At what age did you get reading glasses?

[Deleted]

I think my eyesight for reading and close work is becoming the suck.

[eb777888]

31, after I had David. Pregnancy did no favors for my eyesight and as the years have passed (I'm 37) it has gotten SO BAD. I went from far-sighted to no-sighted.

[marissa]

I got them a few weeks ago. Went to the eye doctor and had to get them on top of my contacts. I'm 36.

[nsl]

I was in college, so maybe 21? I don't need them for distance, but I get headaches if I read or sew without them

[cbwm1]

10

ETA - I'm neither far sighted nor near sighted. I can't see shit either close up (2" from my face) or far away without contacts or glasses.

[flex]

Reading glasses like for reading up-close? 37.

ETA:  I knew it was time for reading glasses when I had to ask the young lady behind the counter at the hair supply store to read the instructions on the bottle of hair care product.  ::sigh::

[mx27]

26

[lilafowler]

I feel like I need to be checked for old lady eyes

[marylennox]

I'm late twenties and have never needed glasses before now but recently my eyes have been bothering me more and more. I think I need to go get them checked soon. Ugh.

[eb777888]

Nov 21, 2014 22:52:59 GMT -5 eb777888 said:

31, after I had David. Pregnancy did no favors for my eyesight and as the years have passed (I'm 37) it has gotten SO BAD. I went from far-sighted to no-sighted.

It also could have just been age, too. It's just that I had perfect vision until I had David, and a slew of  (minor) health problems seemed to follow after pregnancy. It could all very well be turning 30 OR pregnancy. I never could pinpoint it. But yeah, vision has been declining since 30 when I previously had perfect vision.

[knx9211]

27. I got my LASIK done at 23. I'm pleased I can see my hand in front of my face now, which I could barely do before the LASIK, but my vision is definitely not perfect.

[HiC]

42 or 43

[zoidberg]

I just got some at 36, although now that I have them I realize that I've needed them for years.

[mich1]

50ish....but I am severely nearsighted and my optometrist said that it gets delayed a bit.

For a long time, to read with my glasses on, I could slide them down my nose. Then I ran out of nose, and got bifocals.

[Booze Raccoon]

39

[peachykate]

15

[nomad100]

I needed them for when I had my contacts in at about 43ish, I think.

I do fine when I just have my glasses on for regular reading but for close up work (like threading needles), I have to take my glasses off and just use my unassisted eyes.

[zitiqueen]

41 or 42

[curtains]

This is my first year and since I already need glasses for distance I am getting bifocals.
I am 40

[mrsukyankee]

40 or 41

[stellas]

I think I need to go get my eyes checked. It's been 25 years (lol) and I have issues seeing at night lately.

[katb]

I am 41 and I think I will need something soon. I have a hard time adjusting when I look from one thing close to another far away. When I am on the laptop and look up at the tv, it takes my eyes a few seconds longer than before to adjust clearly.

[megataco]

8

[macmars45]

Hahahaha! Reading glasses. /sarcasm

I got glasses when I was ten and my eyesight is horrific now. Someday I'll get laser eye surgery and it will be amazing.

H got reading/computer glasses just this past January at 29 years old.

[vicky]

8

[prettyinpink]

In late 30's for some people, 40's for most, and 50's for the lucky few we develop presbopiya. You loose the ability to accommodate. It sucks. I'm 27 and because I have convergence issues I know I'll be there about 35. I've worn glasses for distance since I was 10. I have a 'baby' progressive in a pair of my glasses right now to see if cutting back the Rx in my read would help. Right now it really just annoys me. I do have readers for over my contacts though and have since 25.

[auntie]

I got bifocals around 43 or 44. I still prefer to take off my glasses to read or do close work.

[joenali]

I've had glasses since I was three. Every time I go to the eye dr. He's all, it's coming...! You're so close to 40 it's just a matter of years!

Thanks?

[sparrowsong]

Farsighted people generally need additional help for close work a few years earlier than the nearsighted. On average i expect my farsighted patients to require an add power on their Rx (meaning a bifocal) aroud age 38-40. Nearsighted people just kick a little power out of their distance Rx first and the add power isn't needed until 42-44, sometimes even later. On average. This isn't a hard and fast rule.

[Deleted]

43