Wow Do New Glasses Help!

I'm not old but apparently I AM high mileage, I finally got reading glasses for close up work. its a whole new world, there is close up detail again in my life, and it makes looking at stamps a completely different thing. I've needed them for a while but put it off. If you do too, ....well don't.

reminds me to set appt with eye doc.

Yes I am in the same boat... I need reading glasses now... I have a magnifiing glass beside by computer to look at stamps close!

For ages I thought it was just "bad light" lol

I will get some glasses next time I go to town.
Regards
Gavin

I started my reading glasses at 1.0+ about 30 years ago. Now, I am using 2.5+ or, better still, 3.0+ and with the help of a magnifying glass. It is going to get worse every year goes by. Well, despite of all that, I am still a stamp collector.

Well, going the other direction, I have -7.0 contacts. I think that I can see a 5 foot tall letter if I am 6 inches away from it. Been like that for decades now.

+4 or something? Had to be made at any rate. Macular degeneration is in my family so I had better take care of my eyes. No sign of it yet so I take the vitamins and got progressive shading sunglasses. No more cutting steel without goggles etc. Stop being such a kid in other words.

Hi

I had cataract surgery in both eyes recently. Before that I could hardly read a catalog's small print, even with my nose 2 inches away.

I had an option for correction to near vision or far vision, Medicare doesn't pay for both. I opted for near vision and have glasses for distance. Now, without glasses, I can see a "pimple on a bugs butt". With glasses my vision is corrected to 20/20 which I haven't had since 5 years old.

Jerry B

After many years of perfect eyesight, I began to notice that when I was driving, I couldn't read roadsigns from as far away as I used to. I went for an eye test. The optician said I still had 20/20 vision. "If you want to read the roadsigns", he pronounced, "try slowing down...".

This is off topic a bit, but just last year an elderly neighbour got killed by a tramway.
He did not wear his hearing aids and did not hear the nearing streetcar while busy with collaring his dog on the rails.
So: 1. Get hearing aids and 2. use them!
They are as necessary as good glasses!

Stampgal,

I have that same problem.. would slowing down help?