How old were you when your peepers started needing help?

[CW Spook]

Been wearing glasses since about the 6th grade...(50-55 years ago) lineless tri's for the last 10 or 15 years. It does play heck with my bullseye accuracy except when I'm using optics. Don't make much nevermind at 7 yds though.

 

[b3337]

The 5th grade, but needed them about a year before that.I got bifocals about 5 years ago.I am 50 and feel naked without glasses, so when I had contacts I wore sunglasses.I always get the photogray w/transiton lenses.

 

[Mickey D]

40. Started using the computer extensively, didn't help the situation.

 

[pred]

43 for me, But still have long enough arms!
Peter

 

[BlackAgnes]

Geez! I feel out of place! 62 and never needed glasses.

I probably wouldn't wear 'em anyway--just been lucky, I guess.

Now, my ears: different story! Speak up, dammit!

Tim

 

[BigG-n-Tn]

Geez! I feel out of place! 62 and never needed glasses.

I probably wouldn't wear 'em anyway--just been lucky, I guess.

Now, my ears: different story! Speak up, dammit!

Tim

Tim,
I never thought I would need them either. Fortunately it's just the little bitty up close stuff for now. Hopefully it stays that way.

 

[dg101win]

Started wearing them in 5th grade,1961 I believe. Bifocals at age 39,trifocals at about age 47. Getting to the point I need new ones every year.

 

[4406v]

44, I just got a pair of prescription readers and use them when needed.I find I get less headaches when I use them.I never realized how much I strained to see the close stuff till I got the glasses.

 

[kenpofan]

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

I'm 47 just got my first bi-focals.. been usin reading glasses since 45..

 

[38-44HD45]

32. I recall specifically where I was sitting, in Wills and Trusts class in law school, when I realized it. Bummer.

 

[Centenniel]

Ten years ago, when I turned 46, I began to notice that very small print was becoming difficult to read. I got glasses (bifocals) and realized that my vision, both close and distant had deteriorated slowly without me realizing it over the years. Glasses can be a pain, but are a blessing too.

 

[reerc]

The day I turned 40 - my eye doc even refers to "over 40 eyes."

 

[jrm53]

Glasses

I have worn them from 16 until now, trifocals with the middle set to my pistol sights. The answer 53 years.

 

[David LaPell]

When I was five. I had laser corrective surgery back in 2005. My vision went from 20/275 (blind as a bat) to 20/10.

 

[feralmerril]

Glass`s almost killed me. I got my 1st pair when I was 29. Think I have a stigmatism. Anyway the 1st or 2nd day that I was wearing them I wasnt yet used to them. You know like steping a foot over a garden hose etc? I was rideing at night my harley and came into a corner very fast. It looked like a hairpin curve to me. I paniced, locked up and went down faster than I will admit to. (CHP figuered close to 100 mph.) On checking out the curve later as I was recouperateing I know I could have made the curve at any speed.

 

[westcoast362]

In my late twenties, but it was for distance. At sixty-two I can still read without glasses.

 

[4inch357]

Reading glasses only for me - think I started with them at either 45 or 46.