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Just all remember the words of wisdom from when you were young: "If you don't stop it you will go blind"!!! Funny how this pack of wankers are all blind.

I had a very happy result from laser surgery....a binocular solution so that 1 eye is for reading and 1 eye is for distance. I no longer use any glasses except when driving at night to correct the 1 eye. And no, I do not look like Don Knots now!!

ORIGINAL: Symon

ORIGINAL: patrickl
Arggh, getting old and eyes are tired. Getting more shortsighted and have astigmatism. Love AE but may have to really cut back on the hours. How do you cope? I am 54.

Me too; nearsighted with astigmatism. I now have glasses with an opthalmic coating that cuts transmission of high energy blue wavelengths. The difference is remarkable. I can work for long periods without eye fatigue. I am 67.

[ed] I'm forcing all my employees, with glasses, to get this. It's not at all expensive as an adder for new glasses (maybe $30-$40), but I'm paying the freight for all new eyewear just for the protection. I'm also getting optical quality blanks, with the coating, for everybody else who doesn't ordinarily wear glasses. This is really good stuff.

Ciao. JWE

Think I am going to look into this.

ORIGINAL: dr.hal

You're a young pup! I've a decade on you and still going strong.... what was it we were talking about????

As are you, I'm 70, Using the Alt font I don't have too much trouble but that's on a 23". When it gets to less than 17" I do or like you I think I do..

ORIGINAL: sventhebold
Symon Tell me more. I have astigmatism(bad) and just had an eye exam. I always get the coating for scratches(still crap) and the darkening lenses(white snow). What else do you recommend and who do you buy your glasses from? I bought just the lenses last time around and it was still 700 bucks and STILL had double vision. The eyeware company told me i was at the edge of correctable vision.

You should move to Alabama. I use Eastern Shore Eye Care. A complete exam, dilation and all, along with new bifocal lenses for my old frames was $375 total. They are a full service Hoya dealer, so the lenses come from a Hoya fabrication lab. The blue is just a UV/AR coating with some stuff in it to cut more of the 480-430nm above the uv. Hoya calls theirs BluTech. Same as SeeCoat Blue from Nikon. My astig isn't all that bad, but if you have astig I think it's just as important to get 'top of the line' lenses, as to get a full-boogie eye exam.

ps. my new prescription and lenses passed the star test. Went out at night and looked at the stars; all were crisp, clean point sources, even the 5th magnitude stuff. No doubling, bleeding, blurring, smudging. Did I mention that I'm very pleased with the results? [8D]

John

Symon Thanks for the info![:)]