48, anyone who is even slightly irritated by the eyedrops will have blurry distance vision, and even people who can tolerate the drops well can have their vision effected anywhere from 5-24 hours (potentially even up to 3 days if its a child as stronger solutions must be used on them) - you must work at a pretty crappy doctors office that waters down their dilating solution instead of using any of the FDA approved ones if this isn't true in your office. (also where do you live that you can walk without impairment while you have difficulty seeing - i want to move there right now!!) Cxal, 48, didn't say photosensitive, she said sensitivity to light. I think there was some confusion because she was replying to two people and didn't specify when she was talking to one person and not another. A real opthalmologist, would know they'd quickly be hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt if they were giving out the only kind of sunglasses that would offer any benefit to photosensitive people after dilating their eyes. You are right that photosensitivity is very different from being photophobic. Photosensitive people would benefit if they were also photophobic, but studies show must people who are photosensitive are actually attracted to and feel compelled to look at the lights that provoke their photosensitivity. While photophobic people have reflexive avoidance of light. Photophobic people also have something wrong with the structure of their eye, which causes to much light to enter, while in photosensitive people the eye is normal, and the problem lies entirely in how the brain processes the normal amount of light entering the eye (why an eye patch with no sunglass is often beneficial for a photosensitive person - oftentimes to the point of even stopping all problems related to photosensitivity, but not for a photophobic person)

MIND THE GAP

It's okay. Don't worry about it, it isn't your fault.

i agree with #1 that would be so much worse

I went to the ophthalmologist once and had my eyes dilated. Then the ******* fire alarm went off and we had to evacuate the building.

Omg so yoor the one that made meeh late to grandmothers.! jp idk yooh but i wud have been the one yelling "cant we jus come bak for him lateeer.!"

#58, want to borrow my dictionary?

Be more careful of those gaps. YIKKES!

this happened to me!!!! except without the vision problem!!! wow it sucks. i feel your pain.

EXACT SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME. it was like deja vu reading this, except luckily the two people i was with lifted me up quickly