Glasses or contacts?

[Stevedog]

When I was a kid and in the Army I was told that my vision was "better than 20/20". I hadn't done another eye test until I got a complete physical about 15 years ago. At that time I was told that my eye sight was a perfect 20/20 and I was a bit concerned as that was not as good as before. However that doctor only spent about 5 minutes going over my results. He said that every test came back as textbook perfect and refunded me the co-pay for that visit since he didn't need to go over any results or recommend any health/lifestyle changes.

Last year I started to notice that I sometimes needed more light to read fine print. At the beginning of this year I had trouble reading the ingredients label on a jar and used the camera on my phone to "zoom" in on the words. This past August I was in the hardware store with my son. I was having a hard time reading a label and asked my son if he could read it. He had no problem with it. I looked around and saw a display of cheap "readers", grabbed a 1.25 and found i could now read the label without issue. I bought the item and the glasses.

 

[Ragnar0711]

When I was a kid and in the Army I was told that my vision was "better than 20/20". I hadn't done another eye test until I got a complete physical about 15 years ago. At that time I was told that my eye sight was a perfect 20/20 and I was a bit concerned as that was not as good as before. However that doctor only spent about 5 minutes going over my results. He said that every test came back as textbook perfect and refunded me the co-pay for that visit since he didn't need to go over any results or recommend any health/lifestyle changes.

Last year I started to notice that I sometimes needed more light to read fine print. At the beginning of this year I had trouble reading the ingredients label on a jar and used the camera on my phone to "zoom" in on the words. This past August I was in the hardware store with my son. I was having a hard time reading a label and asked my son if he could read it. He had no problem with it. I looked around and saw a display of cheap "readers", grabbed a 1.25 and found i could now read the label without issue. I bought the item and the glasses.

Dude, that's how it happen with me, first the lighting, lol, then using my phone camera to zoom in on what I was reading lol. Asking others if they could read stuff I couldn't. Then buying the readers.
Steve, before you got the readers, did what you reading seem fuzzy/ blurry? That's the best way to describe what I saw without readers or using my phone camera

 

[Stevedog]

Dude, that's how it happen with me, first the lighting, lol, then using my phone camera to zoom in on what I was reading lol. Asking others if they could read stuff I couldn't. Then buying the readers.
Steve, before you got the readers, did what you reading seem fuzzy/ blurry? That's the best way to describe what I saw without readers or using my phone camera

Yes, that's exactly how I would describe it as well. I could see the letters but they were a little "fuzzy" so it was hard to tell the difference between 9, 6, 8 and B for example. It was similar to how I can't quite make out a street sign or billboard from really far away.

If it's happening to you as well then I'm going blame it on something in the air, like fog or dust. My wife says it's a sign of aging but neither you nor I are old yet!

 

[Ragnar0711]

Yes, that's exactly how I would describe it as well. I could see the letters but they were a little "fuzzy" so it was hard to tell the difference between 9, 6, 8 and B for example. It was similar to how I can't quite make out a street sign or billboard from really far away.

If it's happening to you as well then I'm going blame it on something in the air, like fog or dust. My wife says it's a sign of aging but neither you nor I are old yet!

Exactly same. Has to be the air...We're still spring chickens

 

[K9-1]

So far I need neither. Now sure they tiny bar codes at work i have to take a second look at sometimes,but it's tiny! Also I get 1 number wrong and things could be bad...lol

 

[JahaRa]

I have worn glasses since I was in 3rd grade. I am near sighted with an astigmatism like Duke. I tried contacts in the 70's but could not get my eyes to quit watering and wash them out. I now use two pair of glasses, one for distance and one for computer work. I don't need a pair to read with. I just move my distance glasses up and down my nose as I need. Sometimes in the store if I want to read a lable I have to look over my glasses to see well enough to read the small print. I tried progressives once but the prescriptions was so wrong I couldn't see no matter which part of the lense I looked through. That is when I switched to two pair of glasses.

 

[Lynne]

When I was a kid and in the Army I was told that my vision was "better than 20/20". I hadn't done another eye test until I got a complete physical about 15 years ago. At that time I was told that my eye sight was a perfect 20/20 and I was a bit concerned as that was not as good as before. However that doctor only spent about 5 minutes going over my results. He said that every test came back as textbook perfect and refunded me the co-pay for that visit since he didn't need to go over any results or recommend any health/lifestyle changes.

Last year I started to notice that I sometimes needed more light to read fine print. At the beginning of this year I had trouble reading the ingredients label on a jar and used the camera on my phone to "zoom" in on the words. This past August I was in the hardware store with my son. I was having a hard time reading a label and asked my son if he could read it. He had no problem with it. I looked around and saw a display of cheap "readers", grabbed a 1.25 and found i could now read the label without issue. I bought the item and the glasses.

aging sucks that is all I have to say.

 

[Lynne]

I have worn glasses since I was in 3rd grade. I am near sighted with an astigmatism like Duke. I tried contacts in the 70's but could not get my eyes to quit watering and wash them out. I now use two pair of glasses, one for distance and one for computer work. I don't need a pair to read with. I just move my distance glasses up and down my nose as I need. Sometimes in the store if I want to read a lable I have to look over my glasses to see well enough to read the small print. I tried progressives once but the prescriptions was so wrong I couldn't see no matter which part of the lense I looked through. That is when I switched to two pair of glasses.

Contacts have improved greatly since the 70's you might want to give them another try.

 

[Paintman]

When I was a kid and in the Army I was told that my vision was "better than 20/20". I hadn't done another eye test until I got a complete physical about 15 years ago. At that time I was told that my eye sight was a perfect 20/20 and I was a bit concerned as that was not as good as before. However that doctor only spent about 5 minutes going over my results. He said that every test came back as textbook perfect and refunded me the co-pay for that visit since he didn't need to go over any results or recommend any health/lifestyle changes.

Last year I started to notice that I sometimes needed more light to read fine print. At the beginning of this year I had trouble reading the ingredients label on a jar and used the camera on my phone to "zoom" in on the words. This past August I was in the hardware store with my son. I was having a hard time reading a label and asked my son if he could read it. He had no problem with it.

I looked around and saw a display of cheap "readers", grabbed a 1.25 and found i could now read the label without issue. I bought the item and the glasses.

Welcome to the club.
Few years ago, a pretty gal and I were having eggs & toast. It's 3am. She's already wearing my shirt.

And she wondered about why there was a pump action shotgun and a .45 on my night stand.

"It's to protect my glasses. "

 

[JahaRa]

Contacts have improved greatly since the 70's you might want to give them another try.

No, I am old and set in my ways. I really don't like anything in my eyes. My daughters wear contacts but when they are tired they take them out and put on their glasses.