Eyesight

[magicfairy]

In or after your 40s you lose the ability to see close up clearly. This is due to the eye not being able to focus close up and happens to most people sooner or later to some extent. This is "long sightedness" and has nothing to do with needing contact lenses or glasses at a younger age.

Laser surgey won't help - it is the ability of the eye to "accomodate" not a corneal problem. All to do with losing flexibility in the eye.

My optician told me (I have short sightedness, made worse by corneal abnormalities - astigmatism - so no surgery for me) that when I start to have problems reading, different contact lenses won't help, and to buy some cheap reading glasses from the chemist as they can do just as well as anything he prescribes for reading.
But you should get it checked out in case it is not as simple as getting old.
My 2 cents

[Stickchick]

Yep, will do...have got a few more headaches lately...

If you are getting headaches then you really should see an optomerist. I have worn glasses all my life but they do say that staring at a computer will make your eye sight degenerate so its not just an age thing.

I wear contacts a few bit and its not as bad as you think. I swore I would never put my fingers in my eyes but it makes life a lot easier. But in saying that if you don't need to wear glasses all the time like me it wouldn't be my recommendation to get contacts.

[terbang]

If you are over 40 then it's normal. If you are not then wear boxing gloves in bed.

[kickingzebra]

silicon hydragel contact lenses mean you can stick lenses in for up to 7 days and six nights. fingers in eyes twice a week, eyes still breath, no dramas.

[sAsLEX]

I have to respectfully disagree with Mr Pwalo about glasses on a bike after seeing what glasses to did to the face of a friend 20 years ago. Thankfully he died.

Plus there is an extra layer to fog up in nasty weather.

Contacts or Lasic surgery is my recommendation. The only way you can find out if these things will work for you is to go to an optometrist and find out what the issue is.

They aint glass these days.............


Though I have issues in one helmet where my glasses move about with the helmet too much and can blurr visor at pace

[Grahameeboy]

If you are over 40 then it's normal. If you are not then wear boxing gloves in bed.

I am over 40 but still wear boxers in bed........no hope for me then

[Grahameeboy]

Cheers for your feedback guys...it really has helped

[Grahameeboy]

They aint glass these days.............


Though I have issues in one helmet where my glasses move about with the helmet too much and can blurr visor at pace

Speed blurr you mean

[MacD]

Any insight on this please......you know, how did you finally realise your eyesight was deteriorating...maybe you bought a Honda thinking it was a Suzuki...I dunno...but seriously.....How?

Have your arms got too short to read? That's the usual symptom

Your profile gives the most likely answer, but as others have said go and get your eyes checked out, you probably just need some reading glasses, but the risk of glaucoma and other eye conditions also increases with age.

Presbyopia

[Grahameeboy]

Have your arms got too short to read? That's the usual symptom

Your profile gives the most likely answer, but as others have said go and get your eyes checked out, you probably just need some reading glasses, but the risk of glaucoma and other eye conditions also increases with age.

Presbyopia

What arms??

Yeah I figured I'd get AIDS being a FAG but life is funny like that eh?

[MacD]

What arms??

Yeah I figured I'd get AIDS being a FAG but life is funny like that eh?

Your age not your location!

[vifferman]

I dunno - after going to an optometrist myself a couple of years back when I was in the same situation as you, and finding out it was just normal eyesight deterioration, I wish I'd just gone to the Warehouse or a chemist, and tried on some el cheapo reading glasses till I found some that worked.

Yes, there is a chance you have summat serious happening with your eyes, but your case sounds identical to mine. My long sight is perfect, and I can read without glasses during the day, but not first thing in the morning, nor when I'm tired, and really really small text is impossible to read. It cost me mega bux for the eye exam and fancy glasses, and I use them basically only for reading at night or examining very tiny print or objects (like when I can't find my willy).

You've got nothing to lose (except maybe your pride?) by rocking up to counter where they sell those generic reading glasses and trying some out.

[Bass]

Your eyesight does not deteriorate becuse you have become reliant on your glasses....it is age that causes it to fail.
!

Don't know if this would help or not but after doing 5-10 minutes on the computer look in to the distance (Mountains, etc) to give your eyes a chance to refocus etc.

These people are right - age is your enemy.
Your cornea changes shape to alter its focal length - more convex for close up, flatter for longer range.
It is controlled by a ring of muscle around the outside of the cornea. However, the muscle does not act directly on the cornea but through a network of threads, arranged rather like the spokes on bike wheel. As the muscle contracts, the threads loosen and the cornea goes more convex.

The problem is that this system relies on the natural elasticity of the cornea to assume the correct shape for close up work. As we age, we lose that elasticity and so cannot focus as close as we once could.

The brain doesn't know that however, and the eye muscles continue to strain to get the cornea to the right shape. However, all that happens is that the threads go slack. This MAY be part of the headache problem.

Eye exercises - looking at distant objects periodically as suggested - will help slow the loss of elasticity, but it WILL get you in the end.

It's the optometrist for you.

You'll also get a glaucoma check, which is worth the doing

[James Deuce]

They aint glass these days.............


Though I have issues in one helmet where my glasses move about with the helmet too much and can blurr visor at pace

It wasn't glass then either. The frames snapped in the middle, the lenses popped out (unbroken) the frames punctured both eyes and penetrated the eye sockets and one of the arms punctured his temple and penetrated his brain stirring it up a little. He probably wouldn't have survived anyway, but the glasses made sure he died.

[James Deuce]

Yeah, that happened to me too.
Except my bike exploded when I crashed, which killed me some more.

His head clipped the front of a truck that ran wide to take the corner on the right hander (left hander for the truck) heading North at the top of the Rimutakas. Sorry. That wasn't funny. Closed casket funeral.