How is your vision?
 

My vision has changed since 2019. I have an appointment to get my eyes checked in a couple of weeks. Not a big change since I passed the drivers license test, but it's annoying.


All my local eye exam places are booked, so I went with America's Best Contacts and Eyeglasses. It's cheap, but I'm worried they might burn my retinas during the exam.


What issue does it take for you to get an eye exam?

There's nothing wrong with my eye. This one just has no pigment. I'm what you call a partial ocular albino, but I'm fine with it. I have perfect 20/20 vision with both eyes.

I see great near blurry far.

I'm the same way nut. The far blurry sucks. Ugh.

Mine went to shit about 12 years ago. I have to wear Walmart reading glasses to drive. I've had 3 pairs of prescription glasses and they're no better that a pair of ****ing $8.88 walmart glasses.

I got a pair of readers last year.

As of the last year or so....

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It's amazing. I can see two gnats sucking each other off in a dust bowl.

....when my contact lenses are in. Without them, my vision is total shit. I was born nearsighted. I played 2 full years of little league baseball and couldn't hit the god damn baseball. Then my 5th grade teacher finally figured out I was nearsighted. I got glasses before the very last game of the season. Playoff game. My first at-bat and I ripped a single up the middle. Turns out vision is pretty important to hitting a baseball. I quit baseball after that season and got into basketball. I wonder how much more fun it would've been to play while being able to see...

Oh yeah. I am stuck with readers too. What a pain.

Didn't realize I was picking up fat chicks at the bar.

I’m still like 20/25 or something. Not worth correcting according to the dr.

When I was younger my eyes didn’t coordinate so I didn’t have depth perception. In 8th grade I went to an eye doctor (in Wichita - 5 hours away) who was surprised I could function. Most kids come see him when they can’t read shit. Apparently I’m too goddamned stubborn and just shut the ****ing non-dominant eye off and made up my own depth perception. Because **** you that’s why.

Not advisable though. I could drive tractor way straighter after the therapy and I got better at basketball. That correlation is a little looser because I ****ing sucked and didn’t really grow into my body until after that. Presumably there was a corresponding improvement in my capacity to drive cars, which is horrifying because mom made me drive to Wichita most of the time. But whatever, not dead.

That's really interesting. A dominant eye when young normally leads to a lazy eye.

When I was in 8th grade, I got a new backpack for school. But it had these pieces of material on the zippers that I didn't like. I used an icepick to remove them since they were knotted. I slipped with the icepick, and accidentally hit myself in the right eye with the tip. There was a 1/4" cut in the white part of my eye right below the retina. Had to be sedated and get stiches on my eyeball. It resulted in me becoming right eye dominant. Fortunately it was my shooting eye.

Since it pierced multiple layers surrounding my eyeball, it messed up the pressure in my eye and eventually gave me glaucoma. Along with a bunch of squiggly material over my right eye lens that looks like little worms swimming around when I move my eye. Distracting at times, but the brain does a good job of erasing stuff from your vision that you don't need. Sometimes I will purposely close my right eye for a few hours just to make my lazy ass left eye work harder...

This is basically what I see in my right eye when I look at the sky. Except my squiggly is in the shape of the western African coastline.

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If the distance is from my chair to the computer screen, I see great and don't need glasses. If it's closer than that, I need glasses. If it's farther than that, I need glasses. I think I may have spent too much time in front of a computer.

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.

I started out just buying a few pairs of 1.5 readers from the dollar store. They were fine for awhile. But it always sucks having to take them off any time I take my eyes off the screen, book, etc. I have found bifocal reading glasses that work pretty well for me. They are more expensive but nothing like prescription glasses. And they are a Godsend.

I have been doing the annual eye exam for the the past few years. Prior to that, I hadn't seen an eye doctor since I was in my 20s. My vision is okay other than needing reading glasses because I'm getting old. :(

lol @ 55" TV

I'm far sighted, however in the last few years my optic nerves have been on a slow downward spiral. Climbed the ladder of experts at KU Med through their neuro-opt department, then went to Mayo. Nobody can name it, let alone tell me if this is as bad as it gets or if I'll be blind later in life. It sucks.

The worst part is the fear of someday sitting in the passenger seat not being able to see while my wife drives.

I can see clearly now the rain is gone, I can see all obstacles in my way

FYP

I'm cheap, but I've gone to America's Best for years and then mostly ordered glasses from Zenni. I have insurance coverage, but it's actually more expensive.

Eye exams aren't rocket science.

Not good but that TV part is true. When I was in my mid-20's my vision started going bad and I just started buying bigger TV's. Eventually I had to get glasses. I'm too big of a pussy to touch my eye and do contacts. Need to get that lasik. I bet I'm -4.5 to -5.5

I started going to them a couple years ago, couldn't believe the cost difference compared to my previous eye doctor. Don't know how they do it.

