My menopausal eyes are now 100% in corrective lenses With Bifocals!
My eyes are too dry to wear my contacts. They stick to my eyeballs and no amount of drops is helping me get them out easily.
I get very anxious when I can not remove my contact lenses. I am frustrated with having to whip out my readers to read. I am tired of buying readers by the gross and still have to launch a search only to locate just one pair. I am sick of squinting at documents to make out what is written. I am fed up with comments about font size directed toward me. I now say what is the point? I just wear my damn glasses!
I see so much clearer with my glasses that it has depressed me. With-out any corrective lenses, my skin looks to have no wrinkles. My make-up looks flawless. My hair appears shiny and lustrous. My house never needs dusting and my floors look clean. I don’t see fingerprints on the kitchen appliances or the computer screens or smudges on the windows.
When I put on my glasses with the bifocals, I see reality. I see wrinkles and some needed blending in my make-up application and the use of additional hair mousse. The house and office that seemed so spotless is another illusion to my corrected vision.
Reality can be an illusion and the secret to the menopausal eyesight blues;
No corrective lenses are the way to go for everything to look fabulous. For the 2 of you who don’t need any vision correction, or those who had the Lasik, and still don’t need readers,
I say good for you!
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Diane P and Alysia, have you tried multi-focal contact lenses?
Multifocal contact lens technology has come a long way, making lenses more comfortable and easier to wear. With multi-focals, you can see near, far and everywhere in between. It's a great alternative to reading glasses.
Check out www.goodbyereaders.com to learn more!
Susan,
March 31, 2009 - 11:47am"See a New You" Team
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Alysia, that's a great page you found! It's amazing how the same foods show up in a lot of "best" lists -- best for antioxidants, for weight loss, for heart health, for eye health. (Blueberries, who knew?)
Now, if someone would just invent a handy all-purpose laminated card that I can put in my wallet that indexes all these fabulous foods and supplements, I would be forever in their debt, LOL!
February 6, 2009 - 9:15amThis Comment
I've been wanting to see if I'm a good candidate for Lasik surgery. I'm very far sighted, which can sometimes be an advantage. But, I have to wear corrective lenses while working at my computer.
A friend, who is about 10 years older than I, takes an OTC herbal supplement meant to improve and maintain eye health.
Here's something interesting I found: Top 10 Foods and Supplements for Sight
February 5, 2009 - 9:37pmThis Comment
HaraLee, looks like we've been on the same path for years.
I wore contacts (very very happily) for probably 25 years. I'm nearsighted, so the contacts corrected the far vision and off I went, a very happy camper.
But then, as those midlife years eeked closer and closer, it became harder to read with my contacts in. With them out, I could read perfectly, but with them in, small type and low light were real enemies. So, reading glasses became a constant companion.
There isn't much more frustrating than wearing contacts and always searching for your reading glasses! Especially when you can read perfectly with no correction! What a pain! In essence I was correcting my eyes because I was correcting my eyes.
I tried bifocal contacts for a while (they are weighted at the bottom) but they just weren't comparable to regular contacts or to my glasses as far as I was concerned. Contacts regularly "float" on the surface of your eyes, aided by your tears, and I'd find the floating really distracting with the bifocal lenses.
Now I'm with you. I have glasses that are corrected for far vision at the top and have clear glass in them at the bottom (because my near vision is still perfect). But I have to wear them all the time. Ugh.
I really identify with you when you say that you see so much more clearly with glasses that it has depressed you. Isn't that the truth? Even the light seems brighter and clearer. That teeny tiny pimple seems huge, and the dirt on the carpet is really easy to see. Darn it.
But the other part about glasses that I don't like is this: I like my eyes. They are bright green in the sunlight and I honestly like seeing them. They seem darker and much less noticeable in glasses. Part of it is vanity, but part of it is about feeling like me.
I want to see well, and I want to see my eyes!
I am considering Lasik very seriously. My husband had it a few years ago, his eyes were worse than mine, and he has 20/20 vision today. He long ago stopped the glasses/contacts/bifocal juggle, and is so happy for it. (One of the most surprising things, he said, was being able to see clearly in the shower. Imagine!)
This morning on the Today show, they did a piece on "Boomer Bummers," those health things that really get on our nerves right about now. Eye health and changing vision was right up there!
February 5, 2009 - 10:05amThis Comment
I have a weird genetic thing in one eye so am not a good patient for the Lasik, but would love to do it. I do know some Lasik people who now have to wear reading glasses as they age, but still for distance they are hardware free!
February 5, 2009 - 2:37pmMy eye Doc told me that he thinks Lasik is best done in your 30's to get the most bang for your buck. Missed that boat too.
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