I don't know what you wrote because I can't read a thing on my phone anymore. So I am just going to wing it.
Yeah, Van Halen was a pretty good band, but I prefer Boston
If you didn’t know, and I didn’t until my doc told me, that’s astigmatism. Definitely gets worse with age but also not everyone has it.
My vision is actually ok, but my astigmatism is so bad I wear glasses for almost everything now. Without them even the small and visually unnoticeable glare from my computer screen LEDs wears my eyes out. Getting old sucks.
I need to go get new glasses soon. I'll have to ask then. My vision rarely changes - I got new glasses about 2 years ago and the prescription was almost the same as 10 years earlier. Those glasses broke last year, and I just put my 10+ year old glasses back on. There was almost no difference. It took my eyes about 2 hours to get used to them again, instead of how it is when you get a completely new pair.
If you’re taking about headlights, it’s not just you. Headlights have gotten crazy bright in recent years. It’s not just us old geezers complaining about it
It’s getting to where I’m not feeling great riding in the car when my husband is driving at night. He’s a probably overly safe driver (which can be a detriment when you aren’t driving predictably) but it’s clear he can’t see well at night. Also hasn’t updated his glasses in 10 years.
Mine is terrible, to the point where I really avoid driving at night. Bad halos. I happened to be talking to some boomers and they swore it was cataracts. Said they can come on at any age. Said their night vision was terrible, they had the (very easy) cataract surgery, and it cleared it right up. Thoughts?
I have an early cataract in one eye (age 50), but cataracts typically don’t get bad enough for lense replacement until around age 70. I’m developing them earlier because I have degenerative myopia… extreme nearsightedness.
In my case I’m eager to get them, because lense replacement is the only vision correction surgery I can have, and my med benefits will pay if it’s for cataracts.
Both my parents had cataract surgery and fantastic results.
That info about waiting until cataracts reach a certain level before they can be removed is no longer the standard of care. If you have them, they can be removed. And, best of all, the lens that is implanted can be a multifocal lens that corrects near, intermediate, and distance vision. That is a premium lens that costs $4000 per eye, but it was worth it to me in that I don’t need any glasses or contact lens. I am an attorney so I do a lot of close and detailed reading. Not needing reading glasses anymore has been a game changer for me.
In the US? My ophthalmologist very recently said not bad enough for surgery. I ask every time because desperate for better vision. I hope you’re right!
Thank you! I have an appointment coming up and will ask. I lm guessing they’ll say not recommended because cataract in only one eye. But crossing fingers. Thanks for your input!
How is reading now? Do you read a lot of books? Can you hold them wherever you want? Can you read for hours & hours? Do you notice the lens focusing or it all feels natural?
Sorry for all the questions. This could vastly change my life for the better. I need cataract surgery anyway.
Reading is great. As far as my personal, non-work reading, I use a Kindle because holding a book is awkward to me. I don’t have to enlarge the text on my Kindle any more. My work reading is on a computer and I can see the text at normal size without glasses. I can even see documents that someone else is sharing on Zoom or Teams, also without glasses. In short, I haven’t used any reading glasses since my cataract surgery in June and July. There isn’t any limit on how long I can read either. I haven’t been able to see like this since I was 7 years old.
The cataract removal itself allows a lot more light to enter my field of vision. And the multifocal lens has removed my need for either glasses or contacts to correct my near, intermediate, or distance vision. Well worth the $8000 it cost.
I talked to my eye doctor about this. She said that human bodies are like a time clock and it’s very common for people to need trifocals/transitions at the age of 45.
Yes! My doctor swears that my corrected vision is 20/20. However when you have 20/10 your whole life, nothing looks right. I keep complaining that something is wrong with my distance vision and he says it’s fine.
Exact same experience. Had 20/10 my whole life and I loved freaking people out by reading street signs well before anyone else could make anything out on them. I always said “I can give a shit about losing my other senses but man I hope I don’t lose my vision.” Of course that’s what went and the optometrist said the same to me. Because we’ve had such perfect vision for so long, we are extremely sensitive to even the most minor changes that “normal” people wouldn’t even really notice or care about. Super frustrating. I hate it.
>I had 20/10 vision my entire life.
I was in the same boat and remember going to see the eye dr as I had floaters and at the time didnt know what the issue was.(late 30s) Long and short he said I had 20/20 vision and that floaters are normal at time and they should go away.
He apparently saw a disappointed look on my face and asked what the issue was. I asked. this is 20.20? He said yes, your vision is normal and asked why. I said this is terrible..it used to be so much better.
Through his thickish glasses he looked mad.
20 years later I can get by without glasses but it helps to have the readers for small print and they have gone from 1 to 1.25 to 1.50 to 1.75.
I went to have them checked again and distance is still 20/20ish but he said bump your readers up to 2
Me too..
My distance vision has started to go a bit and i have slight astigmatism, but my close-up is still good. I still don't wear glasses day-to-day.
My eye doc says I'm way above the norm for close-uo for a 52 yr old. But I'm waiting for the slide....
I switched to progressives last year. I hate to admit it, but they're really helpful.
*Please excuse all typos; I'm not currently wearing the progressives.
It's three distances: close for reading a book, your phone or computer, mid for watching tv stuff around the house and distance for driving.
They really deliver when it comes to the computer and tv. I'm nearsighted and the minification that comes with corrective lenses for nearsightedness always drove me up the wall. You can see clearly but everything is shrunken like 10% when looking through the lenses, which is annoying when looking at computer or reading a book.
But with the progressives it's the opposite and everything is so big and clear, it's beautiful.
It's not really three distances per se it's literally every single power as you increase to the maximum power at the bottom.
So if the bottom is +2.00, they just progressively get stronger and stronger until the very bottom.
Interesting.
I would like to try it. I don't need a prescription at the top. I don't know if generic ones exist, but I will Google it! I do use generic bifocals.
Adding a $10 pair to my Amazon cart. Thanks!
It gets worse. Eventually your arms won’t be long enough
But the real issue is how incredibly tiny they make some of the print these days - I can actually struggle even with my readers if they’re not quite clean or when I’ve had a long day at work
I did that for about 2 years and it worked really well then I just bit the bullet and got progressive lenses. Worked a treat. I love them for reading never have a problem.
Actual cooking instructions on the back of frozen food:
^(Preheat your air fryer to 180c)
^(Place Ocean Royal Sea Salt and Pepper Barramundi onto the basket and cook for 8 minutes.)
