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Before a few months ago, I could strain and read small print. The really small stuff, I had to fetch my OTC glasses from CVS. I wear contacts too, with a feature for close-up reading built in.
Now...alas..I MUST use my reading glasses all the time for the small stuff. Someone tell me, please, I'm going to survive this milestone.
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)in the meantime, I recommend prescription progressive lenses. It is like seeing the world in high def for the first time since childhood. Quite an eye opener. Not for the faint of heart.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)I don't think I've heard my optometrist say progressive before.
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)and see what the world looks like. Hippies and banksters everywhere. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)they're essentially trifocals without the lines, so they look like single vision lenses.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Skittles
(153,261 posts)and it never stops sucking
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Seriously, I feel your pain.
Skittles
(153,261 posts)as soon as I find my glasses
steve2470
(37,457 posts)I've always had to wear glasses.
Skittles
(153,261 posts)a combination of age and monitoring multiple consoles for decades
Auggie
(31,227 posts)I have three. One for newsprint, one for the computer, and bifocals for everything else. And for the really fine print I use a jeweler's loop.
I can see why you would, though. Different demands.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)every time there was a sidebar conference and the lawyers and judge had to look at some papers, one removed their glasses, one put their glasses on, and the third switched from one pair to the other. For some reason I found it amusing. (I've been wearing glasses for decades.)
DebJ
(7,699 posts)Though always annoying.
I have two pairs of glasses....but three lenses. One pair is bifocals, for walking, driving and reading.
The other pair is for my computer.
It seems I always have the wrong pair on at the wrong time...I'm constantly going back and forth
from computer to chores and back again. About ten times a day I have to go to another room and
switch glasses. Irritating.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Compared to other things later in life, this is nothing.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)He still is able to pass the DMV eye test without corrective lenses. I got my first glasses for myopia when I was in the second grade. My eyes are so bad I am not a candidate for a lasix procedure.
vanlassie
(5,694 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)I was always nearsighted and could read small print. But now my eyesight has reversed. I can see and read signs and small print at a distance. Now I need reading glasses for small print and to see images up close. My eye surgeon said that is common after cataract surgery. I am not complaining because my eyesight is 100% improved.
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)surgical solution instead. I have much better than 20/20 vision - when I had it tested like 10 years ago I was struggling but could still read the either the last line or second to last line on the eye chart, doctor told me "just stop, your eyes are fine" so I've never had to deal with glasses or contacts. I even dislike wearing sunglasses.
Random / off topic I know, but still
boston bean
(36,224 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)boston bean
(36,224 posts)At about the age of 40, all of the sudden I couldn't read if I had my lenses in.
Went to the optometrist and they prescribed monovision.
I use one eye to see far and one to see up close...
But if you can't read without them in, probably won't help you at all.
I guess as we age some muscle in our eye becomes weaker and can't fight through the prescription for the nearsightedness, therefore making you feel like you can't read up close. When in actuality it was just the lenses and a weakening of some eye muscle.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)Is that I can adjust the size of print and pictures, and The virtual keyboard is huge!
Welcome to Our Reading Glasses World!
steve2470
(37,457 posts)applegrove
(118,880 posts)from college and they all had to look for their glasses to read the menu.