How specky am I?
 

I've just had my eyes tested. Theres nothing wrong with them as such, it's just I've started to notice my arms are getting shorter and I can't hold the paper far enough away to read small print! Alternatively, by the time the paper is at the right distance, the print is now so small I can't bloody see it!

Anyway, not knowing if I needed a magnifying glass or a telescope, I thought I'd get em looked at. And it's free in Scotland...

So the prescription is +6 and +5 and that's the question - how specky am I? Does the scale go 0-100 in which case I could get some reading glasses from the petrol station or does it go 0-10 in which case I should really be pricing up white sticks?

Re: How specky am I?
 

Don't know how specky you are, but I'm at -4.5 in each eye, so I have to hold stuff real close to see it.

Re: How specky am I?
 

I'm very short sighted -6.50 in one -8.75 in the other

Re: How specky am I?
 

Cant remember What I'm.....What I do know is that I shouldnt have been driving with how bad my eyes were :eek:

Re: How specky am I?
 

Dunno, sounds like you are very long sighted.

Maybe this will help. dunno what it means!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyeglass_prescription

I'm shortsighted, -2.5 and -3

Re: How specky am I?
 

I'm -5.50 and -6.50. Does this mean you are long-sighted (I presume so since I'm short-sighted)?

Re: How specky am I?
 

Sounds like you need sonar :lol:

Or milk-bottle bottoms ;)

You might be lucky and find some off the shelf, but don't be dissapointed if you don't. That's a serious prescription that you have.

Oh, and from the description (i.e. seeing distance okay but not close up stuff) you're long-sighted :thumbsup:

Re: How specky am I?
 

Think yerself lucky. The cornea of my right eye was messed up by a coldsore (yes a coldsore) when i was a kid. The lens I need to correct the vision in my right eye is so strong, my brain gets all confused and i see double - hence now i just rely on my left eye (with no need for a lens). apparently i am still fine to drive as my brain corrects the right image somehow - clever things brains.

I'd agree though that you'd be unlikely to get any decent glasses off the shelf. Using the wrong glasses (or none) can make your vission deteriorate still further as you strain your muscles to focus.

Re: How specky am I?
 

is it nothing to do with 20-20

as in 20 20 vision

remember hearng that saying years ago

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It was exactly that 'explanation' that made me ask the Org!

Now that's an answer for the layman! You have confirmed my fears, but thanks anyway.

So, anybody remember the Viz character 'Specky ****? That's me that is.