I am 50 years old, and I had absolutely perfect vision for 47 of those years.

About 3 years ago I noticed that I had to adjust how far I held my nook from my face when reading. I went from being able to read very small print just inches away from my face, to needing to have whatever I was reading almost at arms length to be able to see it clearly.

It was kind of a gut punch because I assumed that I was always going to be one of those people who just never needed glasses. Now, I have to wear reading glasses to see anything within 2.5 feet, which includes my monitors at work.

If I forget my glasses when I go shopping for anything, like groceries, I am forced to deal with how absolutely useless I am without them. I have purchased sugar-free crap by accident on more than one occasion because I just couldn't read a single word on the product.

A universal truth is the fact that getting older FN sucks.

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About 5 yrs ago (I turn 46 next week) my very up close vision started bluring a bit. Especially in dim light. Sometimes I can still read fine without a pair of 1x readers, but mostly go with them when reading a book. Starting to need longer arms for my phone at times.

Can still read smaller print out at distance. Had had 20/10 vision for most of my life.

ETA: restaurant receipts are a bitch.

This is me but mine started about age 45 and I'm not quite 50 yet.

I have an annual eye exam. This year, Ophthalmologist asked what had changed and I explained I can see better without glasses for driving and watching TV ... he completed the exam and explained my cataracts have started to change and they will continue to rather rapidly change. He gave me a 6 month date for reexam, a script for new glasses, and said inOctober we will likely set date for surgery.

I have always gone to an Ophthalmologist for my eyes. I dont trust those in and out fast and cheap places. They are like chiros for eyeballs to me.

20/20. Used to absolute garbage and had glasses since high school. Just got lasik last year and damn, was that one of the best decisions I ever made.

I'm approaching asking the waiter what they recommend when trying to order from dimly lit restaurants.

i hate those when i get em but they go away quick

My left eye has always been weak, but there was a time when I had 20/15 vision in my right eye. Wore glasses when I was a kid until I was about 14, then I didn't need them anymore. At least until I hit my mid 40s. One day I was trying to read the mint designation on a penny and couldn't make it out. Within a year I was back to wearing glasses. Distance vision is still okay (although not as good as it once was), but I've got to have glasses for reading. And driving, since without the glasses I can't make out the instrument panel clearly.

As others have said, getting old sucks.

And this poll should have had an option for "Old Man Eyes."

I wear a contact in my right eye for distance vision and nothing in my left eye so I can read things close up. Works for me.

If I wear contacts in both eyes, I can't read things close to me and if I don't wear contacts in either eye, my distance vision is poor.

Anybody wear scleral lenses like me?

I am about to turn 32, ive had 20/20 my whole life but recently ive noticed i struggle to read things that are far away, i can eventually focus and see them but it takes some effort. I am not overly concerned yet because it is like small things that are 50 plus yards away at this point.

About 6 months before my vision changed almost overnight, I was getting eye strain when reading. I have over 4,000 books on my nook, and about 100 real books on my bookshelves, and I have read 90% of them

I used to read 2-3 books a week. Anyway, I started feeling eye strain after a couple of hours reading, and that had never happened before. I thought maybe my eyes were strained from focusing, so I went and had an eye exam.

Halfway through the exam, the doctor just stopped and told me that I clearly had great vision, and he didn't finish the exam. Instead, he said if I was feeling eye strain, to try a pair of readers in the .5 magnification.

So, I got some readers that were that were .5, and within 6 months I couldn't focus on my nook without them. I think my eyesight got worse so rapidly because I used those readers several hours a day.

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Long story, but it was bad enough in 1 eye to keep me out of the military in 1969, the height of the Vietnam War. Since then it's gotten better, but I've worn glasses/contacts since the 5th grade. The weird thing is that I have to take my glasses off to read.

Annual eye exam

When I wear my contacts, I need readers.

When I do not wear contacts, I cannot see far away.

Hate wearing glasses. My eye doc is working with me. She is cool.