Do you need glasses and if so at what age did you start wearing them?

I was the kid at junior schoo' with nhs jam-jar bins and an eye patch, the smell of which has stayed with me ever since.
The only time i took my specs off was to play footy. When i got into my teens i'd go out with no specs and just used 'the force' to see things.
These days my specs are on all the time, unless i'm in bed. With my prescription i could be classed as blind so getting new glasses on the high street costs a fortune. Small independent opticians can do them much cheaper if you get a full eye test (free ones are on offer all the time)

If i could change one thing about my body it would be my eyes.
 
When The Levee Breaks said:
Been wearing them since I was a kid. Got cataracts and astigmatism in both eyes.

Went for an eye test a year ago and got told I needed Varifocals. Presumed this was the optician trying to scam more money out of me, so went and got a second opinion...and the 2nd optician told me I needed varifocals too.

That was a sharp shock to the system, to remind me im not getting any younger. I got varifocals with reactalite lenses and they cost a fortune but I'm so glad I don't need to faff around switching between normal glasses and sunglasses anymore.

So, if you do need glasses, I would highly recommend getting reactalite lenses.
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I don’t like the way reactalite lenses don’t go dark enough. Then they don’t work for driving either, even the ones they say do. As for Varifocals, I’m weaning myself off them after about 15 years, they’re only bearable if you go for the top grade lenses. I’ve noticed recently that watching TV with them isn’t as good as using single vision lenses.
 
IMO if your going with varifocals you have to go with the top end or they are useless. I spend allot on my glasses as i think its money well spent but many disagree . The price of my latest pair is pretty eyewatering but with glasses i wont compromise. I stared wearing glasses in my late fortys and have them on all day everyday
 
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47 for me too, prob should have had my eyes checked a couple of years earlier.

Optometrist said it happens after 45

Gone for varifocals and they have been alright, anything has to be better that putting things into my eyes
 
Had reading glasses for nearly ten yrs or maybe a bit less , cant remember now , got then online . I was about to have lasar surgery but on the day the surgeon said he didnt think it would make that much difference so didnt have it . My optition said i had a lucky escape because it would have really fucked my vision up

My long vision is perfect , i can see a leaf from 100 ft
 
Late 40s for reading and late 50s for tv/driving. Considering using contact lenses for golf, I hit it so far that I can't see it finish!
 
11. Started wearing contacts at 20. 6 years ago (so that would be 48) had lasik done. best decision ever. worth every penny.
 
Started wearing glasses for reading around 7 or 8 years ago, so early to mid fifties (I'm 60 now) . No problem with distance work (ie driving), but anything I need to read is a blur without the goggles.
 
Thanks to the wankers at the NHS, who can't be arsed seeing me, even when they are not on strike, I have had blurred vision for well over 18 months. The eye hospital say my eyes are fine. A neurologist simply discharged me without seeing me and no one else gives a shit.

Fuck all to do with specs but I wanted to rant about the lazy, incompetent fuck wits who will draw a pension at 55 and the senior ones will get more doing NHS work until 4pm and then private work straight after than I will in a year.
 
I took the plunge this year at 51 to get glasses for reading although have needed them for a couple of years at least. Knew the kids were going to take the piss so put it off so they couldn't have their day in the sun and also not quite believing what I was reading on the match day threads sometimes, am surprised we didn't get relegated.
 
Yes. I was 38 when the wanking finally took it's toll. I was expecting to be wearing a pair at least a decade earlier.
 
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