Your Eyesight

[Mobasser]

I started wearing glasses at age forty. Starting with cheap reader type glasses for one year, I eventually got prescription eyeglasses.                   I've had several pairs over the years.  I also have soft contact lenses, which I wear every day. By afternoon, I'm ready to take them out and put my glasses on.                   Contacts brother my eyes if I wear them too long. I recently got new glasses, and a six month supply of contact lenses. Next month I'm going to get prescription sunglasses also. I want a good polarized pair for fishing. Once you get prescription glasses, there's no turning back. You'll need them all the time. Tying on small jigs with 4lb mono is still tricky on bright days, but I live with it. It's part of getting older- 65 now.                        How is your eyesight? Do you need and wear glasses or contacts?

[Team9nine]

Glasses in my very early 20s, and bifocals in my early 50s. Won’t touch contacts, but still have pretty decent eyesight overall, and I use some pretty thin braid at times.

[Darth-Baiter]

I can still see far.  pretty well. 

 

close?  not so much.  I got some readers prescribed and I am okay with it now.  I have come to terms with it.  I am still capable of tying fishing knots bare-eyed, so I am still blessed.  low light conditions are challenging, but I have the improved clinch knot memorized, I can fuddle thru.

 

dim romantic restaurants..I find my glasses or my wife simply orders for me if I forgot them.  

[DitchPanda]

Well my eyesight has started to get a little iffy as of the last 6 months or so...but I'm being stubborn and haven't done anything about it. What I'm noticing is the typical.squinting at small print. Guess what? I will be 40 in 5 months...seems like a standard age for eyes to start heir decline. Got a buddy at work whose 42 and he's been wearing them for a few years...another buddy is 44 and he commented last time we iced fished that he needs glasses bad. My mom, dad and sister have had glasses most of my life so its just a matter of time.

[Tennessee Boy]

Glasses in 5th grade.  Wore contacts for 30 years then my eyes got to dry for them.   Bifocals for about 10 years now.  
 

The only time I hate wearing glasses is when I’m fishing in the rain.

[A-Jay]

I need readers and have for a while.

 All my sunglasses have readers in them.

I wear progressive lenses around the house.

They work well, took a while to acclimate to.

Still, not a fan only because I need them. 

Rarely wear them outside - they totally kill my peripheral vision and I hate that. 

Don't wear glasses to drive or shoot; unless there's a scope involved. 

A-Jay

[Bluebasser86]

I've had poor vision most of my life. Got glasses when I was 9. My glasses now would stop a high caliber rifle bullet. I wear contacts most of the time but I've been fighting them lately, I guess my eyelids are really rough? Basically to the point they're tearing up the contacts and making them rough also and then my eyes recognize the contacts as something that isn't supposed to be in my eyes and I get buildup and they become uncomfortable really quickly, it's been a problem lately. 

[MN Fisher]

Glasses from the time I was 12, went to bifocals at 40 and trifocals at 50.

 

Then at 54 was diagnosed with 'choroidal melanoma' - this is a cancer on the inside of my right eye, behind the retina on the sclera (the white part of your eye). At 56 had the eye removed.

[gimruis]

Guys.  There is a solution to this.  Get corrective laser surgery and never have to worry about any vision-related problems, foggy glasses, wedging in contacts, or dry eye ever again!

 

I had it done in 2006 and the only side effect I've ever experienced is perfect vision all the time.  I wake up with perfect vision and I go to sleep every night with perfect vision.  A lot of insurance companies now will pay or partially pay for it because its a long term solution, rather than having to constantly buy contact lenses or eye glasses.

 

Prior to 2006, I wore glasses in middle school for 6 months.  Hated those things.  Got made fun of all the time by other students.  Switched to extended wear soft contacts soon after that, and wore them for 20 years.  They were better than glasses, but still got old trying to wedge those stupid things into my eyes every morning.  I also played contact sports when I was younger.  You can't play football or ice hockey with glasses.  I also hunt every fall and in the spring for turkeys.  Shooting a scoped rifle or shotgun just doesn't work very well with glasses either.

[GaryH]

Had laser surgery 21 years ago. Trying to turkey hunt with my glasses fogging up all the time was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Best move I’ve made.

[padlin]

Got 1st glasses in my 20's for night driving although I've had them on solid since, graduated to progressives at roughly 40. 66 now.

 

Best thing I got was the brown polarized progressive shades. With the brown I can wear them inside when I forget to take them off. Of course they don't cut the sun quite as much but its fine other then when it's sunny and snow covered. I use Wyley Omega's, wrap around is great in the boat. Not a lot of wrap arounds to choose from when you need progressives.

