Has Your Vision Been Corrected?

I am glad you posted this, as yes, I have had cataracts removed, as of last year. I wore glasses for quite a few years, and I was also nearsighted. It seemed like I needed sronger and stronger glasses, as my eyes were getting worse. None of the galsses I wore seemed to help me at all. When I went to the eye doctor last year, he told me I had cataracts, which is what I figured I had. He isn't a surgeon, so he referred me to an eye surgeon that would do the surgery. To make a long story shoret, when I went to see the eye surgeion, he examined them, and he said they were really bad, especially my right eye, as the cataract was huge. Surgery day came, and he had a hard time sucking it out, but he finally got it, and he told me that of all the cataracts he had removed, mine was the worse he had ever seen. Ajnyway, even though I just had the one done I started seeing so much better. Three weeks later, he did the other eye, and let me tell you, it is like looking at a whole new world. The colors are so pretty, and vibrant. I only need reading glasses when I read and do things up close, otherwise, I don't need glasses to drive or watch tv. I don't use them for my laptop either, as I can see clearly to post. I am glad Ihad the surgery,and I recoomend it to those that need to have it done.

I went from glasses at 13 to contact lenses in my late teens and then supplementing with magnifying glasses to now where I don't wear any corrective lenses and if I can't see it - oh well, can't be too important, lol. I can see my computer just fine, what else matters?

I started wearing glasses in the sixth grade. I couldn't see what the teacher wrote on the blackboard and instead of telling anyone I just ignored it. Of course my grades suffered from missed homework assignments and missed information. I think my grandmother finally told her I couldn't see the board from the back of the room so she moved me up to the front. I was still having some trouble though and my teacher noticed that when I was reading books or papers I quite literally had my nose in them. So, off to the eye doctor I went. After the examination he said I was nearsighted and would require glasses for distance viewing. I was told to only wear them when I needed to see something at a distance but it became tedious taking them off and putting them on and I would forget where I had left them so I started wearing them all the time. Besides, I really liked how crisp and clear everything looked when I had them on. Every few years, of course, I had to go and get a new prescription because my eyes got worse and worse. When I was in my late teens I got tired of wearing glasses, High school kids can be cruel, So I decided I would see if I could wear contact lenses. The doctor told me that I also had astigmatism so contacts were out of the question. Now I am an old woman and everything is a blur to me again even when I am wearing my glasses. I first noticed it when I moved back down here and my son set up the room he had for me. I had a hard time seeing the TV from where my bed was sitting so I had him move the bed closer to the TV. That helped some but I still had trouble seeing the TV guide writing. But I really got worried when I went grocery shopping one day and as I was looking t all those huge signs they have at the tops of the aisles telling you what was down those aisles the words were all blurry and I could barely make out the individual letters. So, I counted up and realized it had been about seven years since I had gotten a new prescription that I was probably due. I decided that given my age and the things that could go wrong with eyes I had better see an ophthalmologist instead of an optometrist this time. I was right. I have sever cataracts one eye is almost completely blind so we decided on surgery. Unfortunately, that has had to be postponed because during my preop workup they discovered I had something wrong with my heart. That has to be seen to first. So, now I am really worried.

Luckily , i don't wear eyeglasses all the time . I only get to use reading glasses . Letely i had it upgraded to 250 . Formerly it's just at 150 , then 175 then this .

I was prescribed glasses just for reading when I was around 18 years old. When I turned 40, I had to wear them all the time and still wear them at 59. I have tried contacts before but my eyes are way too dry.

in the last three years I have needed glasses for reading..... but after a year of glasses I tried contact lenses, and really liked them... but I wear contacts somedays and glasses on others...

i've thought about it,but no.it seems everyone in my mom's side gets cataracts at some point..so i thought i'd wait and see.i really don't want surgery twice if i can help it.i just have glasses for reading and distance,and that's good enough for now.

I wear glasses for reading and that I have been doing when I turned forty. Watching tv and working on the pc I need to use 'refresh tears' which moisten my eyes.

My left eye was in the corner when I was born. I had an eye operation and have had glasses since I was nine months old.

I wear glasses and have been wearing them since I was young. My family has a history of bad eyes so they just knew when I needed glasses. I've never even thought about correcting my vision via lasik surgery. It sounds expensive and honestly, I don't know if it would do much for me.

I've been wearing glasses since I was a teenager. I got my first pair at about the time that television arrived in South Africa and I've always blamed the decline in my eyesight on that. I'm still better off than a lot of people who wear glasses though because my prescription is relatively mild and I can walk around the house without glasses. In fact the only time I wear them at home is when I'm watching television. When I was at university I tried wearing contact lenses, but my eyes got so dry and itchy that I soon gave up on that idea.

Here it is for your curious mind: I have glasses as I am short sighted but not too much (early 20's). Now I have cataracts and have to wait for them to be "ready" for the surgery. My vision is getting worse and still the doc says I must wait. Not a happy camper for that.