Need a sympathy button here. whispa, hope you can determine the extent of your new allergies so you can find a new normal.
Need a sympathy button here. whispa, hope you can determine the extent of your new allergies so you can find a new normal.
hey, thanks I appreciate it! Yeah just something I accept and will move forward! In the grand scheme of things, all good.
See? Wasn't it a lovely little nap?
It was! And all good news!
I am 44 and bought reading glasses today. I hate to admit it, but holy shit - what a difference.
They call them "45s" for a reason. You're above average, Tasty! 
Welcome to the Chuck Schumer club. At least they're cheap. I've got 20 pairs around the house.
I don't remember exactly my age when I first had to use these, but it seems like forever ago so may have been closer to 40 than 45. Before that my vision was 20/20 or a little better.
I think I was living in my current home when I bought them for the first time, and I was 40 years old when I moved here.
Of course I stare at glowing rectangles all day on a professional basis, then come home and stare at glowing rectangles as a hobby, so maybe it's not surprising that I need the things.
You know how one feels old? Cataract surgery! In two weeks. I am nervous as hell.
You know how one feels old? Cataract surgery! In two weeks. I am nervous as hell.
Don’t be! I had mine done last year and it was a breeze. It’s crazy how much more vibrant and colorful everything looked afterward. I can even see better at night.
The worst part was all the eye drops after the surgery. So. Many. Eye drops.
They call them "45s" for a reason. You're above average, Tasty!
Welcome to the Chuck Schumer club. At least they're cheap. I've got 20 pairs around the house.
Gods, I turn 45 in like two weeks. I feel very old now.
WHO CHANGED THE FONT ON ALL MY PAPER BOOKS!?
WHO CHANGED THE FONT ON ALL MY PAPER BOOKS!?
I've always been nearsighted, but at 48 years old, I'm amazed by how quickly my ability to see things up close has deteriorated. Oh well, bifocals, here I come.
Bifocals are an older design. I've used Progressives for years. They have a sort of continuous change from distance (kind of above the middle) to "work" (midrange, a smaller area below the center), and then shifting to close-in focus for books and such, which you generally look down for. They have the advantage of being invisible to other folks, and your eyes adjust very quickly to the gradients. Your head just automatically moves to the right angle for what you need to do.
I strongly recommend Progressives over Bifocals.
I switched to progressive lenses a little over a year ago, and have been underwhelmed. Took months to adjust to, the midrange doesn't seem to be strong enough for actual work, and I've yet to find a comfortable way to read without strain. Need to discuss with my eye dr to see if they can address with a new prescription, but swapping out single vision and readers is seeming like a much more appealing option at this point.
I am 44 and bought reading glasses today. I hate to admit it, but holy shit - what a difference.
I hate them. I had to start wearing them about 4 years ago.
On the one hand I appreciate that I can see things up close again, on the other I've never had to wear glasses(in fact my distance sight is still above average) so I am terrible at managing/keeping track of them. I've lost/broken so many pairs.
Veloxi wrote:You know how one feels old? Cataract surgery! In two weeks. I am nervous as hell.
Don’t be! I had mine done last year and it was a breeze. It’s crazy how much more vibrant and colorful everything looked afterward. I can even see better at night.
The worst part was all the eye drops after the surgery. So. Many. Eye drops.
Oohhh good to know, thank you!
I am 44 and bought reading glasses today. I hate to admit it, but holy shit - what a difference.
49 and badly in need of bifocals here. Catches up with you eventually.
Mins you my eyesight has been abysmal since I’ve been about 7 years old, I’ve probably haven’t done too badly there.
I got lasik 20+ years ago. When I did, they told me "When you are in your 40s, you most likely will still need reading glasses.". Well, I'm 46 and feel like I'm there. However, I'm the guy who you now see moving their phone back and forth to get it to a readable distance. I abandoned glasses/contacts a long time ago and really don't want to go back quite yet!
I had elective cataract surgery a while back. 7 years, maybe? I did the multifocal one. I was nearsighted, around -6.75.
It's weird getting used to having different focus points. The bad part about that is where my monitors are is some special distance that doesn't get in focus well.
