Do you wear glasses?

[Linguofreak]

my doctor hit me with stronger prescriptions every year as well after 5 years old. your saying if i just left it alone my eyes might have been better than they are now?

No. In Järvita's case, her vision was bad due to her eyes being misaligned and her brain training itself to ignore her right eye. The doctor kept hitting her with stronger prescriptions, but that's not what she needed (her vision is perfect in her left eye, and her right eye is physically flawless, except for the musculature controlling where it points). She needed to have her eyes realigned, and her brain trained to use both eyes. Since that didn't happen, her right eye has impaired vision that can't be corrected with lenses.

In my case, my eyes got realigned before the suppression of the misaligned eye got bad enough to screw up my vision in that eye, but I was already very nearsighted in both eyes and getting worse. I got new prescriptions regularly because I needed them. This is probably also the case with you.

 

[Suzy]

I have worn glasses since my teenage years (nearsighted with some astigmatism); -4 diopters (down from -4.25 in 2006, curiously). Nothing else wrong aside from that.

 

[Ark]

No, but I'm sure I will eventually. My mother's needed glasses most of her life, and Dad's developed farsightedness over the last five years or so.

Meh, I can live with reading glasses.

 

[Suzy]

Going off on a tangent, I recall reading Chuck Yeager's autobiography and he mentioned that he had some sort of super-vision (rated 20/10), and never needed reading glasses - from a recent interview (2009):

Q: You had 20/10 eyesight. How is it today?

A: I had exceptional eyesight, and it pays off especially in combat. I could see planes coming half-again farther than the other pilots in the squadron. I still have 20/15 in each eye and I'm 86. I'm lucky.

 

[Tex]

I'm one of the lucky bastards that has no problems with his eyes whatsoever.

Same here, 20/20 I think it is or close to it.

 

[Andy44]

Going off on a tangent, I recall reading Chuck Yeager's autobiography and he mentioned that he had some sort of super-vision (rated 20/10), and never needed reading glasses - from a recent interview (2009):

Q: You had 20/10 eyesight. How is it today?

A: I had exceptional eyesight, and it pays off especially in combat. I could see planes coming half-again farther than the other pilots in the squadron. I still have 20/15 in each eye and I'm 86. I'm lucky.

Guy is in his 80s and he's probably still able to whoop most 20-something fighter pilots. The only time Chuck Norris is afraid is when he's in an airplane, because somewhere out there is Chuck Yeager.

 

[T.Neo]

I have (as far as I can tell) perfect vision.

Curiously, every person in my family over 45 needs (non-perscription) reading glasses.

I've never heard of anything better then 20/20... Yeager must have had eagle vision...

 

[the.punk]

Currently I don't have but I feel that I might need.

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I do not, but I feel if I keep staring at forums in the night, I will have to.

This also could be for me.

 

[Linguofreak]

I have worn glasses since my teenage years (nearsighted with some astigmatism); -4 diopters (down from -4.25 in 2006, curiously). Nothing else wrong aside from that.

I'm around -8 point something. With astigmatism.

 

[Jake]

Hah. I can spot a sparrow a mile away. Thing is, it's been ten years since I started looking at crappy/eyecancer.png/small crt monitors, moving on to lcd's and crap, and most of my day is spent reading or doing stuff on the computer. So I have pretty good eyes, but at this rate I don't know for how long this will be .

 

[orb]

Correction glasses for driving and watching movies. The other ones are .

 

[eveningsky339]

I've worn glasses on and off my whole life. I tend to go through "phases" of farsightedness, followed by nearly perfect vision, only to be diagnosed as nearsighted a few years down the road...

I do wear glasses on occasion, if I need to see far away details.

 

[ex-orbinaut]

There seems to be some concern about the effect of monitors and computer work on the eyesight. Are there any studies, statistics or confirmed facts about the level and type of damage they can cause?

 

[Linguofreak]

There seems to be some concern about the effect of monitors and computer work on the eyesight. Are there any studies, statistics or confirmed facts about the level and type of damage they can cause?

Well, it generally is said to have to do with near-work in general. (If you spend alot of time working with things close up, then your eye spends alot of time focused at that range).

There have been studies done, but I think the subject is still fairly strongly debated.

You will notice, though, that about 2/3rds of responders here wear glasses, which I'm pretty sure is far above average, and the OF community is probably a lot more prone to doing close-up work than the average human.

 

[n122vu]

No. In Järvita's case, her vision was bad due to her eyes being misaligned and her brain training itself to ignore her right eye. The doctor kept hitting her with stronger prescriptions, but that's not what she needed (her vision is perfect in her left eye, and her right eye is physically flawless, except for the musculature controlling where it points). She needed to have her eyes realigned, and her brain trained to use both eyes. Since that didn't happen, her right eye has impaired vision that can't be corrected with lenses.

Basically what happened to me, except they tried to force my brain to use my right eye to strengthen the muscles by patching the left. I had a "lazy eye" that turned in toward my nose. Being 4 and starting school, I was so self conscious that I refused to wear the patch. As a result, my brain ingored my right eye more and more. Curiously, as I got older, my eye straightened out on its own, but by that time my brain had trained itself to ignore it. I can see out of it, but when I close my left eye, my brain just focuses on the blackness of my closed left eye. Doc says the right side is extremely more farsighted than the left. I could get corrective lenses to clear the vision in my right eye, but the difference in lens thickness between right and left would just look goofy, so he gives me the same prescription in both lenses. Ironically, the only way to get my brain to use my right eye at least enough to be functional would be if I for some reason lost my left eye.

 

[cjp]

Nothing wrong with my eyes. I once had the impression that, when staring, my focus distance is somewhere beyond infinity, which suggests I could be a bit far-sighted, but I can easily focus on objects closer to me than 10cm, so there is no problem.
Once, when calibrating optical instruments by eye, another guy calibrated the instrument slightly different. As he had contact lenses, I suppose his eyes were corrected perfectly, so his calibration was probably correct. My calibration error was consistent with my impression of being slightly far-sighted.
Another time, I tried someone's +1 glasses, but they blurred things so much (even at far distances) that I think anything beyond +0.1 is way too strong for me. I never visited an expert for this though, because I'm not experiencing any problem or discomfort.
Besides, maybe the time I spend behind computers might actually compensate this small error.

Nothing else wrong aside from that.

Made me curious. What is ... the scope of that comment?

 

[Dig Gil]

First time I read the thread's title I thought it was about sunglasses...
Erh... I don't wear any. But I'd like to have some green, old-fashioned RayBan. Something that covers my entire field of view would be great. I tend to not move the head when is not needed.

About vision correction glasses: some of my relatives show Astigmatism or Myopia or both, but it doesn't seem to have affected me.

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Well, it generally is said to have to do with near-work in general. (If you spend alot of time working with things close up, then your eye spends alot of time focused at that range).

There have been studies done, but I think the subject is still fairly strongly debated.

You will notice, though, that about 2/3rds of responders here wear glasses, which I'm pretty sure is far above average, and the OF community is probably a lot more prone to doing close-up work than the average human.

I think that's like a muscle (the eye is controlled by muscles indeed):

The more you practice doing something (like closing-up) the easier it becomes to do that, but it's like if the muscle forgets how to do something else that's not practised.