Spectacles !

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has found this, but I'm surprised how often I tell fellow sufferers and they don't know it.

If you are like me and in your senility your eyes will no longer focus on your computer screen, newspaper, and worst of all that little fiddly job that really requires close in sight, you will have gone to Lidls, Costo, Boots, etc and bought 'Reader' glasses.

Have you discovered that if you pile one pair on top of another, they add up ? You really can recover that close-to seeing capability - OK you look a tit with three pairs of glasses on your nose and any tool more than 2 feet away is really blurry, but you're in the workshop anyway so whose going to see you ?

And before anyone else says it - if you're worried about making a spectacle of yourself then don't bother..

As others have said - 'I'll get my coat' :>) Rob

Reply to
robgraham
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yeah. I do that. I need trifocals really. Or a pair of bifocals.

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

Or do as I did, go and get a pair of intermediate glasses for computer screen use. (Have almost always worn distance glasses, and never needed readers.) Luckily my company had to pay... Just have to remember to take them with me.

Reply to
Rod

I use a variety of techniques. I have a 'reading' prescription pair of bifocals that mean I can read and watch the telly. Single vision distance does for driving (not strictly necessary but it means I can read how many miles I've done). -0.5 on the reading one does nicely for computer screens.

For fiddly work I use a headband with swappable lenses, in front of the computer glasses.

Oh, and I've just bought a monocle for reading, too.

Reply to
Bob Eager

I've got two sets of varifocals - one for normal use and one for closer work.

It's a bore - until 1988 I never wore glasses at all.

Reply to
Tim Streater

Rod wrote on May 10, 2010:

I've been moderately short-sighted most of my life but it's had the advantage of remaining able to read the computer screen without glasses as I got older and lost the power of accommodation.

Recently I developed a cataract in one eye, and the nice surgeon replaced my cloudy lens with a shiny new one which has restored my distance vision in that eye. So I can now watch television and use the computer without the need for glasses. The brain does a marvellous job in selecting the sharpest image and ignoring the fuzzy one

Reply to
Mike Lane

My old reading glasses do fine for the computer. Not really strong enough for a book any more, but fine for a screen at arms length.

Andy

Reply to
Andy Champ

As I was considering why I couldn't see the screen as well as I had, cataracts occurred to me as a possibility. (Mother had both done on the past few years so very aware of them.) Especially as there was a sort of cloudiness rather than just fuzziness. However research plus an eye examination said this was actually a fairly large vitreous floater. As there isn't a suitable laser in the toolshed, it will have to stay there, unfortunately. But I do think it is what prompted me to get intermediate glasses.

Reply to
Rod

I had a detached retina welded back into place a year ago. Done with an Argon Laser and talk about bright!, not the word for it. Couldn't see afterwards for a few mins but then it all came clear as it were, and has stayed fixed in place since.

And that started of with a sudden burst of floaters which were made of the blood from a torn blood vessel in the retina. They re-absorb in time but some hang around .. just to annoy;!..

Don't do this at home tho;!...

Reply to
tony sayer

Anybody on the group that has contacts as well as specs try this for close work. Put your lenses in and then put your specs on...crap view across the room but hold your hand up approx 8 inches from your face, you'll see lines on there you never thought you had!!!

John

Reply to
John

In message , Tim Streater writes

"What a drag it is getting old ..."

Reply to
geoff

With around 11 dioptres of correction, I only need to slide the glasses up or down my nose a little bit to change them from reading to distance glasses.

Colin Bignell

Reply to
Nightjar

Better than the alternative though.

Colin Bignell

Reply to
Nightjar

I found a clip-on magnifier works best for me for close work. Cost about £6-7 and I wear them with an older pair or glasses. Gives supoerb detail. I tried the headband magnifier with different lenses, but was too heavy for me and anything over about 2-3 times magnification I just couldn't get on with anyway.

Reply to
The Wanderer

Wow. My varifocals have 2.5 dioptres of "correction" (near vs. far) and I thought that was fairly strong.

Reply to
Bruce

4.5 dioptres of cylinder says I won't see my hands.
Reply to
dennis

staying young? Really?

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

Mine are 4.75 (L) and 5.00 (R) and I can certainly see mine!

John

Reply to
John

Pfft. -9.75 and -5.50 cyl.

Reply to
Grant

1966. Now I do feel old!
Reply to
Clot

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