Aging.... blurry vision when tooling

[immiketoo]

3 hours ago, chriscraft said:

Thanks Tom for the explanation. Now I’ll be armed with questions when I visit the Dr.

Mike, hopefully I’ll receive news like you did as my distant vision is still good. 

I will add more lights to my work station. 

   

Good luck.  After that, I suffered a severe allergic reaction that caused my eyes to swell.  I now have what is called a retinoschisis, or a tearing of the retinal layers.  Nothing can be done to fix it, and so it could never change or I could be blind tomorrow.  Fortunately, its been stable since the diagnosis, but I find that using glasses reduces the strain on my eyes and helps my vision overall.  It's not getting better, but not getting worse either.

More lights changed my life in the shop.  Sucks getting old!

[bermudahwin]

35 minutes ago, immiketoo said:

 Sucks getting old!

Amen to that.

Rest of its a right bastard tho.

Thoughts are with you on it.

H

 

[Sheilajeanne]

If you are seeing halos around lights, get your opthalmologist to check you out. Could be the beginning of cataracts!

[Northmount]

On 12/12/2018 at 3:42 PM, Sheilajeanne said:

If you are seeing halos around lights, get your ophthalmologist to check you out. Could be the beginning of cataracts!

Also check your eyes' behavior individually.  Cataracts may occur in one eye long before the other.  Your brain selects the best eye automatically, so you often don't realize that one eye has a problem.

Another symptom that may occur is when looking towards a brightness, like a bright window, everything in the foreground turns to dark shadows.  Again, check each eye separately. The Dr had an eye chart on an bright outside window and had me stand in a shadow.  With my right eye, the eye chart was just a dark shadow.  With my left eye, I could see and read the eye chart.  I was very surprised!  He scheduled me for cataract surgery within 2 weeks.  Had both eyes done at the same time so wouldn't have to have glasses for one, but not for the other.

Another thing that is a warning for vision problems is if you suddenly have problems with being able to quickly check the side rear view mirrors.  If you can't seem to focus quickly, you need to find out why.  Good chance one of your eyes has deteriorated to the point that it is almost useless, less than 40% vision.

These comments I have been making are from my experiences over the past 4 years.  Hope they are of use to others so they can get the help that they need.

Tom

[chrisash]

I had both Cataracts done about 12 months between them. the simplest test is to close one eye and see it the vision is blurry, then the same with the other eye, car lights at night appear to have star's and halo around them.

The operation takes about 20 min  and video's on youtube if you want to see the procedure

Varifocal lens take a week or two to get used to as you need to lift or lower your head to adjust the focus part of what you are looking at, but comes naturally after a while and saves having two pairs of different glasses

[Northmount]

1 hour ago, chrisash said:

car lights at night appear to have star's and halo around them

That didn't happen with mine.  It might depend on whether the cataract is on the back of the lens, or front of the lens, or on the cornea.  Of course if it is on the cornea, they do a corneal transplant.

Another thing that causes star effects around bright lights is deterioration of the coatings on your glasses lens.  My wife has special high refractive index lenses with a special coating to further improve the refractive index, plus the other non-reflective and scratch resistant coatings.  Over a period of 3 to 5 years, the coatings breakdown and craze.

With any vision problem, as soon as you see the change or a problem develops, go get your eyes checked to see what the cause is.  In some cases, the problem needs to be diagnosed and repaired immediately.  Other problems are not an emergency.  Your Dr is the one that can figure it out and help you either maintain or improve your vision.

Tom

[Handstitched]

O.K.  , so its back to this again....now I'm a  little bit older,  don't laugh .  This belongs in ' Tools' , but anyway.

I've been doing a guitar strap recently with a  ' Celtic' 5 part braid tooling pattern. I love doing those patterns , they're laboriously  time consuming, but so effective when finished. But  I find myself with cross eyes & blurry vision, like I've been staring at a TV test pattern for too long. I do take breaks, which is recommended, but when theres a deadline...? ....( its due Monday , 1st Aug)  . I did once have the ' cheapy' magnifier glasses from Red Dot ( a  discount shop in OZ ), that worked for a while, but  I ended up with script glasses. ( my eyes need testing again no doubt) 

I think I need up the ante for the future projects and get either a  desk magnifier with light which I really like,  or, as space is limited, I'm leaning towards a head band magnifier.  I could get both I guess.  Any recommendations?  My budget is $120- tops. 

HS

[chuck123wapati]

3 hours ago, Handstitched said:

O.K.  , so its back to this again....now I'm a  little bit older,  don't laugh .  This belongs in ' Tools' , but anyway.

I've been doing a guitar strap recently with a  ' Celtic' 5 part braid tooling pattern. I love doing those patterns , they're laboriously  time consuming, but so effective when finished. But  I find myself with cross eyes & blurry vision, like I've been staring at a TV test pattern for too long. I do take breaks, which is recommended, but when theres a deadline...? ....( its due Monday , 1st Aug)  . I did once have the ' cheapy' magnifier glasses from Red Dot ( a  discount shop in OZ ), that worked for a while, but  I ended up with script glasses. ( my eyes need testing again no doubt) 

I think I need up the ante for the future projects and get either a  desk magnifier with light which I really like,  or, as space is limited, I'm leaning towards a head band magnifier.  I could get both I guess.  Any recommendations?  My budget is $120- tops. 

HS

I use a set of magnified reading glasses plus a headband magnifier for my small work. I don't sit in one spot for all the many different things i do in day, do my knife making in the garage and my leather in the basement, so a desk magnifier wouldn't help much.

[Frodo]

I was having problems seeing and had it checked  out  seems i had cateracts.  i had both eyes operated on and now I can see like a old buzzard

The cost wasn't to bad,  My insurance deductible was $150.00 per eye   That includes everything 

But the eye drop meds were HIGH. I needed 3 eye drops  My co pay   was $15.00 each for 2  and $75.00 for the 3rd  OUCH !!!!!!

[Handstitched]

@chuck123wapati I think the head band type might be  better , but I will have a closer look as to how much space I have on my bench, maybe re-arrange a few things as thats where I spend most of my time. I finished the guitar strap this arvo ....phew, 2 days before the deadline , but my eyes did struggle . 

@Frodo  This may seem like I'm bragging a bit here, and off topic,  but I can go to my  local GP, then go  into a major  public hospital, get my eyes done, and walk out with no fees.  But I will have to pay full price  for  any meds .    But with private hospitals ..?? ...$$$ plus. 

I'll focus my attention ( pardon the pun)  on head band magnifiers, and go from there.

HS