one eye sees darker

seasheep

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Feb 22, 2003, 10:11:31 PM2/22/03

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For at least 2 years I've noticed that one of my eyes produces an image
slightly redder and darker than the other eye. Is this normal? I've never
mentioned it to my optician.

Rishi Giovanni Gatti

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Feb 23, 2003, 5:11:20 AM2/23/03

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It will be interesting to know what kind of cures the professionals
offer here.

Mike Tyner

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Feb 23, 2003, 6:28:08 AM2/23/03

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I'm sure you will have cures for cataract and optic nerve disease.

-MT

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Rishi Giovanni Gatti

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Feb 23, 2003, 8:22:07 AM2/23/03

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Mike Tyner wrote:
> I'm sure you will have cures for cataract and optic nerve disease.

Dear Mr. T, I am not a doctor!

Evaristo

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Feb 23, 2003, 9:26:09 AM2/23/03

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I had the left eye more myopic than the other, almost double in
diopters correction.
My left eye was always like you described.

If you try to cover one eye and look at things for a while
and then do the same with the other, you will notice that
this strange effect will amplify.

The answer and cure of this is:
"Strain, not relaxed".

Halterb

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Feb 26, 2003, 7:32:25 AM2/26/03

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Seasheep wrote:

>For at least 2 years I've noticed that one of my eyes produces an image
>slightly redder and darker than the other eye. Is this normal?<

Have you observed if there is any difference in the size of your pupils? A
slightly smaller pupil on one eye could result in a lower level of light
passing through.

seasheep

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Feb 28, 2003, 10:32:19 AM2/28/03

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No, pupils look the same size.

It's more pronounced after I've been laying down, which makes me think its
related to blood flow. Or maybe not.!?

Thanks.

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Evaristo

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Feb 28, 2003, 2:04:46 PM2/28/03

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On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:32:19 -0000, "seasheep" <an...@noone.com> wrote:

>No, pupils look the same size.
>
>It's more pronounced after I've been laying down, which makes me think its
>related to blood flow. Or maybe not.!?

It is related to strain.

--
"[the facts] may, and indeed must, win in the long run; but in the
meantime the world gropes needlessly in darkness and endures
much suffering that might have been avoided."

Mike Tyner

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Feb 28, 2003, 2:22:58 PM2/28/03

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It's very easy to create apparent differences in brightness by closing one eye
for a while beforehand. Adapting one eye to the dark can create a huge
difference.

To be objective, you have to spend a half-minute or so with both eyes open,
looking at something with uniform brightness, like a wall or book.

Optic nerve problems often create differences that make red objects look pale
with one eye.

Early cataract often makes everything a little reddish or yellow, but usually
both eyes.

-MT

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Edgar A Pearlstein

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Feb 28, 2003, 3:01:58 PM2/28/03

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seasheep (an...@noone.com) wrote:
: > >For at least 2 years I've noticed that one of my eyes produces an image
: > >slightly redder and darker than the other eye. Is this normal?<

I don't know whether this is related, but here goes: I had the lens
in one eye replaced, because of a cataract. Now that eye sees colors
more toward the blue. That is, what it sees as a bright white, the other
eye sees as slightly yellowish. The opthalmologist said that is because
the other eye has beginnings of a cataract. Blue light gets scattered more
than the other colors, so that makes sense.