I’d anyone else completely furious about age related eyesight loss?

[EvangelicalAboutButteredToast]

Honestly it was the one thing my body actually had going for it and now my eyesight is a sad, blurry affair. I spend my whole time looking for my reading glasses and I hate it so much.

I used to do a lot of close up creative work that just isn’t the same now my eyesight has gone. I put my make up on each morning and I’ve no idea if I’m blending stuff well anymore it’s a bit hit and miss I think and I don’t have time to really scrutinise it. if there are chin hairs I can’t see them. I really want to try the eye drops that have supposedly been developed for this, but they don’t seem to be easily available in this country yet.

if i could buy new eyeballs I absolutely would.

I have had shockingly bad eyesight since I was a child, glasses since age 8, contact lenses since 17, now mid 50s. I'm the opposite, I have only ever been able to put make-up on with contact lenses in because without them I have to have my nose so close to the mirror I can't get my hand in the gap. I don't need reading glasses over them (yet, it will happen I think) but I am getting driving glasses to wear over the contacts when driving at night as they aren't sharp enough. I detest wearing glasses and will do everything in my power to keep going with mainly just contacts but you can't get multifocals in my prescription. Varifocal glasses in my strength will cost an arm and a leg too but I'll need them for non contact lens days at some point. Laser surgery has never been an option for my prescription either. It is shit having bad eyesight.

I must have spent at least ten thousand pounds on contacts and glasses over the years which makes me a bit irritated when friends who have had perfect eyesight till middle age suddenly moan about the cost of a sight test and reading glasses.

I did that for about ten years but then it just stopped working for me. Annoyingly.

Yeah, so annoying, especially in the supermarket shop. Family members like to write on the shopping list in tiny, spidery writing (I've considered just not buying anything written in this way), and I need to read ingredients lists too.

Most annoying of all is stuff in the shower, like conditioners that you're supposed to leave in for a certain time. Obviously I don't wear glasses in the shower, and even if I did the print is teeny-weeny so they can fit 17 different languages on - just one language will do thanks.

At any point in time there will be a substantial portion of the population who can't read tiny text. Or red on black text. Or pale on pale text. So don't use it!

National Geographic had a phase of labelling pictures with stupid colours on stupidly-coloured backgrounds. I had normal prescrption reading glasses, and also NG extra-strong reading glasses .

Ah, the shower. I have to wear glasses to shave my legs and have done all
my adult life. But if I take them off and hold the shampoo bottle to my nose I can read the tiny print. I've always had to put the bottles on the shelf in the same order so I know which is which though if they look similar.

Is it possible to have both shortsight and longsight ? hence I have and need them for TV or stuff in distance-but also I feel I'm starting to struggle close up and lose definition if I'm tired and get sore eyes if I look at my phone a lot etc - I last had my eyes tested a year ago and I'm 1.75 on one eye and 2.75 on the other - but they didn't mention a problem with 'close up' - but it def doesn't feel 100% - what do you do in these circumstances- do you have 2 pairs of different glasses or is this what you are talking about when you say 'readers' ? I'm 62,

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yep! You want to know why middle aged people often seem irritated? It's because we forgot our fucking reading glasses! I have distance and reading glasses and I really should have tried varifocals and just wear them all the time so I know they're on my face......Honestly pissing around trying to find your glasses when all you want to know is what temperature to cook your chips at or what temperature to wash your new jumper at is just another layer of irritation to add to my day!

That is incredibly annoying, isn't it? Especially when there's liquid in it in a clear bottle!

I've taken to photographing labels and then expanding the photo to read it but that can be fiddly. Or else having to look up meds instructions or whatever online.

I now have to wear glasses all the time, reading was getting worse over time but the pandemic messed up my distance vision. If I take my glasses off looking in the mirror I think "oh look there's my face! That's what I imagine I'm showing everyone!"

