OT Visual Question, Good vision or bad?

Due to a post a couple of days ago I got to wondering, how many of you have good vision or like me with vision problems. Last April new glasses with trifocal lens. If bright day have to use dark trifocals to see. Past september renewing drivers licence barely past the side vision requirement. Have trouble with seeing at night due to other lights. Doctor does not know anything more to do. Dark wet night can barely tell where the road is. Trafic coming from side as in a roundabout or even from a highway side merge lane either do not see them at all or are just a fast moving blur. Enybody else like this?

I have horrendous eyesight 20/600 or so. Sounds like glaucoma. If diagnosed it can be slowed with drops.

good luck
BBT

well,I'm 48 ,3 years ago I didn't wear glasses,now I have bi-focal's can't wear them outside cause I feel like I'm stepping into a whole ,can't see crap at night,guess I'm are getting old!

are you going to an optometrist or an ophthalmologist? Ophthalmologists are actually doctors of the eye and can and will diagnose your problem and tell you what treatments are available. Do not mess around. you only have a short time to get it under control Optometrists are not trained to diagnose most eye problems, only fit you for glasses. If not satisfied with the first diagnosis get a second opinion. Google ophthalmologist for your area and try to go to a training hospital or
Dr. if possible.Henry

There is just more poor light now days. I don't drive at night unless I have to and if the roads are wet or it's raining I pull off. What I like best is to get someone else to drive.

Get thee to a real eye doctor, not an eyeglass fitter. My symptoms are similar to yours. In a couple of weeks I"m getting my cataracts (didn"t know I had them until a couple weeks ago) sucked out and brand new lenses installed.

I've worn glasses since I was in college thirty years ago. I have pretty bad astigmatism, but it's correctable to 20/15 in each eye. My prescription has changed very little over the years, other than I've been wearing bifocals for the last ten years. I just got a clean bill from my opthamologist.

I think you need to change eye doctors. I don't think opthamologists are necessarily better than optometrists; there are some very good optometrists out there. But for problems like you describe you should definitely go to an opthamologist.

Cowman, have you had your cataracts removed. ???
that will improve the quality of light around you. Henry Also, even if you have them removed there is a chance that a secondary cataract will form and can be removed in the ophthamologist's office. Get checked out by a real Dr.

I quit driving at night too years ago when the bright blue headlites came out.

I was the same way when I first got mine. Just grit your teeth and wear them, and pretty soon you'll get used to them and life will be better since you can now see. It is rough at first, and I think part is psychological- "I'm going to pieces, I never used to have to wear these stupid glasses that distort the world."

I'm only 61 and never imagined my night vision would become so bad so fast. I an see pretty well in daytime with glasses, but I don't drive at night except for short trips to grocery on known roads. I do NOT drive on dark, two lane highways and especially when raining.


It might be time for you to make a "big decision."

Take the advice that Henry E NC and Two Dogs gave you. An optometrist is not a doctor, you need an ophthalmologist.

I had a problem with my left eye a couple of years ago, the optometrist (who wears a white lab coat and has all of his employees refer to him as The Doctor) had no clue, finally I went to a real doctor and found I had a pretty serious problem that should've been treated much earlier.

I also found a new optometrist who doesn't wear a lab coat, goes by his first name, and cares about his patients instead of spending his time trying to sell needless add-on "procedures" that do nothing (like taking pictures of the back of the eye, almost certainly a scam when done by an optometrist).

My wife kept asking me what a sign read wasn't to worried until I could the bugs on the sign.
She went in and had her cataracts removed and new lenses fitted now she hardly ever wears her glasses except for reading.
Go get it done now don't wait.
Walt

(quoted from post at 05:06:04 12/29/09) There is just more poor light now days. I don't drive at night unless I have to and if the roads are wet or it's raining I pull off. What I like best is to get someone else to drive.

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same here.....And, I've got a problem with the length of my arm shrinking over the last 3 or so years........

Dave

I have/had glaucoma only in my left eye, messed around with drops for years, finally got to where they would not control it. Had surgery done twice, it has stabilized but not before I almost lost vision in that eye.
I actually do better if I keep that eye closed, if open I stumble around like I'm 3/4 drunk, I cant pick up anything on the first try (depth perception) and I avoid driving at night at all costs.
Gotta go in 2010 to renew license and I'm worried.

I am 51, and started wearing glasses in high school. My eyes have gotten so bad that I have to sleep with my glasses on- if I took them off, I'd never find them again. I wear trifocals- featherlite lenses keep them less than coke-bottle thick, and I no longer get any "protective coating" because I just rub it or scratch it off.
My wife claims I am going deaf too...

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Tom & Henry,

Since I practice as an optometrist when I'm not tending the cattle farm, I gotta reply. I always appreciate KYHayman's responses on this forum because he almost always tells of his experience rather than his opinion, so I am going to try to respond in that manner.
I am a doctor. I am board certified nationally and by the state of Missouri to provide primary, secondary and tertiary care to people with vision and systemic health problems. I chose to be an optometrist rather than an ophthalmologist because my hands are not steady enough to be a good surgeon. I respect any ophthalmologist tremendously for their gifts. I practice in a fairly rural setting, so I get to deal with lots of different eye related problems from blurry vision to cataracts to brain tumors. If I don't have and answer to a patient's symptomes, I find a doctor who does. Your advice to get a second opinion is sound advice, but you are wrong to suggest that any ophthalmologist is better educated that any optometrist - I've had way to many experiences where I had to scour text books for hours to treat a patient that the local opthalmologists weren't able to treat even when the diagnosis was known.
Not trying to be cantankerous,

3cyl

P.S. I'd be happy to answer any vision problems on this forum that I can, but I'm not on line every day.