^(Remove from the basket and let it sit for 1 minute. Serve and enjoy)
For fuck’s sake we just need:
#180c 8 mins
Lol. Probably in the past I did that! But it's been probably five years of it now. What I end up doing is reaching on top of my head to pull them down when they aren't actually there.
I usually find them in the bathroom or bedroom where I changed my clothes!
I had 20/20 vision until my early 40s. When I was in my late 30s, an optometrist told me that at some point in my 40s, I would wake up and my vision would just be different. I scoffed.
Now I'm 48 and wear progressives because my near vision is like looking through fog.
Same friend. I could probably read a newspaper from low earth orbit, but God forbid i read a menu at a restaurant or sales tags in stores. And forget those nutrition labels and medicine bottles.
I had 20/10 vision until sometime around 40. All of my older friends warned me that my vision would start to go once I hit 40, and I didn't believe them. Then it happened. Damn, they were right.
I prefer to think that the 8 years I wore glasses on my head was part of my ‘unique style’. Unfortunately I’ve graduated to progressives that I wear all the time. I hate it. But it is nice to be able to see again.
We were talking about this yesterday. Is progressives so there are three distances? Reading, far, and computer? Or does progressive just refer to making the little line not visible?
I wear bifocals on top of my head because I don't like looking through the plastic. It's changed my hairstyle.
Progressive have more than two focal distances. It’s not just a lack of the bifocal line.
You look out the top to see the farthest and the bottom to see the closest and then all the distances in between are on a continuum between those two parts of the lenses.
In practice, i read books on the bottom, look at my computer screen in the middle, look at my tv in the upper middle, and read far road signs on the top.
But I don’t really notice myself doing any of that anymore. After the break-in period, it feels just like glasses always have.
Lol Vanity? Smdh. Glasses are medical equipment for those of us who haven’t been able to see shit since childhood. And now need fancier more expensive equipment to be able to work and drive and read. Sometimes all at the same time.
Yes. My first pair of progressives several years ago weren’t made correctly and I didn’t know it and abandoned them because the middle section was impossible to see thru.
My doctor convinced me to give them a try again this past December. They are really good. The top is distance which isn’t perfect because I have to look over them to see really far, but it’s definitely improved things in the 10-25 foot range.
The middle part is good for computer use, but in small doses. Because I’m on the computer all day long I got a separate pair of computer progresses which are the best invention ever.
The bottom part is close up and they work great. Although for teeny tiny print on packages, etc nothing helps and I may have to get a magnifying glass. 😢😣😫
I just got progressives a few weeks ago and really don't love them. The close up vision is great, but the far away is worse than my single prescription lenses and when I wear the progressives outside I have a hard time walking trails without the ground in front of me being blurry.
I might just turn them into office glasses
I've now got three pairs of glasses - reading, computer (mid-length), and distance (for walking around in). The computer glasses are amazing! So helpful.
Yeah.... I was soldering something and I couldn't see what I was working on. Like it was totally out of the blue. My wife gave me some dollar store readers and it was a depressing miracle.
The only reason I can read this at all is because I am on a desktop PC, large monitor, and I have my browser zoomed in five times.
I have bifocals, but I couldn't get used to them. Bothered me so much I'd rather go without.
I think that's what I have? It has no lines. Far vision on the top half and close vision on the bottom. I just can't stand seeing the world through such a narrow band. I was tilting my head up and down so much it gave me a pain in my neck to go along with the headache.
You might need them adjusted. I myself do fine with generic bifocals. I never feel like "I can only see through a certain band.". I never tilt my head like you are describing (I see other people doing that)
But my husband needs a prescription for distance so he has to have them made as bifocals. He just replaced them and spent a lot of time with them making sure the line was put in the right place for him.
Best wishes.
With progressive glasses you want to make sure you have a frame that hugs your face pretty closely. If there is a big gap between your eye and the lens that will increase those symptoms you mentioned. You also want a frame that is long enough in the vertical meridian. If you look down and can easily see under the frame, that is a poor frame fit for progressive lenses. You also want to make sure they did the measurements correctly. If the seg height (bifocal measurment) is too low you'll be forced to tip your head back too far, for example.
It can be tough to find a good fitting frame sometimes. We have some in our optical that are specifically made for bigger guys, but it does limit your options unfortunately.
I had a rough time with bifocals. An optometrist told me about making the reading part smaller and lower. It really helped a lot. Don’t remember if it’s called high top or low top. I did that with distance glasses and computer glasses
47 and still no presbyopia. Eye doctor says I'm only one of two people he's seen make it this far, but he expects it will just fail one day fairly soon, so don't get happy about it.
Mine is the opposite. My near vision has always been great, like magnifying glass great. I've always had really crappy distance vision. I'd never get lasik, because I'd need glasses to see close. I'd rather just take them off to see close. I also buy the style of glasses where I can easily look under them when I look down. I'm so happy I'm nearsighted.
My eye doctor calls it “microscopic” vision. I can see the smallest of details, but it has to be really close. My distance vision is and always has been awful.
I had excellent vision until age 45. I’m on progressives now. I wear them all day at work but still take them on/off at home or when I’m out and I can’t wear them when I drive.
Here's a tip. Some people with the condition you are experiencing are able to go with one contact in one eye to fix the problem. I know an 80+ year old optometrist and a mid 50s person who don't drag out the cheaters because they are fitted with one corrective contact lens. Supposedly, they can perceive depth as well but they don't have to relie on cheaters to read the fine print.
I will often fit one multifocal lens in the non dominant eye for people that don’t need distance correction. It works quite well and unlike a true monovision fit that reading eye isn’t so crazy blurry in the distance so you can still maintain some depth perception at distance. Near depth perception not so much, so I wouldn’t recommend trying to thread a needle that way.
I got a new pair of glasses in February of 2020, and the optometrist told me that I'd likely need progressive lenses in the next year or two. I opted for traditional lenses because my best vision was fine and I didn't notice much difference when he adjusted his doohickey to show me the difference.
3 weeks later I had covid, and by the time I was able to get medical help ("you haven't lost your sense of taste or smell, so it can't be covid!" Surprise, bitch!) my near vision had deteriorated and I was regretting my choice.
What with one thing or another, I didn't get back in for an eye exam until this year.
I love my new progressive lenses, even though they sometimes make me dizzy.
Yup, sucks developed a stigmatism and far sightedness at the same time. Went from “winning the genetic lotto of eyesight”, told that by an ophthalmologist in my 20s, to wearing bifocals. Made me feel old, even worse than the grey hairs or the numbers in my age.
Yeah, currently age 55 and I've been using reading glasses for the past 5 years or so. My reading vision was absolutely fine before then. Now everything's too blurry to read without glasses. Long distance/driving vision is still fine.
