Well, I haven't had an eye exam for 7 years, but I did go in today to check for eye problems. I only use over the counter readers 1.75, but I've been having some straining when reading on the computer. They said I should continue using the readers if I want, or they'll give me a mild prescription for reading, since my insurance don't cover glasses, I'll just stay with the cheapos.
No cataracts or glaucoma, but she said there was signs of possible start of dry macular degeneration, so I needed to watch out for that and wear hat and sunglasses more often. I never wear hats, but it might serve me well to wear one now. There's a lot of sun where I live all year round and it's high altitude which makes it worse. I was bad about wearing sunglasses all my life too, just started really wearing them more in my older years, gotta start using them every day now.
I was already taking vitamins and supplements she suggested like Lutein, vitamin E, etc. I'm all out, need to make a run to the health food store. I'm grateful that I checked out pretty good, I was a bit worried before going there. She said vision is basically 20/30 without the readers. Eyesight is so precious, we don't really appreciate it until it starts to fail us. For me it's the most cherished of the five senses. Just the other day my husband said he'd rather lose his legs than his eyesight, I thought that was pretty intense, but when I thought about it for a few minutes, I had to agree.
No cataracts or glaucoma, but she said there was signs of possible start of dry macular degeneration, so I needed to watch out for that and wear hat and sunglasses more often. I never wear hats, but it might serve me well to wear one now. There's a lot of sun where I live all year round and it's high altitude which makes it worse. I was bad about wearing sunglasses all my life too, just started really wearing them more in my older years, gotta start using them every day now.
I was already taking vitamins and supplements she suggested like Lutein, vitamin E, etc. I'm all out, need to make a run to the health food store. I'm grateful that I checked out pretty good, I was a bit worried before going there. She said vision is basically 20/30 without the readers. Eyesight is so precious, we don't really appreciate it until it starts to fail us. For me it's the most cherished of the five senses. Just the other day my husband said he'd rather lose his legs than his eyesight, I thought that was pretty intense, but when I thought about it for a few minutes, I had to agree.