Who peeked?

Your optician is incorrect by the way, I'd go back and tell them because that's terrible misinformation. You don't mean your child looked for an hour do you?

Absolutely it is but every person who suffered a retinal burn thought it wouldn't be them and the risk increases with time of exposure so a peak isn't a big deal but staring? Big risk. Solar burns are much more common in those with severe mental health issues a they are significantly more likely to look.

That’s no reason to risk your vision

You may have damaged your retinas. The advice is to get early medical advice.

I did.

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It's something I specialise in and while rare so are eclipses so there's obviously always a cluster after an eclipse. I've seen well developed cataracts in people in their 20s who use sun beds and don't wear the eye protection and also retinal damage. The problem is once it's gone it's gone, these are not cells that regenerate and there are no pain receptors in the retina so until you lose vision sometimes weeks later you won't know the damage you've done. Which almost doesn't matter because there's nothing you can do after the fact.

Do you know someone this has happened to @Velumental, or is this your job? My research suggests it can happen, but it’s rare. People are always looking at the sun, for all sorts of reasons, and all these people do not go blind. I will be mindful for blurs and spots over the next few weeks though.

Having seen people with irreversible vision loss from solar burns your responses are bizarre. I've seen people lose their license and livelihood over these injuries.

Believe me or don't, the first damage can show up in 12-24 hours but it takes several weeks for the initially I flammed photoreceptors cells to subside and the true vision loss to show up. The last one I saw was 6 weeks after the day of damage almost to the day when it was picked up. If you have an OCT scan now it'll show up but the full loss of the photoreceptor cells and the blind spot in your vision progresses for weeks.

So according to the 3 actual opticians I spoke to, anyone who caused any damage to their eyes would have known within a few hours. There was lots online about damage in Up to 48 hours, but the 3 opticians independently said no, you’d already know.

I can assure you it's likely from the sun, it brings on cataracts and macular degeneration much earlier, hence why we wear UV blocking sunglasses.

Also you should book a sight test with an ptpician for an OCT scan to check if you've done any damage. It takes time for the damage to properly breakdown the cells

Lots of people will have peeked and weeks from now will be wondering why they can't read and will discover they have burned their photoreceptors off. Irreversibly leaving themselves with at best a blind spot at worse loss of central vision. Not everyone but strange risk to take.

@NotTheHRPolice
i have no idea whatsoever why you would be nasty. Why? Does it make you feel better?
Yes, beyond stupid, which I’ve owned so insults are utterly futile.
I am posting for the benefit of others, who may have done the same thing - let’s face it, there would be thousands/millions of us who did - but can’t afford the opticians trip.
posting on this thread serves no benefit to me, but to help others. Why did you post?

And no common sense in your own brain suggested that looking directly at the sun wasn’t a good idea?

(This is why there are “do not drink” warnings on bottles of bleach.)

You do know that it can affect your future sight right? You really seem as dumb as your comments 🙄

Sunglasses sometimes but if memory serves, I tried to see what was better with and without. Completely stupid obviously. Afterwards, everyone was curious how I’d missed all the warnings - but I hadn’t seen a single one on Facebook, insta or anything - my algorithms mustn’t be set for that. No one’s fault but my own of course that I didn’t think, but interesting that I didn’t see a warning. Everyone afterwards said ‘but they were everywhere’. Not on my phone they weren’t.

With no eye protection?

Of a good weekend everyone!

Good to see you 'of' a great sense of humour!