glasses

[Brandi]

Ok I have a ?
Last night I got a splinter in my thumb. No big right? Well I had a hard time looking at it up close. I wear glasses but they are for seeing far away. Do I need glasses for seeing up close now too. Old age is setting in huh? Do I just go to the drug store and buy the one's there? I don't need to see the eye Dr for another year.
This is a bit of a bummer I used to be able to see things so well.

[LBTC]

Hey, Brandi

I have that to look forward to, also. Guaranteed to happen since the glasses I have now are for near sightedness, as are yours.

Personally, I believe in the eye doctor rather than just throwing on magnifying glasses (that's what they sell at the drug store). But I haven't had to deal with this yet, so what do I know?

Good luck!

Hugs and bright butterflies that help make everything you see clearer,
~T~

[Brandi]

I have a friend who is an eye Dr. Or was he has MS now and had to stop maybe I will ask him what he thinks as well.

[LBTC]

Great idea, Brandi!

~T~

[BeeLady]

I wear Fitovers http://fitovers.com. I love em and they're not too geeky. Mine work really well for me and give me good protection from wind and sun. Hope you check em out.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Well maybe you can get away with the drugstore magnifier glasses for another year until your eye doctor appt. But DO see your doctor for a new prescription! You are very typical with age changes.
I wear graduated lenses, you don't see the lines where the lens changes. The bottoms are good for reading up close, the middle part focuses on mid-distance like if you are talking to someone or looking across the room. The upper 1/3 helps me see highway signs far away. Believe it or not, after a month your body adapts to this arrangement and it all becomes second nature to tip your head slightly to bring things into focus without even thinking about it. It's a very subtle thing. Usually when you look downwards you are looking at stuff pretty close up anyway.

It is two different eye/vision problems at work here- nearsightedness, and astigmatism due to aging eyes. Everyone gets the second one, it's due to our eyeballs getting less flexible to focus in close as we get older.

I resisted wearing glasses for as long as I could. But I earn my living with my eyes and seeing/drawing tiny details, and eventually I had to get glasses in order to see. Drugstore glasses did the trick for a few years, but actually if you get a well done prescription you will need LESS strong magnification than if you use drugstore glasses. Over the years it became harder to read far off highway signs, until that became a real problem and I found I was walking around squinting all the time. Not fun. I feel way better now with proper prescription glasses than when I was trying to get away with drugstore glasses- and of course both my eyes are different, which drugstore glasses don't take into account- not good!
I had none of these issues when I was in my 20's and 30's, by the way.