Don't Ignore Changes in Eyesight

[VaTom]

I am 68 years old and have worn glasses for 50 years. Just usual vision correction and wear bifocals for about the last 10 years. Over the last couple of months noticed some slight blurry issues when watching TV / read it etc. Last time at range seemed i couldn't see clearly through scope. Thought I just needed new glasses so went to my optometrist yesterday.

Discovered I have a "macular hole" in center of retina in right eye. Couldn't read a thing on eye chart with just right eye. Going to ophthalmologist on Tuesday. 90% chance can be fixed with surgery. Condition is generally caused by age.

Don't neglect you eyes as longer you wait the more difficult a fix can be.

 

[Johnny Diamond]

Thank you sir, find new things on my list of oh wow that sucks every other day seemingly.

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[Truckman]

I neglected my vision for a time and now I pay the penalty...Getting the cataracts scraped off both eyeballs was a tremendous improvement, but I also go in once a month for an injection into the right eyeball to reduce the size of a sac of fluid which has taken up permanent residence...All this after having several small leaking blood vessels welded shut with a laser...I might have prevented or lessened this with regular eye exams, but I was too cheap to do it...Now I just pay the price......Ben

 

[GypsmJim]

The teacher called my parents for a health consult in 1955. I was in first grade. I got glasses soon after. Been wearing them for 67 years now.

About 20 years ago I had to get bifocals. It made me see the target better, but my arthritis in my right arm didn't help much.

Grandma always said odd things about who was in the room. Turned out she couldn't see from the center of her eyes. It wasn't old age, it was inherited.

Bless you and I hope things get better. Grandma lived to 95.

 

[Bajadoc]

I was an eye doctor for thirty years. It is definitely worth getting your eyes checked annually. I can't tell you the number of times I caught problems that needed to be treated to prevent vision loss. Some vision loss cannot be prevented and will happen no matter what. But a lot of eye problems can be detected early and treated. Systemic diseases like diabetes and hypertension can really affect eye health. Anyone with those conditions should have eye exams regularly. Cataracts, the clouding of the lens of the eye, happens to everyone with age. If necessary, cataracts can be treated surgically, usually with great success. There are other degenerative eye diseases that occur with age. Some can be treated, some cannot. Get your eyes checked, it's cheap insurance.

 

[M29since14]

Sorry to hear of this. I wish you all the best for the repair operation. Without wishing to appear nosey or gruesome, please let us know how it goes. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. Eye docs today can do some pretty amazing things. Good luck.

 

[MDF4]

I was an eye doctor for thirty years. It is definitely worth getting your eyes checked annually. I can't tell you the number of times I caught problems that needed to be treated to prevent vision loss. Some vision loss cannot be prevented and will happen no matter what. But a lot of eye problems can be detected early and treated. Systemic diseases like diabetes and hypertension can really affect eye health. Anyone with those conditions should have eye exams regularly. Cataracts, the clouding of the lens of the eye, happens to everyone with age. If necessary, cataracts can be treated surgically, usually with great success. There are other degenerative eye diseases that occur with age. Some can be treated, some cannot. Get your eyes checked, it's cheap insurance.

Baja, my younger brother is an eye Doc' and I have heard him say the same. I never considered all the medical conditions that your profession can uncover in an eye exam.

 

[2152hq]

I was terribly near sighted at an early age. I started wearing glasses to correct 20/300 nd 20/400 vision at age 7.
I wore glasses to correct that along with bifocals added when I reached my late 40's.
Then in my late 50's I noticed my eyes changing for the better.
Rx for glasses got less severe and I got to point were I went without glasses more than I wore them.

In my late 60's I was going w/o glasses at all. Eye doc check ups had my eyes at 20/30 and 20/40 rt and left w/o corrective lenses.
I got the restriction removed from my DL for the first time in my life.

I did recently have a catarac problem with the left eye, but they cleared that up w/surgery and I'm back to the 20/40 uncorrected in the left eye at 72 y/o.

Now I can buy cheap sunglasses....

I can't explain it.

 

[walkin jack]

That is mighty good advice Tom. My dad waited too long. He had Macular degeneration. By the time he got around to going for help it was already way too late. He died at the age of 90....totally blind.

Your post may have saved someone from a very unpleasant situation. Thank you for the heads up.