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How bad is your eyesight?

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    #92
    Little Miss Cutie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Little Miss Cutie


    Hi not sure if this is the rights place to ask this, I have atigmatism in both eyes, by general standards it is quiet mild and I can see without my glasses but my vision is much clearer with them. I got monthly contacts a while back but find that I can't wear them to work as I sit at a laptop all day long and them become uncomfortable after a couple of hours. Does anyone else have this problem and does anyone have any advice?


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    #93
    Drummerboy2
    Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭Drummerboy2


    I was -5 R -7 L and wore contacts for years. However I then contacted cataaracts, in my forties. Got the implants and have now almost perfect eysight in right eye. Left is still a bit dodgy. The joy of not havin to wear contacts is great. Just need glasses for reading now.


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    #94
    Dfens
    Closed Accounts Posts: 240 ✭✭Dfens


    Advice I was given: when staring at somethng.. like a computer screen... we tend to blink less, so maybe make an effort to blink more & keep the lenses moist with tears. You could also put in some saline eyedrops if they get dry.

    My opthal. told me that they get sore & eyes red because as the lenses get dry they contract and pinch your eyeball a bit.


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    #95
    Dfens
    Closed Accounts Posts: 240 ✭✭Dfens


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

    +1 on that, I'm about the same, jam jar bottoms if I had regular glass lenses:p


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    #96
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    I always had perfect vision until last year when I couldn't read anything up close. Now I have to keep any thing I read half an arms length away. I have perfect vision otherwise and I don't need glasses. I know someone with the same problem and he said that eventually his arms were too short and he has very bad vision now.


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    #97
    quoteunquote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭quoteunquote


    -8 in one eye, -7 in the other.

    Thank god for contacts...


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    #98
    shanegj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭shanegj


    L: -0.75
    R: -0.25
    (with Astigmatism which makes contact lenses all that more expensive)


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    #99
    buckieburd
    Registered Users Posts: 426 ✭✭buckieburd


    delta_bravo wrote: »
    L: -9.5
    R: -10.5

    :(

    Ill see ya (or maybe not!!) and raise you

    R -12
    L -13.5

    Just discovered this forum, other blind people yay!!!!!!


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    #100
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Was -4.5 -4.75 two years ago, and from last week's check I'm still that!


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    #101
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Both -9.75. Uurgh.


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    #102
    boardsie08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 304 ✭✭boardsie08


    Just got an eye test done today as I noticed that my vision has deteriorated a lot lately..

    Left: -1.75
    Right: -0.75

    Not as bad as I feared!


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    #103
    Mr. K
    Registered Users Posts: 2,485 ✭✭✭Mr. K


    I have no idea of the numeric description, but I'm not too bad. I could struggle through the day without my glasses, but it'd be a blurry experience!


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    #104
    CaramelBear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 70 ✭✭CaramelBear


    buckieburd wrote: »
    R -12
    L -13.5

    Just discovered this forum, other blind people yay!!!!!!

    Owwie. I thought I was blind enough.

    R -5.75
    L -6.0

    Nice to 'see' other people like moiself :D


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    #105
    fission
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭fission


    I have a shortsighted right eye and longsighted left eye.......
    Is that common?


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    #106
    entropi
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 21,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭entropi


    irish-stew wrote: »
    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
    Pretty much the same myself except:

    Left -7.0
    Right -7.5 or something similar to that effect on prescription. Glasses for a rest day, contacts (dailies) for other days or sports/socialising. And i've got Astigmatism :(

    Sucks having bad eyesight but walking around i can avoid people/cars and whatnot, but as for reading stuff? good luck lol:D


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    #107
    littlebug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    :eek: master of nothing are you sure your prescription is -7.5:confused: I'm not much worse than that and I can't go to the bathroom without my glasses. God forbid if I forget where I've put my glasses:p

    Honestly even my hand is a blur without even putting it out at arms length!

    the thought of venturing outside without them...//shudders//


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    #108
    what2do
    Registered Users Posts: 414 ✭✭what2do


    I was -7 prior to laser surgery and the only place I felt safe without glasses or contacts was from my bed to my ensuite - after that things were hit and miss!

    I could sit on the couch beside someone and not be sure who there were - plus I'd perch a book just under my nose for reading in bed!


