How is your vision?

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by ChiefsFanatic

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

[ChiefsFanatic]

Originally Posted by Lzen

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

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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[Lzen]

Originally Posted by ChiefsFanatic

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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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.