Advice please - on topic

No, I don`t have any stairs either, but you get used to your own anyway! LOL! It`s STRANGE stairs where you have to be particularly careful to look!

Pat

I have worn bifocals for twenty years now. First got them when the kids were young and I kept losing my readers, then tried hanging them round my neck on a cord and it chafed my skin, so finally (at first) went to bifocals with clear tops so I could just wear them all the time. Gradually, I needed distance correction as well, which is what I have now. Stairs were never a great problem.

HOWEVER. dh knew he needed new glasses, and mine are two years old, so went with him to the eye doc today. Guess what. It's not that my specs need cleaning every five minutes, but that I, too, have a cataract. It seems that all the 'roids I have been taking for the pneumonia/asthma have caused cataracts. Apparently this is a known side effect. Oh well.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

I wear contacts for distance, with a bit of a variance to them so I can read restaurant menus and see my cell phone. For serious up close work, I wear readers over the contacts. That way, I can look up over the readers and have everything in focus. Do contacts not work for you?

Elizabeth

Not even close. I tried 20 years ago with the first gen "soft" contacts and never got past 6 hours in. Had the specialist check me on contacts 2 years ago and he told me to save my money. Between the allergy issues, my peculiar Rx and the scar from a corneal abrasion when I was kid, I'm better off with glasses. I love him - so honest. And he'll do the consult when the day comes to harvest the cataract in my left eye for the

Since I originally posted, I've change where my seat is, where the light it and how I'm facing the TV and things are much better.

Now for some time to stitch

Cheryl

I have never, ever tried contacts, always just plain ol' specs. DH had no trouble whatsoever having cataracts done in both eyes (a year apart, fifteen years ago. However, he was working as an engineer, and just carried on but with new lenses. I am wondering what choices I may have to make after I get this cataract fixed - I assume that eventually there will be one on the other eye. In the meantime, like most of us on here,, I use my eyes intensively. Mostly reading, writing and needlework, very little tv except for the news, and I do most of the driving since the eye doc. told dh he can no longer drive at night.

I am perfectly happy wearing glasses all the time, in fact I tend to think I look better with them than without them.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

I've worn contact lenses since I was 16. In fact, there were years in there when I didn't even own a pair of glasses. I put my contacts in when I get up in the morning and take them out right before bed at night. I've been very lucky. I had an issue at about 17 where I abraded my corneas (user error), but once that healed, I've been fine. I started with the old hard lenses, moved to rigid gas permeable lenses, and now wear the soft ones that you throw away every two weeks. I love my lenses. It's never been about how I look with or without glasses. My visual acuity has just never been as good with glasses as it is with the contacts. But I do realize that they're not for everyone.

Elizabeth

I've worn contact lenses since I was 16. In fact, there were years in there when I didn't even own a pair of glasses. I put my contacts in when I get up in the morning and take them out right before bed at night. I've been very lucky. I had an issue at about 17 where I abraded my corneas (user error), but once that healed, I've been fine. I started with the old hard lenses, moved to rigid gas permeable lenses, and now wear the soft ones that you throw away every two weeks. I love my lenses. It's never been about how I look with or without glasses. My visual acuity has just never been as good with glasses as it is with the contacts. But I do realize that they're not for everyone.

Elizabeth

You have been lucky. I wore hard lenses for years and suddenly caught some sort of virus that caused cysts to form in my lids. That ended the lenses for a several years till that situation cleared up the same way it arrived, with no fanfare. At that time I only needed glasses for distance and decided that I wasn't even going to try soft lenses which were fairly new at the time because I would need readers, which when you're working in an office and on a computer or word processor a good part of the day, seemed a bigger nuisance. I stayed with no glasses for close work and was happy with that.

I had cataract surgery fairly early and chose at that time to have the implants correct my close vision and I still need glasses for distance. Here in Florida, where you need sun glasses almost all the time, that works perfectly for me.

Now I'm finding that I need a bit of magnification for needlework and must wear readers for that, but I can still read a book or even a newspaper in good light, sans glasses.

I agree, I wore them for 35 years without a hitch - I didn't wear them for the looks - I was still diving at the time and although you can get optically corrected masks, they didn't optically correct them to allow for a huge difference in sight between the two eyes. Glasses when you were out in a dory in the fog didn't work either. Loved those contacts but must admit now that I had the cataracts done last May, love the lenses being under the cornea even better lol

How is Harry doing ?

If works for you - the heck with the rest of them.

Cheryl

They`re not normally significant of anything - I`ve always had them and I`m

Last time I went I had reactolite lenses - I`ll never get those again - they make life so dull and DEPRESSING! OK in the sun, but though they ostensibly go quite clear to the naked eye (to anyone else) in the shade and indoors, to me they still seem dull.

Pat P