When did your eyesight start to go?

[Woodsey]

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?

[RED-DOG]

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.

[Woodsey]

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

[RED-DOG]

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.

[ManuelsMum]

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

[Woodsey]

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.

Ok cheers will have a see what the crack is.

[RED-DOG]

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.



http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/360413118003?clk_rvr_id=289604699799

[Simon Galloway]

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

[Woodsey]

Get laser treatment, its the shiz. Best 2K I EVER spent!

Oh and if you do, then hit me up and I can earn us both some wedge...

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

[Cf]

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!

[dik9]

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!

[zerofive]

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.

[smashedagain]

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

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

[TheChipPrince]

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.

[ManuelsMum]

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

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

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.