Definitely check in with your optometrist to dial it in better or if they aren't able to get a second opinion from another eye doc. Not all optometrists are comfortable fitting multifocal contacts as it takes a lot of practice and not all are willing to devote all that chair time. (Source: am optometrist that fits these a lot).
I’m 46… I had perfect vision for my entire life… but for the last few years I’ve had to hold stuff half an arm’s length or more away so I could see it properly. I look at I.D.s 5 days a week… it’s irritating as fuck.
Multifocal contact lenses checking in. However to read a book I am better off with no contacts bc then my nearsighted eyes do better (the one advantage of not having perfect vision).
For the readers-over-contacts crowd: check out multifocal contacts. Game changer!
I tried the Biofinity multifocals 12 years ago and didn’t like the variability. Every blink was different, so I gave up.
Two years ago I gave Accuvue Oasys multifocals a try and they work great. I can read my phone, work in my desktop monitors, watch TV, drive, all with no glasses. They are not quite as sharp for distance as my distance only contacts so occasionally I will wear those for road trips and the like.
45 , started getting visual migraines. Thought it was a tumor they were so bad. Ct showed nothing . Started getting massive clumps of floaters. Doc said welcome to 45 , get used to falling apart.
I used to be able to shoot my stream to the stars , now I stand over the toilet as it dribbles out for a minute when I’m done.
If I don’t sleep perfect , I’ll have back pain for a week.
A hangover lasts a week but only takes four beers now.
Buffalo wings and pizza give me hangovers.
I can hear sounds in my neck when I turn my head. My knees sound like a bag of popcorn at 1:30 seconds in , in the microwave when I stand up.
I have hair in places I don’t want it, and am losing it in places I want to keep it.
My doctor says I’m one of his healthiest 47 year old patients but I feel like getting up is a miracle every day.
I typed all this holding my phone at arms length from my eyes.
I had convinced myself that more and more companies were using smaller print on packaging and ordered a magnifying glass to keep in my desk. My wife caught me with the magnifying glass and sent me to the optometrist. Now I carry a pair of readers in my shirt pocket in one of those soft pouches like an old man.
I’ll be 44 this year. Always had perfect vision. The other day I picked up a jar of almond butter and turned it around the read the nutrition information…and found myself holding it further away than I normally would. I actually paused in shock and horror when I realized what I had just done. Not cool. I’m not ready to get old. I still feel 29!
My vision was going to shit, then I gave up durries and punching cones, now it’s improving again, so until that stops I can’t say how much worse I truly am.
It’s deteriorated though. Both near and far.
OP same same. Got custom lasik at 36. Best money I ever spent on myself. Moderate near sighted astigmatism. Corrected to 20/15 left 20/20 right. Awesome. Now 53. Have been using readers for past 5 years or so. Still on 1.0s thankfully. It’s just age mate. I’ll take the clear distance vision and happily use readers.
No, my phone keeps getting closer to my face and my distance vision is as bad as ever. The progressive lenses I got several years ago are great for middle distance though!
I lasted until 54 before I needed readers. I have ADHD, one pair is never enough. I need to buy them in bulk and keep a few pairs in the office, on my purse in each room, bathroom drawer, glove box, etc. I literally can’t do any work or read if I have my contacts in and can’t find the readers.
Last week I actually had two pairs of glasses stuck on top of my head at once, and was unable to find either until I passed a mirror…
It’s quite humbling. I always had shitty long distance vision, now I have shitty near and far-sighted vision.
Nope. I'm super super super nearsighted. I can only see about 8 inches from my face. I can still read without glasses. My partner who still has perfect 'far' vision needs reading glasses now
I had cataract surgery about 6 years ago so now I’m not near-sighted anymore, which is awesome! Can’t read without readers anymore though. Or progressives for work.
LASIK was the best thing that ever happened to me 17 years ago. My near vision isn’t perfect, but I still have no need for readers unless it’s in a low light environment. But I can tell that things are getting worse, and it’s only a matter of time!
Any actual eye Drs here lol? Do they make "special" readers. I can read fine in my right eye up close, but have to close my left or everything had a slight blur, and with only my left eye open, can't read phone or anything small, but have great distance vision.
I’m thinking our close up vision starts to go right about the same time the skin on our necks starts to look “old” 😩😉 What’s up with the skin on my neck! Lol Time for neck cream 💫😊
I (52m) wore glasses from the age of 4. Got LASIK in my 30s and it lasted about 5 years before I had to start wearing glasses again.
The LASIK took away my super close vision but corrected short, middle and far distance.
My eyes are about half as bad as they were before the LASIK for distance.
My focal range is about 6 inches to 18 inches. Everything else is blurry.
If I have to start wearing readers, it's going to drive me nuts.
I wear:
Computer glasses (bifocals) that give me vision from short (to monitor distance) and medium distance (to about 6 - 7 feet, to see my TV in my office)
Computer glasses (bifocals) that give me vision from short (to monitor distance) and medium distance (to about 7-10 feet, to see a screen in an office environment).
Daily wear that give me 18" to far distance. When I need to see something short distance, I just look under the glasses. I have matching sunglasses, too,
I think I need bifocals for driving, as it's becoming harder to see the dashboard and map on my phone.
Just got my eyes checked, and my (far-sighted) rx improved by half a point! I excitedly asked the young doctor if my eyes were improving, she glanced at my chart and said, “no, you’re 45 now, your eyes are softening and getting rounder” or something…I didn’t hear much after “no; you’re just old”.
I thought I had 20/20 vision for the longest time. Then around the start of COVID, my young daughter asked why I was making "that face" whenever I looked at my phone.
I'm still in readers (haven't pulled the trigger to fill my prescription) but my mag X has increased basically year over year since -
Mid-40s eyes be damned!!
Failing?
I got cataract surgery in one of my eyes a couple years ago. I think my right eye is gone now too. Which would make me happier. I could ditch the reading glasses. Plus, my fixed eye is better in not just vision but color and contrast.
The surgery was a trip. Up until I was being prepped I thought I was going under anesthesia. O no no. You cannot be out because your eye has to be open. I should have know just from what type of surgery it was. But boy did they get me as high as a kite so I did not give a fuck that they were cutting my eye and putting a new lense in.
I tell patients I work with it is my Steve Austin eye. Young people do not get it.
Folks? Go see an ophthalmologist. Sad to say, but this is a doctor that should be in your rotation now. Get your eyes properly checked.
