If I didn't feel my glasses were still "stylin" I'd replace them. However the change in prescription is so minor, we'll spend the $ getting that bumper repaired instead.

I held off on even readers until mid 40's, but once you need the readers, I don't think you ever go back.....

 

Eleven years ago, I hit 40. No big deal, full head of hair, still could kick the crap out of any my my four sons if they had any concept of testing the old man. But, one day, I bought a round of Slurpee's for the guys, and it had some kind of Game Ticket on the side that you were suppose to "tear off". I did so, with hopes of becoming a pit crew member to Tony Kannan and the 7-11 pit crew squad. But, to my disappointment, the font of the game piece was too "fuzzy". WHen the youngest (yes......Zack, then 6 years old) said..."Dad, why did you throw away the winning game pice? I replid that it was a bad printing of the game piece, it was a bogus marketing scheme.

He then dug it out of the kitchen garbage can, gave it to #3 son Cody (age 10), who proceeded to read it off in its entireity, and made me look look shorter than the whopping 5'-8" stature of a man than I am.

I then knew I was doomed. Hence, to the the eyeball doctor and admit procrastination and defeat.

Bottom Line: when you hit 40ish, reading lenses are sgoing to be standard issue, with a repeated visit to the Doctor every year instead of the usual 3-4. Expect a gradual downard spiral of your vision through the next 10 years. Then, it'll start to slow down, and your prescription will begin to even out.

I am the poster child for this factoid. You heard it here first..............

 

Maybe if you'd focus your attention about 250 yds downrange? ;-)

 

I needed distance correction before I could drive.

At about age 50, I went to renew my driver's license yet another time. I was told to look into the machine, and proceeded to do so with my glasses on. The woman behind the counter insisted I do it without my glasses first. I told her I'd been failing that test for 35+ years; she insisted and I passed. For the first time in my life, I could legally drive without glasses; I say legally, because Ohio's standards are lower than mine.

The change in the shape of the eye that requires reading glasses as you age can improve distance vision at the same time.

 

[QUOTE=zacksdad2,Oct 8 2010, 09:32 PM]

ll doctor and admit procrastination and defeat.

Bottom Line:

 

Haven't been on here in a long time. I'm one of the older owners at 64. My lady is a 2003 I bought new. I've worn readers for 25 years or so. About 5 years ago, I noticed my eyes would not adjust rapidly to low light conditions. So I visited an ex racer who is an eye surgeon. gave me a clean bill and suggested I continue with the cheap readers. then my mother had macular degeneration and could no longer read. As my low light vision deteriorated, I believed I had the same condition. Then as a photographer, I found I could no longer focus properly in my left eye. this combination made me give up night driving in our Town and Country. The S200 lighting was bright enough for me still. Finally knowing I could not pass my August vision test to renew my license, I visited another doctor. No macular degeneration, but a cataract. Good news. I had the surgery and now I only use the readers when my eyes are tired from viewing through a lens or too much time on my laptop. I'm confident to drive at night again.

 

Glad to hear it!

It's amazing what eye surgery can do for cataracts nowadays.

 

Hey, are you on Prime too? Isn't there a zacksdad there, too?

 

The older I get, the better it gets

I'm near sighted, the lenses in my eyes have too much curvature, as I age that curvature flattens out and my overall sight improves. When I was in high school my prescription was -4.75 and -4.5, I'm now down to -3.25 and -3.00, those numbers may not seem like a big change, but the reduction in lens thicknesses has been a big improvement as far as I'm concerned.

Now, the downside

With my glasses on I cannot get a perfect focus on anything closer than about 24", and with my glasses off I can't get a focus on anything farther away than about 18". I refuse to deal with bifocals so I do a lot of lifting my glasses or taking them off for close work.

For the most part this is not a problem, however, it is a problem when I take them off and then forget where they are and step on them or lean on them to get up and crush them. I solved this problem though by buying OSHA Spec frames which are dirt cheep and come is perfectly acceptable designs so I buy 2 or 3 sets of frames at once and if I crush them, I just pop the lenses into a new set of frames and carry on. Frames are in the $35 range, but of course the lenses cost a small fortune because they have to be OSHA Spec safety lenses, but that's ok, it's a trade off that has worked well because the safety frames are so strong they survive year of getting crammed in and out of a helmet without breaking.

 

Doug, the no line bifocals have come a LONG way. I started with those as my first "official" pair of glasses and didn't encounter any problems getting used to them.