Brimmed hat is a must in the rain.
For using binoculars with specs/sunglasses, I find 7x50s are easiest to align with your eyes thanks to their large (7.14mm) exit pupils.
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Brimmed hat is a must in the rain.
For using binoculars with specs/sunglasses, I find 7x50s are easiest to align with your eyes thanks to their large (7.14mm) exit pupils.
Well I'm just going thru the healing process at the moment from Lasik.
So far I am converted. I've gone from +9.50 down to +3.50 and bugger all Astigmatism
I still have to wear glasses, but its reduced it to the level I can wear chemist glasses now and contacts once healed up.
Its costly at $6k and not for everyone, but cheap compared to ICL's at 7.5k per eye and nothing in the scheme of things compared to what has been spent on my eyes over the last 3 decades
Wore glasses for many years - got them when I was 21 and was amazed that trees had leaves.
Got my eyes lasered in 2000 and it was the single best thing I've ever spent money on...
Edit: I got my eyes done by the top guy in SA at the time. If you going to play with something like eyes, you best go straight to the guy that they would send you to if anything went wrong.
My long distance vision is pinpoint 21 years later (had my eyes checked a week ago, so still current!) but now have to wear age related reading glasses for close up stuff.
thats prob PRK, the old method, melt the epithilum off with alcohol, still used for thin corneas etc
Blade free lasik is the new way these days. really weird seeing the laser change the surface of your eye
our internal lenses can only compensate so much, they begin to harden with age and the focusing muscles begin to weaken.
some are lucky for one correction and good, others not so much.
Yeah, there's a longer story to mine. My brother had really bad eyesight and was enquiring about PRK back in the day. The eye guy told him to wait for this new thing called LASIK and that he would give him a shout when he thought the technology was advanced enough. I suppose 1998 or so he gave my brother a call and said 'right, come have it done' and so he did, and was delighted. Told me about it, and I had it done a few years later - the technology had moved since and I imagine that it's a whole number of generations down the line by now.
in last year Ive noticed the decline..reading without them is an effort now..my arms just arent long enough,would hate to try n pop zit in mirror as when close enough to mirror to have detail..im too close to focus LOL
will need to carry pair full time very soon.
I’m halfway through Intraoccular lens replacement. Had my left done last Wednesday and my right gets done tomorrow. At nearly 60, I’ve been wearing contacts for 35 years correcting astigmatism in both eyes and very shortsighted. Not a good candidate for LASIK as it may not last. IOL a much better solution for me, it’s basically a cataract op without me having cataracts and will see me out. They’ve gone into my eye and chopped up my lens and sucked it out and put in a implant. I’m 20/20 in the left eye now and can use the PC without reading glasses. Still need reading glasses for very close work. The implant is designed to give a range of excellent distance to intermediate vision and it certainly delivers, can’t wait for tomorrow. Not cheap though, 7 grand a side. Would have been on insurance if I actually had cataracts.
When I investigated contacts for astigmatism they told me that they orient themselves by being heavier at the bottom. If you tilt your head sideways, the contacts re-orientate down and the world goes strange.
I always tell folk they should consider Lasik - two days after it's done you're wondering what all that fuss and bother about glasses and contacts was all about, then you remember, oh, yeah, because I couldn't see.
depends on your script but I'm in the same boat and I'm looking at daily soft torics, use them and bin them, less care and less chance of eye infections from improper cleaning. they come in sealed packs use as you go
glasses for most things, contacts for diving hunting etc
Lasik is so far good just in removing the astigmatism let alone lens weight loss.
Ill be planning for IOL's (refractive lens exchange) in 10-15 years time, hence lasik now to prep for that,
then with RLE it will be 20/20 for driving and reading glasses for close in work
Possibly there's a limit to the severity of astigmatism that can be corrected in some brands of lenses. Mine were B&L Soflens Toric. I used to order through Clearly Contacts (online) and paid $69 per pack of 6 for each side, usually a discount deal would bring it back to $120 delivered for both sides and with each set lasting about 6 months, so 4 to 5 weeks use from a pair. So on top of the annual lens costs of, say $240, there was also the cleaning fluid which was about $30 a bottle and that would last about a month so another $360 per year. All up around $600 a year in contacts, 35 years, $21,000.00. Less than someone might send on smokes, or beer. They've been great, but my eyes have been getting tired earlier in the evening and I've just put in a pool and want to swim every day so I've gone with the surgery.
Something I noticed in between left and right surgery was that my left eye vision had become super bright, sort of blue/white compared to my right eye vision that had a sort of yellow hue. Kind of like comparing the light from an old style filament headlight with an LED one. I asked the surgeon about it and he said my lens tissue had hardened and yellowed slightly with age. Now I have both implants in and the brightness and clarity is amazing.