Lost the things some years back, apparently long enough back that I’m not allowed to use my old rx.

So, got a new rx, new exam, picked out new frames, should be here by Christmas.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I am astigmatic (if thats not a word, its a word now, just go with it) in both eyes, but apparently considerably moreso in one eye, which is also farsighted, where the other eye is only mildly astigmatic… but has worse actual clarity.

    So my eyes are like if you made binoculars out of duct taping together two different telescopes, each differently smudged and focused.

    … at least I don’t have glaoucoma or mac. degen?

    I ended up getting a general use main pair of transitions, and an rx sunglasses that are not transistions… both have uv/blue light filters… all of that came to approx ~$750, but its out of my vision plan, so all I have to actually pay out of pocket is the copay for the exam itself.

    It… sounds like you have an even more complex and frankly expensive set of conditions going on though.

    I don’t even know what presbyopia is.

    You using that word is the first time I’ve ever read that word.

    Obviously, I could just wiki look it up, but … could you describe it?

    Seems more… sociable.

    Though that may be too much excitement for this extremely dull community.

    • AWTM_James@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      8 days ago

      You know how every old person you know has to hold things further and further away to read them the older they get? This is presbyopia, or “age-related farsightedness.” It eventually happens to everyone, it’s just part of getting older. Basically the lens in your eye stiffens over time because of a protein deficiency, and that causes the light to refract at the wrong point in your eye. Folks with otherwise acceptable vision typically correct it with reading glasses

    • tomkatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 days ago

      Presbyopia is aging related farsightedness, where your eye becomes too stiff for near focus. Happens to essentially everyone as they age. It’s why you see old people who use reading glasses, even if they don’t otherwise need glasses.

      Generally starts in your mid-to-late 40s, but it started becoming an issue for me around late 40, and by the time I was 42 I couldn’t ignore it anymore. I noticed I kept having to take off my glasses to read small print or see things up close, with my standard lenses I couldn’t focus on anything within 20 or so inches in front of my face.