Who peeked?

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Admit it who peeked, can't of just been me 🤣🤣🤣

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.

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

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.

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.

You seem really paranoid about looking at the sun which people do every day. Have you never looked at the sun?

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.

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.

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.

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I did.

Can you not see how your job is giving you a skewed sample size just like how healthcare workers won't let their children have a trampoline, or social workers won't let their children have sleepovers or how police see the worst in society. Look up availability heuristic

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

That’s no reason to risk your vision

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.

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?

But if you worried about every small risk you wouldn't leave the house

I can’t work out if you are being goady or you are genuinely struggling to understand this

There's not leaving the house and there's staring at an eclipse open eyes unprotected for prolonged periods of time. Which is about as sight threatening as sleeping in your contact lenses for months at a time or using shampoo as eye drops daily. It's doing something deliberately stupid and needlessly. I mean it's your eyes, I do not give 2 hoots if you've done yourself harm but for people reading this they should know it is real and it's only rare because most people aren't idiots.

Well said.

What are you talking about i said i peeked so you are talking a second, you can't look at it for any longer without some form of protection as its the sun and your body won't let you. Why have you invented a different story in your head where ive now apparently stared at it for a prolonged period of time

Ah, there's an earlier poster who gazed at it for an hour

I have no idea what you're talking about i have made it very clear from the start and even in the title I peeked. How on earth can you look at the sun for an hour your body wouldn't let you like actually think about it.

Have a read through your thread, an earlier poster and her daughter looked afor an hour. You really can, not suggesting you should but you can

I didn’t stare at it solidly for an hour. We glanced at it on and off for an hour. We were eating dinner.

I admit I don’t quite get it, over the years I’ve opened a window or turned when doing the washing or been driving and been momentarily ‘argh’ at the sun straight in my bloody eyes. Why is catching an eclipse for a second different? (And I just had my vision check up so no those moments in the car/garden had no effect). Not that I would look at one but I don’t get why it’s terrible when we naturally get the sun in our eyes by mistake all the time?