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Always had spot on eyesight. Just started to notice in the last 6 months or so it's getting tougher to read the small print, my job requires a fair bit of reading of small print unfortunately, so reading glasses might be on the horizon.

Is 41 a standard age to see this? What about everyone else?

At about 43. Mrs Red made it to about 45, but yes, virtually everyone will have difficulty with close up vision by the age of 50.

A bit of advice, if it's just reading glasses you need, buy em off the shelf in a big supermarket rather than go to an optician, you will save up to like, 90% of the price.

More advice, don't buy higher magnification than you actually need or you will end up holding everything right up to your face to see it.

More advice, buy one pair that are comfortable that you really like, and a second pair that are really uncomfortable that you hate. You will never lose or damage the second pair.

My emergency readers are a woman's pair with little rhinestones and butterflies on the arms. I've had the bloody things for years.

So how do you buy them in a supermarket? Do you literally just try them on and see what you can see through properly?

Yes. They have varying degrees of magnification marked by a sticker on the lens and sometimes on the inside of the arm, and there are charts for you to look at. (I like to take something with smallish print in with me because then I can look at it in a more natural way than I can with something that is stuck on a wall.

You will probably need something like +1 or +1.5 if your eyes are just beginning to go tits up.

all good poundshops do decent specs in the full range.
Sadly, any specs will worsen your unaided vision, but hey ho

Ok cheers will have a see what the crack is.

These are about a tenner in the shops (If you can find them) but they are definitely the best of the folding type readers. The case is about the same size as a match box and the mechanism is far superior to any of the others.



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Laser treatment won't help what is essentially muscles weakening through age...

Less wanking next time mate please.

Not even a consideration still my eyes stabalise mate. Mmm, another holiday or eyes, that's a tough one :D

My eyesight started going when I was about 8 and has been getting worse ever since lol.

On the plus side I should never need reading glasses!

Wore glasses since I was 10, about a year ago I woke up blind. Went to the eye hospital and they told me I had age related macular degeneration and my eyesight was on par with a 90 year old :/ only 41 myself!

I think we have a winner.

Think this is a myth and my optician tells me that you are just depriving yourself of good vision. 

I had to get some for driving/watching tv/cinema/watching footy matches when I was 27 after putting it off for a year or two.

Commonly touted as a myth, yes, but I'm pretty convinced it's true. Most of 'vision' happens in your brain, and constantly wearing glasses changes how your brain handles visual information, and promotes/demotes contrasts at different spatial frequencies. Some dude who's a prof of vision psychology broke his glasses, came into work without them, noticed his eyesight kept getting better, so ran a series of published experiments to put it to bed once and for all. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~psy359/dept/publications

Paper  http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~psy359/dept/Papers/Blur.pdf
Tell her that your eyesight seems to improve after drinking a pint of beer, see if she thinks that's a myth too. ;)

I've no evidence to back it up but after much research and testing... It does not make you go blind :)

I think this calls for an epxermiment! I'll be the 5 pint subject, you can be 7, we need a volunteer for 10 and 12.

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I think there's definitely some truth to this.  I have astigmatism and was first prescribed glasses for reading/watching tv/driving etc in my early-mid 20s.  On holiday about 5 years ago I just stopped wearing them coz i was doing a bit of a reading, didn't get on with my prescription sunnies and didn't want to wear my normal specs.  After a couple of days my eyes adjusted pretty well and I never bothered putting them back on again.  Over the last year or so I'd noticed the sight in my right eye, in particular, seemed to be getting a bit worse, so got myself some specs again.  Been wearing them a couple of months and when I take them off my unaided sight has definitely deteriorated from before I went speccy again.

 Please post pic in glasses to illustrate :)

I'm short sighted, and it's true- if I don't wear my glasses for a bit, my eyesight does get a bit better. But it's still not as good as it is with glasses. I don't give a monkeys as I wear my glasses all the time anyway.

here ya go.  i think they suit me?

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Very nice! Stunned by your Paint abilities but you haven't done yourself justice ;)

I am 49 and have managed without glasses so far. I have no problems at all with using the computer, watching TV, cinema, sports, books etc. But there are things in small print on jars etc that to me seem to have been printed microscopically small that i have no way of reading without a magnifying glass.

Remember that opticians are not unbiased. It's in their interest to tell you that you need glasses. When you go the following year it's in their interest to tell you that your prescription has changed a little, therefore, you need different glasses...

I was 48.

Get an eye test and they will give you the prescription. If both eyes are the same then get down to tesco or some other outlet who stock them off the shelf for about £10. However if one eye is worse than the other you may have to swallow the pill and buy them from the optician.

15 pints  ;)

FYP :)

y last trip to the optician he told me my eyes were perfect, no need to come back for 5 years. So I celebrated by not going back for 27 years. Maybe I should think abut going soon?

I was 11 and fucked my own eyes by sitting like right infront of the telly for a few months until gg.

Pretty sure I'm gonna get laser surgery when I get back to the uk.

Free eye tests in Scotland ftw, the optometrist is supposed to just supply the service and not pressure you into buying their specs. But they seem to be very skilled at steering you towards the Armanis. Just demand your prescription, ask for the Pupillary distance, if they refuse just get a friend to measure it, then buy your specs online. For a fifth of the price.

http://www.metsuki.com/pupilmeter.php

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i can feel my eyesight getting worse and worse over the last months, never worn glasses or nowt, but think I should visit an optician once back in the uk over xmas.

:D You can be '12' ;)
I've suffered from Chronic Beergogglitis since my teens, many a nightclub experience involved me chatting up a girl, only for a mate to stand quietly behind her doing the 'chewing arm off' code signal.

Boots Opticians now have their own eye test app - download it iPhone users

hmmm dubious...

we was born that way................................

Try it...... It's free to download (Stu & I played around with it.... Apparently my vision isn't perfect and it told me I could do with an eye test ;-)

We can tell that by looking at your boyfriend.

Meany ;-)
I get to see him with his clothes off so there!! Lol

See thems the pics of hopo we need to see right there :)

Lol I do nearly did post one of them the other day.....
But all you men would be jealous ;-)

Was told at 17 that I had perfect vision and the chances of me needing glasses before 40 was infinitesimally small. Three years later I was (and still am obv) short sighted and needed glasses to drive. Bastards.

Reading glasses purchased, I am finally old doh  :-X

Ever wondered why it is called 20/20 vision? Because if you stand 20 feet from the chart and can read the same line as the 'standard' person can also read from 20 feet then you have normal vision. Some people have 20/18 (or better) vision i.e. they can read from 20 feet what a normal person has to stand 18 feet away to read.

In the UK it's metric so normal vision is 6/6 (metres). I'm 2/60 - I have to stand 6 feet from the chart to just make out the letter at the top....

I went to the opticians because I was getting a strange cloudy patch on the outside of my iris, turned out to be nothing (caused by dry eyes, staring at a computer screen too much).

Did an eye test at the same time and I've always had perfect vision (eyesight pretty good in my family) but turned out one eye was starting to get a little weaker. I had no idea until I did the test. Luckily the optician said the difference was very minute and that I had nothing to worry about for a while.

pffft run better, i've literally just had to get glasses for driving. had a 6 month eye infection out of nowhere and suddenly noticed that I couldn't see very well. Turns out I am only slightly iffy and I twice pased the legal vision test for driving with flying colours. All this now means is that I realise why so many people cant drive, they probably cant see. I know for sure that I felt unsafe driving compared to normal and yet I wasn't even close to the limit so that just means theres loads of people utterly blind driving about loling. :s

lol