I just ordered my first set of bifocals this week.

 

No bifocals, I wear contacts most of the time, but I'm needing reading glasses now too. Close up vision seemed to start deteriorating the same day I turned 40. Now at 44 I bought a cheap pair of reading glasses.

Ear hair, weird pube-like eyebrow hairs and huge gray nostril hairs are starting to show up too. Fun huh?

 

ive been wearing glasses for past 3 years or so and they are pretty intense. you are not old, you are just tired!

 

The reading glasses thing got me last year. I was trying to read the part number on a small fuse and just couldn't do it. Sucks to get old...

 

I wear my glasses for work, PC, and depending on how fuzzy the cones are, sometimes auto cross LOL.

I know I need a new perscription too. I did a series of photos and they all looked a little fuzzy. So I tweeked the focus on them in Capture NX, all my friends said the pictures were beyond crisp in focus. :(

 

i had a problem of fitting my glasses under a full-face helmet. the only solution i could find was this: MYKITA - Products - Collection No.1

 

That's interesting. I've worn glasses for years, and had no problem with my Shoei full-face helmet. Obviously you have to take off the glasses, put on the helmet, and then put the glasses back on.

 

but its very uncomfortable

 

These would be better...

 

Honestly, I never found it to be a problem. I have very simple metal framed glasses that look somewhat like this:

 

Never had a problem with glasses or sunglasses under a helmet. I've been wear oakley glasses and sunglasses for a long time now, maybe this helps.





At 37 I'm on the verge of needing reading glasses too :( I wear contacts now, but have trouble with anything close up, if I'm wearing glasses I just look over or under to read close up stuff. Not possible for contacts.

I'm considering getting laser surgery, would still have to wear reading glasses ... but a least I wouldn't have to wear the contacts anymore.

 

I wish I could get lasik or the implantable contacts but my astigmatism is too bad. I'm 42 and it just started deteriorating in the last year. Having a hard time with small print on packaging or parts. Can't read the .020" increments on a machinist's scale anymore. That's the one that really bothered me.

 

I've gotton to the point where I cannot read my odometer or my watch without cheaters. I finially got prescription glasses and sunglasses even though the distance correction is so minor, I can pass my DL test without glasses.

I just got tired of always putting them on to read anything.

 

Bah! I've been dealing with progressive vision loss for decades.

It was getting an eMail from a High School chum, telling me his son was starting Basic training earlier this month that made me feel old...

- L

 

y8s and I were chatting earlier and it was established the I was 1yr old when Star Trek Enterprise started on TV.

 

Wow you guys ARE old...

 

Enterprise came out in 2001, Star Trek came out in 1966. Are you 44 or 9?

 

I was glimmer in my dad's eye when the original came out. Actually, I was likely a bun in the oven.

 

Whoops, I meant TNG. I get them mixed up.

 

I must be getting younger. I failed the DC license eye test without my glasses but a few years later when I moved to virginia, I passed the eye test without the glasses. win.