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How bad is your eyesight?

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  • 14-11-2007 5:36pm
    #1
    The_Minister
    Registered Users Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭


    How bad is your eyesight?

    I have to wear glasses every waking moment of the day, from the moment I get up, to the moment I lay my head down. I can't read or watch tv without my glasses. I couldn't even catch a bus:)


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    #2
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I can't recall my exact technical prescription but its about -2 and -2.5, so I can potter about the place without hitting stuff.

    Mike.


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    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,060 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    My eyesight is kinda bad. I can still make things out but it's nowhere near as sharp or as crisp as when I'm wearing my glasses. I wear them full time now.


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    Faith
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,657 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    I wear mine full time, even though I don't technically need them for reading. My right eye is -2.75 and my left eye is -4.75.


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    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    From my last contact lens prescription I remember it was about -2.0 or something. Might have got slightly worse since then. Pretty much wear my glasses full-time too, though I have been making bit more of effort lately to leave them off when not really needed.


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    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    like one of the earlier posters said, can walk around without bumping into stuff, but everthing still alot clearer with them on

    left -2.5
    right -2.25

    was -1.75 for bout 9 to 10 years, then changed couple of times in last 3 to 4

    glasses for work/day to day stuff, contacts for socialising/sport


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    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,284 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    -8 in both eyes. Thank god for high index glass.


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    #8
    ZorbaTehZ
    Registered Users Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭ZorbaTehZ


    -1.5 both eyes , so not that bad really. I wear my glasses all the time though.


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    SligoBrewer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭SligoBrewer


    zaph wrote: »
    -8 in both eyes. Thank god for high index glass.

    ouch brother.

    R -5.00/-0.75
    L -4.75/-0.50

    I'm quite bad but my eyesight has slightly improved..:o

    Thank God for stylis lenses indeed


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    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    zaph wrote: »
    -8 in both eyes. Thank god for high index glass.
    Yep the gf is around that figure too, without the special glass she'd be wearing thick goggles. Bit pricy tho:(


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    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,284 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Yeah, it is, I got new glasses 6 weeks ago and managed to smash one of the lenses last week. Had to get both replaced because the anti-reflective coating was different. Fortunately my brother manages an opticians so I got a big discount, but it still cost me a fair bit.


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    SligoBrewer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭SligoBrewer


    zaph wrote: »
    Yeah, it is, I got new glasses 6 weeks ago and managed to smash one of the lenses last week. Had to get both replaced because the anti-reflective coating was different. Fortunately my brother manages an opticians so I got a big discount, but it still cost me a fair bit.

    ouch...

    were they fusio or stylis lenses?


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    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,284 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    SligoBrewer wrote: »
    were they fusio or stylis lenses?

    No idea, except that they were 1.8 Digmals, if that means anything to you. They put temporary 1.6s in as I was going away on Saturday and needed a quick fix, getting the new 1.8s on Friday.


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    littlebug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    zaph wrote: »
    -8 in both eyes. Thank god for high index glass.


    Ditto. -8 in both eyes.:( it's an expensive business alright.


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    #15
    jameshayes
    Registered Users Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭jameshayes


    L -5
    R -5.5


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    MonkeyWrench
    Registered Users Posts: 385 ✭✭MonkeyWrench


    Left -5.50
    Right -4.75

    They have been this way for about 7 years now. Got worse gradually from the age of about 14. I remember doing my mech drawing exam for the junior cert and when I dropped my pencil I had to ask the examiner to find it for me!


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    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,060 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    zaph wrote: »
    Yeah, it is, I got new glasses 6 weeks ago and managed to smash one of the lenses last week. Had to get both replaced because the anti-reflective coating was different. Fortunately my brother manages an opticians so I got a big discount, but it still cost me a fair bit.

    Man that sucks. At least you can get them on the (relatively) cheap though.


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    #18
    BC
    Registered Users Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭BC


    -4.75 in both eyes


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    #19
    Roen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,620 ✭✭✭Roen


    R -5.00
    L -4.50

    Would love to have the surgery done if I could afford it.


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    Pet
    Registered Users Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭Pet


    R: -4.75
    L: -5.00

    What's this about high-index glass?


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    #21
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Before laser eye surgury
    R: -6.00
    L: -4.50

    After laser surgury :D
    R: -0.25
    L: -0.00


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    #22
    zzxx
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭zzxx


    -4.25 left
    -5.5 right

    Can't do a thing without my lenses or glasses. Just ordered a new pair of glasses yesterday - €280 for the frames & €350:eek: for the lenses. New gas permeable lenses were another €250. I should have been an optician...


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    #23
    steven22
    Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭steven22


    Whats normal ?

    Always thought it was 20 20!


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    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,284 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    20/20 is the ability to see at 20 feet what you should be able to see at 20 feet and is considered normal vision. The numbers people are quoting here are their prescriptions, 0.00 is the same as 20/20, and the bigger the minus figure the more shortsighted that person is.


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    #25
    The Bollox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    I'm -2.5 in both and wear my glasses / lenses all the time. I used to wear my lenses a LOT but over the summer I had some very early mornings which ended with late nights where I wouldn't take them out at all over that time and my eyes suffered from that (quite bloodshot) so now I mostly wear my glasses and only wear my lenses if going on a night out


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    #26
    standbyme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 829 ✭✭✭standbyme


    R +1.00
    L + 0.75

    Thats my SPH, as i dont know what CYL is, i just happen to have my eyesight report from July on my bookshelf along with 100 other things that shouldnt be there :p

    I only really use it for Reading (when im not on here) & when i am on here :D a lot. But dont use it for anything else like watching the telly etc, maybe i should?

    But i do remember this from the first eye test 2yrs ago, got it tested & noticed something diff a month or 2 later, i went back & they noticed that one of my eyes (i think L) had gotten better, theyd said with a wry smile, justifying the good work of the glasses-reflected back by me with a blank smile.

    Has that happened to anyone?

    Thanks as this is my first post in this new forum.


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    #27
    Malteaser!
    Registered Users Posts: 2,234 ✭✭✭Malteaser!


    Mine are both the same: -5.75

    Absolutely blind without my contacts or glasses!!


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    #28
    2Scoops
    Registered Users Posts: 1,845 ✭✭✭2Scoops


    Perfect vision. Both eyes. All natural. :p


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    #29
    ciaran76
    Registered Users Posts: 4,693 ✭✭✭ciaran76


    -3.75 in right eye
    -3.0 in the left eye

    I wear contact lenses when playing football or going out.


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    #30
    dollydrops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭dollydrops


    I have had eye tests a couple of times and they say I don't need glasses but I think I do.
    I get really watery eyes if I stare at the computer too long and I get a pain over the bridge of nose as well.
    I also find it hard to focus on things in for distance if I am driving.
    I think I need a second opinion. Nearly everyone in my family wears glasses. My mother is as blind as a bat without her glasses. She said her sight went bad when she was a child after she had the German measles.
    Is bad eye sight hereditary?


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    #31
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,284 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    2Scoops wrote: »
    Perfect vision. Both eyes. All natural. :p

    Get outta here! :D


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