Eyedrops

[pne]

Went to the optician's this afternoon; in order to look at my retina, he gave my eyedrops to enlarge the pupil.

He said the effect would wear off after an hour or so, and while I can now focus on things again, my pupils are still huge and I'm a bit sensitive to light. (After coming home, I spent the first hour and a half or so with my eyes closed.)

Comments

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

I had that when I went for a consultation to see if I could have laser eye treatment - it completely relaxes all the muscles in your eye, so you can't focus on anything! It's very wierd because normally you don't realise you are working these muscles, but when they're not working it feels very strange!

[sovereigna.livejournal.com]

hehe.. I've had that a number of times. It looks funny when you only have one eye done ;)

[leora.livejournal.com]

Not that surprisingly, I've had my pupils dilated countless times. An hour or so seems like an odd estimate, I think 4 or 5 hours is more the norm, although I don't time it.

[pne.livejournal.com]

That does sound closer to what I experienced.

I'm glad I chose an afternoon appointment -- I don't think I could have done much work in that state, given that work involves looking at lots of little letters on a computer monitor.

[musicus.livejournal.com]

I had that too several times. They used to say that it would take several hours to wear off and it did. They also said that I should come with someone to accompany me, so that I wouldn't run into a car or something.
Once it was a sunny afternoon. That was very nasty as the eyes were so sensitive to light. But it was interesting to see how much light is reflected everywhere...

[leora.livejournal.com]

If you need to get your pupils dilated again sometime, plan it as time to work on your Braille :)

Or, if possible, intimate time with Stella... for two reasons:
a) such things can easily be done with low lighting
b) humans generally look sexier with their pupils dilated, since pupil dilation is something that happens with arousal, but faking it works too. This is also why pictures of models and such often have their pupils artificially enlarged during processing.

I used to have a bottle of pupil dilation drops. After my first surgery I needed to take them regularly as part of the healing process (not quite sure why, I just was told to do it and did it). I kind of regret getting rid of the stuff when I no longer needed it. It'd be kind of fun to be able to dilate people's pupils at will, and it's one of the few drugs I've been given I would feel fairly safe just playing with, since as far as I know, the stuff is remarkably safe. Maybe bad under certain conditions for people with various specific eye problems (i dunno if it is, but I could imagine it might be), but I wouldn't use it on anyone with any eye problems. For normal, healthy people, I've never heard of a problem with random pupil dilation.

[pne.livejournal.com]

If you need to get your pupils dilated again sometime, plan it as time to work on your Braille :)

Good point! I hadn't realised before the appointment that I would have to get my pupils dilated, but I thought as I sat in the waiting room that I should have brought some Braille :)

Or, if possible, intimate time with Stella... for two reasons

An interesting thought.

Difficult on this occasion since we had visitors that evening, though even at other times we'd want to make sure that Amy was either securely occupied for a while or asleep.

But if we hadn't had visitors, perhaps we could've worked something out...

[schnurble.livejournal.com]

I have this done once a year, and after an hour, it usually has just fully started. As the others already said, it takes 4-5 hours to wear off.
The first time I had my pupils dilated, it was a bright sunny summer day. I could barely walk home with my eyes practically closed... Now I schedule my yearly eye checks always in the winter/spring time, when it's not so bright outside.

[allegrox.livejournal.com]

When I have it done, they always want to give me silly-looking paper sunglasses before I go outside. Strangely, though, the light doesn't bother me, so I don't wear them. And it wears off quickly, probably within an hour. I guess I'm unusual.