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@ mleku
2025-05-01 11:35:14
with the nasty, very changeable windy weather with frequent bursts of rain i have started to smoke cigarettes out the back window with a clothes line about a metre away
i have discovered that when i try to zoom focus to the line, my eyes are not lining up the images correctly because it is primarily horizontal
if i tilt my head about 30 degrees to one side, the left and right images come into convergence
the image is sharp, but double, and on this object about 50 centimetres away, the divergence from alignment looks like about a centimetre
i am not sure if this is muscular or neuromuscular, it seems like my eyes are lazy at converging, and this could be because the muscles have lost some amount of their fine control, which probably is caused by potassium deficiency
so can't wait until my potassium comes, damn
it's no wonder i have trouble reading text, because it's primarily horizontal also, and the same thing is happening, although not quite as extreme in the left and right, it's more one eye is looking at one point, and the other eye is looking slightly up to the right (left and right, respectively, i think)
my vision is fine apart from this, as this +1 prescription cheap reading glasses demonstrate, there's something wrong with the muscles that control focus and the muscles that fine-tune left-right
i really hope that the potassium is the trick, because i was taking it before and my problem with reading cleared up almost completely
when kidney function is poor, one of the things it does is eliminate a lot of potassium. there was a pre-existing earlier stage to this as well where for some reason i wasn't absorbing boron properly, and this was causing elimination of magnesium and calcium, leading to cramps, and it got ridiculously bad where i had trouble taking off and putting on my shoes, my toes would go into spasm and be all like twisted and shit, and my calf muscles would often go into spasm when i woke up in the morning
i know potassium helped so i'm confident that i will get better, and in the meantime these glasses are keeping me working more efficiently
i don't want to get used to them
an optometrist measured my vision when i was 27 and told me that i *could* benefit from a +1 prescription but at the time i was drinking a lot of coffee (which i think affects potassium absorption or increases elimination) and it was late in the day, she said it probably was just fatigue
yeah, now i know... fatigue and tannins, 30 years later. holy shit it was 30 years ago.
shows how much optometrists know about eye health, if they don't have half a degree in neuro-muscular mechanisms they are really actually hurting people