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    Sounds like me with glasses normally! The main reason why I couldn’t wear specs for seeing with is that everything curves except for a small area bang-smack in the middle. The further away from centre the more pronounced the curve. I hope your brain can adjust; mine never could unfortunately. One of my work colleagues wears coke-bottle-bottoms-on-a-bent-coathanger glasses and he seems to cope alright; he’s also a fellow woodie so has at least a nodding acquaintance with straight edges.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    ... so I got new glasses and can at last read the computer again. But now every middle and close up vertical line looks curved. Doorways look narrower at eye height and splay out at top and bottom, eyeballing stuff for straightness is out - it's weird when I check with a straight edge to see the straight edge as curved. Does my head in.
    Yep - I really hate that curve look. Does my head in too.

    Glasses on to mark something, glasses off to look at the whole item, find the place to mark the next thing, glasses back on, rinse repeat.

    Then when I want to look at the whole workpiece to make sure it "looks right" before I cut, with glasses on it doesn't look right because it is curved but without glasses on I can't see the markings.

    It can be challenging.
    I got sick of sitting around doing nothing - so I took up meditation.

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    I will be facing the same decision in a few years. Most relatives I know dont have the multi focal lens. Sometimes fine tuning was done with glasses if necessary or as needed. I personally use power tools and will have safety frames and lenses made if necessary.
    Best of luck on your decision. You'll be in my prayers for perfect results.

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    Quote Originally Posted by woodhog View Post
    I will be facing the same decision in a few years. Most relatives I know dont have the multi focal lens. Sometimes fine tuning was done with glasses if necessary or as needed. I personally use power tools and will have safety frames and lenses made if necessary.
    Best of luck on your decision. You'll be in my prayers for perfect results.
    Hi woodhog, any chance you could send me a PM please?
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    Default Seems to have been pretty successful…

    Well; my right eye was done on Monday and my left eye done Wednesday. This morning I had a quick review with the surgeon and she is very pleased with the results so far. Now that the pupil in my right eye has shrunk back down to normal-ish size the vision in that eye is on a par with how it was pre-surgery and wearing a contact lens. I have very good vision all the way out from about 20” away to the horizon and can clearly see the dashboard instruments in a car. My left eye is still dilated so my near vision in that eye is no better than in my right, but I have functional intermediate and some distance vision. This is the eye that I deliberately chose to be 1/2 diopter myopic to improve my near vision so I was never expecting the distance vision to be anything better. My research has indicated that my eyes are at 80% of their potential improvement, the last 20% is slowly achieved over the next 4-6 weeks. Right now I can see almost everything I need to see unaided; I can drive with no issues and I’m only wearing glasses when reading. I can actually read without them but only at arms reach; I’d rather wear readers and bring the object closer. I’m expecting the near vision in my left eye to still improve so that reading glasses are unnecessary except for very small print or close up objects; but even if it is now the best it ever will be I’d still be satisfied.

    My Beloved had a minor freak out yesterday though; we were in the bathroom and it transpires that my eyes will flash silver when the light hits them at a certain angle, just like a cat’s eyes!
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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    But now every middle and close up vertical line looks curved. Doorways look narrower at eye height and splay out at top and bottom, eyeballing stuff for straightness is out - it's weird when I check with a straight edge to see the straight edge as curved. Does my head in.

    Optometrist reckons it could be all the meds I'm taking.

    I have had graduates or multi-focal glasses for some years now.
    One pair played up and it turned out to be that the "imaginary line" that is between the different strengths was not in the correct place. New lens made and all OK.
    When I had my last pair made with a new frame a couple of years ago, I had a problem with the horizontal and vertical lines. I took a piece of timber with me to explain the problem to the optometrist (she thought I was going to hit her over the head with it). The new frame was a little wider than the previous one and the extra width was messing up the focus. Back to a frame of similar width to the previous one and all fixed.

    Hope that helps someone.

    I should have added that when I had the problem with the width of the frame there was no change to lens strength so it was simply the wider lens which caused the distortion.
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    Wow what a difference a year makes. I had my annual checkup yesterday and my sight has dropped 2 lines of reading. Off to a specialist now to get cataract surgery. I had been away drag racing for the last week, 6 hours drive each way and I didn't think my sight was that bad. Hohum.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Old Croc View Post
    Wow what a difference a year makes. I had my annual checkup yesterday and my sight has dropped 2 lines of reading. Off to a specialist now to get cataract surgery. I had been away drag racing for the last week, 6 hours drive each way and I didn't think my sight was that bad. Hohum.
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    Try taking the "old" out of "Old Croc", with a bit of luck it may slow down the process

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    Default Six months on.....

