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about to get glasses

I'm noticing my sight getting weaker and that drives me to the thougt of getting some glasses. If you have opinions and/or thoughts on this topic, please share.

edit: is there a way to cure or to slow down the loss? I remember read somewhere about red light or so, but completely lost it. Any opinions or info on that?

I'm noticing my sight getting weaker and that drives me to the thougt of getting some glasses. If you have opinions and/or thoughts on this topic, please share. edit: is there a way to cure or to slow down the loss? I remember read somewhere about red light or so, but completely lost it. Any opinions or info on that?

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[–] • 0 pt 2mo

If I'm using cheap readers, the oncoming nonDOT LED headlights flare like crazy.

You're wearing readers while you drive at night? Why?

I only wear readers to read or for close up perfectionist work. My eyes are fine at distance. You might need bifocals?

I'm getting the starburst out of some of the led headlights too, with no glasses. I suspect it could be early cataracts? IDK. It's not significant enough to be an issue yet.

[–] • 0 pt 2mo

Yeah, I mostly wear reading glasses because they're cheap and so I can read the gauges on the dash, but I have bifocals as a Rx but only have the one pair of $$$ glasses. I got Rx safety glasses so I could keep them on all day at work instead of fumbling with the glasses over glasses.

[–] • 1 pt 2mo

I knew there was a backstory! I wouldn't drive at night with them on if they are distorting your vision (headlights, street lights, etc). I had a couple of pair of glsss reading glasses that were like bi-focals... A small rectangular section ay the bottom of the lens was ground as a 1.25x reader but the upper 80% of the lens was plain glass - no magnification. Something like that might be better for you than plastic readers when driving at night.

I can imagine it is much harder/more expensive to find Rx glasses that give good close up vision as well as good Rx distance vision.