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04-15-2016 02:20 PM - edited 04-15-2016 02:58 PM
Got quite a surprise when I made my annual opthamologist visit last week.
After years of wearing glasses for nearsightedness to see the blackboard in school and while driving a car--and then being diagnosed in middle age with exactly the opposite problem (farsightedness), I have now been diagnosed as nearsighted again.
Did not know this turnaround could happen in old age (especially in the space of just one year), but it has. I had been wondering why I suddenly couldn't read road signs or words on the TV screen while sitting on the sofa, and knew it couldn't just be related to the cataract in one eye.
I immediately went out and bought new glasses per the doc's prescription and am enjoying great improvement while driving my car. I still need magnifiers for reading. The distance vision improvement, however, is a godsend.
I am probably going to have cataract surgery near the end of this year, because one eye has gotten particularly cloudy. The doctor has always wanted me to postpone this surgery up to now. But this cataract situation has nothing to do with the sudden change in my vision in the "good eye."
So........if you're not seeing well and not seeing an opthamologist about it, you probably will continue to not see well. I'm not sure one should write it off to simply getting older or an "aging eye", when the cure can be so simple--and new eye problems can develop so quickly.
04-15-2016 02:39 PM
@novamc1- you hit the nail on the head! I knew something was WRONG with my vision and didn't know how to complain about it!
Once I got sent to the right specialist----- MIRACLE.
SO glad you found the solution you needed!
04-15-2016 02:50 PM - edited 04-15-2016 02:54 PM
You said you wear readers even while driving...........
How do those readers work while driving? When I wear the cheap magnifiers or even the prescription reading glasses I've been using for years, I can see up close very well, but not much is clear about two or three feet in front of me. No way could I drive with them or watch TV!
Are your readers actually bifocals that can work in both situations? Just curious.
By the way, my prescription reading glasses work much better than my big supply of cheapie magnifiers, because they also correct for some astigmatism--plus they fit on my head and don't fall off in the toilet too easily........LOL.
04-21-2016 10:11 AM
It's a good thing we can all laugh at all this as we age. You could start another post about hearing as well. It's hilarious what my husband "thinks" I said. Sometimes when he repeats it to me, I think he needs a brain check rather than a hearing aid. It gets very ridiculous, and has caused some very silly arguments between us!!
04-22-2016 09:08 AM
I can certainly identify with your post. I believe my DH is showing his age with either his hearing or his brain processes. I hear myself asking him more often these days: "Where in the world did you come up with the idea that I ever said THAT?!!"
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