    Well guys; it's been over six month since my surgery and I can happily say getting this done was one of the best decisions I've ever made!

    My vision has well and truly settled down now; even though one eye is deliberately 1/2 diopter myopic I honestly don't notice it in the slightest; I actually have to close one eye and concentrate to tell the difference between them. For normal viewing the software in (that wizened organ laughingly referred to as) my brain takes care of everything.

    My distance vision is perfect. Clear colours, sharp contrast all the way out to infinity.
    My intermediate vision is likewise spectacularly good; I can read the micro-printing on labels on packages etc the same as as a teenager up to about 18" away; I use my computer and can read paper office documents without glasses. I do however prefer to use glasses when using a laptop.
    My near vision is only minimally affected; I use +1 reading glasses for my Ipad more for comfort rather than necessity and prefer to use +1-1/2 when reading graduations on a ruler; but actually can get away without them for either. For really really close up fine detail I have some +2-1/2 readers for those times when I simply must concentrate on something the size of a dimple on a pimple on a flea's left knee.

    There is of course a minor trade-off.... LIGHT! As Bobl has mentioned many times in his posts as we get older our need for more lighting increases. In good lighting I can read the day and date (white on blue, <2mm high) on my old-fashioned analogue wristwatch but generally indoors I need to find a good light source to stand under first. At home in the evening My Beloved prefers subdued "mood" lighting which I accurately refer to as a "pee-weak yellow glimmer"; hence the glasses for the Ipad. Still; it's only a minor issue. In brilliant daylight I can read pocket-bible sized print less than 12" away....

    Out of interest; I measured the amount of light at my workstation and it is only 310 lux at the monitors and 47 lux on the actual desk (black keyboard on a black desk). This is below the Aus Standard of 320 lux for offices and well under the 500 lux of the updated 2022 EU standard EN 12464 but I function quite happily and glasses-free; I only really reach for them if I'm looking for fine detail on schematics.

    So; if anyone is on the fence with making a similar decision I can honestly recommend having it done.
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    Had the cataract removed from my right eye on Monday and the eye patch removed yesterday and - WOW - what a difference, even with only one eye done - left one is being done in 4 weeks.

    I have worn glasses since I as 17, initially because I was short sighted but from when I was about 40 I started needing close up correction as well as for significant astigmatism.
    Because of this I started using multifocals which initially worked really well but in the last 5 of so years, all 3 sets of new glasses were increasingly problematic and they could not correct for some double vision especially in the right eye. This is apparently one of the things caused by cataracts.

    Anyway I opted for a lens that corrected distance vision but will still need glasses for reading which is OK by me.

    The instantaneous thing I noticed when the eye patch was removed was the increased brightness of all colours and then the sharpness of distance vision. Looking at what is supposedly a white wall, and toggling between using the left and right eye, the wall looks pale yellow with the left and bright white with the right and all colours are more vivid.

    Distance vision in my right eye is now the best I can ever remember and even close up is no worse than previous so I can continue to use my readers until I get the left eye done.
    Apparently this should improve even further with time

    The procedure was short and painless - 25 minutes from when the sedative cannula was put into my left hand and being wheeled back into recovery. 15 minutes later after a cup of tea and a sandwich I was allowed to be picked up. No pain - just some light itchiness from sweating under the eye patch until patch was removed 24 hours later.

    One small related injury though!
    Yesretday early in the morning before I had the patch removed I decided to walk my dogs and probably because I could not see where they were on my right hand side I got tangled up with their leashes and fell quite heavily onto the footpath and took a bit of skin of both knees and one wrist. The last time I fell about 6 months ago my right knee swelled up and I was hobbling around for about 4 weeks. I have since been lifting weights at a physio gym to strengthen my legs which helped me get back into walking so I was able to get up and keep walking no problems. For some reason my neck seems to hurt more than my other injuries probably because I deliberately braced to avoid my head/eye hitting the footpath.

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