Glasses/contact lenses

[dickie davies]

Since I was ten
Oh how much fun I had at school "speccy four eyes"

 

[flook]

also since I was 10, I'm short sighted, then hit 50's and suddenly need fucking reading glasses too, don't moan till you've been through that scenario

 

[sir baconface]

Karma.

Poor eyesight is the result of too much self-abuse early in liffffcddhhyyhnmm,m,

 

[lloydy]

Natural in late 40's onwards fact of aging. Laser corrects distance. Did it 12 years ago and it's the best thing I ever did. Amazing!

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I can’t read past the “E” on the Snellen chart without them. Been that way for 25 years. I blame the computer and the smart phone.

Is that the E on the first line? I've had specs since I was three! I have a very good optician but those German bastards Carl Zeiss of Jena stopped making my prescription some time ago (yer can stick yer lenses up yer EU arses, Carl). I have varifocal, coated, polychromatic specs and free frames! I could have been in the Tunnel Club for the money I've spend on specs! But yer need to see what is out there. I can still visually manage the difference between a sky blue shirt and another available colour!

 

[manimanc]

I have contact lenses and glasses but recently I've started doing the up close/far away thing when reading stuff, particularly when reading things up close. Not good.

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

As a caution, I know two people who had Lasik and were back in glasses within a few years. And one of them had the night starburst thing.

That's why I wouldn't bother, they don't tell you it's only a temporary fix.

 

[Paladin]

I can’t read past the “E” on the Snellen chart without them. Been that way for 25 years. I blame the computer and the smart phone.

Same here, so I memorised the letters. It's saved me a fortune in not having to buy specs. :)

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

Same here, so I memorised the letters. It's saved me a fortune in not having to buy specs. :)

Same here. Pass every time although why they have to look at my feet is a mystery.

 

[G-Star Medium Rare]

I have contact lenses and glasses but recently I've started doing the up close/far away thing when reading stuff, particularly when reading things up close. Not good.

I've worn " night and day" contact lenses for a while now. I've always been short sighted, but like so many, reading was getting problematic in my 50's. I now have contacts " tuned" so one eye is corrected for reading and one for distance, and they are brilliant !