The BeautyButterfly

As I have mentioned in a recent update I have been diagnosed with Dry Eye and MGD, if you see 👀 this means that the product is eye friendly 👓 this means that the product isn't eye friendly

I should explain what Macular Dystrophy is and how it differs from Macular Degeneration. Macular Degeneration is where the cells of the macular deteriorates which is the area at the back of the eye that records the images we see and sends them along the optic nerve to the brain.   The macular is responsible for focusing central vision in the eye, it controls the ability to read, drive, recognise faces and colours as well as seeing objects in fine detail.   It occurs in people over the age of 60.   There is no cure for either macular dystrophy or macular degeneration. Macular Dystrophy means that I have drusen or blisters on the macular part of my eye and when they burst they will take my central vision meaning that I will not be able to watch the TV or read.   As part of the condition straight lines look like chicken wire – not straight but bumpy.   I have floaters, they can be black dots, clear dots with a black edge and dot in the middle to blue ...

I need advice – are there any opticians reading this blog or people who know an optician?   I will explain I was born with weak eye muscles and as I got older I had to have a prism put into my glasses and with my eye condition I now wear reading glasses as well as distance.   Didn’t bother me much but I keep leaving the house with my reading glasses on as I have a habit of wearing them a lot more around the house.   I wanted transitions in my glasses too.   Hubby has need varifocals and thought I would try them as it saves me the hassle of changing my glasses when I to watch the TV or read or use the computer.   The optician where I had my eye test said I could have varifocals and transitions, but the price was not in my range, so I went to a different optician.   The new optician has told me that because of the prism I cannot have varifocals as it would not work properly.   So, I am back to having two pairs of glasses and not the one I wanted. ...

This isn’t the first time I have had depression.  I had a bout of it in 2000.  The trigger was that my dad wasn’t here and wasn’t able to meet my husband or first son.  With the support of my hubby I was back to functioning within three months.  My monster on my back is still here after nineteen months and I don’t see a way of getting rid of the huge monster off my back. The trigger this time was a mixture of things – a problem with my back, stomach and eyes along with not feeling happy with my job. I find it a struggle to leave my house on my own – my hubby and three boys need to be with me.   There are certain places such as the doctors and my youngest son’s primary school that I could walk to and from on my own while listening to music.   It took a further three months before I could walk to my hubby’s work to meet him when he finished that was sixteen months ago.   I still can’t leave my house on my own without my music.   I have done ...

I was born with weak eye muscles and had a squint.   I can remember attending hospital appointments at the Eye Department of Birmingham Children’s Hospital. I didn’t start wearing glasses until I was 17/18 years old as I couldn’t focus my eyes properly looking from paperwork to keyboard.   The optician put a prism in my glasses to counteract the double vision I was experiencing.   He also gave me exercises to do but I always felt sick doing them.   I didn’t mind wearing glasses then as I had wanted to since I was little now I find it a faff as I have distance and reading glasses.   I have on occasion left the house wearing my reading glasses only to return to change them for my distance glasses. During a routine eye test in April 2016, the optician found something wrong with my left eye.   I had to wait eight weeks for a hospital appointment At the appointment I had the pressures in my eyes checked, scans of the back of my eyes taken.   T...