No, I’m short sighted, long sighted and got prisms. If I look at a lamp post or something else without glasses it becomes double. I was driving the other month and my eyes were stinging, I took my glasses off to rub my eyes and rest them for a minute and followed the wrong white line in the road and kerbed the car. The prism is due to muscles in my eyes where nothing can be done. Yet 10 years ago I just started wearing glasses for reading only. My lenses now cost £350 a year.
I had really great eyesight until about 8 years ago when I began to find it difficult to read newspapers and small text like menu’s in restaurants. Since then I use reading glasses which do the job. You can pick them up in Poundland. My long sight is still really good - I can read stuff from a distance that most of my mates can’t, but now I always need reading glasses to read anything I hold in my hand - plus my works laptop. It’s probably a combination of age and a lifetime of working with computer screens that’s done for my close vision. I’d be fine in the upper Lansdown - I’d probably be able to read Liam’s notes, but if I was down behind the dugout I wouldn’t be able to!!!
That’s how mine started, but just went down rapidly. I can’t see the TV screen now from my chair. Not like a lot of people but the screen is like fuzzy. And if I’m watching Sports with the scores they start moving and then the top starts going lopsided. It’s like being pissed
that is a real p***er ..eyes are really strange things When I get up my vision is reasonable everything almost in focus but close up letters and things cant read till put on my prescripts. On the computer if I sit 6 or more feet away it looks fine but to small to read it so on go my my 2.5's and can sit 2ft to 3ft from screen to read [ as I write this ] more than 3ft it blurs a bit...everything in room or looking out of window is fine! the weird bit is my hobby.. the mountain trails I follow are not flat well defined path's, but negotiate difficult parts [ clambouring through rocks /boulders with them on ]without glasses [ I suppose not trying to read small stuff? ] However when dark as I crawl around passages or walk down from caves on same trails etc I do not need glasses! at all, only light from head torch [ 1500 lms max usually on about 800 /600 even as low as 200 lmns when battery low ] everything seems in focus ...............
I assume you’ve been professionally diagnosed mate - I’ve not bothered personally because in my experience it’s normal for someone to lose their close vision as they get older, but not close AND distance vision. It could be something unrelated to the eyes themselves like diabetes (?)
Lots lose both visions, that’s why they do bi focals and varifocal lenses. Bi focal are top part one vision and bottom part other with like a line direct through the middle. Varifocal it blends so depending on what part I look through corrects. You get cheaper versions that you have to move your head as sides are blurry. So people who wear them have to move their head to keep glasses central. I buy the top range and just like you when you wear your reading glasses. I just move my eyes round the lenses rather than my head. I have prisms to correct the double vision. That got picked up during an eye test where a red vertical line crosses the green horizontal line when they ask which colour is more visible. And I said the lines were moving and two of each. My eye sight is tested yearly. The double vision is possibly due to wearing cheap reading glasses when younger and straining my eyes. Not a dig, but get your eyesight tested regularly to be sure your not damaging by thinking it’s ok I can see better with these on when it’s probably not the right prescription as eyes don’t go same in each eye. My prescription for both long and short are not that high to other people. But together is what ****s me up. As to diabetes, I’m coeliac so I get blood test yearly for other stuff and clear on that. It’s like a MOT around my birthday.
