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I would love something like this. Over the past 5 years I have experienced my eyesight degrade since reaching 40 years old. I always use to quietly brag to myse
by playcache 6y ago
I would love something like this. Over the past 5 years I have experienced my eyesight degrade since reaching 40 years old. I always use to quietly brag to myself about having such good vision. And then suddenly it gets a little bit of challenge to read, so you get a weak strain of reading glasses and from their you continue up in strengh ratings until you realise the person over the road from you has a blurred face and you have gone from needing reading glasses to needing glasses all of the time.
- annoyingnoob 6y agoSame experience, aging sucks.
- thelittleone 6y agoPrecisely same here most noticeable on screens and in morning. My wife passed me her glasses and my screen became sharper than ever. My fear is using them too much might then mess up my non glasses vision.
- mlyle 6y agoProbably not. Age-related near vision loss is due to the lens of your eye losing flexibility with age, and not being able to change shape as much to focus on near things, and not any kind of baseline refractive error.
- rufus_foreman 6y agoHopefully your optometrist has warned you that it just gets worse and there's nothing they can do.
- fpgaminer 6y agoSince we're commiserating: the vergence of my eyes is failing and I'm not even 40. My actual vision is perfect; better than ever. But apparently my eyes don't converge so well anymore, giving me horrific headaches if I look at any kind of screen for more than a few minutes :( Really sucks. Doc gave me prism lens so I can use a computer again, but they're exhausting to use. Hoping I can find a specialist after the pandemic is over and figure out a better option; really don't want this to get worse. Kind of sick joke, considering I spent almost a decade of my career doing computational imaging and computer vision work. 2020 :/
- justinclift 6y agoWonder if a VR headset with a custom interpupillary distance (IPD) would work for you? eg set it to a distance that's not physically correct, but er... more correct for how your eyes operate. If it's works, you'd be able to read text again. You'd just need to do it from inside VR. ;)
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- treeman79 6y agoLook into IIH, 5th or sixth nerve is affected, causes double vision. Diamox fixes my double vision. Before that I was using prism glasses.
- digdigdag 6y ago6th cranial nerve palsy is what got my vision. Unknown cause. I chanced it with strabismus surgery and it has really paid off for me.
- oulipo 6y agoHow did you know it was that? I've had a quite sudden change in vision (I used to be able to read without glasses or function daily without glasses, and in a matter of weeks or months I suddenly needed glasses all day, I'm 37) and it seems my astigmatism progressed, but not that much since before. I also had quite bad posture during the confinement and wonder if I could have pinched a nerve?
- treeman79 6y agoHard to say. Sudden Eye strain caM weaken the eyes. In my early 20s I tried to focus on something really hard. Then “owe” I couldn’t focus at all. Apparently I had needed glasss for years, and that was the final straw.
- fpgaminer 6y ago
- flippinburgers 6y agoVision loss + tinnitus: something that makes getting up in the morning hard to do! The thrill of being able to restore these two things alone would be indescribable.
- mlyle 6y agoCellular clocks may not be so useful with this. Your eye has "extra flexibility" to focus at birth (that is, it can focus beyond infinity and nearer than is useful), but it slowly hardens and becomes less flexible. Around age 40-50 is when you really start to notice the loss in range, assuming you had something close to a normal balance between distance and near vision to begin with.
- xwdv 6y agoAny way to maintain flexibility through diet and exercise?
- mlyle 6y agoI don't believe so. It's my understanding that the protein structures that make the lens so flexible-- mostly alpha-crystallin --- are created during the development of the eye and slowly lost over time. Later, transparency is lost in the cornea for similar reasons and we get cataracts. Then with cataract surgery you can choose your preferred focal length for your new stiff artificial lens.
- xwdv 6y agoFuck man, this sucks. How come some people manage to still not need glasses past 50 then? What did they do different?
- benjohnson 6y agoI'm in that category - I've noticed is that me and other mountain climbers and hikers seem to age better. Could be selection bias - the unhealthy with poor eyesight could have quit or fallen off a ledge.
- mlyle 6y agoI doubt that that's a key factor. There's a lot of luck on initial refractive error, etc. I don't need reading glasses. One reason is I have one eye with a slightly near refractive error and one with a slightly far refractive error. They're also both pretty close to nominal, so losing a bit of range on focusing doesn't hurt as much as if I'd been biased one way or another. I do notice that I prefer slightly larger text than before. I bet if I tried reading glasses that I'd find that they lend some benefit.