Any proof ?
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Cowabunga
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- Ceredigion,Wales
It is not for me to prove an assertion that you made. You prove that it makes eyes worse.
For what it's worth I had my eyes tested about a year ago for distance glasses and the same glasses or prescription I had 30 years ago were still perfect for me today.
My reading glasses have needed to be slightly stronger as I've aged though, from not needing any 30 years ago to needing +2.0 today for very small print. However you would expect that considering that I'm now over 60 years of age. I only wear them for small print though and not, for instance, for using this computer and not for most normal size print unless it involves several pages.
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- Lincs / Cambs border
I wear contact lenses and have reading glasses .
Well you've just proved my point ,
Cowabunga
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Have I hell as like!
Cowabunga
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I try to avoid contacts. Too much faff for me, but it is certainly worth considering as a solution that I hadn't thought of before.
You said you now need stronger glasses as you get older ,
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- Lincs / Cambs border
I have daily disposable lenses and have had for over 20 years, no messing about cleaning them and very cheap now a days . About 70p a day for clean sterile lenses .
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- Dorset/Wiltshire
Do you find the dust ever irritates them?
Cowabunga
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What has that even remotely got to do with "Wearing glasses make your eyes worse in my opinion"? YOU certainly need stronger reading glasses because I said I needed stronger reading glasses as I got older
So why did my distance vision deteriorate in my late 20's to start needing glasses but have not deteriorated at all since? I wear these for between 50% and 80% of most days, sometimes more, yet reading glasses are not worn for more than 5% of a day at the very most.
It's only since I was age 50+ that I've needed reading glasses and only then for small print. Eyes get worse through old age, natural degeneration or disease, not from wearing glasses.
My evesight hasn't , why because I don't wear glasses
Av Gorritt
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- NE Ches / SE Lancs
I went for my annual eye test 2 or 3 months ago , and I decided to go the whole hog , with varifocals and all the bells and whistles , just light of £400.00 they cost . And I simply can't wear them ! They seem to be pulling my eyes out on stalks and leave them very sore indeed after a short period of use . I've reverted to my original pair of bi focals . And yes , I know I should go back to the optician , but since his premises are in one of the highest risk areas , and the bulk of his clientele are ethnics , I'm certainly not going to , well not yet anyway .
Cowabunga
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- Ceredigion,Wales
You are putting two and two together and making six.
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- Chezvegas (chesterfield)
With maths like that he probably needs some glasses........
I now use the cheaper 1.5 readers for close work and my long vision is perfect still.
I can see the sun and stars and they are millions and millions of miles away. [emoji23]
I now use the cheaper 1.5 readers for close work and my long vision is perfect still.
I can see the sun and stars and they are millions and millions of miles away. [emoji23]
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- Lincs / Cambs border
No not at all .
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- Exeter, Devon
As said above, go back to your opticians and get them checked. A few years ago I was prescribed reading and distance glasses but couldn’t get on with them. When I went back to see what was wrong it turned out I had one lens from each prescription in each pair!
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- S E Glos
Just tried that but had to take my glasses off, so couldn't read what was on the leg.
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- Near Beeston Castle
Exactly the same for me.I was prescribed my first pair of reading glasses two years ago, and like yourself they seemed a bit too strong?
So I bought a pair of cheap lowest magnification glasses from a cheap shop- much better to use
Expensive prescription glasses are fine reading at exactly 374mm, £1 ebay glasses are fine for 0-750mm.
The cheapo glasses are much better for me as they improve a greater range.
I also find if I don't exercise my eyes by looking at close things and distant things they get worse, at the moment I am doing a lot of close work and they go downhill.
Netherfield
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A new optician talked me into Varifocals, terrible things, looking at the newspaper it was like the print was jumping about all over the place, fortunately they were sold on the condition if I didn't like them they would change them, good as their word using the same frames they made a pair of Bifocals, which I'd had before, and then with a pair of cheap frames made some single lens for the computer work.
Dad had and Brother has Glaucoma, so I'm urged to go every 12 months without fail, though happy to say my eyes seem too have stopped deteriorating and it's three times since the last change of glasses.
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