[Jig Man]

My daughter had laser surgery and it was great for several years.  She now wears contacts when working and glasses when not.

 

 I started wearing glasses in high school.  I wore them until after college.  Then around forty I needed them again.  I wore transition lenses and they worked great.  Then I developed cataracts.  With the surgery I had one eye slightly far sighted and the other one slightly near sighted.  They are in year 12.  I only need readers for up close work and have saved over $5000 in glasses.

[Siebert Outdoors]

I had lasic roughly 10 years ago.  The Dr said I was still 20/20 but as i've gained wisdom i have noticed the up close size 16-20fly ties with 2lb line gets difficult at times.

[padlin]

$5 at Harbor Fright.

[frenchy]

I have a pair of Costa & Wiley X prescription sunglasses. I prefer the Wiley X better, too me they have a sharper and clearer lense than the Costa. Beware, they are not cheap, but worth it too me.

[scaleface]

Glasses since I was 12 . Torn retinas in both eyes five years ago . I see thousands of floaters and flashes of light .The optometrist tells me I'm lucky that I'm not blind . Now they say I have cataracts . Still 20/20 vision with corrective lens . 

[steve carpenter]

Cataract surgery in both eyes. 20 20 vision for longer distance. Need cheaters for reading and tying knots at times

[Woody B]

Glasses since I was 39.   Bi focals since 42.  I tried progressives but hated them.   I use lined bi focals.  I also have some clip on flip down magnifying glasses the same power as my "add" (bifocals) I use when working under cars, and under dashes.   

 

I buy cheap glasses online.  My job is hard on glasses so I get a new pair every 6 months or so.   

[Way north bass guy]

Guess I’m one of the lucky ones ( so far anyway). At 43 I still have excellent vision, and hope it stays that way. My dad started wearing glasses at around 35 or so, eventually he got to bifocals, then about 8 years ago he had cataracts, and they did lazar surgery while they were cleaning up the cataracts, and he threw away his glasses after that. He’s 73 now and still going without glasses. I’ve always worn pretty dark sunglasses while being outside either for fishing, or work, or really anytime I’m outside. Can’t stand to be without them especially if it’s sunny. Maybe that has helped a bit to fend off the eyesight devils, at least as far as sun damage goes. 

[The Bassman]

35 minutes ago, steve carpenter said:

Cataract surgery in both eyes. 20 20 vision for longer distance. Need cheaters for reading and tying knots at times

This. I've worn glasses since I was 12. Needed bifocals before I was 40 but had trouble adjusting to progressives. Have had cataract surgery for both eyes over the past six years and can't remember seeing so clearly. I stick with my glasses since they help keep attention off of my ugly mug. Also, they've kept me out of trouble a couple of times from flying lures (not the Roland Martin kind).

[gimruis]

1 hour ago, Woody B said:

I buy cheap glasses online. 

My Father buys them at the dollar store. Like 10 at a time. Then he places them all over the house, in his truck, etc so there is always a set nearby when he needs it lol. Plus when they break he’s only out a dollar.

 

He tried duct taping the side support one time. That pair immediately ended up in the trash courtesy of my Mother.

[ScottW]

Started wearing glasses in my early twenties. Been wearing them ever since. Went to ‘occupational’ glasses where you have 3 parts when I was at the paper in the maintenance department. Basically a bifocal but with the lower reader lens at the top too for working overhead like @Woody B mentioned. For everyday use I wear progressive lenses. They’ve come a long way with the panoramic versions.

[Dwight Hottle]

I started wearing glasses when I was about 7 years old. Legally blind without them. Can't make out the first letter on the eye chart without them. Never liked contacts. 

[Darren.]

I wear readers today, can barely can't thread a hook w/o em.

 

By the time I was 13 I was wearing glasses. Into my later teens

and 20s contacts. W/o glasses, I navigated with sound, LOL, like

a bat.

 

FFW to about 26 years old, wife's father passed and left us some

money, and we decided I would get RK (Radial Keratotomy), before

laser was available.

 

20-20 and 20-15 depending on the day from there until I hit my

mid-late 40s, when readers began being needed. I'd do RK or

lasik any and every day of the week. Soooo nice to have.

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[Will Ketchum]

I started using reader glasses in my 40s but eventually had to get prescription bifocals. I had trifocals when I worked because I needed that intermediate range for the job. The good thing about an optometrist visit isn't only the glasses but getting checked for eye disease. I have glaucoma in the left eye and now take drops for it.