something you older dudes

[CAP1]

might be interested in.



 the cold plays hell with me. in the winter, i take bathes, rather than showers.

 i take advantage of the quiet time, and read something. this week i'm reading a book called "combat crew" by john comer. very good book. i highly recommend it.

 now...i'm 47, and for the last year or so, i've been getting that "old guy" close focus problem. i have dollar store reading glasses here at home, and at the shop....as i need them when i'm working on wiring under the dash.

 i've been noticing something i consider somewhat amazing though. since i've been reading a couple chapters a night, i've not needed the reading glasses for the last couple of nights. i need them less at work too. it almost seems as if reading at night is helping my eyes "regain?" strength.

 now mind you, it's still a bit hard, but i've been able to bring it in closer to my face again. hopefully this'll keep improving.
 this is the first change in my eyesight in 25 years. since i started wearing contact lenses, my prescription stopped getting worse.

anyway.......just something i noticed.

merry christmas guys.

[John Curnutte]

 WOW Cap ; that is truely amazing and what a deal to be able to read without glasses . I am 45 and for the last three years my sight has been fading . I however got wonderful safety glasses that have readers in them . I need these as I am a cad/cam programmer and read small print all day and it helps in working and setting up equipment in the shop , like the Water Jet , Press Brakes etc . I have found I wear those things all over the place and since I found a brand that is very comftorable and light I forget they are on . And ever since I got my Blackberry Tour I have to have my readers close or I can't see my phone ! Well Congrats Cap and see if it takes hold I'm rooting for ya . 
                                       Nutte

[ImADot]

Cool.  I'm a 45 year old computer geek.  I've been nearsighted most of my life.  Got LASIK about 10 years ago to fix my farsightedness and astigmatism.  Last time I checked, I'm 20/15 and haven't needed correction since that surgery - not even cheaters for reading.  I sit in front of a computer all day at work, but get up and walk around now and then.

One thing that helps strengthen your eyes is to change your focus often.  Don't keep staring at the TV, or the computer screen, or a book for long periods at a time.  Look up and focus on something farther or closer - change it up, and often.  You eye changes shape to change the focus.  If you don't change your focus very often, the eye muscles get weak and you need artificial correction - which makes it even worse because now your eyes don't need to try to focus anymore.

So, it sounds like you've started exercising your eyeballs a bit.  Rock on!

[texasmom]

 

[Simba]

<peers myopically at screen>

<adjusts monocle>

<orders Braille keyboard>

 

[DaCoon]

I'm on the other side of that... I am 40 and been wearing prescription glasses for over a year now. All of a sudden one day reading tape measure and CNC screen at work got very blurry. Not a real strong prescription but anything inside my arms length is hard to see.

Salute to you CAP and hope it gets better for ya.

 Merry Cristmas to all

[cpxxx]

I'm 50 now, when I was a youngster aged 47 that happened to me too. I could read easily particularly in good light at times. As often as not relaxation helped. But if was tired, forget it.

You can to some extent train your eyes to adjust. Apparently part of the reason you have trouble with close up work is that the eyes in us older type are not longer as flexible. But like anything else the eyes can be exercised and you can regain flexibility to some extent. There is a book on the subject available on the net.

Lately though, it's all gone too far. I need a stronger lens to read at all and now I've noticed I need a something like a 1.25 to see the TV on the other side of the room clearly. At my last pilot medical, for the first time I couldn't read some of the letters on the last line of the eye chart. Which for me is a sad day my vision is now only 20/20.

[CAP1]

I'm on the other side of that... I am 40 and been wearing prescription glasses for over a year now. All of a sudden one day reading tape measure and CNC screen at work got very blurry. Not a real strong prescription but anything inside my arms length is hard to see.

Salute to you CAP and hope it gets better for ya.

 Merry Cristmas to all

thanks dude....i hope it keeps getting better too.

 i mostly posted this for others that may be having this like me........kinda like dot said above your post.......it seem,s that for whatever reason we stop exercising our eyeballs, and this is the cost.

 i'm probably going to start playing a little....and move the book in and out while i'm reading it, to see what that does.

 merry christmas all.

