glasses

[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.