SmileFace Posted June 17, 2011 Posted June 17, 2011 You know when you take a picture of your dog and you get the weird white reflection Ok, so in about 95% of pictures taken of me. My eyes glare over and appears to be white/sliver. I decided to google this this morning and people say it is related to cancer. Has anyone heard of this before. I am going to go to the doctor when I get back from my vacation but seriously? Does this even sound accurate. My eyes have done this all my life. My mom says it is because I supposedly am physic but she is a little crazed.
Author SmileFace Posted June 17, 2011 Author Posted June 17, 2011 I never knew one's everyday camera was an oncological diagnostic device. I know - it sounds silly to me too.
Sivok Posted June 17, 2011 Posted June 17, 2011 Not really sure what you mean. A picture of your eyes, perhaps?
Author SmileFace Posted June 17, 2011 Author Posted June 17, 2011 Not really sure what you mean. A picture of your eyes, perhaps? See what I mean now?
Feelin Frisky Posted June 18, 2011 Posted June 18, 2011 No way does that have anything to do with cancer. That's what you call your "old wives tale". I can't say why it consistently happens to you but not other people in the same frame with you unless t' just that you may have a more visible eyeball than others and happen to stare at the flash. This used to happen a lot more before electronic flashes became the norm. When I was a kid, it was typical to have to change a flash bulb and those things blinded us and made the picture come out with "red eye". (PhotoShop) has tools to fix red eye easily. It's really the flash being reflected back out of the eye as is what happens with animals at night. And, hey, we're animals. Do you have eyes that are st forward where when they are open the whole iris and pupil can be seen? And when closed, the shape of your eyeball very visible behind the lid? (To me that's a very beautiful trait but in some quarters people make fun of that unfortunately especially when you're young) My longest term g/f was African American and had those kind of eyes and her pictures got the flash reflection in them a bit more than average. I loved her eyes either open or closed but she had some nasty aunt who called be things like "bug eyes" just to be mean, and my g/f got a bit of a complex over it and didn't seem to believe me when I'd compliment her on her eyes. Forgive me for blathering on. But just curious.
Author SmileFace Posted June 18, 2011 Author Posted June 18, 2011 No way does that have anything to do with cancer. That's what you call your "old wives tale". I can't say why it consistently happens to you but not other people in the same frame with you unless t' just that you may have a more visible eyeball than others and happen to stare at the flash. This used to happen a lot more before electronic flashes became the norm. When I was a kid, it was typical to have to change a flash bulb and those things blinded us and made the picture come out with "red eye". (PhotoShop) has tools to fix red eye easily. It's really the flash being reflected back out of the eye as is what happens with animals at night. And, hey, we're animals. Do you have eyes that are st forward where when they are open the whole iris and pupil can be seen? And when closed, the shape of your eyeball very visible behind the lid? (To me that's a very beautiful trait but in some quarters people make fun of that unfortunately especially when you're young) My longest term g/f was African American and had those kind of eyes and her pictures got the flash reflection in them a bit more than average. I loved her eyes either open or closed but she had some nasty aunt who called be things like "bug eyes" just to be mean, and my g/f got a bit of a complex over it and didn't seem to believe me when I'd compliment her on her eyes. Forgive me for blathering on. But just curious. No, it isn't red eye. Look at picture in my profile and you see that even that the person next to me eyes turned red due to the flash, while my own glared white. My eyes are generally big but I have a big face so it evens it out. However, my sister has eyes like you explained and she was teased as a kid but she has the biggest beautiful brown eyes ever.
Dust Posted June 18, 2011 Posted June 18, 2011 They have this device at my eye doctor that takes a cool picture of the inside of your eye. That would probably show if you have cancer. I actually went years between going to the eye doctor and only went to get my new prescription and glasses. Go to the eye doctor if you are worried but I’ve never heard white eye means cancer. I mean you said dogs get it and they like never get eye cancer. Cataracts yes but they age faster if you want to compare their short life span relative to ours.
Author SmileFace Posted June 18, 2011 Author Posted June 18, 2011 They have this device at my eye doctor that takes a cool picture of the inside of your eye. That would probably show if you have cancer. I actually went years between going to the eye doctor and only went to get my new prescription and glasses. Go to the eye doctor if you are worried but I’ve never heard white eye means cancer. I mean you said dogs get it and they like never get eye cancer. Cataracts yes but they age faster if you want to compare their short life span relative to ours. Yeah, I just asked my mom and she confirmed my suspicion, and I have never been to an eye doctor. Which is hard to believe being that I am blind in the night. I am going to make an appointment, even if this is just a myth - an eye exam wouldn't hurt and maybe now I can get fitted for some glasses.
Dust Posted June 18, 2011 Posted June 18, 2011 Yeah, I just asked my mom and she confirmed my suspicion, and I have never been to an eye doctor. Which is hard to believe being that I am blind in the night. I am going to make an appointment, even if this is just a myth - an eye exam wouldn't hurt and maybe now I can get fitted for some glasses. The first pair of glasses they helped me get made me dizzy. They gave me another appointment at no cost and switched out my glasses. As for the eye exam its pretty painless accept the air blowing thing they do. Make sure they do the computer image of the inside of your eye. I had a weird dot in my eye but they told me it was just something some people have and nothing to worry about.
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