Need reading glasses advice

doublesharp · #1 08-31-2012, 10:29 AM

I'm 61 and have advanced short arm vision. For the last few years I've used drugstore readers in +2.25 strength. I need new ones so I went to Walgreens and all they had were +2.00 or +2.50. It seems the +2.25 have been discontinued.

I then went to Sam's Club, where I have bought +2.25 in the past, and they no longer carried +2.25, also jumped from +2.00 to +2.50.

I've always heard that eyes will get lazy quick, to always use the least powerful you can get by with, so I bought the +2.00. I can see the computer fine but very small print on paper is blurrier than it used to be.

My question is, do you think my eyes will adjust the other way and strengthen a bit if I stick with these or should I just get the +2.50s and forget about it?

H Richard · #2 08-31-2012, 11:19 AM

At your age, (I'm older by 10 yrs), I doubt it. I just had a double cataract surgeries, and the new implants are corrected for distance. I can drive a car without glasses for the first time since I was 15 yrs old, BUT, I can't see the hands on my watch clearly, or my computer screen, or anything within about 3 or 4 ft. I use +1.0 for the computer, and 2.0 for reading, but as my eye's adjust (takes about a month they tell me) following surgery, I can't see clearly enough to do any interior close up work on a S&W, without a 3X magnifier. I can't wait to get back to Rx glasses, with vari-lux trifocals and auto-dimming glasses that I had worn for many many years. Carrying around 2 and 3 different pair of glasses just so I don't have to wear Rx glasses is a real pain.

I think the reason the 2.25 is out of stock is because they are so popular they are sold out. Look at a few more stores, or ask if they can be ordered.

fat tom · #3 08-31-2012, 11:20 AM

I don't believe that straining your eyes will strengthen them at all,quite the contrary. I say get the +2.5's and be glad you don't need +3.5's.
f.t.

DeadAye · #4 08-31-2012, 01:15 PM

It might be time to step up to prescription reading glasses - - -
Best investment I've made in years.

cussedemgun · #5 08-31-2012, 01:52 PM

A quick check with "our favorite to hate" on-line flea market showed over 4,500 choices for 2.25 power glasses.

JcMack · #6 08-31-2012, 02:49 PM

I'm 65 and I'm up to 2.75. I buy them off e bay, and have for years. I like the rimless kind (lighter). For $20 you can buy some pretty decent ones.

Sprefix · #7 08-31-2012, 03:31 PM

At any rate, check out CLIC glasses. Mine have a magnet in the middle and a hoop to hang in the neck. Incredibly easy pair of glasses to keep around and easy to care for.

Ilike9mm · #8 08-31-2012, 04:41 PM

65 here, is this the "old guys" forum?

Best advice would be to see a profession optometrist, get a complete exam. The reason I mention this, I was fitted with a pair of tri-focals for different distances. Told the doc I was a shooter and keeping everything in focus (sights/target) was tough. He helped, but it ain't like "young eyes". Yunno?

doublesharp · #9 08-31-2012, 05:41 PM

Thanks for the tips. my wife keeps telling me to go to an eye doctor but I've always been stubborn that way.

I'm still hawkeye at a distance but if i want to stay that way I guess I'll get em checked by a pro. They've got one at Sam's when you first walk in. My health ins doesn't cover vision. Would one of those doc in a box places give a thorough exam?

therevjay · #10 08-31-2012, 06:35 PM

Not every mfg. 2.00 or 2.25 means the same thing, kinda like a shirt. One marked XL might be a little snug another brand of XL may hang on me like a tent, you just gotta try them.

65 isn't old. I just turned 490. (in dog years)

speedyquad · #11 09-01-2012, 04:06 AM

i've never understood why people get the drugstore glasses. i've worn prescription glasses and/or contacts since i was 8. i have put on glasses that are close to my prescription and they nearly as clear as my prescription lenses.

ohiococonut · #12 09-01-2012, 07:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Ilike9mm

65 here, is this the "old guys" forum?

Best advice would be to see a profession optometrist, get a complete exam. The reason I mention this, I was fitted with a pair of tri-focals for different distances. Told the doc I was a shooter and keeping everything in focus (sights/target) was tough. He helped, but it ain't like "young eyes". Yunno?

I have to agree. Somewhere around 40 my arms started to get shorter and I couldn't even read the news paper. I started with wallyworld reading glasses and things seemed ok, I could read again. But with everything I was into I found out they didn't always work since I was farsighted and things just blurred at a distance and putting them on and off was getting to be a pain. Then there was the problem with pockets, my glasses wouldn't always stay in them and that's if my shirt had pockets. Trying to see the time on my watch was a no-go without glasses and I wasn't going to wear a clock around my neck.
Those of you that use reading glasses know all of the problems associated with them. With prescription glasses you put them on in the AM and take them off at bedtime, sometimes

The Dr. will not only correct your vision with the proper prescription he can detect other problems and diseases and let you know if your eyes are healthy or not. Trust me, you'll feel much better with corrective lenses, the advantages far outweigh the cheap reading glasses. At the very least have your eyes checked even if you can't afford the prescription glasses. It very well may open your eyes.
I'm no doctor but I played one as a kid

labworm · #13 09-01-2012, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by speedyquad

i've never understood why people get the drugstore glasses. i've worn prescription glasses and/or contacts since i was 8. i have put on glasses that are close to my prescription and they nearly as clear as my prescription lenses.

I'm with you on that statement.

My eyes are too valuable to me, I visit my Optometrist every two years for my eye exam and pay for my prescription. I wear progressive lenses which sit on my beak all day long.
My sun glasses also are the same as my regular, expensive for both, maybe.

msinc · #14 09-03-2012, 07:38 AM

Your eyes will not adjust {which is another way of saying "get better"} That's like asking if you can get younger. I went along time before I needed reading glasses but when I did I went to a vision specialist and got the proper glasses and have been happy ever since. Also...I wouldn't use the term "advanced short arm vision" around a bunch of Navy guys!!!

WR Moore · #15 09-03-2012, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by doublesharp

My health ins doesn't cover vision. Would one of those doc in a box places give a thorough exam?

Depends. Optometrists generally do corrective lenses. Opthomologists are the ones who are really up on diseases of the eye....or at least that's what I've been told for decades.

What's your eyesight worth?