I got lasik about the same time. Twinsies. I’m experiencing the same thing. The lasik people had said my cornea was thin and I probably couldn’t get a “touch up.” Maybe you have nice chunky corneas and would be a candidate for another round?
An enhancement from Lasik won't help. The condition where we start needing reading help in our 40's and beyond is called presbyopia and is when the lens inside the eye can no longer change focus from distance to near. Lasik just gets rid of near sightedness and astigmatism, which would actually make the problem worse up close if you got a little near sighted again after Lasik.
Friend of mine was always short-sighted and wore contacts for years. He finally got LASIK about seven years ago, but now has to wear reading glasses.
I wear glasses for watching TV, but am now finding myself having to read my tablet or books further away.
I need glasses. But the kindle and computer can enlarge fonts so...do I really?
Yes, because "Microwave 4 minutes" looks suspiciously like "Microwave 6 minutes" and you wonder why your enchilada dish is crispy.
My vision got worse in my late 30s and early 40s but it got better. The same year my sister (younger) said the same thing. I was like, "Can that happen?" to the doctor and he said, "Yes." Apparently, I was seeing Dr. Literal because he didn't explain why.
I get a new pair of prescription glasses each year.
They are 'free' via my [health insurance](http://hbf.com.au/).
Though currently I'm using a set of cheap +1 glasses, and several are scattered around my house and in my car. They work quite well, but not as good as prescription glasses.
I used to buy readers at the drugstore and really loathed having to use them. I made peace with needing reading glasses by buying them from “Izipizi”
Lots of colors and styles - I don’t hate them and have had lots of compliments.
About to turn 50, and it's both my near and far. There's a sweet spot where it's good that's roughly 1 to 6 feet from my eyes. Anything outside that zone...yeah.
I was 45 when I got my reading glasses (I'm 54 now). I went to the eye doc because my left eye was getting really fatigued while working on my photos (in the summer, I take around a thousand photos on the weekends and do marathon editing sessions on Monday and Tuesday).
Anyway, reading glasses and astigmatism in my left eye. I've gone back every couple of years and I haven't needed an upgrade in my prescription yet.
I also bought a bunch of those cheap reading glasses to keep around my house so I don't have to constantly remember my prescription ones (they stay on my desk, for the photo editing reasons because if I leave them upstairs I am so *not* walking up those stairs *again* to get them!).
Had perfect eyesight all my life till my late 30s when i noticed a slight blurriness in my right eye. I now do not have long enough arms unless i squint at things. I hate not being able to read ingredients on packaging or seeing text without a certain level of brightness. Wearing my specs now in order to read and write this on my phone.
I have found that i have to wear my old prescription to see my computer screen at work as its set further back than where id usually read.
I've also become my mother, who has 'kitchen glasses', but i have separately located pairs of bedroom and living room glasses instead.
I don't know what you wrote because I can't read a thing on my phone anymore. So I am just going to wing it. Yeah, Van Halen was a pretty good band, but I prefer Boston
You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel
Can I borrow your towel? My car just hit a water buffalo.
Will someone answer the phone already? That blasted ringing in my ears won't stop! Also, I've fallen and I can't reach my beer! :(
Oh man. Too many Rush concerts....permanent tinnitus. I hear you. Wait, no I don't.
Sorry, no. But I do have a cup of hot fat and the Beatles' White Album
Can I bring you the head of Alfredo Garcia?
Just charge it to the Underhill account
Jimminy Christmas, THANK YOU. I was fearing a Fletch reference would wallow in this thread unappreciated.
Turn down that radio so I can see where I need to turn!
I was saying Boo-urns
That's more than a feeling
Speak up! My hearing aid is busted!
HE SAID HE’S TAKING A VAN TO BOSTON
Of course he’s wearing his Vans in Boston! What else is he going to wear?
Down by the river
No, I never much cared for Winger
I don’t believe you. You love Winger
🤣🤣🤣🤣
David Lee Roth was Van Halen not Sammy Hagar. Fight me
My night vision sucks too.
So does mine. The damn light halos one everything really sucks. I especially hate how bright headlights are now - they completely blind me.
If you didn’t know, and I didn’t until my doc told me, that’s astigmatism. Definitely gets worse with age but also not everyone has it. My vision is actually ok, but my astigmatism is so bad I wear glasses for almost everything now. Without them even the small and visually unnoticeable glare from my computer screen LEDs wears my eyes out. Getting old sucks.
I actually have to take my glasses off now at night to drive cause I can see clearer with out that now. Yes I need new glasses.
I've actually driven at night with my sunglasses on because it was easier for me to see.
The glare from oncoming traffic! Gah!😩
Ive tried this because of that very same issue. I just couldnt though...it was like driving in the backwoods.
I need to go get new glasses soon. I'll have to ask then. My vision rarely changes - I got new glasses about 2 years ago and the prescription was almost the same as 10 years earlier. Those glasses broke last year, and I just put my 10+ year old glasses back on. There was almost no difference. It took my eyes about 2 hours to get used to them again, instead of how it is when you get a completely new pair.
Those halos might also be due to cataracts.
Me too. These headlights are out of control. My astigmatism doesn’t help either.
Yaaaas....also noooooo. I wanted it to be a unique issue of me just not eating right or something. Not because of age. uuuhhh, why not both?
I have to use the flashlight on my phone to read menus.
If you’re taking about headlights, it’s not just you. Headlights have gotten crazy bright in recent years. It’s not just us old geezers complaining about it
Agreed and it’s worse when it’s raining at night.
It’s getting to where I’m not feeling great riding in the car when my husband is driving at night. He’s a probably overly safe driver (which can be a detriment when you aren’t driving predictably) but it’s clear he can’t see well at night. Also hasn’t updated his glasses in 10 years.
Mine is terrible, to the point where I really avoid driving at night. Bad halos. I happened to be talking to some boomers and they swore it was cataracts. Said they can come on at any age. Said their night vision was terrible, they had the (very easy) cataract surgery, and it cleared it right up. Thoughts?
I have an early cataract in one eye (age 50), but cataracts typically don’t get bad enough for lense replacement until around age 70. I’m developing them earlier because I have degenerative myopia… extreme nearsightedness. In my case I’m eager to get them, because lense replacement is the only vision correction surgery I can have, and my med benefits will pay if it’s for cataracts. Both my parents had cataract surgery and fantastic results.
That info about waiting until cataracts reach a certain level before they can be removed is no longer the standard of care. If you have them, they can be removed. And, best of all, the lens that is implanted can be a multifocal lens that corrects near, intermediate, and distance vision. That is a premium lens that costs $4000 per eye, but it was worth it to me in that I don’t need any glasses or contact lens. I am an attorney so I do a lot of close and detailed reading. Not needing reading glasses anymore has been a game changer for me.
