences. That blew my mind.

I had an appointment with her today for a followup. She thinks everything is looking really good, with the minor thing that some of my stitches are dissolving faster than expected and she wants me to go back on the antibiotic/steroid for another week because of that

I drove home after the appointment, first time in 10 days or something.. and I'm going to play volleyball tonight. Wish me luck

Did they have to take your eyeballs out and put them back in for the surgery?

No.

Actually, the night before surgery I reread the papers they gave me and read for the first time a sentence on the paper that said like

At no time will the eyeballs be removed

and i had never considered that as a possibility before. Never considered them taking theme out... suddenly it was all I could think about

Standard boilerplate

Just a little. As a treat.

that's what they mean by balls out in opthalmology

u know when ur putting something back together and you end up with extra parts? that’s what the eyeball dish is for. don’t worry, they surely have extras

oops we put the left one in the right hole and the right one in the heft hole, oop

So i fell last week on the ice. SLAM down on my left side.
Went to the dr, said i might have a fracture in my hip.
great. got an xray, nope! no fracture! BUT

unidentified, enlarged mass. Needs follow up.

ok. Go to my Dr, get an ultrasound.
8cm mass near/in my ovary.
About the size of an orange.

Everything says go immediatly to get evaluated and treatment, possible surgery due to my age and whatever.

First appointment available is May 27th

OH and that ultrasound? with insurance is $700 out of pocket.

First off, did you swallow any oranges recently? If so, boom, saving $700 right off the bat

wow...good luck with that LadyA *hugs*

OMG no!
But I DID swallow orange seeds! Thats got to be it!

That's terrible news. I hope it's nothing and they can just remove it.
Also it's crazy, I see the appointment thing happen all the time. When I discharge people it says on their paperwork to see such and such specialists within a week... but I know when they call it's going to be months.

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Apparently my insurance has changed on what they cover and the amounts they will pay.
My $10 every three month medicine is now $325 every three months.

Yea the insurance thing is horrible. One of the options was monitor it for a few months with regular ultrasounds and im like, no. I can not afford that in any way.
SO getting cut open is the answer. sheesh

man fuck bodies
not cool ladyA, I'm sorry to read this
please keep us updated on your secret pelvic orange stash

Love you Dar, holding you in my prayers.
Also insurance sucks ass.

LadyAlthea said:

OH and that ultrasound? with insurance is $700 out of pocket.

LadyA that was a lucky fall! Painful as it's been :(
Good luck and you got this!

Oh misquoted there

In Canada that ultrasound is charged to provincial healthcare
There has been an occasional blood test I've had to pay out of pocket but it's very rare

yeah but but but socialized healthcare= long waits!!
Oh ...


wait.
⏱️

I think if one is in a major city center then the wait times may be better? Don't quote me.

I am 100% sure it can't be worse than the shit my household had to deal with over the last 5 years with specialists here

and we're paying out the anus

really wishing these days that i had an ancestor smart enough to have been born in Canada

Dmaxxxing until you’re relaxxxing

<Hugs> LadyA.

I've got a joke ready for this, but it's gotta wait until after

i'm now closer to 50 than 40, but i'm in better shape now than i ever was. i think the secret is if you want to be a dork on the computer, you have to do something physical to balance it out. i think a good test is if you cant go outside right now and walk around on your hands or do a backflip or a kickflip or something, that should be an emergency situation.

on the positive side, i used to slightly worry about ageism in tech, but since so many people are so fucked up (both mentally and physically) from decades of eating garbage and playing video games all day, the competition is basically nonexistent.