Also, it annoys me I can't read in bed lying on my side anymore because the stupid corners of my stupid glasses don't bend!! 😡😆

Oh, I feel this! I’ve had really poor vision (short sight) since I was 3 or 4 (I’m 65 now) and have worn glasses or contact lenses ever since. Now though, I’ve had to deal with cataracts, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma, so despite multiple treatments - which I follow to the letter - my sight is deteriorating badly. I had my cataracts done last year, with the lenses being replaced, and that was absolutely fantastic for a while, but both lenses have now gone cloudy, so I’m due to have laser treatment on them to see if that helps. My distance vision is great(ish) although I’ll always need reading glasses now for close-up stuff, but long-term the prognosis is not good. Everything I do that’s important to me - books, the crossword, painting, sewing, driving - relies on being able to see, and it feels like that’s slipping away from me, bit by bit. Scares the fucking life out of me, to be honest.

I don’t know if this will work for everyone, but my eyesight improved noticeably when I went gluten free. I took my glasses in my bag to a meeting one time and then halfway through realized I hadn’t reached for them because I could see everyone’s face clearly. I asked a Doctor friend who said he’d never heard of this, and then I asked my naturopath who said that the brain processes images better when inflammation (caused by gluten) is reduced. Just thought I’d throw it out there

No post in MN has ever resonated with me more.

It's a massive daily irritation.

Yes I am. And the rest of the ageing stuff that I'm rapidly acquiring. Backache. Balance. Hearing. Just fell over in the sodding bathroom, not hurt just furious. And recently, waking up at around 2.30 in the sodding morning and not being able to go back to sleep. I really don't like any of it.😡

Yes, it's quite annoying. I've bought packs of readers so I have multiples around the house, since I usually misplace them.

I now have cataracts but not bad enough for surgery. Supposedly the surgery can fix vision?

Yes definitely. I'm 56 and have had to wear glasses contacts for distance (anything further than about 2" from my nose) since I was a child, now I am starting to struggle a bit with close-up. When wearing my distance glasses to read, sliding them down my nose a bit really helps. If that's not enough you probably need varifocal glasses to cater for both. The prescription you mention is for close up, they are minus numbers for distance. They should test your close vision every time by getting you to read from a standardised set of paragraphs in different font sizes on a card.

I’m back. Finally found my glasses so I can read the thread 🤣

Anyone contemplating lens replacement? Apparently you can get accommodating lens’, but then I hear stories of people who know someone who did that and only got 5 years of good vision before it deteriorated again 🥴

I'm 48 and have really noticed poor packaging now with tiny print, poorly contrasting with the background. It takes me about ten minutes to thread a needle. It's worse at this time of year with the light. I bought cheap reading glasses which help a lot- for now.

I hear you all😢

contemplating buying these beauties

JML | Mighty Sight - Wearable, magnifying eyewear with built in lights (jmldirect.com)

This is so annoying.

I have reading glasses in every room and in the car (£1.50 from B&M) but I always forget to take them into shops so I end up taking photos of labels so I can zoom in on the text.

Im also annoyed that when I read lying on my side in bed the arm of the glasses digs into my head, or the glasses get pushed sideways.

This is me. I feel like such a doddery old lady. it's very depressing

Highly irritating. I wear varifocals which are bloody expensive. Not due an eye test until October, but my right eye has already got worse.

For reading in bed, it's the kindle with the text size increased so no glasses required.

Does anyone know know of a company that do not eye wateringly (boom) readers for extremely strong prescriptions? I have one and one is stronger than the other so needs thinning too.

None of the supermarket cheapies even cut it and I could really use a couple extra f cheap pairs for chucking in my bag and the car (long and short sighted but vertigo means I can't get on with varifocals).

Have considered the likes of glasses direct but it was a faff compared to being able to try on in a shop. Plus I was worried I'd get the nose bridge measurements wrong

This thread is making me feel better that there are so many of us though. Thanks OP

Huge issues with eyes not working from about 52. Sudden decline despite regular eye check ups.

I now need intense magnifying type helmet goggles for my work which thankfully work superbly.

But, the hinges pull my hair out every time they are used and my post menopausal thin hair is getting thinner by the day.

I don't want to go bald but need my goggles for work. This morning I thought maybe a shower cap on first might prevent the hair loss. So glad I work alone from home!

Yes, this, plus hooded eyes getting worse so I either get a headache from raising my eyebrows permanently, or have half my eye obscured by my eyelid.