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Scrumpy said:
Tried some specs on in Sainsburies yesterday. No way could I get the same improvement as I experienced using Simons glasses. I will have to try another place/brand of glasses.

When you start wearing glasses do your eye muscles become lazy and accelerate the deterioration process?
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Yes, well it seems that way to me anyway.
Apparently as we get older the muscle that deflects the eye lens to focus get weaker.

I have had a look, the glasses you tried I now believe are +1.25 and are real glass, so they may be slightly more expensive.
 
The eye is a fascinating device. Vision is a masterpiece of evolution that we generally take for granted until it's compromised for some reason.

The ciliary muscles in the eye change the shape of the lens, flattening the lens to focus on distant objects or squishing it into a more spherical shape for close-up focussing. The muscles contract to make the lens more spherical, so if they become weaker that would indeed make it more difficult to focus close up.

In addition to weakening muscles, the lens itself becomes less flexible with age and unable to change shape as easily. So our ability to focus on close objects as we age is attacked on two fronts.

Just to add to the misery, the lens also gets a little cloudy, and therefore less transparent as we age, so our vision gets dimmer. We don't notice because it happens over a long time and our brains compensate, unless it gets to an extreme in which case your vision is severely affected. In that case it's called cataracts. For most of us, we may only notice that we don't see as well in dim light as we used to when younger. 

The trade-off is that we supposedly get wiser as we age - until dementia sets in.


PS: No need to accelerate the deterioration of your vision. Wear eye protection whenever necessary, including UV blocking sunglasses if you spend a lot of time in bright sunlight.
 
Fix what? Yogi getting Paul's name wrong?

PS: I carry zip ties and gaffer tape too, as well as electrical tape, tie wire, electrical wire, spare fuses, multimeter, soldering iron, along with the usual spanners and stuff. Just trying to figure out how I could stash a welder under the seat. No spliff, but it's not a bad idea for when all the other tools fail.
 
Apologies Paul... too much going on here and I should stay off forum until I get on top of my work...  suffering computer problems that are driving me up the wall and holding me back workwise..

Yogi
 
If you do get prescription reading glasses they will ask you what focal length you want,either for rearing books papers etc or computer screens.The later is usually further away than the former,the computer distance works much better for me generally,you don't normally hold tape measures etc 200mm from your eyes,more usually its computer screen distance 500mm or so.Helpful tip I wish I had know the first time around.Trip number 3 to The Sydney Eye Hospital tomorrow for my monthly injection for Macular bruising from an internal bleed.At least I am still able to see well enough to keep riding and working.
 
Know where you're coming from Vince, used to have trouble seeing the displays on submarines (two monitors, one above the other). Ended up getting a set of glasses made to the correct focal length. Made a hell of a difference.
 
Vince, a word of advice: if the eye hospital leave the trade press in the waiting area, DON'T READ IT!!!

I've been attending the specialist eye clinic at our local hoppy on least a quarterly basis for the last 30 year - one appointment they had some trade press on the waiting room table so I had a quick flick through....

Oh lord, full page, full colour, high resolution images of the worst case scenarios for the condition I suffer from. Apparently, in extreme cases the cornea can rupture during the night  :o

The pictures of the corneal graft operation were a bit stomach churning as well, but seems they don't expect me to need that in the forseeable* future.

* hope their eyes are better than mine
 
I have a system,I arrive and go into a coma.It happens in its own time,to be honest I am extremely happy with the way its going.There really professional,and the best bit is its free,I went to the private Opthalmic Surgeon I used 5 years ago when I first had it happen,no treatment back then.It sorted itself back then and probably would have again but there is a treatment now.The first quote from the private bloke was $2000 an injection.That would have been $6000 by now.So waiting around is 100% better than the expensive alternative.
 
Thanks for all of the advice. I will check out the better quality glasses. To be honest I had not considerd that the lens might have been plastic but at those prices what can you expect. When trying them on I did not touch the lens either to avoid putting prints on them, it might have been obvious then. A pair for reading and a pair for the computer. Wouldn't have thought of that either.

 
scrumpy you only have one set of eyes treat yourself and all will become clear mk1s are the best.
regards and safe riding andy
 
Scrumpy said:
Tried some specs on in Sainsburies yesterday. No way could I get the same improvement as I experienced using Simons glasses. I will have to try another place/brand of glasses.

Get a free no obligation eye test at Tesco, Take your reading prescription to any of the cheap supermarkets, Asda, poundstretcher etc and get a set of reading glasses for ?2,  Note, glasses for reading books and working with computers are different in that the distance is different, best to try. THe cheap ones work better than the pair I paid good money for

When you start wearing glasses do your eye muscles become lazy and accelerate the deterioration process?


Apparently not, its an illusion created by further deteriation of your eyes an[size=10pt][size=10pt]d the improvement seen through using glasses.[/size][/size] 2 more years and you probably wont be able to fight it anyway  8)
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