I'm 55 & have never worn glasses my whole life😍👁👁! But my lovely wife got her first pair last week. She's 51 & absolutely beautiful with her glasses! I had fun helping her pick the frames!.. I'm so thankful for my perfect eyesight!☺😌
Doc, Im only 18 and I've never had a history of eye problems. But these past few months, my eyes have started to water when focusing on certain things like reading books, reading from phone/computer. Should I contact an eye doctor and ask If I need prescription?
Im 47 usually use a +1.25 but it broke, I went to get one bk and there was +1.25 but made my eyes feel funny so i tried other strength and notice that a +2.25 works, why is that?
No, I do not. I read a book holding at eight to twelve inches without glasses. For longer distances (eighteen inches looking at this laptop), I need my progressives. I just got cataract surgery, and I had my surgeon leave me nearsighted, so the only charge from before surgery is that I can read the road signs. No reason to make those of us who have always been nearsighted to become farsighted.
❤ I now reach 46, in 2023, and I hating can't read normal 😢. This video is SOOOOO VERY INFORMATIVE!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH, I SHARE IT EVERYONE. I am from Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹. ❤
Dr. Rupa you look young. I thought you were a young college student explaining about eye glasses. I've started wearing reading glasses about 3 months ago. I'm naturally destructive. The amount of times I've dropped, stepped, or rolled over in my sleep 😴 and accidentally breaking my reading glasses is ridiculous. I'm at a 1.5. Does it matter the cost of reading glasses as in quality if every 2 weeks I break them by accident? Since they are a new added requirement in my everyday life I've even lost or misplaced them especially at the gym. I've been spending $10-$15 at a Walmart or grocery store on each pair but found reading glasses at a dollar tree that I've been using just fine the past 2 days. Will buying cheap reading glasses hurt my eyes in the future?
I made huge mistake. I am 48 and I got glasses for the first time. I was tricked into buying expensive progressive glasses although I just have +1.75 vision. I struggle with progressives. I bought near reading glasses after watching this episode
Good video. I was diagnosed with presbyopia. I finally wore my readers (+1.75) for my computer and (+2.25) recommended for books. I must say I can read better and quicker on my computer. 4 years ago before/after turning 50 I noticed reading words close up were very challenging.
It got to the point where I couldn't read label ingredients and read my nostalgic comic books. I purchased my first readers yesterday. At 44 I feel really old now. I never needed glasses and purchased a 1.25 In my late 30s my hair thinned so I buzzed it off and was somewhat relieved. But needing readers really bothered me.
Whoa!! Reading Glasses?! Great information. Thanks for sharing about when you can buy reading glasses from the drugstore, when you can’t, what causes this to happen, and more!
You should always ask your doctor what is best for you. Here is a video I have done on astigmatism if you want to learn more! - th-cam.com/video/pJGiSqM1yEQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=jGbfvoRSfqT2251Z@@wingwong525
Dr. Wong, I just stumbled upon your channel and subscribed…you are excellent with explaining all topics and are so down to earth! I started wearing readers consistently around age 45. Prior to that I’ve never worn glasses and have amblyopia (discovered around age five and patching did not help it). My question is: of the options you discussed, which might be most helpful for me taking the amblyopia into consideration? I have been wearing drug store readers for 8 years and am tired of the on/off on/off all day long! Thanks for the excellent educational (and fun) videos!
Please, I live in Egypt, and I want to ask you about my medical condition. I am 49 years old. My eyes were good and my vision is almost excellent, but I started to feel long-sighted. I cannot see close objects. I went to a doctor who prescribed me reading glasses. At first, I found the glasses wonderful. Everything is fine up close and he told me that I do not need glasses for walking because my eyesight is largely normal. The problem is that after using the glasses for about a month, I feel that my vision is deteriorating very significantly (all the deterioration occurs within one month). Now I can almost not see at a distance of one and a half meters except With these glasses, I cannot read at all without them, and I feel that my distance vision is deteriorating quickly as well, because almost my job is to sit at the computer for a very long period of time a day. I feel that I am no longer normal without them, and I wear them in order to see everything that is close, but when I take them off, I find distraction.. Do you have any? Tips and thanks
I just spent under $400 with insurance for reading glasses. Wish I had seen this video before, i just needed regular readers because I have a 20 20 vision and never needed glasses.
Really helpful video. I am 50 with, until recently, perfect vision. Have just started to find I have an issue reading. Not all the time. Depends on aircon, time of day etc. Will wearing reading glasses speed up the process presbyopia?
Question: I did not understand this phenomenon. My vision was pretty bad 20/400, and I wore progressive lenses. However, I discovered I could better see things close-up, like reading a book, threading a needle, or put on make up by bringing the activity closer, as opposed to using the reading function of my progressive lenses or wearing readers. Friends in my age group, 50- 60, could not correct their presbyopia without readers. Why could I function well bringing items nearer to me? Then, when I had cataract surgery and elected the implanted multi-focal lenses, I could no longer do close-up work bringing the item nearer to me. And, unfortunately, I soon discovered progressive lenses were needed, because the multi-focal implanted lenses did not fully correct my vision needs near or far. Disappointing for sure.
I'm sorry Marietta that you didn't have the expected result from surgery. Yes, many of my nearsighted patients often will just take off their glasses instead of wearing their readers. The nearsightedness allowed you previously to see up close and with a wider range than the reading part of your progressives.
I'm almost 47 now I used to be able to read the really small print on the battery packages. people were always amazed that I could read that. now I can't anymore.... heck I can barely read the text on my laptop writing this comment. In an emergency I have noticed that if I scrunch my eyebrows like I'm mad or something and then I try to look right underneath my eyebrows I find a spot where it's actually a bit focused but I don't do that all the time because it's not something that I can do all the time unless I want really bad headaches and to mess my vision up even more probably
I am 30 I am using 2 glasses one for distance and one for reading. Later is -1.00Sph lower than the former. I have Accommodative dysfunction in both of my eyes.
@@DrRupaWong good, no issues at all.. help with up close work a ton especially now, when I 1st got them didnt make a lot of differences, but coudn't go without them for close work anymore. Also have prism in my glasses so have to wear glasses all the time, can't do contacts.
I'm also 46 and near-sighted. I have worn contacts since I was 16 and have always been able to see distance and up close just fine, but over the past few years, close-up vision with contacts IN has become nearly impossible. With contacts OUT, I can read up close just fine (but then I can't see 5 feet ahead of me lol). Is that still presbyopia? My distance vision seems to be unchanged. Trying to figure out a solution - leaning toward just getting readers for close reading when my contacts are in. Working at a computer is a massive challenge - I'm never the right distance away from anything so I usually just wear my prescription glasses and they're constantly on and off as I try to focus. Really challenging times!
@@DrRupaWong I really don’t like them but I don’t want to wear reading glasses and contacts my doctor said we have to compromise with the progressive so I’m not super happy but I’m getting used to it
hey it would mean a lot if any of you could reply back to this I’m 15 and have exotropia my eye goes outwards and my right is weaker I had surgery on my right eye when I was 7 and I’m not sure what it was for but it definitely didn’t do much I wear glasses and have pretty bad eyesight without them I talked about this to my eye doctor and all they keep saying is “you have to wait til ur 30 for a surgery there’s nothing you can do about your eye squint” and that really bothered me so much when I’m looking at myself in a mirror or phone camera I can actually control it and make my eyes go straight but I used to do it well but it’s harder for me to do it cos I don’t have much of the control is there anything at all that you would recommend to me or anything I can do to get rid of it? like do I need to do any specific eye exercises or anything to strengthen my eye muscles so they can coordinate properly.
Hi! Unfortunately I can't provide medical advice over social media. So, specific advice to you and what to do in your case is. not something I can tell you in a TH-cam comment. But, I can tell you if you aren't sure why your doctor gave you the arbitrary age of 30 to revisit surgery - then I would definitely get a second opinion from a strabismus specialist. If you're in the US, you can find all of us who are fellowship trained here www.aapos.org. There's also an International directory there, where you can look up international doctors who came to the US and completed the fellowship I pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus here. Hope that helps. They should be able to tell you if you're a good surgical candidate or not. Good luck!
I was wondering what the cause of this was, I started needing them about age 45, I'm 55 now but some days I don't need them at all, I still have certain days now where I don't need reading glasses at all, was wondering what was going on.
Everyone: wuah! I thought you were 20! Me: nah I'm 30. My body: we're actually 40 🧑🏻🦳 I've recently noticed that I started to dislike reading even though I always loved it, I was suddenly fighting my way through chapter after chapter instead of picking a book up and putting it down after like 6 hours like "....what happened? How can it already be dinner time?!" then some days ago I bought *the swarm* by Frank Schätzing and it's such a good read that I got mad enough to actually remember that bad vision might be my problem (runs hard in the family) so I took my book went to the book store and tested glasses. +1.00 fit me very well and I was finally reading for hours again 🥰
Here is my video on Vuity if you would like to watch! Eye Drop to Get Rid of Reading Glasses? Eye Doctor Reviews Vuity Eye Drops - th-cam.com/video/CF25ORHHflA/w-d-xo.html
Do you use reading glasses? If you do, where do you buy them from? How old were you when you needed your first pair?
I'm 55 & have never worn glasses my whole life😍👁👁! But my lovely wife got her first pair last week. She's 51 & absolutely beautiful with her glasses! I had fun helping her pick the frames!.. I'm so thankful for my perfect eyesight!☺😌
@@My2EyesAreOpen Thats awesome you have never needed glasses. I love how supportive you are of your wife. I bet she looks fantastic!
Doc, Im only 18 and I've never had a history of eye problems. But these past few months, my eyes have started to water when focusing on certain things like reading books, reading from phone/computer. Should I contact an eye doctor and ask If I need prescription?
Im 47 usually use a +1.25 but it broke, I went to get one bk and there was +1.25 but made my eyes feel funny so i tried other strength and notice that a +2.25 works, why is that?
No, I do not. I read a book holding at eight to twelve inches without glasses. For longer distances (eighteen inches looking at this laptop), I need my progressives. I just got cataract surgery, and I had my surgeon leave me nearsighted, so the only charge from before surgery is that I can read the road signs. No reason to make those of us who have always been nearsighted to become farsighted.
Dr. Rupa . . . .wowee the tresses are poppin' n' stunning!!
Tx for ever fabulous video shares.
Thank you!!!
❤ I now reach 46, in 2023, and I hating can't read normal 😢. This video is SOOOOO VERY INFORMATIVE!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH, I SHARE IT EVERYONE. I am from Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹. ❤
Dr. Rupa you look young. I thought you were a young college student explaining about eye glasses. I've started wearing reading glasses about 3 months ago. I'm naturally destructive. The amount of times I've dropped, stepped, or rolled over in my sleep 😴 and accidentally breaking my reading glasses is ridiculous. I'm at a 1.5. Does it matter the cost of reading glasses as in quality if every 2 weeks I break them by accident? Since they are a new added requirement in my everyday life I've even lost or misplaced them especially at the gym. I've been spending $10-$15 at a Walmart or grocery store on each pair but found reading glasses at a dollar tree that I've been using just fine the past 2 days. Will buying cheap reading glasses hurt my eyes in the future?
Always a good review, Dr. Rupa Wong!
Thanks!
Thank you, Otie!
I made huge mistake. I am 48 and I got glasses for the first time. I was tricked into buying expensive progressive glasses although I just have +1.75 vision. I struggle with progressives. I bought near reading glasses after watching this episode
Good video. I was diagnosed with presbyopia. I finally wore my readers (+1.75) for my computer and (+2.25) recommended for books. I must say I can read better and quicker on my computer. 4 years ago before/after turning 50 I noticed reading words close up were very challenging.
I'm glad they helped you see better! Thank you for being here :)
What a super-informative video! It’s literally - eye-opening… thank you Dr. Rupa.
My pleasure! I'm so glad this was helpful. If there is anything else you would like to see, let me know!
It got to the point where I couldn't read label ingredients and read my nostalgic comic books. I purchased my first readers yesterday. At 44 I feel really old now. I never needed glasses and purchased a 1.25 In my late 30s my hair thinned so I buzzed it off and was somewhat relieved. But needing readers really bothered me.
It happens to us all! Glad you got the glasses you needed.
I love your videos. Especially since I'm an eye makeup addict
Aww thank you! That's the hardest part about needing readers - so much harder to put on eye makeup now!
Whoa!! Reading Glasses?! Great information. Thanks for sharing about when you can buy reading glasses from the drugstore, when you can’t, what causes this to happen, and more!
You are so welcome!
@@DrRupaWongIt is correct if you have astigmatism it is better to have prescription reading glasses.
You should always ask your doctor what is best for you. Here is a video I have done on astigmatism if you want to learn more! - th-cam.com/video/pJGiSqM1yEQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=jGbfvoRSfqT2251Z@@wingwong525
Dr. Wong, I just stumbled upon your channel and subscribed…you are excellent with explaining all topics and are so down to earth! I started wearing readers consistently around age 45. Prior to that I’ve never worn glasses and have amblyopia (discovered around age five and patching did not help it). My question is: of the options you discussed, which might be most helpful for me taking the amblyopia into consideration? I have been wearing drug store readers for 8 years and am tired of the on/off on/off all day long! Thanks for the excellent educational (and fun) videos!
Please, I live in Egypt, and I want to ask you about my medical condition. I am 49 years old. My eyes were good and my vision is almost excellent, but I started to feel long-sighted. I cannot see close objects. I went to a doctor who prescribed me reading glasses. At first, I found the glasses wonderful. Everything is fine up close and he told me that I do not need glasses for walking because my eyesight is largely normal. The problem is that after using the glasses for about a month, I feel that my vision is deteriorating very significantly (all the deterioration occurs within one month). Now I can almost not see at a distance of one and a half meters except With these glasses, I cannot read at all without them, and I feel that my distance vision is deteriorating quickly as well, because almost my job is to sit at the computer for a very long period of time a day. I feel that I am no longer normal without them, and I wear them in order to see everything that is close, but when I take them off, I find distraction.. Do you have any? Tips and thanks
I just spent under $400 with insurance for reading glasses. Wish I had seen this video before, i just needed regular readers because I have a 20 20 vision and never needed glasses.
Darn! They are probably nicer than the cheap ones from the drug store, at least. Now you know for the future!
Really helpful video. I am 50 with, until recently, perfect vision. Have just started to find I have an issue reading. Not all the time. Depends on aircon, time of day etc. Will wearing reading glasses speed up the process presbyopia?
Question: I did not understand this phenomenon. My vision was pretty bad 20/400, and I wore progressive lenses. However, I discovered I could better see things close-up, like reading a book, threading a needle, or put on make up by bringing the activity closer, as opposed to using the reading function of my progressive lenses or wearing readers. Friends in my age group, 50- 60, could not correct their presbyopia without readers. Why could I function well bringing items nearer to me?
Then, when I had cataract surgery and elected the implanted multi-focal lenses, I could no longer do close-up work bringing the item nearer to me. And, unfortunately, I soon discovered progressive lenses were needed, because the multi-focal implanted lenses did not fully correct my vision needs near or far. Disappointing for sure.
I'm sorry Marietta that you didn't have the expected result from surgery. Yes, many of my nearsighted patients often will just take off their glasses instead of wearing their readers. The nearsightedness allowed you previously to see up close and with a wider range than the reading part of your progressives.
True the lens hardens, but a strong ciliary can still bend them to get you by, mostly, like me😁
Very well explained. Thank you.
Dr. Rupa 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for being here, Abdul!
@@DrRupaWong Always my pleasure to learn from Dr. Rupa
I'm almost 47 now I used to be able to read the really small print on the battery packages. people were always amazed that I could read that. now I can't anymore.... heck I can barely read the text on my laptop writing this comment. In an emergency I have noticed that if I scrunch my eyebrows like I'm mad or something and then I try to look right underneath my eyebrows I find a spot where it's actually a bit focused but I don't do that all the time because it's not something that I can do all the time unless I want really bad headaches and to mess my vision up even more probably
It happens to us all! It is such a pain!
THANKS For the info
Of course!
I am 30 I am using 2 glasses one for distance and one for reading. Later is -1.00Sph lower than the former. I have Accommodative dysfunction in both of my eyes.
Thanks for sharing! It can be such a pain!!
I got progressives for the 1st time at 41! started at +1.00, i'm 44 now and add is +1.50 now
How are they working for you, Brandon?
@@DrRupaWong good, no issues at all.. help with up close work a ton especially now, when I 1st got them didnt make a lot of differences, but coudn't go without them for close work anymore. Also have prism in my glasses so have to wear glasses all the time, can't do contacts.
My doctor would do cataract surgery for both eyes with a PPO insurance, but not with an HMO!! What kinda deal is that?? Is that legal?? 😢
Dr Rupa you have big brown eyes 🤓. Thank you for the information ☺️.
What if we are short sighted and Use contact lenses
I'm also 46 and near-sighted. I have worn contacts since I was 16 and have always been able to see distance and up close just fine, but over the past few years, close-up vision with contacts IN has become nearly impossible. With contacts OUT, I can read up close just fine (but then I can't see 5 feet ahead of me lol). Is that still presbyopia? My distance vision seems to be unchanged. Trying to figure out a solution - leaning toward just getting readers for close reading when my contacts are in. Working at a computer is a massive challenge - I'm never the right distance away from anything so I usually just wear my prescription glasses and they're constantly on and off as I try to focus. Really challenging times!
So sorry you struggle with this! Definitely go in for an exam and see if you need a different prescription for your contacts.
Hair is pretty
Thanks, Eric!
I got progressive lenses I couldn’t wear them my vision was too blurry 😢
Oh no! Did you let your doctor know?
Thank you for the information, t alks unlike a salesman who just wants to sell you his merchandise
I'm so glad to help!
Reading glasses from store cost $20, but prescription glasses are $400 plus ! For the same glasses made in China...lol.. What a rip off !
I wear progressive 👓 and progressive contact lenses
Same!
Thanks for sharing! Do you like them? Do you prefer the glasses or the contacts?
Kami, do you like them? Do you prefer the glasses or the contacts?
@@DrRupaWong I really don’t like them but I don’t want to wear reading glasses and contacts my doctor said we have to compromise with the progressive so I’m not super happy but I’m getting used to it
I think I need glasses because I can't read the numbers that small
Have you noticed this happening to ppl at younger ages due to using more electronic screens?
what's a rupa?
My first name!
I'm 51 and have monovision contacts
Thanks for sharing, Kris! Do you like them?
@@DrRupaWong yes I do. They took getting used to at first but they're good now. I like not having to fool with readers.
hey it would mean a lot if any of you could reply back to this
I’m 15 and have exotropia my eye goes outwards and my right is weaker I had surgery on my right eye when I was 7 and I’m not sure what it was for but it definitely didn’t do much
I wear glasses and have pretty bad eyesight without them I talked about this to my eye doctor and all they keep saying is “you have to wait til ur 30 for a surgery there’s nothing you can do about your eye squint” and that really bothered me so much
when I’m looking at myself in a mirror or phone camera I can actually control it and make my eyes go straight but I used to do it well but it’s harder for me to do it cos I don’t have much of the control
is there anything at all that you would recommend to me or anything I can do to get rid of it?
like do I need to do any specific eye exercises or anything to strengthen my eye muscles so they can coordinate properly.
Hi! Unfortunately I can't provide medical advice over social media. So, specific advice to you and what to do in your case is. not something I can tell you in a TH-cam comment. But, I can tell you if you aren't sure why your doctor gave you the arbitrary age of 30 to revisit surgery - then I would definitely get a second opinion from a strabismus specialist. If you're in the US, you can find all of us who are fellowship trained here www.aapos.org. There's also an International directory there, where you can look up international doctors who came to the US and completed the fellowship I pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus here. Hope that helps. They should be able to tell you if you're a good surgical candidate or not. Good luck!
@@DrRupaWong always good advice!
My personal history is very similar.
I have 51 and don't use reading glasses, I have J1+
I was able to see this video, but I’m deaf. So it was very confusing
im 11 and i nead reding glasses
I didn't even make it to my 40s 😭
Annoying, but also normal! How old were you when you decided to try glasses?
@@DrRupaWong I held out for a while but I gave in at 38.
@@justjamie3717 Pretty close! Thanks for sharing. 😊 If you have any other topics you would like explained, feel free to let me know.
@@DrRupaWong lol, I almost made it, but the giant font and arm stretch only go so far 🤣
@@justjamie3717 🤣 Can totally relate!
nice
Thanks!
Woman u don't look in your 40s ❤ u look in your 20s
I am very flattered thank you!😊
40 is the new 30. Don't trust anyone who needs reading glasses.
Wow you don't look 46 and I'm glad its in meters, feet and inches are goofy
Thank you so much!
I was wondering what the cause of this was, I started needing them about age 45, I'm 55 now but some days I don't need them at all, I still have certain days now where I don't need reading glasses at all, was wondering what was going on.
@@OracleOfDalePhi I hope this video helped 😊
Everyone: wuah! I thought you were 20!
Me: nah I'm 30.
My body: we're actually 40 🧑🏻🦳
I've recently noticed that I started to dislike reading even though I always loved it, I was suddenly fighting my way through chapter after chapter instead of picking a book up and putting it down after like 6 hours like "....what happened? How can it already be dinner time?!" then some days ago I bought *the swarm* by Frank Schätzing and it's such a good read that I got mad enough to actually remember that bad vision might be my problem (runs hard in the family) so I took my book went to the book store and tested glasses. +1.00 fit me very well and I was finally reading for hours again 🥰
Haha. Can totally relate! Thanks for being here and commenting!
Anyone cured presbyopia? Either with eye exercises or eye drops?
Here is my video on Vuity if you would like to watch! Eye Drop to Get Rid of Reading Glasses? Eye Doctor Reviews Vuity Eye Drops - th-cam.com/video/CF25ORHHflA/w-d-xo.html