Stonewire Optometry

All jokes aside, seeing spots isn’t always harmless.

Retinal Tears & Detachments
New floaters, flashes of light, or a shadow/curtain in your vision can be early signs of a retinal tear or detachment. These can progress quickly and need urgent attention to protect your vision.

Diabetes
Spots, blurred vision, or fluctuating vision may be signs of diabetic retinopathy. The eyes are often among the first places we detect changes in diabetes.....sometimes before other symptoms appear.

Hypertension
High blood pressure can quietly affect the small blood vessels in your eyes. You may not feel anything systemically, but your vision can start to change.

Any change in your vision is worth a visit to your optometrists.

We’re feeling very festive this week at Stonewire Optometry! If you did not get a chance to see our sweaters today, stop by on Friday to celebrate the holidays with us in your favourite festive sweater. 🎄

Myopia (defined as any eyeglass prescription greater than -0.50 D.S.) is at epidemic levels in Canada.

Currently 30-35% of Canadian children need glasses or contact lenses to see clearly in the distance and in the classroom. Not only is this a personal inconvenience, but it can also have serious vision consequences.

Even mild myopia or nearsightedness (-0.50D to -2.00D) increases a personal relative risk by 2X of developing a retinal detachment, cataracts or myopic macular degeneration. When a prescription increases past -5.00 D, the risk of retinal detachment is 9X higher; by -8.00D, it's 21X higher.

Thankfully though your optometrist as access to a number of treatments to manage myopia progression in kids. Although these treatments cannot reverse myopia, they can help slow the progression by as much as 59%, which can help reduce a child's relative risk of secondary eye disease.

In addition, they can help keep prescriptions within a range to which refractive eye surgery like LASIK or PRK may still be an option in the future.

If you want to know if your child is a candidate for myopia treatments, book an eye exam with one of our optometrists.

Does your child's prescription keep getting stronger every year?

If so, it might be time to talk to one of our optometrists about myopia control treatments such as MiSight 1-Day contact lenses. In clinical trials over a 3-year period, MiSight contact lenses were shown to reduce myopia (nearsighted) progression by 59%, versus a regular 1-day contact lens.

If you're interested in learning more, book your child in for an eye exam with one of our optometrists and let's discuss your options.