i just got glasses.....

[awames76]

ive had glasses sense 2nd grade. little over 30 yrs. the glasses have saved my eyes from getting injured a few times. i doubt i would have had safety glasses on if i did not wear glasses. i still remember getting my first glasses. remember a billboard that ive seen several times then i know what it was. and trees had leaves. still remember it 30 yrs later

 

[gamecrimez]

I have had to wear glasses since I was like 2. I have had 2 eye surgeries & still have to wear them. I cant see without mine, well I can see things real close but not words. I know my dad hated it when I 1st got them as according to him we went thru a lot of pairs. I hated wearing glasses when I was younger had big thick lens but now I don't mind. I had broke them a few years ago & had to go without til I got new 1s & what a relief it was when I got them.

 

[ghitch75]

I was looking more for something more dedicated toward shooting. I could get shatter resistant lenses for my frames but they're thicker and don't lend themselves well to earmuffs or rifle butts.

now i'm just a newbie be i have had on muffs and shot rifles with my new eyes and i have not had any trouble.....i picked some smaller frame lens glasses at first then the doc said i should try a bigger lens frame for shooting and she was right......

hope you find something that will work for you.....

 

[JettaKnight]

I'm curious when the decline in your eyesight was.

I'm 41 now and at 40, I tested at 20/20 - the eye doctor was jealous. I had noticed some decline so it's highly likely my vision was better than 20/20 when in my twenties. I don't recall the results of the few exams I've had.

 

[ghitch75]

at 43 i went to the eye doc to have a piece of metal removed from my eye and had a complete exam.......they said my long ranger vision was fine and just need readers to read.....i ask why and he said your getting old.....


before then the last exam i had was when i was in middle school so i don't have much to go off of......

 

[JettaKnight]

before then the last exam i had was when i was in middle school so i don't have much to go off of......

Ok, you're like me.

 

[chocktaw2]

Just make sure you keep things in line...I remember when I first got glasses I made a spectacle of myself.....

Me too, those first bi-focals coming out the store, about tripped over the dam drop off of the sidewalk.

 

[Libertarian01]

I still have both pairs of Freddie the Rapist glasses I got in bootcamp!

Doug

PS - (AKA - "Clark Kents)

 

[johntheplinker]

Been wearing glasses since the 3rd grade. First thing I put on in the morning and the last thing I take off at night. Been putting off getting a new exam, know its going to be bad. Optometrist told me last time that I was almost ready for bifocals.

I still have both pairs of Freddie the Rapist glasses I got in bootcamp!

Doug

PS - (AKA - "Clark Kents)

Ahhhh, the ol birth control specs!

 

[DragonGunner]

I'm 55 and doc keeps telling me its about time for bifocals….hate the ideal…heard so many say its ok, and some say they just suck…but its getting to the place like reading I could use them…that part is getting worse….so how you guys like bifocals…..lines…no lines…..or forget them.

 

[SchwansManDan]

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no line bifocals are hard to get use to......makes you high step a little...

I'm also 52. Had to bite the bullet last summer and got progressive bifocals to pass the DOT medical exam. It took me a long time to get used to them, especially wearing them while going down stairs. I also banged my knee a couple of times on truck bumpers while adjusting to wearing glasses.

Finally decided to just have them in my pocket unless I was driving a commercial vehicle or reading.