How old were you when your peepers started needing help?

[BigG-n-Tn]

I always had hawk vision. Perfect plus. Up close, far away, you name it. UNTIL I started approaching my 42nd birthday. The very small up close writing started to blurr a little. I couldn't believe it. I finally gave into the fact that I was just getting older and that was part of it and bought me some "dime store" readers but they were too strong. I finally went to an eye doctor for the first time since I was a kid and got me some prescription reading glasses. I only use them when I HAVE to have them. Have any of you started out with beyond perfect vision an lost some of it? How old were you when you had to face the facts? 40 Something seems to be when it starts to happen based on what others have concurred. Anybody see what I'm saying?

 

[Aussie44]

Mine started earlier this year,Harder to read small print and when working close up ,I'm 45 and it seems to be around the age we all need them.


Ken

 

[Duster42]

I first needed glasses at age 45.
Got a double whammy.Needed them for distance and bi-focals for reading.

 

[samIam]

Started wearing reading glasses in my late 30's.I'm 48 now and have been wearing bi-focals full time for about 7 years.

 

[Spotteddog]

Seven-------

 

[steveno]

It was about age 14 and I'm 60 now.

 

[CH47gunner]

Fifth Grade (heavy trauma), so I was about 9 or 10.

The bifocals came when I was about 50. I use the transision bifocals so the lens aren't too apparent.

Bruce

 

[Marksman]

I started wearing single vision glasses when I was 21, bifocals at 42 and trifocals sometime in my early 50's. Now at 60 my vision without glasses is fine, I need the glasses to drive at night and to see really small print. I feel really fortunate to have such good vision at this age. After age 40 you need to be having your eyes examined and your glasses prescribed by an Opthamologist. They are doctors trained in diagnosing and correcting all kinds of conditions of the eye. This is especially true if you are diabetic because diabetes causes changes in the eye that need to be closely monitored. Diabetics should see their Opthamologist for yearly exams, I schedule mine around the same time as my yearly physical.

 

[mm6mm6]

I'm 43 and going through exactly what you just talked about. During the past 2 years, I've been in front of my computer screen alot more and I'm tempted to blame it on that....

Sucks too. I had 20/10 vision and still have 20/15 at a distance.

 

[normanvin]

I was about 8 or 9. My oldest boy was about 5.

 

[29Wheelgunner]

At 42, reading glasses were needed.

 

[Grayfox]

Got my first pair at age 12. I now wear tri-focals. The bad part is that I'm now having to come to grips with the fact that I can't shoot as well as I once did. Just don't have the eyes for it anymore.

 

[BarbC]

I've always needed glasses/contacts and now I need glasses with my contacts, and at different strengths depending on what I'm doing - computer, reading, needlepoint.

My dad always had the eagle-eyes in the family. He could spot anything at any distance while the rest of the family would say, "Where? Where?" While driving through western Canada, the contest was who could first read the name of the town on the Alberta Wheat Pool co-op silo and he always won - at incredible distances! We were flummoxed and amazed! Finally, he confessed: A mile or so before the co-op, he'd notice the little railroad crossing sign that would announce the name of the town.

Dad has always been crafty.

 

[Wheelgunner840]

Right around 40 the reading glasses were needed. It wasn't too long before I needed distance glases and everything between. Now it's the glasses with progressive (transitional) lenses, which really suck for shooting. You have to position your head just so to see the front sight clearly. On the upside, I am getting to be quite the "point shooter"!

 

[Miss Fire]

My eyes? There is nothing wrong with my eyes, but at around 40, my arms started getting nocitably shorter.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

40-seems like 38-43 is the age where the eyes go to -------.

 

[ingmansinc]

At the 40+ mark the muscle that opens the shutter to let more light in gets weak and that is why a lot of us need a lot of light to read the paper. I went to mono vision contacts, hence I read with my right eye and look out far away with the left. The brain decides what I am doing and the other eye goes into time out until needed. I have worn them for twenty years now and really love this method. Glasses were always sliding down my nose or had sweat dripping on the lenses when I was working outside. The mono vision contacts have been great.

 

[bmhiii]

Had better than 20/20 vision till early/mid 40s. Needed some dime store reading glasses, went with 1.25 mag. Now up to 2.0 and am doing fine. Still don't need them for the computer, just reading books, etc.

 

[Gutpile Charlie]

I was age ten when I first got glasses, but I needed them much sooner.

 

[Andy Griffith]

I always use Miracle Grow on my peppers.

I always get great big hot ones!

Oh peepers...not peppers!

I think I was born with glasses.