[DREDIOCK]

I'm on the other side of that... I am 40 and been wearing prescription glasses for over a year now. All of a sudden one day reading tape measure and CNC screen at work got very blurry. Not a real strong prescription but anything inside my arms length is hard to see.

Salute to you CAP and hope it gets better for ya.

 Merry Cristmas to all

Turning 40 is an amazing thing.
Its like someone flips a switch on your eye sight and your vision changes. I've worn glasses for nearsightedness  since I was about 9 years old but my prescription hadnt changed much till I turned 40. Then suddenly I couldnt see distances without my glasses and couldnt read with them.

When I had my glasses re done they had me try the bifocals. but because of the line of work Im in I had to be able to look at things at off angles sometimes and I just know it would drive me nuts. Now I can see pretty good without my glasses from up close to about arms length. So when I had my last set done I had the prescription done so that they pick up just short of arms length, out. And with the style of glasses that are popular today I can look either over or under my glasses when i need to red or do close up work without having to slide my specs up and down my nose. Was weird at first but its all second nature now.

Yep. sucks turning 40.
Another thing that I noticed starting to happen is your body starts to move in slow motion. Try to run a sprint. and your mind says. "gogogo!"
But   your   legs  move   like   this.

And your body starts sounding like a rice crispy when you move after laying or sitting a while. "snap crackle, pop'

example. Last night after a flight in the MA I got up to go to the bathroom. When I stood up, my back whent "snap" when I started to walk. my foot went "crackle". then one of my toes went "pop"

No pain. just noise.

WTF

[SKJohn]

My eye doc said that at about 50, some times you're eyes get a little better for some reason.  My lens rx actually got a little weaker this year, and that was her explanation for it.

As far as contacts go, she told me that wearing hard lenses acts sort of like a pressure bandage on the eye and in some cases prevents them from getting worse.

[Ghosth]

57 here, gave up and went to bifocals a few years ago. Best thing I ever did.

I just wish there was a "Control" on the side of my glasses so I could adjust where the line falls. Higher for reading, lower for watching TV, etc.

[CAP1]

Turning 40 is an amazing thing.
Its like someone flips a switch on your eye sight and your vision changes. I've worn glasses for nearsightedness  since I was about 9 years old but my prescription hadnt changed much till I turned 40. Then suddenly I couldnt see distances without my glasses and couldnt read with them.

When I had my glasses re done they had me try the bifocals. but because of the line of work Im in I had to be able to look at things at off angles sometimes and I just know it would drive me nuts. Now I can see pretty good without my glasses from up close to about arms length. So when I had my last set done I had the prescription done so that they pick up just short of arms length, out. And with the style of glasses that are popular today I can look either over or under my glasses when i need to red or do close up work without having to slide my specs up and down my nose. Was weird at first but its all second nature now.

Yep. sucks turning 40.
Another thing that I noticed starting to happen is your body starts to move in slow motion. Try to run a sprint. and your mind says. "gogogo!"
But   your   legs  move   like   this.

And your body starts sounding like a rice crispy when you move after laying or sitting a while. "snap crackle, pop'

example. Last night after a flight in the MA I got up to go to the bathroom. When I stood up, my back whent "snap" when I started to walk. my foot went "crackle". then one of my toes went "pop"

No pain. just noise.

WTF

i don't so much snap/crackle/pop. what i have noticed, is that the weird ways i need to bend/twist/stretch for my job are still somewhat easy.
 ways that i don't hafta do for work, but used to be easy, are nearly impossible now. hell....i can't touch my toes.

 since i've only recently noticed the stiffness/pain, i've started stretching in the mornings, and evenings. i refuse to get old.

[Flench]

47 here and had to start  wearing them last year . Age man age 

[gyrene81]

48 here and I've had bad distance vision all my life...looking at computer screens up to 18hours a day doesn't seem to be making them any worse for distance vision...last 10 years the prescription has been exactly the same but doc says I'm not far from needing bifocals to fix the short range vision that is suddenly going...  ...has anyone tried "bifocal vision" contacts? That's one contact set for short range and the other set for long range...doctor says some people can do it but it takes a brain adjustment...if it ain't one thing it's another...

[Flench]

I have tried bifocal . Don't like them . My next one's will not be bifocal's that's for sure . Saving up to get me a pair of Okley's in a rx .