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’ve accepted it now, but I went through a period of being heavily pissed off about it. I had perfect vision until 40, and in five years I went from starting to need reading glasses to needing quite heavy duty varifocals all the time.

Contact lenses have been a game changer for me. I was sick of my glasses steaming up and I hated driving in varifocal glasses, especially at night.

I still sometimes have a moment of pissed off-need in the morning when I wake up and realise I can barely see a thing until I put my glasses on and then get my contacts in. Gah!

Definitely - I miss my lenses a lot, but the vision I got from them just wasn’t good enough to wear them as often as I did previously ☹️

I’ve had shit vision all my life, short sighted and severe astigmatism so I was in glasses from age 6 onwards. Then in my late teens I discovered contact lenses with great joy!

Alas, the increasing years mean my eyes are less flexible and if I wear lenses I can’t see anything close up. I now wear glasses and just set them aside for working at the computer, reading, talking to people etc. Unfortunately I also have menopausal brain fog and can’t find my glasses again when I need them. Life’s a perpetual blur. Just as well I don’t drive.

@EvangelicalAboutButteredToast you can buy new eyeballs. Or at least lenses 😊

I was told I could fly a plane when I was 21, I did have perfect eyesight. It is not so good now but I still don’t need glasses at 57 so fingers crossed. I do use a magnifying sheet for cooking instructions though. My eyesight improved when I stopped working at a computer all ruddy day.

I'd be happy with one thing or the other - when I was younger, stuck the contacts in, could see far away and close equally well. Now I have to decide - contacts and then I cant read without glasses? Or glasses that I take on and off whenever I have to read? I've tried the "contact in one eye" approach and it was just pants, though I know it works for some.

My eye deterioration and computer use definitely feel linked to me

So the replacement lenses, don't work in the same way as your lens did before - they work in a similar way to varifocal contact lenses. I'd try those first and see what sort of vision you get through them.

The issue with lens replacement is that once the new lens is in, you can't replace it if you don't like the vision you get.

I’ve been practically blind all my life and am dreading the day when I have to have reading glasses as well as my incredibly expensive ones for short sight. (I do have contacts but found about 15 years ago that I couldn’t wear them for computer use, so in practice I don’t wear them often. I’m 50 so the evil day can’t be far off- the optician was unflatteringly surprised that I don’t need readers yet when I went for my last eye test.

It’s the worst part of ageing for me too.
I was farsighted since a toddler. Had really thick glasses as a kid. When I was a teen up until 40 I rarely used my glasses and thought I “grew out of it”, had great vision.
little did I know that all those years of no glasses were bc I could compensate for my error with the flexibility of my natural lens.I had no idea that I would slowly revert back to my initial heavy prescription. After years of amazing sight, at 51 I am now blurry at all distances and currently at a L+4.75 and R+3, with a +2 add.
it’s actually been devastating and progressives carry their own set of irritation.
currently exploring Refractive Lens Exchange.

Same here - and at 51, I don't usually need reading glasses yet, so I feel I'm doing better than expected.