He spends a good part of his day looking with one eye through a telescope

I had a 29 year old patient who came into the office yesterday. His chief complaint was that he noticed an increase in headaches, especially over the left eye. He spends a good part of his day looking with one eye through a telescope. He also mentioned that he had more trouble focusing his left eye from near to distance. There was a very small far sighted prescription found for distance for the left eye and the right eye had no prescription. When I put this prescription in front of him, he found an immediate, significant relief.

What's interesting is that many of my patients wouldn't have noticed the difference with this small a prescription. However, there are a number who do. Even at this young age, the patient even needed more prescription to be able to read comfortably. Thus, we prescribed a bifocal. Helping this type of patient, in part, is what makes optometry such an interesting and rewarding profession.