My dad had it done about 20 years ago, I think out of pocket, and he never needed glasses again.. Great vision afterwards…
On the flip side, a co-worker had it done and has never worked a day since, nor drove a vehicle, he is blind now… He loved working too…sad…
Don McMillan is very funny! I love his Powerpoint shtick!
Because I’m highly nearsighted and have astigmatisms, my ophthalmologist thinks he can only get me to 20/40. Maybe he’s promising low and expecting high. It’s been more than a year since my last visit and I’m recovered enough from my other operations that I’m re@day to go back.
My wife had bifocals with a strong Rx. She sees distance fine now but still needs cheap readers for small print. She boosts the text size for her tablet reader so she doesn’t need them.
I have tri focals but the only time I use them is if very tired and driving. I think they got the center mark a little off due to the narrow lens. Makes the numbers on the dash easier to read is all and helps with the focus of one eye. I hav3 a couple pair ii just use for reading. My last check up he just told me to go to the drug store and get a 1.75 and come back in a year.
I’m surprised they still make bi and tri focals. I have progressive lenses and they have no visible transition line, they are analog gradient all through the range of correction. You just look through them at the necessary angle or tilt your head slightly until it comes into focus. It took my brain about three days to adjust completely to them (from single vision prescription).
I’ve used progressive lenses since ~1995, and when my Optometrist first recommended them, he said that he would exchange them–gratis–for old-fashioned bifocals if I was unable to adjust to the progressives. I took me only 2 days to be fully attuned to them.
When I had my latest set of glasses made a Costco Optical, I noticed that they still had old-fashioned bifocals available, and I asked the Optician about how many of them they still sold. She told me that they only get a few requests each year for them because “anyone who tried progressives realized how far superior they are to bifocals”.
She also gave her opinion that the ability to adapt to change was the key factor.
Funny how we got to eye problems on this thread. Here is my two cents. Before cataract surgery, just remove glasses to read, now require reading glasses. I did opt for the lenses to correct astigmatism. I also have glaucoma, before surgery got the drops into my eyes on first try, now may miss my eye. My dog too has glaucoma and we use the same meds.
To bring it back to cars, the eye center has three offices, naturally the facility for the 24 hour followup was the farthest away through heavy traffic. Did not care for that drive!
Does she need reading glasses to read the dashboard?
No, no readers for the dash. Her mid and longer distance is quite good.
A friend of mine who used to fly helicopters got into a unique set of problems when age caught up. He had to get 2 sets of glasses… one for computer use and reading the dashboard and another for the helicopter. The copter’s dash is a bit more than arms length away and lower than a car’s. Variable bifocals had to be ground special so he could keep his head up and still read the instruments.
There are no lines in mine so I guess they would be progressives and not trifocals. Not up on the terms.
I’ve seen several of his videos - he’s a riot. He does a lot of corporate events - mainly to tech/engineering companies.
I was warned ahead of time that some people can NOT make the transition
Guess what?
I’m one of those people
My ophthalmologist warned me of that when I started wearing soft contacts. At the time, there weren’t lenses with astigmatic correction. For the eye with the more severe astigmatism, he increased the power a half diopter over the measured correction. His idea was to fool the eye into seeing clearly. It worked!
I’ve been wearing soft contacts for decades . . . only at work. Everywhere else I wear glasses
Anyways, several years ago, it was time for progressive glasses
Nothing worked
My eyes simply never adjusted
It’s “fine” . . . but I’m not really getting the benefits of progressive glasses
I was never allowed to wear contacts at work, even though I ignored the rule. When I was at the steel mill, I had prescription safety glasses and wore hard contacts at night. I started wearing soft contacts after I left the steel mill.
I have been wearing bifocals for nearly 1/2 my life and can’t see for crap without them on, This year I even spent the money for bifocal sunglasses, wifey wasn’t to happy with the price, but ya only live once… lol
As someone that has spent his whole carrier trying to keep stuff out of his eyes, my OCDness (or whatever) won’t let me put contacts in, I tried, the eye place tried, my wife tried, my reflexes absolutely will not allow me to stick my or anyone else’s finger on my eye with a foreign object, I gave up…
You described my eye situation back then before the surgery.
I was highly nearsighted. With glasses, I could only get 20/40 vision, and this fluctuates frequently where on certain exam I scored a disappointing 20/60 ( not good enough to drive legally ).
My doctor told me if I continued to score worse than 20/40, he’d recommend surgery so I could keep my drivers license. However, like I stated, this condition fluctuated and i kept getting 20/40 and 20/60 with glasses at eye exams.
I asked the doctor how much would my eyes improved with surgery and he said about 20/30 with corrective lenses.
The surgery, however, surprised both of us as my vision was corrected at 20/10 and occasionally 20/15 as I still experience fluctuation.
As long as we are talking sticking fingers in the eye, just a couple stories. We were heading to the in-laws in South Dakota but I had to blow the snow out of the driveway. A spec of dirt blew in my eye and drove me nuts. About 8:00 after suffering, my FIL said just call the doc. Small town, clinic and doc. Met him at the clinic and he said it’s in the blue, you’d never get it out. One drop of something to freeze the eye, and picked it right out. Didn’t flinch at all.
Some years later I got a spec in my eye from the power saw and figured a quick trip to the ER to get it out. I got an intern and he worked and worked, rolled the eye lid several times but no luck. I said just freeze the eye but he had no idea what I was talking about. He finally gav3 up and said I’d have to go to Minneapolis on Monday. Flushing at home and it finally dislodged.
The point I guess is if the doc will just freeze the eye, no problem jabbing his finger in.
