New Glasses

[bjarvis]

I had a routine eye exam last week. My new glasses and contact lenses arrived today. The new frames are very similar in appearance & style to my prior glasses:


In all, it was a good report from the examination. My left eye is slightly weaker while surprisingly my right eye is slightly stronger than my prior prescription --my left has always required a stronger prescription. No astigmatism, no glaucoma, no retinal or corneal issues.

The good doctor indicated however that I've reached the age (44!) that I might find reading glasses will help ease eye strain when I'm wearing my contact lenses. Any commodity glasses at the intro level of 1.0 would be adequate. Now that I have my new contacts, I'll try on some reading glasses the next time I visit a pharmacy.

Comments

[rwgill.livejournal.com]

At 44 I also took my eye docs advice and started using reading glasses. Now I have difficulty reading printed media without the darn things. If my arm were a wee bit longer it might still be possible. :-)

The glasses look great and you, sir, look dignified.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Yup, you're at that age for reading glasses, dear. :-)

I stumbled on the fact I needed them around age 42. I'm still using +1.25 and have gone through dozens of them since then.

Good luck!

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

since I have astigmatism, I've had glasses for distance since I was 18, but my close vision is just fine, and I can read without glasses. From age 18-45 I only needed monofocal glasses. After 45, my eyes could no longer adjust to close vision through my continuing distance prescription - so bifocals it was. Or take the distance vision glasses off (the opposite of the reading glasses technique), but it was easier to go bifocal.

[dorisduke.livejournal.com]

I am just happy my eyes are still good enough to see your great smile.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

How handsome you look!

[weekilter.livejournal.com]

Trés fashionable. Nice shape of the frame.