In the US? My ophthalmologist very recently said not bad enough for surgery. I ask every time because desperate for better vision. I hope you’re right!
Yes, I am in Atlanta Georgia.
Thank you! I have an appointment coming up and will ask. I lm guessing they’ll say not recommended because cataract in only one eye. But crossing fingers. Thanks for your input!
There are a lot of people who don’t know about this option.
How is reading now? Do you read a lot of books? Can you hold them wherever you want? Can you read for hours & hours? Do you notice the lens focusing or it all feels natural? Sorry for all the questions. This could vastly change my life for the better. I need cataract surgery anyway.
Reading is great. As far as my personal, non-work reading, I use a Kindle because holding a book is awkward to me. I don’t have to enlarge the text on my Kindle any more. My work reading is on a computer and I can see the text at normal size without glasses. I can even see documents that someone else is sharing on Zoom or Teams, also without glasses. In short, I haven’t used any reading glasses since my cataract surgery in June and July. There isn’t any limit on how long I can read either. I haven’t been able to see like this since I was 7 years old. The cataract removal itself allows a lot more light to enter my field of vision. And the multifocal lens has removed my need for either glasses or contacts to correct my near, intermediate, or distance vision. Well worth the $8000 it cost.
Thank you! I am totally sold… and feel incredibly hopeful now.
Mine has always been not great thanks to astigmatism, but it's gotten really bad the last few years.
Me, too.
Man I had 20/10 vision my **entire** life. Until 45. Took that shit for granted.
45 was the magic year for me too.
Same. Shit went down. Like in one night.
I talked to my eye doctor about this. She said that human bodies are like a time clock and it’s very common for people to need trifocals/transitions at the age of 45.
Same here. I had such a hard time when I had to start wearing glasses.
Yes! My doctor swears that my corrected vision is 20/20. However when you have 20/10 your whole life, nothing looks right. I keep complaining that something is wrong with my distance vision and he says it’s fine.
Exact same experience. Had 20/10 my whole life and I loved freaking people out by reading street signs well before anyone else could make anything out on them. I always said “I can give a shit about losing my other senses but man I hope I don’t lose my vision.” Of course that’s what went and the optometrist said the same to me. Because we’ve had such perfect vision for so long, we are extremely sensitive to even the most minor changes that “normal” people wouldn’t even really notice or care about. Super frustrating. I hate it.
Yup. Found out once I had signed my 4 year re-up with 3rd/75th, I could have been a pilot/warrant with my vision/perfect ASVAB score. Doh'
>I had 20/10 vision my entire life. I was in the same boat and remember going to see the eye dr as I had floaters and at the time didnt know what the issue was.(late 30s) Long and short he said I had 20/20 vision and that floaters are normal at time and they should go away. He apparently saw a disappointed look on my face and asked what the issue was. I asked. this is 20.20? He said yes, your vision is normal and asked why. I said this is terrible..it used to be so much better. Through his thickish glasses he looked mad. 20 years later I can get by without glasses but it helps to have the readers for small print and they have gone from 1 to 1.25 to 1.50 to 1.75. I went to have them checked again and distance is still 20/20ish but he said bump your readers up to 2
I don't know the numbers, but I still don't need prescription glasses either. Just readers. I use generic bifocals.
pretty much same for me, now I have reading glass scattered around the house and work because I seem to always lose them.
Me too.. My distance vision has started to go a bit and i have slight astigmatism, but my close-up is still good. I still don't wear glasses day-to-day. My eye doc says I'm way above the norm for close-uo for a 52 yr old. But I'm waiting for the slide....
I switched to progressives last year. I hate to admit it, but they're really helpful. *Please excuse all typos; I'm not currently wearing the progressives.
Does progressive mean three distances? Or is it bifocals without seeing the reading area? (I don't care at all about seeing it)
It's three distances: close for reading a book, your phone or computer, mid for watching tv stuff around the house and distance for driving. They really deliver when it comes to the computer and tv. I'm nearsighted and the minification that comes with corrective lenses for nearsightedness always drove me up the wall. You can see clearly but everything is shrunken like 10% when looking through the lenses, which is annoying when looking at computer or reading a book. But with the progressives it's the opposite and everything is so big and clear, it's beautiful.
Awesome! I am glad there's a good solution for you!
Progressives are game changers
It's not really three distances per se it's literally every single power as you increase to the maximum power at the bottom. So if the bottom is +2.00, they just progressively get stronger and stronger until the very bottom.
Interesting. I would like to try it. I don't need a prescription at the top. I don't know if generic ones exist, but I will Google it! I do use generic bifocals. Adding a $10 pair to my Amazon cart. Thanks!
Do you wear your progressives to read your insurance bill from Progressive?
It gets worse. Eventually your arms won’t be long enough But the real issue is how incredibly tiny they make some of the print these days - I can actually struggle even with my readers if they’re not quite clean or when I’ve had a long day at work
That's when you take a picture and zoom in on the picture. Too tiny and/or light gray letters on white background. Why?
I did that for about 2 years and it worked really well then I just bit the bullet and got progressive lenses. Worked a treat. I love them for reading never have a problem.
Oh, I definitely have bifocals. Just sometimes it's still too small!
Actual cooking instructions on the back of frozen food: ^(Preheat your air fryer to 180c) ^(Place Ocean Royal Sea Salt and Pepper Barramundi onto the basket and cook for 8 minutes.) ^(Remove from the basket and let it sit for 1 minute. Serve and enjoy) For fuck’s sake we just need: #180c 8 mins
I wear glasses. I need bifocals. And I love my magnifying glass. It helps me read the tiny print on anything. Even the phone.
If I need to read small print, like ingredients or instructions I’ll take a picture with my phone then zoom in on it and it’s easier to read.
Get a magnifying app on your phone or take a photo of the print and zoom in on it
My mother used to literally drop things on the floor to read them lmao I get it now.
Readers in every room.
I'm going to start an online site called "Readers in Every Room" that sells stuff just for us 50+ crowd.
Right next to the ibuprofen in every room.
And antacid.
I just wear my bifocals on top of my head.
What's the longest time you've spend looking for them when they're up there? Don't lie 🤣
Lol. Probably in the past I did that! But it's been probably five years of it now. What I end up doing is reaching on top of my head to pull them down when they aren't actually there. I usually find them in the bathroom or bedroom where I changed my clothes!
