Re: I HATE GETTING OLD!

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:57:42 GMT, Optician Dragon
<dragonlensman1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Just as a side note - the drugstore readers can actually worsen your
eyes.

Now, everything I've read has said otherwise. I thought perhaps
forcing myself to read without the reading glasses would be better, as
in getting my eyes "exercise" and also not letting them get lazy by
using reading glasses. But I kept reading that it wouldn't make any
difference. (And no, it wasn't places trying to sell them. I've
heard that from eye doctors.)

Caveat: with contacts, they can be less problematic, since hopefully
your contacts at least equalize both your eyes. Most people of course
do not have identical eyes, so what sense does it make to wear
identically lensed readers?

It doesn't make any sense, although I've never thought about it
before. Mostly cause I wear contacts, and also because reading
glasses alone really don't do anything for me. (i.e. using reading
glass with no other correction actually makes things worse. If I have
my glasses on, I just take them off if I can't read something.)

I know one person who sticks reading glasses on top of her regular
glasses. :-)

Also most people do not have the same PD
(pupillary distance = distance between eyes) as everyone else,so what
sense does it make to wear readers with a generic PD, unless you
happen to have the same one (+/- 2 mm)?Most people also have
astigmatism, and no readers correct for that.

I have very, very slight astigmatism, but it's never been corrected in
my contacts and has never been a problem. I did have an eye doctor
who suddenly wanted me to switch to the ones that can correct for
that, but after all these years it just looked extremely weird and I
didn't much see the point in re-adjusting when I could see fine.
(That was the same guy who wanted me to try the mono vision, and my
eye sight is really too lousy for that to work right. The guy I'm
going to now thought it was a lousy idea.)

A study was done
recently where people were examined by doctors to determine what power
they actually needed, then were given access to a display of readers
and told to pick which ones felt right for them. Almost 80% picked
ones that were too strong (the PD problem becomes worse at higher
powers) for what they really needed.

Same said eye doctor who got insistent about the mono vision would not
even discuss reading glasses with me. At the time I was able to still
read except for the tiniest of prints. So he was even pushing this on
me before I really even needed it. When I brought up reading glasses,
he said most people use ones that are too strong. So, that's a reason
to not even discuss it with me? So tell me that's a problem and
explain to me how to avoid the problem. Don't just ignore it. I hate
when experts at things assume I'm not intelligent to understand
anything about their subject. Since I was aware of this, I was
careful when I started getting reading glasses. I started with the
1.25 and only put them on when I couldn't see something. Eventually I
had to start getting 1.5, then 1.75 and I now own one pair of 2.0.
But I still use the 1.25 on the computer and even for many other tasks
if they work OK. I use the 1.5 at work cause I'm trying to read those
blasted little exponents in math books. Really, the 1.75 would be
better for that, but I can see most everything else with 1.5. And I
rarely even touch the 2.0. I reserve those for stuff like the phone
book.

I don't make an attempt to force myself to see things that aren't
quite clear. Maybe something quick. But if I'm going to sit and read
something, I'll use whatever's necessary. It bugs out my eyes more to
be able to read, but not quite have it clear enough.

One thing that has become a big annoyance is all these products that
put together bad colors, or shiny paper or something like that. Cat
food cans printed purple on pink backgrounds. That stuff's difficult
for a lot of people, but when I started losing the close-up, all of
that stuff became impossible regardless of size.

Then some of them were wearing
them for tasks that did notr require their use. After the study, those
who wore them more than they should have actually developed hyperopia,
or at least stronger hyperopia than they already had. This is the
firat study in this field and there are others in progress to
determine if the results are repeatable. If so, addictive hyperopia
might become more commonplace.

I really haven't the faintest idea whether this actually works. An
eye doctor my brother went to in California suggested this exercise of
focusing on something close up, then switching to something far away,
and continuing to switch back and forth like that. She said it
wouldn't help correct anything, but would help slow further
progression. I actually do that occasionally, but don't think about
it very often. It also starts bugging out your eyes pretty quick. :-)


But if I want to see anything I don't have much choice. Except for
going back to glasses permanently and I refuse to give up my contacts
if I don't have to. For one thing, they've never ever, ever been able
to get a prescription right for me for glasses. And the "bifocal"
contacts they make now don't really work right and don't fit my eyes
right. I also don't see how that can work on a computer when I'm not
looking down. Not to mention that I haven't figured out how that's
gonna work right if you look down at like the floor that is further
away. It also concerns me that I'd have to get something strong
enough for the smaller print, which is way too much for bigger print,
and too strong for the monitor.


That's a common question and complaint. People stand in front of you,
raise their chin way up and look way down and complain "The floor is
blurry! Boo hoo! I can't SEE the floor like this!" I ask them if that
is the way they normally walk. No that's not the case in any
situation. Usually when people walk, they're looking across the room
or street, up at the sky, off to the left or right, NOT right at their
toes.

Well, I don't tilt my chin up to look at the floor, I tip it down
some. But I don't tip it down enough that I would be looking through
the top part of a pair of bifocals. It would end up being the bottom
part. I'd really have to tip my head down more for that to work,
which isn't a good idea anyway since I have upper back problems. (I
avoid pulling on my spine like that if possible.) And yes, I do look
at the floor. For one thing, the cat is on the floor. :-) Or
va***. Etc. And with something focused to close-up, it's totally
blurry. I wasn't concerned about when I was just walking around. And
I didn't notice this problem because I was "testing" my floor vision.
I just realized it was a problem when I'd have my reading glasses on
and happen to need to look down. Meaning, I was doing it naturally.
And when that happened & it was all blurry, I took note of what part
of those reading glasses I was looking through -- the bottom. I
wasn't "rigging" a test. This is actually even more true considering
that I need small frames.


And I can eat a whole bag of
fritoes.

Well, I *can* eat them. In fact, I'm really quite good at it.

Problem is,six ounces of fritoes turns into one pound o' lard
on me,Conservation of mass, my ass!

One lousy bag isn't gonna do that to me (not by itself, anyway), but
it will churn my stomach up something horrid.

And I miss the Frito Bandito!

I forgot about the Frito Bandito! Maybe he just got thrown in prison
and is waiting for his parole.

This is making me want fritoes!

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