At the urging of my wife, I finally went to see an optometrist to have the ole headlights checked out. She said I'm in the early stages of cataracts, but other than that no problems. And, I only need reading glasses. Which is pretty good for an old fluck my age. Anybody else go for a regular eye exam?
Once every 5 years. Usually a month before I have to renew my driver's license. ;)
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I'm due. Been a few years since the last exam and I recently broke my specs so I'm using a older pair that makes it even harder to see stuff close up that it was before. I've been wearing bifocals for around ten years now.
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Sure do...been in bifocals for the last 10 years or so.
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Every year, whether I want to or not.
I am diabetic, must have the peepers scanned annually. Been wearing bifocals for 11 years. I have the no line lens. I am a grandfather, but I don't want to look like one, yet.
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I get yearly checks ups since I my eye insurance covers the trip and 1 pair of glasses per year. I always go to an ophthalmologist instead of an optometrist. I feel if you have a good one the eye exam is more in depth.
Cataracts ran in the family, and I used to sweat about getting them. Well, I did. The first of last year, I had multi-focal lens put in both eyes. No complications other than one eye needs to be "tweaked" a bit with a yag laser next week. I went from wearing coke bottle glasses, (tri focal) to wearing none, nada, zip, nil. If I am doing fine work like PCB work or clock restoration, I need either readers or the work light with the magnifier, but reading and stuff, no problem. There was a two week lag between having both done, and during that time, I was amazed at how bright colors were with the new lens. When I looked at a white sheet or shirt with the eye that hadn't been done, it looked yellow or very dingy compared to the fixed one. It's wonderful to get up in the morning and being able to see everything without having to figure out where I left my glasses. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. My wife has real shitty eye sight and wears mono vision contacts, and says she would welcome cataracts so she could get her eyes fixed, too.
Oh yeah, I always love seeing a chick with her headlights on high beam.
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I just had a Lasik consultation. I'm seriously considering it as my insurance pays for 80% of the surgery. Anyone gone down that road?
Something you may want to check with your own ophthalmologist on, but I was told that once Lasik is done, cataract surgery (lens replacement) is not likely to be as successful as it would be had Lasik not been done. As I recall, Lasik inhibits the ability to make accurate measurements for the implants. My wife was considering Lasik and my Dr. told her not to because she is at the age that cataracts are more likely, if she ever did get them, she would have a lot of trouble with the implant selection, and would still require a great deal of correction via glasses. I suppose if one is young enough, Lasik may be a viable option. I would at least check it out, because once done, it can't be undone. Whatever you decide to do, I wish you the best. Crappy eyesight sucks.Originally Posted by W4GPL
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