Yeah, it's pretty insane. I can point to a few things:

1. It's a volume-based business. They book people every 10 minutes I believe.
2. They use entry-level techs who need no prior experience for a lot of stuff (running the automated tests, fitting you for frames, placing orders, etc.)
3. I think most of their docs are either new in their careers or on "exchange" where they have another gig but work at America's Best for some extra cash.
4. The glasses bundle is nice, but now that I'm used to Zenni, it's pretty clear that the store cost for a pair of glasses is probably like $5, so that's not a huge cost driver.

I usually go once every year. I pay for the three-year contact club exam (for $130 I think), and I get a free set of daily contacts as a "trial" that I use to ski each year. I rarely go enough to have to order more.

Then, like I said, I order glasses from Zenni for maybe $20-$30 depending on extras. I'll miss once in a while and get a pair I don't like, but they're so cheap it's hard to care.

It's great.

I suffered two spontaneous retinal detachments: one in June 2020 in my right eye and two tears in my left eye in May 2020.

Both due to the stretching of my eye due to poor vision.

I had emergency surgery on both to save my vision.

I have scleral buckles on both eyes.

I've worn contacts since 15 years old.

My vision is horrible.

It sucks. Without contacts Im blind as a bat.

I am sitting in the Dr office now for my preop consult for cataract surgery. Not the way I wanted to spend the next 50 yrs on this earth. Besides, I have a 55' tv and can't see the ball anymore, golf especially.

Getting the adjustable ones?

It wasn't on the list of options, but Im going to ask. The closest place that does it is like 150mi away, I think. Do not want to go straight monofocal if I can help it. O want to be without glasses as much as possible. Dix you get the light adjusted lenses?

I've had shitty vision since I was 5 years old. The 90s were not a good time for eye glass fashion.

Got lasik(PRK) 2.5 years ago. Getting out of bed and just being able to go about your day and not having to put on contacts is such a luxurious moment for me.

Before the surgery my sight wasn't too bad during the day but went to shit at night. Astigmatism made it seem like I was living through a fireworks show that wouldn't end.

Yes. They are adjusted via a laser. They are called LAL for light adjustable lens.

They are adjusted by UV light. So for a period of about 2 months you have to wear UV resistant glasses, inside or outside. Even indoor UV light will ruin them. So yeah, you go around looking like Curt Rambis. They are adjusted in 4 procedures taking about 2 months.

Will America's give you your prescription? I don't know about their frame selection. I just don't want to look like Mr. Magoo.

Yep, you just have to ask for it. Pretty sure that's required by law. I recommend scanning it so you can just upload it to Zenni (or whatever other site you want to order from).

America's Best themselves have a reasonable selection of frames as well. My wife likes just doing that.

My wife is an optometrist so I get to hear about the eye world. I tell a funny joke whenever I'm at her Christmas party, some event, or whatever.

"I'm waiting for my eyesight to get better when I get older"

I'm fortunate that my eyesight is still great in my early 40's.

I go to America's Best all the time. Never had an issue with an eye exam. I hate waiting weeks to get glasses, but, hey, they're cheap. Or, I just take the script and buy online.

As for vision. I didn't get glasses until I was 24. Went to get my driver's license renewed, and noticed some letters were hard to read. The person at the DMV said I did good enough to pass, but that I might want to get my eyes checked.

In my thirties, by stigmatism kept getting a little worse, and I kept getting slightly more near-sighted. Now, I'm 44, and I just started wearing progressives.

Good enough to make it to the bathroom in the middle of the night without running into a wall or stubbing a toe.

No longer can drive without glasses though.

Age related ****tardness.

Ah, the early 40s. Those last few years of relative normalcy before everything started to break.

Enjoy them.

I wore contacts starting at age 26 or so until my late 50s. The problem I had when I got to about 56 or 57, they started gooing up quite a bit and extended wear contacts are not made for daily cleaning. So, being the cheap m-fer I am, I just gave up and went to glasses about age 60.

My insurance covers all but $20 for an annual eye exam and I buy my glasses from Zenni. They're much cheaper than Wallyworld, Target, or that 1-hour place. I don't know about America's Best, the closest one to me is 35 miles. I usually have to change about every 2 years. Glasses are in the $30-40 range and sunglasses are a little higher. I demand style!!

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Ugh. ****ing floaters. Used to have a bunch of those before I got lasik. Now it's very rare that I notice them.

Mine is about 20 times worse than that pic...

Yeah, I understand, although I didn't have them as bad as you, mine was worse than that picture too.

I wouldn't notice them all the time but when I would notice them it was hard to stop seeing them. Sometimes I'd sit in class and chase them around. I'm sure I looked like a crack head doing that if anyone noticed.

I had 20/20 until I reached my 60th......then realized I was squinting too much when I read things. Finally went to the eye doctor and was told my eyes we just changing as I got older. Managed on reading glasses for a couple of years...

Now, because of my Type 2 Diabetes I go every year. Now my eyesight (without glasses) is 20/25 in my left, 20/30 in my right eye. I have trace cataracts but nothing that needs surgery right now.

But getting to the right prescription was a pain....one was too much, the other 2 little. And like some here, the distance vision sucks.