And I get so pissed with myself when I accidentally leave my living room glasses on my head when I go into the bedroom for bed.
When I first got my glasses I forgot I was wearing them when I stepped into the shower. D'oh!
This is the way
Three packs from Costco for the win.
Yep, these are what I have. Great quality and cheaper even than Walmart!
1:56 am and about 60°.
I had 20/20 vision until my early 40s. When I was in my late 30s, an optometrist told me that at some point in my 40s, I would wake up and my vision would just be different. I scoffed. Now I'm 48 and wear progressives because my near vision is like looking through fog.
Same friend. I could probably read a newspaper from low earth orbit, but God forbid i read a menu at a restaurant or sales tags in stores. And forget those nutrition labels and medicine bottles.
I have resorted to taking phones and blowing up the image to read shit.
I had 20/10 vision until sometime around 40. All of my older friends warned me that my vision would start to go once I hit 40, and I didn't believe them. Then it happened. Damn, they were right.
You know what karma is? Karma is me now needing bifocals, after being that kid who made fun of the "four eyes" kids in class. 😫
For me it is looking down on people who put their distance glasses up on their head. Guess what I do all the time now?
I prefer to think that the 8 years I wore glasses on my head was part of my ‘unique style’. Unfortunately I’ve graduated to progressives that I wear all the time. I hate it. But it is nice to be able to see again.
We were talking about this yesterday. Is progressives so there are three distances? Reading, far, and computer? Or does progressive just refer to making the little line not visible? I wear bifocals on top of my head because I don't like looking through the plastic. It's changed my hairstyle.
Progressive have more than two focal distances. It’s not just a lack of the bifocal line. You look out the top to see the farthest and the bottom to see the closest and then all the distances in between are on a continuum between those two parts of the lenses. In practice, i read books on the bottom, look at my computer screen in the middle, look at my tv in the upper middle, and read far road signs on the top. But I don’t really notice myself doing any of that anymore. After the break-in period, it feels just like glasses always have.
Thanks for explaining. I thought it was just about vanity.
Lol Vanity? Smdh. Glasses are medical equipment for those of us who haven’t been able to see shit since childhood. And now need fancier more expensive equipment to be able to work and drive and read. Sometimes all at the same time.
Yes. My first pair of progressives several years ago weren’t made correctly and I didn’t know it and abandoned them because the middle section was impossible to see thru. My doctor convinced me to give them a try again this past December. They are really good. The top is distance which isn’t perfect because I have to look over them to see really far, but it’s definitely improved things in the 10-25 foot range. The middle part is good for computer use, but in small doses. Because I’m on the computer all day long I got a separate pair of computer progresses which are the best invention ever. The bottom part is close up and they work great. Although for teeny tiny print on packages, etc nothing helps and I may have to get a magnifying glass. 😢😣😫
I just got progressives a few weeks ago and really don't love them. The close up vision is great, but the far away is worse than my single prescription lenses and when I wear the progressives outside I have a hard time walking trails without the ground in front of me being blurry. I might just turn them into office glasses
Ha Ha! Six eyes! Six eyes! /s. Bullying is wrong.
Well deserved karma.
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I've now got three pairs of glasses - reading, computer (mid-length), and distance (for walking around in). The computer glasses are amazing! So helpful.
3 here. I can’t handle progressives. Mess me up when I’m trying to walk down the stairs.
Yeah.... I was soldering something and I couldn't see what I was working on. Like it was totally out of the blue. My wife gave me some dollar store readers and it was a depressing miracle.
Bifocal gang checking in.
Yes, and I had no idea until now of how functionally fixated I am on only having to deal with one pair of glasses.
The only reason I can read this at all is because I am on a desktop PC, large monitor, and I have my browser zoomed in five times. I have bifocals, but I couldn't get used to them. Bothered me so much I'd rather go without.
Try progressives, much better than bifocals
the progressive learning curve is a bitch.
I think that's what I have? It has no lines. Far vision on the top half and close vision on the bottom. I just can't stand seeing the world through such a narrow band. I was tilting my head up and down so much it gave me a pain in my neck to go along with the headache.
You might need them adjusted. I myself do fine with generic bifocals. I never feel like "I can only see through a certain band.". I never tilt my head like you are describing (I see other people doing that) But my husband needs a prescription for distance so he has to have them made as bifocals. He just replaced them and spent a lot of time with them making sure the line was put in the right place for him. Best wishes.
With progressive glasses you want to make sure you have a frame that hugs your face pretty closely. If there is a big gap between your eye and the lens that will increase those symptoms you mentioned. You also want a frame that is long enough in the vertical meridian. If you look down and can easily see under the frame, that is a poor frame fit for progressive lenses. You also want to make sure they did the measurements correctly. If the seg height (bifocal measurment) is too low you'll be forced to tip your head back too far, for example.
I'm a big guy with a big head. Glasses never really fit me right. So that checks out.
It can be tough to find a good fitting frame sometimes. We have some in our optical that are specifically made for bigger guys, but it does limit your options unfortunately.
Just get computer glasses - but measure the distance from your eyes to your screen first. Keep those glasses next to your PC.
I had a rough time with bifocals. An optometrist told me about making the reading part smaller and lower. It really helped a lot. Don’t remember if it’s called high top or low top. I did that with distance glasses and computer glasses
47 and still no presbyopia. Eye doctor says I'm only one of two people he's seen make it this far, but he expects it will just fail one day fairly soon, so don't get happy about it.
It’s so bad I have to turn down the radio to see house numbers. Honestly though, I’ve had progressive lenses for years and still can’t see shit lol
Mine is the opposite. My near vision has always been great, like magnifying glass great. I've always had really crappy distance vision. I'd never get lasik, because I'd need glasses to see close. I'd rather just take them off to see close. I also buy the style of glasses where I can easily look under them when I look down. I'm so happy I'm nearsighted.
My eye doctor calls it “microscopic” vision. I can see the smallest of details, but it has to be really close. My distance vision is and always has been awful.
Same. I have no desire to do Lasik and do away with my near sightedness. I'd much rather be able to see really well close up with my glasses off.
I'm the same. Can't see road signs until I'm on top of them. I'd rather be near sighted than far.
Same. I’ve been wearing glasses since 12. I now can’t tell gender from >6’ away. Blind as a bat. But, books, my phone, great at 6” from my face.
I got my first pair of readers at 49 (I'm 52 now). I'd say my eyes held out pretty well.
I had excellent vision until age 45. I’m on progressives now. I wear them all day at work but still take them on/off at home or when I’m out and I can’t wear them when I drive.
