Got my first ever glasses today

Supercell

I turned 40 recently and lately I've been finding it a little hard to read letters close to me so thought I might as well get my eyes checked out.
I also read a story in the Indo about some poor women that had her life saved as a result of an eye exam in Specsavers (she had had a tumour and was referred to a hospital and it all ended well), well that was the clincher.

So I had my eyes checked out and apparently I'm a bit long-sighted (sph +1.5 & 1.75 respectively) which is what I was expecting.

I must admit instantly i find my eyes are far more "relaxed" looking at the computer monitor. My wife says I look more intelligent (so I must have been daft before right!) and she thinks they suit me.

However its a bit weird, how long did anyone else here found it took to be second nature to put on reading glasses? I think I'm going to be very self concious next week when I go into work, all the aul fella jokes are going to no doubt start!

One other thing, is it bad to wear them when not reading?

marymc

Welcome to the glasses wearing world!

I wear distance glasses, so I HAVE to wear them all the time, or I'd never get around. It's very weird for the first while. You start to notice the amount of people in the world that go around wearing glasses, but it becomes second nature.

The only thing I'll say is that people who wear reading glasses tend to misplace them more. I think when you can't see without them, you tend to leave them in the same place so you can find them when you're blind. Since you can see without your reading glasses, you'll be more likely to leave them in one room and forget which one it was. Pros and cons to everything. You get to take yours off all the time, but I'm less likely to lose mine.

Enjoy being able to see!

endplate

Supercell wrote: »

I also read a story in the Indo about some poor women that had her life saved as a result of an eye exam in Specsavers (she had had a tumour and was referred to a hospital and it all ended well), well that was the clincher.

Not trying to dis Specsavers here but pretty much every Optician would have referred people and tumours other conditions might have been found. My wife (who doesn't work for Specsavers) has a recieved a lot of thank you cards over the years for referring people to specialists.

Eyes are referred to as the windows to your soul and any qualified Optician looking in the back of your eye can find different conditions. They just don't put it to print that they are somehow better then other places.

Supercell wrote: »

One other thing, is it bad to wear them when not reading?

There is no point in trying to wear your glasses all the time cos everything in the distance will be blurred and you will make life uncomfortable. If you are worried about loosing your glasses you can get a cord so you can keep your glasses hanging around your neck and you can pop them on when you need them.

jwabh

Supercell wrote: »

One other thing, is it bad to wear them when not reading?

This really depends on what the optometrist said to you, they may be reading spx or they may be general use spx (didn't need them when you were younger as your lens was more flexible)

AlmightyCushion

It's been a long time since I started wearing glasses. That weird feeling will go away though. I wear them full time and I don't really notice them anymore. There are times I go to take the glasses off my face and then realise that they aren't actually there.