When did you start losing your vision?? (no not the goal, the EYES!)
11-12-2011, 09:00 PM
#42
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Glasses for nearsightedness starting in 6th grade. Half a century later, after several years with cataracts, I had surgery and now my distance vision is 20/20. The incredible change in color intensity and detail that I can see because of that surgery never ceases to amaze me...some good - the stars are brighter and more plentiful, the sky is bluer, the lake glistens more...and some not so much - I had more gray hair and wrinkles and my house was way more dusty than the day before surgery! 
I use drug store readers for hand sewing, but not for reading...yet.
I use drug store readers for hand sewing, but not for reading...yet.
11-13-2011, 03:49 AM
#43
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: South Texas
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If you haven't started all ready then get on it immediately. I started using Omega 3 a year ago My eye sight has improved so much I don't need tri focals any more and rarely do I use my glasses to read. The eye doctor was amazed. You can get omega 3 pretty much any where. The heart doctors have been pushing it for years and now they have found it is great for eyes too. Good luck!
11-13-2011, 06:55 AM
#47
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About 6 or 7 years ago, I was ordered bi-focals by my then eye doctor. I kept telling him distance is not a problem. He would not listen. Since moving and a new eye dr, finally, nothing wrong with distance. I could have kissed him. I have used readers the last 4 years
11-13-2011, 08:39 AM
#48
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Ohio, just east of Toledo
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I've been nearsighted for years, and wore corrective lenses, especially for driving. 6 years ago, I went to renew my license, and they told me I didn't need glasses to drive. Ok, but I still wore them, but I tended to not wear my glasses for routine things, and took them off for reading and other close work.
Last year, I again have the restriction on my drivers license, it says I need glasses. I now have mild bifocals to read, but still don't wear my glasses for general use.
I'm 53, so about 48 is when the changes started
Last year, I again have the restriction on my drivers license, it says I need glasses. I now have mild bifocals to read, but still don't wear my glasses for general use.
I'm 53, so about 48 is when the changes started
11-13-2011, 10:44 AM
#49
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Merced, CA
Posts: 4,188
I find it's far easier to simply have one of the "reading glasses" from Costco to change to for computer work.
For sewing..regular glasses and I don't think of changing from the ones that live on my face all the time.
For sewing..regular glasses and I don't think of changing from the ones that live on my face all the time.
11-13-2011, 06:47 PM
#50
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Eastern North Dakota
Posts: 116
A few months before I turned 40, the optometrist said that I "could wear bifocals very nicely" and when I said I wasn't 40 yet, she said that was right around the corner! I have had progressive lenses since I was 40 and like them. As an organist/pianist, I now have the mid-vision glasses also-AKA organ glasses. At least I don't look like I will tip over backwards trying to read the music!! They also work very nicely for painting my toenails, using my sewing machine and cutting my husband's hair.
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