What’s your eyesight like?
 

Are you blind as a bat without glasses or are you (relatively) 20/20 vision-wise?

Always had pretty perfect eyesight, but increasingly having to move things further away from my face if I want to see anything other than a blur.

I’ve always had perfect eyesight, but recently, pre covid, it started to go. I can’t read or see things far away. I now need varifocals that I’ve to wear all the time.
I’ve still not managed to get them and it’s gradually getting worse. :sad:
(I am aware it’s an age thing, before anyone wishes to point that out)

Sick of the sight if reading glasses.

Up and down, up and down.

I have that fuzzy-but-manageable level of short-sightedness I’m not even aware of most of the time. Stopped wearing contacts some point in my late teens but I still crave that HD/ultra-clear vision at times.

Where’s the option for people with good vision?

Optometrist says I have better than 2020 vision :ninja2:

Could you add an option for people with “20/20” vision Niamh? That’s the one option I left out somehow.

I wore contact lens for 30 years and it caused the awful eye problem i have now for 15 yrs !
As i have got older my eyes do not need glasses any longer ~ but my problem is forever now and if only i knew then what i know now it would never have happened !

I have to have special drops made at hospital and pandemic has sent all that to pot !

A sore subject :bawling:.

I had 20/20 until about 3 or 4 years ago, it was getting noticeably crap (especially things like screens at a distance) and I was getting headaches, which I suspected was eyestrain, so I got tested and have had glasses for a few months now. I'm used to them at this point.

My prescription is pretty mild (-1.50 both eyes, 0.5 astigmatism) but since getting used to being able to see well, I feel really blind without them :umm2:.

On the plus side, my corrected vision is actually better than 20/20 :hee:.

Also I should blatantly NOT have been driving without them, especially at night... Sometimes I like to peek out from behind them to remember what things used to look like and... ****... I really couldn't see at night in the car :joker:. The combination of the sort of "lens flare" effect of astigmatism, plus short sightedness, makes everything just a confusing blur of headlights. Weeee.

Okay now, thankfully.
Need glasses for reading and laptop.
I was going blind, had only 17% eyesight due to worsening cataracts.
The optician sorted me an emergency appt at the private clinic and had both eyes done about 6 weeks apart.

You wont have it for long if you keep standing in front of the mirror for hours you tart.

I still have good eyes but I used to be able to look at hallmarks with the naked eye but I can’t anymore.

I think looking at phones and lap tops are the cause.

I need to wear glasses most of time as i am very short sighted and i can't wear contacts as i can't stand the thought of touching my own eyeballs. But (in non COVID times obvs) I am too vain and if i'm going out i don't and just rely on my friends to point me in the right direction ....

Can't see anything without my glasses unless it's up close to my face, and i don't like contact lense .

Not bad at all, I'm short sighted slightly and have glasses for reading/drawing/anything up close.

I also have floaters in my eyes from the short sightedness which can be annoying as hell but only really bother me if I look at something really bright and plain (screens, walls, bright sky etc). Like little black specks/cobwebs in my vision.

...yeah, I don’t mind the egg white...the yolk, though..:love:...

They're not perfect but they're good enough for driving etc

That's what I thought though Niamh! Then I went to the optometrist and when they put the little "testing" lenses in I was SHOOK, and the first time I wore glasses in the car I was like "OH **** I've been driving about half blind".

Well, when I say good enough for driving, they were good enough to get my licence :hehe: I know it'd probably be a lot better with glasses but meh I see enough, I don't need to see anymore

yeah driving is a big risk. I was the same. The read the number plate test is always a good check. If you say ... wheres the number plate, you have a problem :laugh:

Depends how close I am :laugh:

https://i.imgur.com/VvtVh4H.png

"You're right it was an M not an H :hehe:"

:laugh2:

...I have prescription sunglasses, they’re my most treasured thing...:lovedup:..I only go out on bright, sunny days...I’m the opposite of a vampire...

I started wearing glasses when I was learning to drive because I couldn't read the number plate. I only needed them for driving so used to forget them all the time so started wearing them more. Now I can't get out of bed without putting them on. When we were allowed out, I wear contacts. My son used to cry when I put them in as he knew I was off out :laugh: