It is official. I am getting old

[Sparky]

Nevermind the hair turning grey and moving south to the ears and nose. Nevermind I cannot do the physical activities I used to. Went to the eye doc. Time for bifocals.

[Great-Kazoo]

Just Wait. You're only beginning

[DavieD55]

Sounds like it is about time for a new sports car. [Driver]

[KS63]

Watching and liking VH1?

[Fentonite]

I hear ya. Over the last year, my near vision has gone to hell. I can't read the "fine print" on packages anymore. I actually bought a cheap pair of reading glasses...

[BlasterBob]

Just wait until you get into the mid to late 70's. You guys doing some complaining now, have seen nothing yet. [blaster]

[Great-Kazoo]

Just wait until you get into the mid to late 70's. You guys doing some complaining now, have seen nothing yet. [blaster]

If you can't name the beatles original drummer you're not old

[JohnTRourke]

My eye doctor told me almost everyone needs reading glasses/bifocals within 3 years, plus or minus of 42 years old. It's a pretty serious bell curve right around 42. if you get past that bell curve, you are usually ok for a long time.
How old are you?

[Great-Kazoo]

Nevermind the hair turning grey and moving south to the ears and nose. Nevermind I cannot do the physical activities I used to. Went to the eye doc. Time for bifocals.

You're a sparky, surprised visual enhancers weren't needed years ago. mmmmmmmmmmmm does that look like a ground to you?

[StagLefty]

I was told at my eye exam last week to consider trifocals due to computer use.

[Sparky]

My eye doctor told me almost everyone needs reading glasses/bifocals within 3 years, plus or minus of 42 years old. It's a pretty serious bell curve right around 42. if you get past that bell curve, you are usually ok for a long time.
How old are you?

42 lol

[DavieD55]

I am not that far behind.

[Ah Pook]

Welcome to the club. Here is your walker, tapioca pudding and lap blanket. Please try not to snore or mumble too loud. [blaster][panic][blaster]

[brutal]

You know your old eyes suck when you need a magnifier app on your phone in case you can't find your glasses.

[BlasterBob]

If you can't name the beatles original drummer you're not old

Hell, I was already married with one daughter when the Beatles were just starting to get popular. You are NOT old unless you can truthfully/actually remember the day former President FDR died.[blaster]

[BlasterBob]

I was told at my eye exam last week to consider trifocals due to computer use.

I have been "blessed" with trifocals and it took me less than an hour to get used to wearing them. Do consider getting the tri's and that middle Rx sure makes doing stuff on the computer much easier.

[brutal]

I have been "blessed" with trifocals and it took me less than an hour to get used to wearing them. Do consider getting the tri's and that middle Rx sure makes doing stuff on the computer much easier.

How might tri's help iron sight shooting? That post is a giant blur these days and I usually can't hit better than minute of haji unless I use optics.

[Great-Kazoo]

How might tri's help iron sight shooting? That post is a giant blur these days and I usually can't hit better than minute of haji unless I use optics.

Dave Banford in Loveland is a very friendly gun guy / optician. NFAtrust / rodney knows him too.

[brutal]

Dave Banford in Loveland is a very friendly gun guy / optician. NFAtrust / rodney knows him too.

You must think I like driving. [Coffee]

[JohnTRourke]

42 lol

told you so
everyone I've told that to has been within 2-3 years of 42 when needing reading glasses/bifocals

So, in one way anyway, you're normal. :-)

[sroz]

If you don't have an uncontrollable drool, you're still young.

[Great-Kazoo]

You must think I like driving. [Coffee]

Write it off on 13's taxes.

[TheGrey]

Bifocals will make your life SO much easier!

The thing I couldn't get used to was the "progressives" - if you get those, you'll lose your peripheral vision. I made sure my bifocals were the type that I could 'see' the line between the two prescriptions.

[Sparky]

Bifocals will make your life SO much easier!

The thing I couldn't get used to was the "progressives" - if you get those, you'll lose your peripheral vision. I made sure my bifocals were the type that I could 'see' the line between the two prescriptions.

Interesting because I didn't want the old line bifocals and ordered no line ones

[BlasterBob]

Bifocals will make your life SO much easier!

The thing I couldn't get used to was the "progressives" - if you get those, you'll lose your peripheral vision. I made sure my bifocals were the type that I could 'see' the line between the two prescriptions.

My wife has the "progressives" (no line) and got them because she didn't like the lines. My Tri's do have the lines and I'll not swap them for those "progressives" - ever.

[Great-Kazoo]

My wife has the "progressives" (no line) and got them because she didn't like the lines. My Tri's do have the lines and I'll not swap them for those "progressives" - ever.

Hear ya. the "progressives"when looking through them is like being on a twirl a whirl at the park. Up top / good... bottom, good. the middle or transition area is well you know.

[Dr_Fwd]

Old farts!

[StagLefty]

42 lol

42 Good Lord BlasterBob and I have already forgotten more than you know [ROFL2] Now where the hell did I put my glasses ?

[BlasterBob]

42 Good Lord BlasterBob and I have already forgotten more than you know [ROFL2] Now where the hell did I put my glasses ?

Hey Lefty, take a look in the mirror - they are probably resting on your nose. Haaaaa

[BlasterBob]

Old farts!

You play your cards right and you too will probably also reach the status of an "old fart".[LOL]

[sabot_round]

Ohhh FFS!! Did you have ti remind me of that? As soon as I turned the 40's corner a few years back, I was told that I needed glasses. Now I'm wearing bi-focal's too!!

[Rooskibar03]

Mid life crisis? Get yourself one of these, problem solved.

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm251/cmuthard03/071B956C-37CC-42E3-A2DA-EA0F79DD3F69-5218-0000027D5B728D33_zps0253b002.jpg

[68Charger]

Sparky,
I'm about a year ahead of you (just turned 43)- eye doc recommended bifocals last year. I knew I needed to do something, because I was wearing glasses, and found myself looking UNDER the lenses to read things close up.

I'm still in denial, and asked if I could go to contacts and reading glasses and/or keep looking under the lenses of my regular glasses. She said that was fine, and that's what I've been doing for the past year and it works well.

I thought I was losing my ability to shoot accurately- and I am, but only with irons... Just not enough depth of focus to really make it work as well. If I use an ACOG, or any low magnficiation optic and I'm dead on again! Red dots are slightly better than irons, because they're further out than the rear sight of irons... Pistol isn't as affected, because again sights are further out.

I always say- it sucks getting older, but it sure beats the alternative!

[zteknik]

Just wait until you look forward to going on an elevator to hear your favorite bands...[LOL]

[OtterbatHellcat]

At 40 or so, I was having trouble being able to read names/numbers in a phone book. Instructions on a spray can?...phtttt.

46 now and use readers for anything important, but I can see this screen pretty damn good still without any aid. I figure to put it off a few more years and then do the lasek program.

You aint old til your shitting in your pants, and not knowing you did.

[sroz]

You aint old til your shitting in your pants, and not knowing you did.

Oh crap! Now I know I'm old.

[zteknik]

Oh crap! Now I know I'm old.
Depends...[Coffee]

[sroz]

Depends...[Coffee]

But they make my ass look fat....

[zteknik]

But they make my ass look fat....
That's only when there full!! [ROFL1]

[sroz]

That's only when there full!! [ROFL1]

No, that's when they make it look really fat. Like a double-wide.

[SAnd]

F*** mosquitoes!

Try wearing trifocals at 5 years old. I went from perfect vision in a school test to needing trifocals in a week. It was a flare up of encephalitis i probably got from a mosquito. I graduated to bifocals at about 12 years old. I have problems seeing a regular computer because it's between my near and far lenses. I fixed that when I went to a 40 inch TV/Monitor I use from my recliner easy chair about 6 foot away. I still have problems seeing my speedometer in the car. 'No Officer, I don't know how fast I was going. The numbers are between my near and far lenses.'

I've been dealing with age deteriation lately so I know what you're talking about. It's kinda bummed me out at times.

I gave up being anything other than close without optics when shooting.

Use the handrail on stairs if you get bifocals. At least until you get used to them.

My Mom has "Piano Glasses" for seeing sheet music while playing. She also uses them for her computer. The rest of the time she wears bifocals. Her upper lens has almost no correction.

It's my turn to laugh at you guys that can't see.[Neene1]

Hang in there everyone. You can still see. Some people can't. It still sucks though.

[SamuraiCO]

My measure of when you are getting old is when advertisers use your favorite music. Led Zepplin for Cadillac, Iggy Pop for Carnival Cruises, The Clash for Jaguar. Yea I have to wear glasses as well for uncorrectable condition and just recently for reading. Really a pain when I am trying to read something at the gun range and have to switch from shooting glasses to my regular pair and get my flashlight out as well. Because of my martial arts and the recent addition of cross fit at my friend's dojo my body is in good shape for almost 50.

[BlasterBob]

I guess I am very lucky and still considered to be a rather "young" 76 because I can still take a leak like a teenager. When I was a kid, I heard a lot of the old farts (guys in their late 40's and older) complain that the older we get, the longer it takes to take a leak.[blaster]

[OtterbatHellcat]

I've been noticing lately........ finish at the urinal, get the junk back in, flush and start walking away....and then realize there was just a little bit more.

Dammit.

[wctriumph]

If you can't name the beatles original drummer you're not old

I must be getting old, I can't remember the original drummer's name! Wait, it will come to me. Pete Best, Ha, got it!

[brutal]

I've been noticing lately........ finish at the urinal, get the junk back in, flush and start walking away....and then realize there was just a little bit more.

Dammit.

It's a fine line between shakin it enough and playing with yourself.

[BlasterBob]

It's a fine line between shakin it enough and playing with yourself.

Back in my old Army days, it was said that shaking it more than thee or four times was considered playing with it. Sign in the latrine above the urinals read "Shake it off BEFORE you walk away for the urinal".[mop]

[buffalobo]

My eyes are still good but other complaints tell me I am on the downhill side of youth physically, hopefully a gentle downhill. Also a lot harder to "out do" the boys these days, and a lot longer recovery when I do.

[Stone83]

Fish oil....Omega 3.
Helps the ticker...well, so far.

it won't attract the cheerleaders to my house, but.....[facepalm]

[USAFGopherMike]

Jeez.. you guys scare me. I'm going on 39 this year with 20-15 vision but your 42 number has me concerned.

[Dalendenver]

I was in progressive lenses in my late 30s and had cataract surgery on both eyes at 40. Doctor blew the job and I had to have the left one done over a year later. Complications left me with enough corneal damage that I can't have lasik.

[NFATrustGuy]

There's definitely something to the mid-40's need for cheater glasses. I've been blind as a bat at distance since I was 7 years old, but am only recently starting to have problems seeing small print up close and in less than perfect lighting conditions. I haven't taken the plunge and bought the reader glasses, yet, because I can still read the small print, but I'm definitely not too far away from a trip to Walgreens!

I think my midlife crises is now officially in full swing. I can't see up close anymore and, as someone else suggested earlier in this thread, I also recently purchased a 2-seat, completely impractical sports car. He who dies with the most toys wins, right?

[Sparky]

I just got them and I hate them. I cannot focus on crap.

[StagLefty]

I just got them and I hate them. I cannot focus on crap.

When I got my first set of glasses they had to send them back and do what they called a slab off. Then I could focus. Don't know if that's your problem but keep it in mind if it doesn't improve.

[TheGrey]

I just got them and I hate them. I cannot focus on crap.

Give it a little time. If it still makes you feel like you're going to fall out of your chair, it might be easier to get different lenses with the little line where the prescription changes.