So, I went for an eye exam this morning...

[peeonme]

It's been a few years ans I can't see worth a damn anymore. I was told that I need stronger lenses and they tried to talk me in to a progressive lens. I went with tri-focals to save about $100.00.

Have had an eye exam lately? What sort(if any) of glasses or contacts do you wear?

 

[ballcaphair]

Bifocals for work and gp. Contacts for cycling and photography. For me bifocals rule and contacts make colors brighter. If you can, do both.

 

[gsdx]

Since I was diagnosed with diabetes, I've had regular eye checks. So far, no prescription lenses needed. Reading is fixed with the eye glasses you can buy at the local drug store.

 

[eastofeden]

Since I was diagnosed with diabetes, I've had regular eye checks. So far, no prescription lenses needed. Reading is fixed with the eye glasses you can buy at the local drug store.

Same for me..I get the diabetes eye exam every year (I hate that fluid they use where you can't see in the sun afterward)...

...and I get reading glasses with no prescription. .

 

[cityboy-stl]

I hated progressive lenses. The focal width is far too narrow. Looking straight ahead, things looked clear, but even slightly to either side it started getting blurry and distorted. Everything is like looking through a tunnel where you can only see what is directly in front of you and everything else blurred out. Reading was almost impossible. I had to physically track a tiny little clear spot across each line by moving my head. I could not read a line by scanning it with my eyes like I normally do. I finally went with standard tri-focals where the focal width is much wider and I' don't have the problem. The tri-focal lines are annoying at first but before long your brain learns to ignore them and you don't even see them.

 

[gsdx]

Same for me..I get the diabetes eye exam every year (I hate that fluid they use where you can't see in the sun afterward)...

My biggest problem now is my balance. It's bad enough as it is. With that stuff in my eyes, I'm completely disoriented and my balance goes down the tubes. I need my rollator just to stand up.

 

[eastofeden]

My biggest problem now is my balance. It's bad enough as it is. With that stuff in my eyes, I'm completely disoriented and my balance goes down the tubes. I need my rollator just to stand up.

The balance thing is a problem even if you have good balance because I had to hold onto the counter in Starbucks afterward (because I didn't pay attention and went out anyway...I was also disoriented)

A friend of mine lost her eye and is almost losing the other due to diabetes complications so I make sure I go every year...they keep saying everything looks great but if it doesn't I want know right away so I can do anything I can to not lose my eyesight...

 

[LeicsDom]

Have had an eye exam lately? What sort(if any) of glasses or contacts do you wear?

I have so many pairs of glasses:
2 pairs of varifocals I use for the computer and watching TV,
1 pair of reading glasses kept beside the bed,
1 pair of reading glasses in the car
1 pair of distance glasses in the car for nighttime driving
1 pair of tinted distance glasses in the car for daytime driving
1 pair of reading glasses in my man bag for when I am out
1 pair of reading glasses in my other man bag

I am due an eye test in November

 

[LeicsDom]

I hated progressive lenses. The focal width is far too narrow. Looking straight ahead, things looked clear, but even slightly to either side it started getting blurry and distorted. Everything is like looking through a tunnel where you can only see what is directly in front of you and everything else blurred out. Reading was almost impossible. I had to physically track a tiny little clear spot across each line by moving my head. I could not read a line by scanning it with my eyes like I normally do. I finally went with standard tri-focals where the focal width is much wider and I' don't have the problem. The tri-focal lines are annoying at first but before long your brain learns to ignore them and you don't even see them.

When I got my varifocals I had a choice of zones of magnification. I chose horizontal zones. That way I can track across a page etc

 

[roadtripboy]

I have given up on contacts. The one eye is for reading and the other is distance thing, drove me crazy. It meant I didn't see anything very well.

I have progressive bifocals now and they work fine. I have never worn regular bifocals so I can't compare the two.

My insurance at works means I get my glasses for about half price. I paid $150 for the glasses I got back in April. Frames are free, I had to pay extra for the thin lens. And the "mandatory" anti-reflective coating.

 

[Rickrock]

I have bifocals. I used to have trifocals but it was sometimes bothersome figuring out which lens to see through. I have since had cataract surgery and have quit working so I have gone to bifocals and am satisfied. I get an eye exam each year because of glaucoma and I am now pre diabetic too.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Same for me..I get the diabetes eye exam every year (I hate that fluid they use where you can't see in the sun afterward)...

...and I get reading glasses with no prescription. .

Same here, non-prescription reading glasses.

 

[TickTockMan]

This will probably be the last time I ever say this on JUB, but I have Ommetaphobia (fear of eyes). Mine is in all ways. I have a hard time looking people in the eye, I have a hard time when people put things by eyes, etc.


For me to go see an eye doctor is torture. Even driving by my eye doctor bugs me. My first time I saw my doctor it took 9 ladies to hold me down to do the little puff of air into each eye. Luckily my doctor doesn’t do that anymore. Since I am diabetic I do do a visit about every year. I wear glasses (took me a year and a half to “learn” to wear glasses).

I am much better now, but I still have my issues. I don’t really see the point of a yearly visits since my insurance pays for me to see the doctor, but not all of the exams or new glasses if needed. Last year my regular doctor set me up with a charity and they bought be new glasses. That was nice, but they don’t pay for or allow me to get transitional lens. My eyes hurt like crazy when I go out now.


I have no idea what kind of glasses I have.