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Earlier today I was working at my bench, removing tires from one set of rims to mount on another, and I had trouble seeing the tiny screw holes properly. So I reluctantly went upstairs and got the reading glasses my wife made me buy last year.

Sigh. I guess I've added a new "tool" to my list of essentials. At least I can see to line up the screw holes now.

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I know exactly what you mean. I've been badly nearsighted for most of my life but had excellent "close" vision. I was under the dashboard of my MG one day and realized what I was focusing on was too close with my glasses on but I couldn't see it over my glasses either. Bifocals are in the near future. Don't feel bad. Spectacles make you look wise.;)  

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Right there with you guys.  I had to get bifocals and a separate set of glasses for using the computer.  On top of that, there's the beginning of a cataract forming in the middle of my right eye / dominant eye.  Bummer, but it's a fact of getting older.

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Same here, having to take my glasses off now to see something really close, which I never had to do before. 

Is this when we start giving up and wearing robes, loafers, and get a bit of foam tube to link the ear pieces of our spectacles so we don't lose them?

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Multi Focal wearer here too, have been now for a couple years now. Particularly in low light/night time

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I thought about bifocals, but something like 70-80% of the time, I don't wear glasses at all. I'm just a little nearsighted (20/30 in one eye and 20/50 in the other), so I wear glasses to drive, but not at the computer or watching TV. I got the readers for reading building plans at work, but now I think I'll wear them working on RC cars and models, too.

Maybe it will improve my detail-painting ability... but probably not.

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I'm here with ya, its been 18 months now that I've had glasses after 48 old years of really good eye sight. I need them close up, long distance is still good, short distance seems to be getting worse by the day.  Apparently in  couple of years when the decline stabilises I can get laser surgery B)

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Same here . Have done for two years now . But only started wearing them more in the last 8 or so months. 

I didn't what to wear them . Need to use the close up only , but find depth perception bad . When working on rc .

This is what happens when we get old lol . So we are in the same boat sadly .   

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A friend and I were taking about the eye sight on the decline as I'd just picked up some glasses for close up, as my arm was getting to short to be able focus in on my phone.

My friend however is still reluctant to go and get glasses as he says he is enjoying the 'airbrushed' look of his wife like in the magazines for the time being :lol: 

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My eyesight isn't too bad just yet but my joints are showing signs of age.

I've had a stiff finger since March, which hasn't affected everyday living but has made intricate work with screws even harder than it was.  I used to be able to hold three pieces together with one had while I screwed / glued / soldered with my right, but I can't do that any more.  I had some X-rays a few months ago, the results came back "mild arthritis."  I was referred to a hand specialist to see if there was anything that could be done to mitigate its effects as it progresses over the years.

Well, I saw the specialist on Friday, and was allowed a close look at my X-rays, which apparently showed no signs of arthritis at all.  They did show a break which I never knew I had - how you can break your middle finger and not know it I don't know - but that's inconsequential as it healed long ago.  What I actually have is a volar plate injury, although again, how I did this is anyone's guess.  I thought I'd have noticed.  Well anyway, it should be fixable, with a bit of self-administered physio, so hopefully I will regain a little mobility (although I doubt I will be any less clumsy than I was before the injury :o ) 

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Glasses are our friends gents. 

Don’t ever take out short sighted contact lenses mid job ... 

TRF grease on your fingers tends to smart when you forgetfully poke yourself in the eye 😂

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Same here. At first I refused to use my ex had bought me. But I was having a hard time working with model building and custom already because I couldn't see the small and finer details. Especially when painting with fine tips paint brush. Then when I started using it, it was a new clearer world. I've been using reading/working glasses since then (2013). Started with a 125 grade and now to 150. Hopefully it doesn't get any higher than that. Although my far sight vision is still ok. I just had a sight check a few months ago when I bought a new pair. 

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On 8/11/2019 at 7:51 PM, speedy_w_beans said:

Right there with you guys.  I had to get bifocals and a separate set of glasses for using the computer.  On top of that, there's the beginning of a cataract forming in the middle of my right eye / dominant eye.  Bummer, but it's a fact of getting older.

Oh man, your post reminds me that I should use Carnosine eye drops.  

You might give Carnosine eye drops a try too?  You won't see any change until you use it for 3 months or so.  It's so gradual, you might not tell if you got better or not.   

My 80 year old dad uses it.  But he's got a tear in his retina, so that won't help anymore.  Living with some fog during their 50's and 60's and get the surgery at 70's like my parents?  That seems like a long and painful way.  I decided that I'll use it everyday for a month out of a year, just to delay the onset (but I forgot to do it for couple years now).  

I experimented it on my dog too.  I tell you it stops your heart to see your dog 5 feet away, he's all happy that he heard you come home, but he doesn't know where you are even as you call his name.  I gave him carnosine eye drops for 3 months.  I kept the bottle cold.  So I get a cold drop on each eye, and he gets a drop each.  He squirmed at the beginning but he got used to it.  He was almost blind. 3 months didn't cure him.  But he could see well enough to run up and down the stairs without any trouble.  When I stopped giving him eye drops for 2 months, his eyes were getting dim again.  If he was human he would have gotten a surgery done long before he couldn't see.  But he was a dog and carnosine got him seeing again.  

I gave him eye drops everyday, and he didn't have eye trouble until he died about 14 months later. (That's like 8 human years)  In hind sight, I should have starved him for 2 days every other month to unclog his arteries or something.  But oh well.  (Now, every 3rd fast I do, our younger dog starves with me once -- just to make him live longer.)  

 

About bifocals, my eye doctor told me about it 2 years ago.  I refused at that time.  I only relented last year.  I have an old friend who recommended lined-bifocal because they give you wider field of views than progressive, especially if you have astigmatism.  But I couldn't bring myself to get "grandpa glasses."  At least, progressive lenses are better than single focus ones.  For reading and smaller things, I just take off my glasses.  Nearsighted + astigmatism had already made lenses expensive.  Adding bifocal to that?  They had to be "special ordered."  Like they say... getting old ain't for sissies.  

I had one of these since late 90's (it looked cool and nerdy).  No LEDs though, they make things heavy.  I never used them, but now I do.  I pull the visor up to expose my regular glasses, to read the manual.  I just pull it down to see small holes.  

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