Thanks for the response Paul. I'm not sure whether you were addressing me or the others, but I'll feed back into this anyway.
What strikes me about this process is that I don't think everyone experiences subtlety the same way. I had my eyes tested a few years ago and had about the same response from the optometrist as I get from you. Namely that it's hardly worth bothering with for so slight a prescription. I suspect the optometrist was more concerned with cost benefit. Since then I've kept tabs on occasions where I've been lacking in my vision. It's most frustrating at a concert or theatrical presentation where the details are lost to me visually. At the opera last year, with tired eyes, I couldn't even make out the provided sub titles which was disappointing. My main grievances are with my night vision and dark theaters and such seem to really aggravate the problem. I have tried a couple of different strengths of drug store reading glasses and found the weakest of them to be the best and now find them essential for work and reading. Sometimes I can't get far enough away from my work to inspect it properly and my arms are definitely not long enough to read comfortably without them. I'd be curious to know how prescription variations are experienced through a wide variety of people. My suspicion is like many other things, some would be more sensitive to changes than others. I have looked through minor prescription glasses before and am really excited to once again determine finer detail at greater distances. For some, I'm sure that whether I "really need them" is up for debate. I've taken at least a couple of years to think about this and now that glasses don't cost as much, by far, I don't see a really good reason not to have very good vision. Do you? I'd be interested in knowing if I'm missing something here. Do ones eyes deteriorate if you support them with a proper prescription? I know nothing. >It's also possible that walking around with +2.00 glasses for a while > will counteract the -0.25 myopia I don't understand what you've suggested above, but would like to. The vehicle gauges are not a problem. They are a high contrast presentation with about the right distance to remain very legible. Thanks for the help. Ian On Oct 31, 12:25 am, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > What about the ADD of 2.25? This guy strikes me as mainly being > farsighted, with a prescription of +2.00 in each eye. That makes my > first suggestion to be to go to somewhere like a local dollar store or > drugstore and get a pair of +2.00 reading glasses and see how they > work for reading. > > The minus and astigmatic part of this prescription are so small as to > be possibly within the margin of error of measurement, meaning that > another measurement taken on another day might turn out to be zero for > all or some of the four -0.25's. > > You could experiment with a cheap online pair of glasses with just the > -0.25 myopia prescription, or the myopia plus astigmatism (no ADD), to > see if you really need it for things like driving, especially at > night. Can you read the car's instrument panel without any glasses? If > not, I suppose you'll will need bifocals in order to drive. > > It's also possible that walking around with +2.00 glasses for a while > will counteract the -0.25 myopia. So that's my suggestion - get the > +2.00 readers locally first. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Check us out at the oft-updated http://glassyeyes.blogspot.com! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GlassyEyes" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/glassyeyes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
