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An eye check-up does not involve only your spectacle number checkup. A visit to the optical shop or a visit to the optometrist is not enough, when you visit your eye doctor, there are many tests that happen and there is a long waiting time. You should be prepared beforehand. Your entre visit to the eye doctor. When you come to an eye centre is your registration and register a unique hospital ID for you so that your treatment plan does not get mixed up with any patient you will have to wait for your for first initial assessment done by the optometrist team. The optometrist will take your preliminary history. When you are talking to your optometrist give exact details about your systemic diseases, whether you are diabetic you are hypertensive, you have thyroid or any other problem, heart disease. Also tell if you have any allergies to any drugs because e some drops may be used during the visit to the centre and if you have any allergy in the past to any of these drops, we will be careful with your eyes. Reveal any family history of any eye diseases. Certain disease like glaucoma or age related macular diseases can turn in the family. If you reveal that your father or mother or any other relatives have this problems, we will be looking ruefully in these aspects and will be able to treat you better. Also disclose if you had any eye treatments done for any eye diseases in the past. This will help us to come to a proper diagnosis. So our optometrist will take history and also going to look for refraction, that is to check for any glass number. Then you have to wait for your ophthalmologist or your eye doctor. Your eye doctor will examine your eyes on a slit lamp biomicroscopy, an examine your eye pressures and will give an idea about the intraocular pressure and then dilate your pupils, to look your retina, examine your optic nerve. In case you are elderly to look for early cataract. If you are myopic to look at the periphery of your retina if there is any small holes or degeneration. This dilatation will blur to your vision for a short while and give you a glare. If you are ready for a complete eye test you should not drive by yourself. After dilatation you will meet your optometrist for a post dilatation refraction and then your ophthalmologist and do a complete retina evaluation and in case there is something there will be further tests. There are tests like Humphrey field analyser to diagnose early glaucoma and ocular coherence tomography to diagnose early optic nerve diseases or cataract . If you are ready to undergo counselling for the cataract surgery you will be send to the counsellor. After thee entire process you will meet the ophthalmologist and when you are on your day out, we have optical also in case you need glasses to be made. Block your 2 or 3 hours a day so that you are not disappointed by your waiting time.
