Wood67


Welcome!  I started wearing those cheap ones you can buy for a few pounds ladt year, but they ended up giving me a headache.  So I went to have my eyes tested, and at the grand old age of 45 I now have a pair of readers that are 'balanced' for each eye.  I don't need them in the morning, but by midday out they come. 

Everything is nice and crisp and I don't mind them, except for the invevitable headphone/glasses argument.   At that point I end up making a spectacle of myself.

I'm gong to try the cheap one's first

Mike, maybe you have monovision?  I guess it's where you see close up with one eye and distance with the other.  It's pretty cool if your eyes work like that.  And the surgery isn't bad...I got mine done at Lasik Vision Institute for about $300 an eye.  I thought I'd be freaked out with someone doing something to my eye with it forced open, but it was over in less than 20 seconds for each eye.  Maybe less than that.  Tell 'em I sent ya and I get a nice bonus.  :) 

Alex, I've used reading glasses for a few years now...just the off-the-shelf ones...but when I finally couldn't see to play music I had to get a prescription pair for the middle distance.  Ugh.  But I can see all those little dots on the page and my computer monitor is easier to see too.  (now I need a new excuse for missing the notes!)  Problem is, sometimes I need to see REAL close and that calls for the readers.  Distance vision isn't perfect, but I'm not ready to go back to glasses full time quite yet.  So I'm doing the juggling act with a couple pairs for now...I'll hold out as long as I can.   It's still a little weird doing the condescending look at my students if I happen to need my glasses on during class...but they haven't laughed yet (to my face anyway).  

I guess it happens to the best of us!  

Janet


Mike, maybe you have monovision?  I guess it's where you see close up with one eye and distance with the other.  It's pretty cool if your eyes work like that.  And the surgery isn't bad...I got mine done at Lasik Vision Institute for about $300 an eye.  I thought I'd be freaked out with someone doing something to my eye with it forced open, but it was over in less than 20 seconds for each eye.  Maybe less than that.  Tell 'em I sent ya and I get a nice bonus.  :) 

Alex, I've used reading glasses for a few years now...just the off-the-shelf ones...but when I finally couldn't see to play music I had to get a prescription pair for the middle distance.  Ugh.  But I can see all those little dots on the page and my computer monitor is easier to see too.  (now I need a new excuse for missing the notes!)  Problem is, sometimes I need to see REAL close and that calls for the readers.  Distance vision isn't perfect, but I'm not ready to go back to glasses full time quite yet.  So I'm doing the juggling act with a couple pairs for now...I'll hold out as long as I can.   It's still a little weird doing the condescending look at my students if I happen to need my glasses on during class...but they haven't laughed yet (to my face anyway).  

I guess it happens to the best of us!  

When comes to reading glass's, you get what works. The smaller the better might not work. If you're at the stage where your "tunable" vision just went, it's going to vary a bit. If you need reading glass's, go to an eye doctor.

Hey Alex,

I cannot read small print anymore.
This was a pain when cooking.
The print on the packages is too small.
So now I learned by head that I have to boil the rice 8 minutes and the pasta 10-12 minutes.

I had my eyes measured.
They said, your far-seeing is good but your close-seeing is terrible.
You need € 1200 multifocal glasses or you need reading glasses.
I said: "Do you have reading glasses i can try now?"

I tried it and it was terrible.
You can read but you cannot see anything else.
I can still read the newspaper without glasses.
Postpone glasses as long as you can

Janet,

When I hit 45, the typical reading problem happened for me where I could not read small print any more.  I bought an off the shelf pair of reading glasses at 1-1.5 power and used those for a couple of years.  I got tired of constantly putting them on and taking them off to do almost every day stuff in my job and private life. 

One day, a guy at work said to me, just do what I did and get some perscription glasses for reading.  I gave it a shot and went full bore with no line transitions; glasses that I could basically wear 100% off the time.  Totally clear looking forward but as you start to look down, the power varies until they become full reading.  I really liked them, totally clear and sharp and you did n't have to keep putting them on an off all the time.  I wore these for several years.  Maybe 2 years ago I went back in for a new perscription and the eye doctor asked me if I wanted one for just glasses or contacts as well.  I kind of laughted and said, well they don't make contacts for reading do they?  She said, yes, of course they do and tested me and gave me a set of trial contacts.  The first pair were to to strong.  I could count the hairs on my arm and pores in my skin, but distance was blury.  You have to wear them for a couple of days because your eyes adjust to them over a couple of days.  They just never did, so we tried slightly less power in one and more in the other.  Still to blury for driving and long distance.  The 3rd set she adjusted them both the same... I believe .5 in strength and they were perfect. 

Like I said in the other post, the distance is just a little less than normal eye sight, but not much.  I can still see the city of Dallas clear as day from 20 miles away on the highway.  Reading print is easy.  They are so comfortable that sometimes I forget that I have them in.  I even went to bed with them in once when I forgot.  I notice that my eyes have slowly gotten worse for close up stuff, but I am almost 52 now, so I expect that is just natural.  When I don't wear the glasses or contacts, basically anything with in 5-6 feet of me is slightly blury.  Still perfect distance with out.

Interesting.  I know it sounds weird, since I was willing to go under the laser for surgery, but I've never been interested in sticking contacts in my eyes every day. But maybe that's an idea if this glasses-juggling gets too annoying.  Still hard to imagine they can make bifocal contacts, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.  

Contacts are a one way street or at least they can be. They change your eyes with prolonged use. If you can get glass's that work get the glass's. I've been wearing a Rigid Gas Permeable for several years now for a scarred cornea-astigmatism. They can be very problematic. Weather and dirt can be a real PITA, as well as constant recalculations of your prescription.

Weather and dirt...yeah, that would be a problem, as much as I'm outside.

By the looks of your picture, you may have started wearing glasses about when I did.  :) 

Funny thing Janet, those glass's never worked. After the third pair "dissapeared" the parents stopped buying them. I didn't wear glass's again until I was almost 45ish. Due to injury.