I can see clearly now...

[Stuuk1]

Stupid question time!

I should note that I have never worn glasses before and have recently been and got a pair on prescription as my right eye is fairly bad at distance stuff.

I found all this out while working at work on my laptop and found that I squinted a lot and really strained my eyes.

After visiting the Opticians (for some reason I almost wrote dentist then.. :confused: ) it turns out im long sighted... or short sighted... I dont know, I cant see things far away.

Now, when I went to the opticians, I specifically said that I needed them for computer work and consequently got an anti-glare coating on the lenses.

So... here I am, on my laptop and I'm wearing them, knowing they are long distance lenses, am I potentially damaging my eyes by using them for close up stuff? I mean, everything is so clear, its great!

[kiggles]

firstly you are short sited meaning you can see things close clearly and things at distance blurred. no your not damaging your eyes by using them to read computer screen.

secondly the anti glare coating is crap and a complete rip off, better off getting protective cover on them. i used to have anti glare until i realised it not the blinded bit of difference but cost £30 a lense!!!

[Paul the 6th]

I keep fearing the day I have to get glasses because apparently it's a bit like when a frail person gets a walking stick, first it's a great help and makes life easier, then they start to depend on it, then if they're ever without it they're completely buggered because it's become a part of them..

Suppose you can always get super duper laser eye blasting when you're nearly blind though.

[Stuuk1]

firstly you are short sited meaning you can see things close clearly and things at distance blurred. no your not damaging your eyes by using them to read computer screen.

secondly the anti glare coating is crap and a complete rip off, better off getting protective cover on them. i used to have anti glare until i realised it not the blinded bit of difference but cost £30 a lense!!!


Oh that's good! I also got a pair of the reactors without the glare and cant notice the difference either..

[Littlepeahead]

The reactors take a few days to work then they get quicker and darker. The anti glare I find works really well cutting down the flare on car headlights for night driving.

[dizzyblonde]

I keep fearing the day I have to get glasses because apparently it's a bit like when a frail person gets a walking stick, first it's a great help and makes life easier, then they start to depend on it, then if they're ever without it they're completely buggered because it's become a part of them..

Suppose you can always get super duper laser eye blasting when you're nearly blind though.

This can be indeed true. I have always worn specs. I have astygmatism pretty bad in my left eye, and the right eye is its walking stick, as its not that bad. I've got one Mr Magoo lens, and the other is normal. Over the years of wearing specs, my prescription hasn't really gotten worse, just my eyes can't stand to be without specs :(

However yesterday, because of freezing fog (and contrary to belief it was actually freezing, as there were people scraping their car windscreens today, and it was colder yesterday) my specs were deemed completely useless, and I was pushed into going without whilst riding the bike [-o<
It was a case of death by blindness, or death by fog.....toss a coin.... etc

As for laser surgery, someone I know with astygatism in their eyes had it done....only to find they had to get reading glasses....which they never needed prior to having it done :rolleyes:

[SIII]

.....Lorraine has gone.




For years, I would swear those were the lyrics!!!!!!!:smt083

[DJFridge]

My reactors go dark pretty quickly and then take all afternoon to go clear again. I didn't get glasses until I was driving at night a lot and getting sore eyes from straining to see. I mix between glasses and contact lenses. Lenses are easier on the bike but I can't work on the computer with them so I tend to only wear them at weekends or at the gym. Also, despite being the same prescription, I don't find driving/riding at night as easy in lenses as the glasses. Weird

[Mrs DJ Fridge]

I need glasses to see anything, my prescription hasn't changed in years but I would not get the laser surgery done because i have to take my glasses of for very small print and threading needles. Like DJ I use lenses for riding bike during the day, but cannot use them at night for some bizarre reason. I don't think my glasses have made my eyes any worse, if that was the case my prescription would have continued to worsen, it has not changed for over ten years.

[dizzyblonde]

Wierd about the lenses guys, Peg prefers them for the bike too, but doesn't find riding at night any different.
He is mister Magoo, and can't see in front of his own face.....and the git can have daily throw away lenses, I can't have them and I can see much better. Apparently his astigmatism prescription isn't as complicated.....mines speshul, so I can only have the horrid ones :(

[Stuuk1]

I have astygmatism pretty bad in my left eye, and the right eye is its walking stick

This is what I have, but I'm my right eye. The glasses are great, can't believe I've been so long without a pair..



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[dizzyblonde]

This is what I have, but I'm my right eye. The glasses are great, can't believe I've been so long without a pair..



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You do realise you are born with it........how the hell did nobody pick up on it when you were a child?

[embee]

Like everything, not all coatings are equal, some are more equal than others.

I find the anti-glare from Specsavers has worked nicely and I've had extremely good experience with the anti-scratch side of it. A friend of mine had some anti-whatever coating on his specs from another place and it flaked off. Useless.

I find I tend to use my reactions specs only in very bright conditions, like on holiday on the continent. Hardly use them in the UK, mostly the light isn't bright enough for me. Also note due to the UV filtering they hardly change when behind car windscreen or helmet visors.

My prescription has barely changed for 20yrs but now my eyes are beginning to suffer the ravages of time, they definitely aren't as flexible as they were and I can't get the close vision I used to, that's just age, it's not a result of wearing specs. On the other hand I've always thought it good practice to exercise your eyes as much as you can, regularly look at a distant object if you're doing close up stuff, and vice versa.

It's a bit like old folk complaining that modern food doesn't have the flavour it did when they were young. Truth is they have lost most of their sense of taste and smell.