Seems age is catching up with some of the OEM equipment and i need either bifocal or multifocal lens. The good news is that there is no percusors for glaucoma, diabetes, and while the pressure test says i am at 21, my retina walls are thick. One worry was laid to rest, as my drivers license comes up for renewal in december , and with it the updated vision test. My current percription will suffice for that, as the far sight has not changed, only the near sightedness. Now its on to see how much insurance will pay, from being used to paying thirty bucks for single focus lens, to hearing hundreds for multifocal was a bit sobering.
I liked this guy though, as with Dentists and drills, optometrists have their own little torture methods, the eye drops that fully dilate your eyes. Had i known this was not going to be done, i would have made it a point to visit earlier. No up selling and no nagging bout smokes were very much appreciated.
We did share a laugh regarding a piece of stone age tech, that gizmo that you look through, while the doctor adjusted the widgets at the side to make text clearer or fuzzier. He was sort of embarrassed, promising to get the new toys as soon as possible, but that they were not as precise as the old school method, his heart was not in it though.
One thing i was very much appreciative of, was that he was decisive. No mention of floaters, and a need for a specialist just to make sure.
Is the difference between near and far vision so great that you need bifocals?
Mine are close enough I can sit and use my reading glasses on the computer and watch a tv that is about 10 feet away just fine. Actually I forgot to change glasses and went out driving with my reading glasses and didn’t notice the difference until I got back home:smack: I could read the signs just fine, at the same distances as with my distance glasses.
[I detest bifocals. I feel that in general they are a waste of money, I am either doing distance work or close work, I rarely flip up and down.]
Honestly I don’t know. I have never tried reading glasses as my old perscription more or less covered covered both. What exactly do you look for in reading glasses, for purchasing anyways.
I went to the eye doctor last Friday. Apparently, I don’t quite need reading glasses yet.
This is the first time it was even a discussion - historically, when he hands me the little card and asks me to read the smallest line I can make out, I go right for the smallest line on the card.
This time - I couldn’t read that line.
I know it’s inevitable…but…I don’t want to deal with reading glasses or bifocals!
-D/a
I think you mean the corneas - at least, that’s what they tell me, with very similar pressure readings. They don’t even do the air puff test on me any more because I get false highs on those. They go straight to the eye drops / toniometry (sp?). I’ve only had the pachymetry twice (once at each of two practitioners).
I do hate the whole “aging eyes” thing. Makes it especially tough for me to find glasses that work. I tried full-on progressives (that covered reading to distance all in one) and they were INSTANT HEADACHES. After a couple of tries, I’ve settled on single-distance for driving (that live in the car and only rarely get trotted out for something else), and room-distance progressives that work, if non-perfectly, for reading, computer, and maybe up to 10 feet away. Somehow the reduced difference between low and high strengths makes those more tolerable (e.g. they go from 1 to 7 vs the full-on ones that went from 1 to 11).
I’ve accidentally driven in those, a handful of times - and while I might be legal in them, it’s rather scary. Hence leaving the distance glasses in the car. First thing I do when I buckle up is swap glasses.
I have been wearing no-line bifocals for some time now and really like them. However, my last trip to the eye doctor brought me the unpleasant news that I have cataracts beginning to form. :eek:
I was chatting with the lady who was taking my info at the optometrists, and mentioning that at least one of my relatives had cataracts, but they were able to do what ever they did to remove them, so at least its not the blindness that would follow in days gone by.
By the way, when someone mentiones reading glasses, are we talking about those magnifying glasses that sell at the drug store, or a perscription lens you would by at lens crafters or the like.
As well, is there any website that you submit a picture and they show you what you would look like with the latest frames ?
