The Eyes Have It. Or They Don’t?

I had my yearly eye exam yesterday. Darn eyeballs.

My nearsightedness has, for the first time in 34 years, improved. In one eye. By .25. The trade off it would seem is that now I have astigmatism in that eye. Oh well.

But now I’m becoming farsighted as well. At a “rapid pace”, according to the eye doctor.

Fun.

Looks like I get to continue wearing contacts (for the nearsightedness) and reading glasses (for the farsightedness).

*sigh*

Until next time...
Erik

7 thoughts on “The Eyes Have It. Or They Don’t?

  1. Welcome to your 40s. 🙂 My vision did the same thing at about the same time. I blamed the tiny print in those huge nursing text books I was studying from at the time, but no, it’s part of getting older bud. Presbyopia is the official term. I no longer need glasses to read or do close up things, but still need them to see things at a distance. The good news is that I was able to hold off on the bifocals for a few years.

  2. do what I do. One contact for far, one for near. the brain will rewire itself (to a degree) to get you to use the correct eye for the correct thing. I HATED the readers, so I ditched those for the contact solution.

    1. The eye doctor actually suggested that, but I don’t know how well I would handle that considering the amount of “up close” work I do all day long. I may give it a go at some point, just to see how it would do, but knowing how bad I can’t see when I take out one contact now, I think I’d just end up with a splitting headache. And really bad depth perception.

      1. My very myopic eyes which arr a good deal older than yours, are NOT improving with time as I had hoped. I tried contacts and loved them but got calceum deposits under my eyelids, and that ended that.

        My very myopic eyes ”
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