Some bad news!

[mccarrot]

Would "Blurryness" be a result of laser radiation in the eye? I notice, after watching my laser for a while, it gets slightly harder to focus. I don't have any vision spots that I can see, but the blurryness is creeping me out :O

Sometime I experience the same, do you have a Blue laser in your setup?

When I was at the optohosomething (eye doktor) he told me he once red a article where eye doctors used blue lasers to laser the eye. But they stopped using the blue lasers because the inderect light of the blue lasers damaged the eyes of the dokters!
If I remember well they are now using yellow lasers.

Sometimes when you watch a blue neon sign I also have problems focusing on this color, maybe this also got someting to do with this?

[Things]

Nope, no blue lasers. The closest I have come to blue is 405nm, which I no longer have, and that wavelength is naturally hard to focus on. Maybe the laser is just saturating your eye's, like when you look at the sun.

[mccarrot]

If you have a problem you should go direct to the hospital, (not a optician, you can be a optician by doing a 2 week course )
If you go 2 months later to the hospital (like myself) they can not (or will not) help you anymore.

But probbaly they are not able to help you at all, becouse the laser probbably cooked a very tiny spot on you retina, and this will not heel.

If you have a damaged cornea they can scrape away some tissue and they will give you steroids to speedup the healing proces,.

PS. the docter will will give you pupil widen eye drops, this will blur your focus. This wil go away in a few hours, but its dangerus to drive your car with a blurred sight.

[Laser Zone]

S*&T man I hope it goes away. Mine took about a month to finally go away and not notice it any more. Its been 17 years since i was blasted by a 7mw hene. I know what your going through !!!!! Its a very scary situation !!! Go to the doctors and get it checked out , but all I can say is it takes time to go away. Hope your ok , Laser Zone.

[liteglow]

i have not read everything here..

But I was hit in my eye with my 400mW red thin laser !
It was a BAM!! in the eye !
And a black spot everywhere I look..

But after some days, weeks, months, and now a year !
I never see it !

But I did a "self-test" on some web page, I think it was a diagram of black crossed lines.
And if some of the bliack lines was bended, you have a missing spot there.

And there was 2 spot on my eye that is "bad"


So when playing with lasers: ALWAYS WHERE SAFETY GOOGLES !

[Things]

Oh yes, ive seen that webpage. I think its just some form of grid, and if there are any missing or distorted lines, there is damage. Its not entirely useful though, since your bain is good at covering up the little spots. So the grid may appear to be normal, but you still may have some dead spots in your eye.

[mccarrot]

was it something like this?:
http://www.stlukeseye.com/EyeQ/amsler.asp

[Jem]

Oh yes, ive seen that webpage. I think its just some form of grid, and if there are any missing or distorted lines, there is damage. Its not entirely useful though, since your bain is good at covering up the little spots. So the grid may appear to be normal, but you still may have some dead spots in your eye.

It's called an Amsler Grid.

Even if your brain is 'covering up' the spots in your vision you will usually notice them when viewing and Amsler grid. Don't forget though that the Amsler grid only tests the center of your visual field and not the peripheral vision.

I posted an Amsler grid here some time ago, in fact it's worth reading this thread

http://www.photonlexicon.com/forums/...ead.php?t=3326

Jem

[steve-o]

Andy,
How's your eye?

[andy_con]

ummm still there.

but mainly when im looking hard at a screen or looking for the blur