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    #109
    rua1972
    Registered Users Posts: 171 ✭✭rua1972


    L -7.5
    R -3.5

    Don't know exactly but my eyes were measured 2 months ago and my vision is nice and clear again, no surprise after 6 years. I'm sticking to glasses, couldn't bere having something directly on my eye. I don't have to wear them for reading but after 22 years i'm so used to wearing my glasses all day that i can hardly read without them.


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    #110
    ian_m
    Registered Users Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭ian_m


    It's not really a case of how 'bad' your eyes are. It's more to do with the shape so I wouldn't use the word bad. Having said that I'm a -4 and -5 so I'm a bit f***ed without my contacts/glasses. :pac:


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    #111
    DevilsBreath
    Registered Users Posts: 533 ✭✭✭DevilsBreath


    L: -8.5
    R: -9

    Can't get my right eye perfect with glasses ether so my distance vision is fecked. Even with my glasses when at the bus stop have to wait till the bus is nearly ontop of me before i can read it :(.

    Hence why im working in the IT sector now :).

    I want to get laser but they don't fix anything over -7 from what i heared.


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    #112
    NewApproach
    Registered Users Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭NewApproach


    Dont know about my glasses but my lenses are:

    L -3.25
    R -3.75

    Wear the glasses all the time except when Im going out when I wear the contacts (not really for asthetics but because I've broke my glasses the last twice I wore them in a nightclub! :o)


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    #113
    DevilsBreath
    Registered Users Posts: 533 ✭✭✭DevilsBreath


    Correction Just got tested today.

    L: -10.5
    R: -9.25


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    #114
    baz15
    Registered Users Posts: 114 ✭✭baz15


    Mine is
    L -3.25
    R -2.75
    I wear glasses usually and contacts for sport etc


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    #115
    littlebug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    DevilsBreath wrote: »
    Correction Just got tested today.

    L: -10.5
    R: -9.25

    that's tough:(


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    #116
    Blazer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,415 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    -4.5 in both eyes.
    Wearing glasses about 24 years and contacts about 15 years.
    Eyesight has improved slightly and I'm now back down to -4.25 in both eyes.
    Damned if I can tell the difference though :D


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    #117
    tomcollins97
    Closed Accounts Posts: 951 ✭✭✭tomcollins97


    The_Minister wrote: »
    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:)

    Get laser treatment - it works a treat


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    #118
    ayapatrick
    Registered Users Posts: 528 ✭✭✭ayapatrick


    ok so this is me -
    (r) +1.00/+3.00 k20
    (L) +1.00/+3.00 k145
    so id say im long sighted from what i read previously, -(minus) denotes short sight?
    and also why are they wrote like fractions? would that be a 1/3 (third) of a unit? and the ks are different shape lens?


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    #119
    murrayp4
    Registered Users Posts: 969 ✭✭✭murrayp4


    DevilsBreath wrote: »
    L: -8.5
    R: -9

    Can't get my right eye perfect with glasses ether so my distance vision is fecked. Even with my glasses when at the bus stop have to wait till the bus is nearly ontop of me before i can read it :(.

    Hence why im working in the IT sector now :).

    I want to get laser but they don't fix anything over -7 from what i heared.

    I was reading a thread about the Wellington clinic and one chap was -10 and they were still able to correct it. As far as I know up to -14 is possible, but complications are more frequent with higher prescriptions


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    #120
    entropi
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 21,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭entropi


    littlebug wrote: »
    :eek: master of nothing are you sure your prescription is -7.5:confused:
    Just managed to read this lol, looking at most recent exam now (nov 08) it reads: r -6.25, l -6.75 so i was mistaken about my original statement, still with the contacts in i can now see the number on a bus further away than lots of friends:) if i can find myself some work in the next year, i'll save for the surgery if i am suitable:D


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    #121
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    DevilsBreath wrote: »
    Correction Just got tested today.

    L: -10.5
    R: -9.25

    It's poor man, sorry to be blunt
    You mentioned in another post that you can't laser eye surgury over -7. I don't know if that true but realy I wouldn't take the advise here as fact, go for a FREE consulation at any clinic, most give the first visit free and realy go to more then one.

    All I can say is I went from -6.25 & -4.5 to 0.25 & 0.0 with Lasek so check it out. :)


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