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Patient
FAQ
FAQ
The most commonly asked questions are listed below. If you have additional questions, please contact the Euclid Team anytime!
An estimated 8 million Canadians are currently living with an eye disease that puts them at risk of vision loss.
Your eyes are constantly changing, and many eye conditions are silent; by the time you notice any symptoms, your vision may already be permanently impaired. Treatments are available to slow or even reverse the progression of many causes of blindness, if the disease is caught early enough.
Eye exams also can catch early symptoms of other diseases.
Diabetes causes damage to your eyes that can lead to poor vision or even blindness. Vision loss due to diabetes can be prevented but cannot be cured. Regular eye assessments can diagnose early signs of the damage that diabetes causes, before it does permanent damage to your vision.
- Diabetes
- A change in your vision
- Blurriness
- ‘Floaters’ or flashes in your vision
- Double vision
- Sudden loss of vision, even if your vision darkens for a few seconds and then returns.
- Cancers of the blood
- Diabetes
- Giant cell arteritis
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Vascular disease
- Vitamin A deficiency
Your Euclid ocular health assessment is 100% covered by your Provincial Health Insurance Plan so there are no out-of-pocket costs to you.
You should plan to bring your current (non-expired) health card. We also recommend bringing your prescription glasses, if you wear any.
No, this is a non-invasive assessment, but dilation drops can sometimes cause discomfort for a minute or two.
Visit a Euclid location for a 25-minute ocular health assessment where a Euclid Vision Care Technician will check your eye pressure, test your distance vision, peripheral vision, and take pictures of the retina.
We ask that patients arrive 5 minutes prior to their appointment time. The ocular assessment takes 25 minutes.
Book online or get a referral from your doctor or nurse practitioner.
Availability depends on the specific Euclid location, but usually Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm.
No, the eye disease prevention assessment offered by Euclid is not a replacement for a regular eye exam, which is often focused on measuring the sharpness of your vision and helping you address any challenges you have with that sharpness through glasses and/or contact lenses.
No, the assessment is focused on the health of your eyes, not on if you need glasses. Optometrists are best positioned to help you find the best solution for correcting your vision.