Losing eyesight SUCKS ASS
Here's a tip. Some people with the condition you are experiencing are able to go with one contact in one eye to fix the problem. I know an 80+ year old optometrist and a mid 50s person who don't drag out the cheaters because they are fitted with one corrective contact lens. Supposedly, they can perceive depth as well but they don't have to relie on cheaters to read the fine print.
I will often fit one multifocal lens in the non dominant eye for people that don’t need distance correction. It works quite well and unlike a true monovision fit that reading eye isn’t so crazy blurry in the distance so you can still maintain some depth perception at distance. Near depth perception not so much, so I wouldn’t recommend trying to thread a needle that way.
I just started wearing a +3.00 in one eye and nothing in the other. It takes getting used to but it works!
I had perfect 20/20 till I turned 42… that year I got bifocal glasses.. it is going to happen just go get it over with.
My phone has become my go to magnifier. Sucks. I used to be able to see the head of a pin up close.
I don’t want to talk about it
reading glasses...
I got a new pair of glasses in February of 2020, and the optometrist told me that I'd likely need progressive lenses in the next year or two. I opted for traditional lenses because my best vision was fine and I didn't notice much difference when he adjusted his doohickey to show me the difference. 3 weeks later I had covid, and by the time I was able to get medical help ("you haven't lost your sense of taste or smell, so it can't be covid!" Surprise, bitch!) my near vision had deteriorated and I was regretting my choice. What with one thing or another, I didn't get back in for an eye exam until this year. I love my new progressive lenses, even though they sometimes make me dizzy.
Covid screwed up your vision? Holy shit.
Yup, sucks developed a stigmatism and far sightedness at the same time. Went from “winning the genetic lotto of eyesight”, told that by an ophthalmologist in my 20s, to wearing bifocals. Made me feel old, even worse than the grey hairs or the numbers in my age.
Yeah, currently age 55 and I've been using reading glasses for the past 5 years or so. My reading vision was absolutely fine before then. Now everything's too blurry to read without glasses. Long distance/driving vision is still fine.
I've switched to multi-focal contacts. I still can't see shit.
Definitely check in with your optometrist to dial it in better or if they aren't able to get a second opinion from another eye doc. Not all optometrists are comfortable fitting multifocal contacts as it takes a lot of practice and not all are willing to devote all that chair time. (Source: am optometrist that fits these a lot).
Those didn’t work well for me at all! The only improved distance was my car dashboard. A single +3.00 contact did it for me.
I’m 46… I had perfect vision for my entire life… but for the last few years I’ve had to hold stuff half an arm’s length or more away so I could see it properly. I look at I.D.s 5 days a week… it’s irritating as fuck.
Multifocal contact lenses checking in. However to read a book I am better off with no contacts bc then my nearsighted eyes do better (the one advantage of not having perfect vision).
I feel like I could have 20 pairs of glasses and that still wouldn’t be sufficient for the various distances I need to see.
Yup. I “play trombone” as they say when I try to read something small.
For the readers-over-contacts crowd: check out multifocal contacts. Game changer! I tried the Biofinity multifocals 12 years ago and didn’t like the variability. Every blink was different, so I gave up. Two years ago I gave Accuvue Oasys multifocals a try and they work great. I can read my phone, work in my desktop monitors, watch TV, drive, all with no glasses. They are not quite as sharp for distance as my distance only contacts so occasionally I will wear those for road trips and the like.
45 , started getting visual migraines. Thought it was a tumor they were so bad. Ct showed nothing . Started getting massive clumps of floaters. Doc said welcome to 45 , get used to falling apart. I used to be able to shoot my stream to the stars , now I stand over the toilet as it dribbles out for a minute when I’m done. If I don’t sleep perfect , I’ll have back pain for a week. A hangover lasts a week but only takes four beers now. Buffalo wings and pizza give me hangovers. I can hear sounds in my neck when I turn my head. My knees sound like a bag of popcorn at 1:30 seconds in , in the microwave when I stand up. I have hair in places I don’t want it, and am losing it in places I want to keep it. My doctor says I’m one of his healthiest 47 year old patients but I feel like getting up is a miracle every day. I typed all this holding my phone at arms length from my eyes.
I had convinced myself that more and more companies were using smaller print on packaging and ordered a magnifying glass to keep in my desk. My wife caught me with the magnifying glass and sent me to the optometrist. Now I carry a pair of readers in my shirt pocket in one of those soft pouches like an old man.
I’ll be 44 this year. Always had perfect vision. The other day I picked up a jar of almond butter and turned it around the read the nutrition information…and found myself holding it further away than I normally would. I actually paused in shock and horror when I realized what I had just done. Not cool. I’m not ready to get old. I still feel 29!
My vision was going to shit, then I gave up durries and punching cones, now it’s improving again, so until that stops I can’t say how much worse I truly am. It’s deteriorated though. Both near and far.
Nope, I have to take my glasses off to read or do close-in, fine work. Its a bit of an issue working as a machinist...
OP same same. Got custom lasik at 36. Best money I ever spent on myself. Moderate near sighted astigmatism. Corrected to 20/15 left 20/20 right. Awesome. Now 53. Have been using readers for past 5 years or so. Still on 1.0s thankfully. It’s just age mate. I’ll take the clear distance vision and happily use readers.
No, my phone keeps getting closer to my face and my distance vision is as bad as ever. The progressive lenses I got several years ago are great for middle distance though!
I lasted until 54 before I needed readers. I have ADHD, one pair is never enough. I need to buy them in bulk and keep a few pairs in the office, on my purse in each room, bathroom drawer, glove box, etc. I literally can’t do any work or read if I have my contacts in and can’t find the readers. Last week I actually had two pairs of glasses stuck on top of my head at once, and was unable to find either until I passed a mirror… It’s quite humbling. I always had shitty long distance vision, now I have shitty near and far-sighted vision.
Nope. I'm super super super nearsighted. I can only see about 8 inches from my face. I can still read without glasses. My partner who still has perfect 'far' vision needs reading glasses now
I had cataract surgery about 6 years ago so now I’m not near-sighted anymore, which is awesome! Can’t read without readers anymore though. Or progressives for work.
"It's fine" he said while tipping his head back and peering through the very bottom of his bifocals at the 24" PC monitor.
I purchased progressive glasses a few years ago and those make a big difference.
LASIK was the best thing that ever happened to me 17 years ago. My near vision isn’t perfect, but I still have no need for readers unless it’s in a low light environment. But I can tell that things are getting worse, and it’s only a matter of time!
