General Chat

I tried varifocals but found them dangerous for driving as I was looking through the reading part if I just moved my eyes to look in the door mirror.

Found it better to have a pair of specs for driving and a pair for reading.

Betweentimes for everyday activities I don't need glasses at all.

The deed is done, the die is cast :-(

Contacted the surgery this morning and will go in tomorrow to fill out the paperwork.

Tentative date for the end of January next year and, as a public patient, the procedure will take place in Busselton which is an hour's drive from where we live.

At least it's not in Perth :-D

names ...................

colours was what I noticed second, after the glare of headlights of oncoming traffic as we went home after the first eye was done.

Then the different colour of the sheets on the bed .............. really bright white with the eye that had been done, but much greyer when I looked with the other eye!

We had a fine day a couple of days later, and the sky was so blue and the few clouds so white with my left eye compared with what I could see with the right eye!!

I still find headlights and sun very glaring, but contrary, need a brighter light for reading or close work than I did before.

Thank you Elizabeth 246....

You're right. I had thought Elizabeth of Seasons lived in rural Northumbrrland.

I have verifocals for many years, I find them much easier than the bifocals because I just move my eyes not my head.

I wear varifocals and have done for some time but I tend to read books and this screen( Kindle Fire) with my specs on top of my head.

Last year at my eye test I was told my eyes are needing slightly less strong lenses!

Not sure if I will get a test this year now! I have a dental appointment on Weds am and my car is booked in for an Mot on Thursday! Need to get a flu jab too.


Lizxx

A friend of mine has had done ( at different times) and was staggered at the colours she was now seeing.

JoyLouise - think you are confusing two Elizabeths! I'm the one in Northumberland!

I wear bifocals. At one time I was given varifocals but they drove me mad because I had no peripheral vision and when driving it was dangerous. The optician said I'd get used to them, but I insisted on having my bifocals back!!

This was years ago and when computers came along I found the bifocals gave me a crick in the neck. Now I have a pair of computer glasses, carefully done for the distance between me and the screen, which is similar to the distance from whatever I have on the desk. Although I can move around with them on, I can't see clearly, so unlike Sylvia, I only wear them for computing.

I have a lazy eye, it was operated on in 1957, it was normal for many many years but back to being lazy now it means I can’t line things up but at my age 67 it doesn’t bother me.

Sorry, going off on a tangent here.

Elizabeth, what are you doing in London? I have visions of you in rural Northumberland watching every season come in with all the natural glories they bring with them. :-S

Don't forget to wear your lucky underpants Allan :-D

Dear Allan

Hello

Its a relatively straight forward procedure.

Just make sure you have checked the doctor thoroughly and ask a lot of questions about how many operations he has done, etc.

Once you are happy with that try and get done, you won't be able to see straight for a few days but Mrs Allan can do the eye drops for you.

A little tip try and get the op done after a full moon. Many years ago people planned any surgical procedures around the cycles of the moon!.

I am not kidding.

Take gentle care, Allan and tell Mrs Allan not to worry
Love Elizabeth, in London
xx

Liz .....................

I began wearing glasses when I was about 5, I then had one lens covered over because I apparently had what was then caleld a "lazy eye", or so my mother later told me. It was removed after some time, but eventually when I was 21 I was told by a new optician that I actually only used one eye at a time ............... called being an alternator, and a result of having that eye covered, probably for too long :-(

But it was the reason why I had absolutely no problem using the old monocular microscopes in high school, although I did not know that at the time. I just got embarrassed every time the Biology teacher held me up as an example of how one could learn to be able to look down the microscope through the one lens using the left eye and then look down to write or draw something with the right eye and without lifting and moving your head.

My lenses gradually got thicker and thicker over the years, until eventually I could see hardly anything with my left eye, and my right eye was only a little better. That was before the cataracts!

That was why the surgeon decided to try to get the second op done as soon as possible. I was 60 when I had the cataracts removed.

I didn't even try to wear my glasses during the 6 week period, except for wearing sunglasses.

The operation turned my sight from short to long sighted, so that I needed to have glasses for reading. For a short time, I just used el cheapo readers from the drugstore, but then I discovered that I had problems when using the computer.

I could either see to read notes by the side of the keyboard or the keyboard clearly with the readers OR I could take off the readers so that I could see the monitor clearly.

I tried a pair of prescription readers that perched on the end of my nose so I could look over them at the screen, but found that just strained my eyes

I've long had computer glasses ............. a bit like having bifocals or trifocals, graduating from readers at the base through computer distance to clear at the top.

Now I find that I wear them almost all the time, except when I'm outside, when I wear sunglasses a lot of the time.


One effect that has lasted with me is than my eyes are more susceptible to bright light, and I find myself squinting

Good luck with getting the deed done asap Allan

My partner had his done a couple of years ago and it was all very straightforward.

I know I will need the op in the next couple of years and hope it can be done in close succession as I don't fancy going around with one lens missing for months. My partner was lucky as Boots found a clear lens to replace the discarded prescription one in his specs after the first op

Also I am concerned that I might not need specs full time afterwards. I have worn glasses since I was 11 so have a marked groove on the bridge of my nose which I hate. No lightweight plastic frames from the nhs in those early days!

I wore contact lenses for a couple of years in the early 80s but everyone said they preferred me in specs, I didn't look like me without my glasses and once I had my son I didn't have time to fiddle with sterilizing lenses etc so went back to wearing frames all the time.

Lizx

That's good Allan. I had the impression you felt squeamish about eyes.

Not at all, ZZzzz

If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well
It were done quickly:

:-D

Island, it was 2001 to 2003 and Allan I hope I haven’t given you the heebeejeebees. <3

When I had the second eye done, I had to go to the surgeon's clinic the next morning for a check-up. I was first seen by a new Resident, who checked my eye, had me read the chart, and then said "Great, you have 20/20 vision now."

The surgeon came in at that moment, checked my eye, had me read the chart, then turned to the Resident and said "You never say that a patient has 20/20 at this stage, it will take at least 6 weeks, and sometimes longer, for the eye to settle down. Only then will we know how much vision she has."

I had 19/18 vision at the 6 week check-up with him. :-D

Very sensible. You won't regret it. :-)