So you're saying my vision won't improve as I age?

Sorry...no. And the hair in your palms will grow quicker. :)

LOL Harry palms huh.

Here's a quick vision test. What do you see?

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This is 100% me.

Try wearing a contact in just one eye for a couple of days. I used to change eyes daily, but I've just been wearing one contact in my right eye for well over a decade now. I can see things far away and up close -- and at half the price.

Used to be legit 20/10, then I got shingles - on my head - and it got so far into my right eye the doc feared encephalitis… eventually got over it, but I could tell my right eye was pretty compromised while renewing my drivers license several years ago

So now I’m just 20/20 :D

Shingles in your ****ing eye? Holy shit. That sounds horrible. :eek:

About two years ago I lost the ability to see close with my regular glasses. Now I have prescription readers. I now have four pairs of regularly used glasses:

Regular glasses for everyday use.
Readers for computer work
Exercise glasses for runs
Sunglasses for solar protection

Getting Lasik surgery about 15 years ago was one of the best things I've ever done. Never been back to the eye doctor, and zero deterioration in my vision since I had it done. You can have one eye set for close up and one set for distance and your brain supposedly seamlessly makes the switch, but I had both of mine set for distance since I play a lot of golf. That's where I really notice it, on the golf course. There, and when I go to Rockies games at Coors. I swear I can see facial expressions on people sitting across the stadium from me. It's like laser vision. Before I had it done I couldn't see far away at all without contacts or glasses. Everything was just a blur. Now I can see like a freaking hawk.

Need readers to see anything within arm's length clearly, but that's no problem at all. Can't believe I put pieces of plastic in my eyes every day from the age of 13 until I had the surgery. What a pain in the ass that was. Could not recommend Lasik more highly. For me it was truly life-changing.

I was out of work, as a car salesman at the time, for over two months

It was disfiguring, the right side of my head was swollen like a melon… still carry several scars and have what the doc said would probably be lifelong itchy head/nerve pain over ten years later

I was nearsighted from age 25-35 but it fixed itself somehow. I dunno.

Are your sunglasses a prescription? I'm going fulltime glasses and thought I'd get flip down shades that go over regular glasses to avoid another prescription.

I always thought shingles was an old person disease - until one of my high school buddies came down with it in his mid 40s. After hearing his description of what he was going through (nothing compared to what happened to you), I got vaccinated the next ****ing day.

Yeah it can get pretty bad, but I had literally never even heard of it until getting it

The night I first went to the ER, the head nurse gave me 4 morphine shots in about as many hours, maybe less… and that was the ONLY good thing about that whole deal, morphine puts you on cloud 99 hahaa

Yeah, they're prescription. I really like that because I can wear them driving.

I've had the flipdown frames in the past and they worked well too, though. I guess it's just a matter of taste or timing.

Thanks for the new nightmare.

Dr Fauci says it’s even worse than the Epsilon Variant

You cheap ass LOL

Seriously, you might look at going to a regular eye doctor periodically. Out here in bum **** nowhereland the local guy screens for all manner of shit and takes like 8 different pictures of the back of my eye. I'm not going to pretend to be smart enough to know what it all is, but it is for something, for sure. Plus he checks for weird shit like your tear ducts plugging, which is a thing.

Anyway, losing your eyesight is nothing to **** around with. My grandpa got macular degeneration in his 60s and mother**** all that shit. I'll pay...just keep my shit working.

I have to pay more for the test without dilation, because **** getting your eyes dilated.

Lucky you. My MIL got lasik back when it was new and hella expensive and has never been back.

I had to have a follow up procedure within 5 years. My vision is still good now but not as good as it was. So I'll probably have to have another later in life.

I still recommend the shit out of it tthough.I had thick ass glasses for when I took my contacts out. Doing an eye test one time without them before lasik, I was told I tested legally blind (so 20/200 or worse). Although, I distinctly remember being able to see the E at the top of the chart so that Dr must have been lying to me.

I've had better than 20/20 eyesight my entire life. I expect that to give out any time though.

I wear glasses when watching TV, I've got a 75" HD TV and I sit 12 feet away, but my vision has deteriorated a lot in the last 10 years.

I had cataract surgery performed by the VA in 2014 when I was 64, it was free, a $3,000 savings, but probably a bad idea. I played shortstop in a senior softball league 50 and older, I had to have great vision at short and it was getting bad so I stopped in 2016.

Now I'm golfing as my main sport, I average about 220 to 235 on my drives, but I lose sight of my ball at about 100 yards. Others will see it for me, but I really lack the feedback to know what I'm doing.

I had to get new glasses in February and the optometrist said I had the worse case of dry eye she has ever seen. It's all because of that cataract surgery has left scar tissue which caused my eyes to dry out quicker.

We should change this to the "Old Bitches" forum. I am old. I can't imagine younger folks reading this stuff.

I agree, worn glasses for 40 yrs. I just find it humorous at some of the threads posted.

Not sure what some of our younger posters think of us:)