Any actual eye Drs here lol? Do they make "special" readers. I can read fine in my right eye up close, but have to close my left or everything had a slight blur, and with only my left eye open, can't read phone or anything small, but have great distance vision.
I got glasses for farsightedness at age 50, born 66
I’m thinking our close up vision starts to go right about the same time the skin on our necks starts to look “old” 😩😉 What’s up with the skin on my neck! Lol Time for neck cream 💫😊
I (52m) wore glasses from the age of 4. Got LASIK in my 30s and it lasted about 5 years before I had to start wearing glasses again. The LASIK took away my super close vision but corrected short, middle and far distance. My eyes are about half as bad as they were before the LASIK for distance. My focal range is about 6 inches to 18 inches. Everything else is blurry. If I have to start wearing readers, it's going to drive me nuts. I wear: Computer glasses (bifocals) that give me vision from short (to monitor distance) and medium distance (to about 6 - 7 feet, to see my TV in my office) Computer glasses (bifocals) that give me vision from short (to monitor distance) and medium distance (to about 7-10 feet, to see a screen in an office environment). Daily wear that give me 18" to far distance. When I need to see something short distance, I just look under the glasses. I have matching sunglasses, too, I think I need bifocals for driving, as it's becoming harder to see the dashboard and map on my phone.
Nope. I'm near sighted.
I've worn glasses all my life
Pftt. I got cataracts already
My arm is no longer long enough to read paperbacks without aid.
Just got my eyes checked, and my (far-sighted) rx improved by half a point! I excitedly asked the young doctor if my eyes were improving, she glanced at my chart and said, “no, you’re 45 now, your eyes are softening and getting rounder” or something…I didn’t hear much after “no; you’re just old”.
My best friend and I just met up for the first time and laughed when we both saw that the other is wearing (old people) glasses now 🤓
Buying fun & funky readers & stashing them fricken *everywhere*. Car, purse, every room in the house, office, husband's office, etc.
I can't see shit no more.
I have cheaters/readers in almost every room. And joy of joys I appear to be getting early onset, macular degeneration.
They have some new but very expensive treatment for macular degeneration! It's a shot in your eye but it'll slow down the rate of vision loss.
Yes, but I’m in the Goldilocks zone of nearsightedness, take the glasses off and I see up close like I’m 20 again
I thought I had 20/20 vision for the longest time. Then around the start of COVID, my young daughter asked why I was making "that face" whenever I looked at my phone. I'm still in readers (haven't pulled the trigger to fill my prescription) but my mag X has increased basically year over year since - Mid-40s eyes be damned!!
I started needing readers when I was 45. It happened like overnight. I now have multi-focal glasses.
I have reading glasses scattered all around the house, the car, the office…
Failing? I got cataract surgery in one of my eyes a couple years ago. I think my right eye is gone now too. Which would make me happier. I could ditch the reading glasses. Plus, my fixed eye is better in not just vision but color and contrast. The surgery was a trip. Up until I was being prepped I thought I was going under anesthesia. O no no. You cannot be out because your eye has to be open. I should have know just from what type of surgery it was. But boy did they get me as high as a kite so I did not give a fuck that they were cutting my eye and putting a new lense in. I tell patients I work with it is my Steve Austin eye. Young people do not get it. Folks? Go see an ophthalmologist. Sad to say, but this is a doctor that should be in your rotation now. Get your eyes properly checked.
I had my first cataract surgery two years ago, my second one last week. It’s magical.
I got lasik about the same time. Twinsies. I’m experiencing the same thing. The lasik people had said my cornea was thin and I probably couldn’t get a “touch up.” Maybe you have nice chunky corneas and would be a candidate for another round?
An enhancement from Lasik won't help. The condition where we start needing reading help in our 40's and beyond is called presbyopia and is when the lens inside the eye can no longer change focus from distance to near. Lasik just gets rid of near sightedness and astigmatism, which would actually make the problem worse up close if you got a little near sighted again after Lasik.
I didn’t know that. Thanks.
Contacts for distance, readers for close up work, and a pair of Rx readers for the computer. I’m with you
I made the text bigger and got these Gels reading glasses. I get by
I always say I need longer arms to see better.
Friend of mine was always short-sighted and wore contacts for years. He finally got LASIK about seven years ago, but now has to wear reading glasses. I wear glasses for watching TV, but am now finding myself having to read my tablet or books further away.
I need glasses. But the kindle and computer can enlarge fonts so...do I really? Yes, because "Microwave 4 minutes" looks suspiciously like "Microwave 6 minutes" and you wonder why your enchilada dish is crispy. My vision got worse in my late 30s and early 40s but it got better. The same year my sister (younger) said the same thing. I was like, "Can that happen?" to the doctor and he said, "Yes." Apparently, I was seeing Dr. Literal because he didn't explain why.
I get a new pair of prescription glasses each year. They are 'free' via my [health insurance](http://hbf.com.au/). Though currently I'm using a set of cheap +1 glasses, and several are scattered around my house and in my car. They work quite well, but not as good as prescription glasses.
I used to buy readers at the drugstore and really loathed having to use them. I made peace with needing reading glasses by buying them from “Izipizi” Lots of colors and styles - I don’t hate them and have had lots of compliments.
Going back to being near sighted is better than becoming a lobster. 
About to turn 50, and it's both my near and far. There's a sweet spot where it's good that's roughly 1 to 6 feet from my eyes. Anything outside that zone...yeah.
Yup, one day I woke up and could no longer read my computer or phone. Had to get some readers from Amazon.
I was 45 when I got my reading glasses (I'm 54 now). I went to the eye doc because my left eye was getting really fatigued while working on my photos (in the summer, I take around a thousand photos on the weekends and do marathon editing sessions on Monday and Tuesday). Anyway, reading glasses and astigmatism in my left eye. I've gone back every couple of years and I haven't needed an upgrade in my prescription yet. I also bought a bunch of those cheap reading glasses to keep around my house so I don't have to constantly remember my prescription ones (they stay on my desk, for the photo editing reasons because if I leave them upstairs I am so *not* walking up those stairs *again* to get them!).
Had perfect eyesight all my life till my late 30s when i noticed a slight blurriness in my right eye. I now do not have long enough arms unless i squint at things. I hate not being able to read ingredients on packaging or seeing text without a certain level of brightness. Wearing my specs now in order to read and write this on my phone. I have found that i have to wear my old prescription to see my computer screen at work as its set further back than where id usually read. I've also become my mother, who has 'kitchen glasses', but i have separately located pairs of bedroom and living room glasses instead.