Reading glasses

[forgop]

I wore glasses as a kid until I was 16 and I just quit wearing them. I just turned 37 and felt like I've lost just a bit of vision with reading. Picked up my new glasses yesterday and these things are really hard to get adjusted to and I don't dare use them for anything other than reading itself. I feel like I'm going to get a headache using them, but I think that's pretty typical getting used to glasses. Anyone else have difficulty making this adjustment?

Yep. Walking around wearing them was really weird for about a year. For six years now I've been through four prescriptions and I still don't like them. (sigh)

[Ogre]

I use reading glasses (or supposed to) and I have to take them off when I put what I am reading down. My eyes cant focus through the glasses for distance.

[jjirons69]

I had cataract surgery in both eyes a few months ago. I was literally going blind. I now have 20/13 vision in both eyes. It was a true miracle. The drawback to monofocal replacement lens is seeing detail up close. I can read this computer screen clear as a bell from 2 ft. At one foot, letters are fuzzy and starting to double. I wear 1.25 reading glasses at those short distance and everything pops back in. Not a bad trade-off. Eyesight was PERFECT until I hit 40.

[OLS]

Originally Posted by jjirons69

Eyesight was PERFECT until I hit 40.

And then it drops off a cliff, seemingly overnight you can't see anything close.
I have let mine slip to the point where I really need a set of 1.0s to feel totally secure behind the wheel.
Still have not seen the opthamolgist, and like any panicked 40+ person, I have the house covered in
reading glasses, never wanting to be without the lifesaving lenses when I have to read something.
I told my mother the other day, I went into the bathroom and there were FOUR PAIR sitting on the sink
alone. : confused:

[OLS]

Originally Posted by jjirons69

Eyesight was PERFECT until I hit 40.

And then it drops off a cliff, seemingly overnight you can't see anything close.
I have let mine slip to the point where I really need a set of 1.0s to feel totally secure behind the wheel.
Still have not seen the opthamolgist, and like any panicked 40+ person, I have the house covered in
reading glasses, never wanting to be without the lifesaving lenses when I have to read something.
I told my mother the other day, I went into the bathroom and there were FOUR PAIR sitting on the
sink alone.

[TBone]

Originally Posted by Ogre3239

I use reading glasses (or supposed to) and I have to take them off when I put what I am reading down. My eyes cant focus through the glasses for distance.

[Skywalker]

Originally Posted by Ogre3239

I use reading glasses (or supposed to) and I have to take them off when I put what I am reading down. My eyes cant focus through the glasses for distance.

I hate getting old!

[Bill86]

Originally Posted by forgop

I wore glasses as a kid until I was 16 and I just quit wearing them. I just turned 37 and felt like I've lost just a bit of vision with reading. Picked up my new glasses yesterday and these things are really hard to get adjusted to and I don't dare use them for anything other than reading itself. I feel like I'm going to get a headache using them, but I think that's pretty typical getting used to glasses. Anyone else have difficulty making this adjustment?

Yes you will have this problem for several days to a week. It will go away. My advise never take them off, that way once you are use to it no more headaches.

I've worn glasses for ~8 years and contacts for ~8 years. I'm in soft lenses right now.

There is the same switch from glasses to contacts and vis-a-versa.

If they aren't reading glasses you will benefit from never taking them off greatly. If not ...I cannot speak on that one yet.

[forgop]

Originally Posted by Bill86

Yes you will have this problem for several days to a week. It will go away. My advise never take them off, that way once you are use to it no more headaches.

I've worn glasses for ~8 years and contacts for ~8 years. I'm in soft lenses right now.

There is the same switch from glasses to contacts and vis-a-versa.

If they aren't reading glasses you will benefit from never taking them off greatly. If not ...I cannot speak on that one yet.

These are strictly for reading. When I had my exam, I was good to go at distance, but the issue was more of the stuff up close. The doc had me go through the whole which is better, 1 or 2 for a bunch of lenses. She then showed me what the difference was between the lens vs. without and it was almost no difference for something at a distance.

When I wore them as a kid, I never took them off. I also recall an exam before I quit wearing them that the doctor commented I would probably never be able to wear contacts given how sensitive my eyes are. Even last week on a follow up appointment, this doctor asked if I had any itching. Contacts have probably come a long way, but I doubt I'll ever be in contacts.

[Old Sailor]

Been wearing glasses for 50 yrs now.......if I get new ones and after 2 weeks they still bother me, I take them back and have them check the prescription to make sure they are right. A few times I have found that they where not right and got them to remake the lenses, then all ok!