My eyes are now deteriorating enough that I wear readers to work, now. They don't help me much with my real close-up vision - I can see things clearly at 8" w/o them, and 6" with them. I only use them for seeing the monitors.
Low-light is where the cataract surgery really hurt me. If there's not good light, things are blurry and the second there's good light, it all comes in focus. Three older (than I) folk in my family experienced the same thing after the surgery. Reading menus at a restaurant is bad if they have low lighting. Using the flashlight on my phone brings it into perfect focus.
Driving at night got worse for me. I had trouble seeing well at night before and now it's real bad. And these "progressive" lenses they stuck in me make it where every light I look at has rings around it. That's distracting when I'm driving.
It still all beats wearing glasses 24/7. If someone is in the old bracket like a bunch of us are, and are going to have to wear readers anyway, I don't think I would recommend the multifocal lenses - stick with the mono lenses when you get the surgery.
-BEP
Yeah, given that I've always been nearsighted, and my other eye is still a couple years away from its own surgery, the single focus nearsighted lens seems to make the most sense to me.
Progressive lens do not give you rings about lights. That's either astigmatism, or astigmatic correction in the lenses that should not be there, I think. Maybe get checked out by another ophthalmologist?
I have astigmatism, near-sightedness (now partially corrected by age lol) and cataracts. I will get the cataract surgery next year, I think, but no weird corrective stuff. Glasses, I've had them since I was seven so I'm cool with them.
The doc warned me I'd see the rings/halos around the lights because the lenses have focal rings on them. The left one has 7 focal rings and the right one has 9.
It's annoying.
-BEP
Yeah the surgeon warned about halos with the multi-focal lenses. One more reason I chose not to get them.
Seriously. You have my sympathy, bepnewt. You'll get used to it, but still...
In other news:
My lips, gums, and tip of my tongue have been numb for about 6 weeks. It feels like I went to the dentist and got numbing, but it never wears off. Sometimes it is worse,, sometimes it is better, but it never goes away.
At first, I thought it was an allergy. I made cookies with a fancy Penzy’s Chinese Cinnamon (what it says on the bottle). And I assumed it would go away in a day or two. It didn’t.
After a few weeks of ignoring it (because… man) I decided it wasn’t eating something bad and went to my pc doctor. He drew a bunch of blood ran a great number of tests (mostly involving allergy and nutrition) my pc had no answers and sent me to an ENT.
Went to see the ENT today and he told me that I have some minor nerve damage that could be a pinched nerve or a minor stroke. Said it would probably get better over time, but maybe not?
Anyone here know anyone with a similar experience? It doesn’t affect my speech or chewing (knock on wood) and is more annoying than anything else. But by gods it is annoying.
You should see a doctor (neurologist I think?) ASAP to rule out a minor stroke. You don't want mess around with that.
You should see a doctor (neurologist I think?) ASAP to rule out a minor stroke. You don't want mess around with that.
+1
I've had similar things happen in my knees and toes, usually took about 6 months for the sensation to disappear. But head stuff, get that checked out quick.
Been wearing multi-focals for years now, and almost none of the stuff I was warned about bothered me. Like walking down stairs, or turning my head further when driving (to look left and right before proceeding, I got almost instantly used to turning my head more).
But. Supermarkets took me months. Something about all of the signs that were all at different distances, and all different sizes, out of every corner of my eyes just made me dizzy af in supermarkets the first several months with them.
No rings/halos.
FWIW, I was definitely warned about stairs with my progressives. But I'm totally used to them now and honestly I don't want to go back.
Of all the aches and pains that I have, the newest one is losing the ability to scratch an itch without looking. It could be a varicose vein.
So, y'all were right about cataract surgery. They numbed my eye so much I barely felt anything, and when I did feel a little something, I barely cared thanks to the anaesthetic.
So, y'all were right about cataract surgery. They numbed my eye so much I barely felt anything, and when I did feel a little something, I barely cared thanks to the anaesthetic.
Hopefully, they got the [insert drug that makes you feel drunk] dosage correct so you didn't care about something cutting your eye but also weren't TOO stoned to enjoy the laser light show as he ripped your old lens out. It was as cool as my buddy said it would be - he's a veteran of many acid campaigns.
-BEP
Pages