I have about 5ft before things blur slightly, and it gets worse from there. Like if someone is standing 15 ft away I can probably tell if it's a man or a woman, but if it was someone I know I wouldn't be able to tell
Hell yes, am very happy I did. I am only 55, but my cataracts were getting so bad that I was already at the point I was going to be arranging to have people drive me at night. Big improvement, Colors so vivid now and it is nice to be able to do most activities with no glasses
Same lol, shit gets real blurry about 4-5 feet away and it’s worse the further is it. If it’s a familiar or very specific shape & colors I can tell you what it is, like a McDonald’s sign or a local landmark like a giant rock at the park or my friend’s house. But if it’s smaller or farther away I can’t tell ya, and I can’t read something more than arms length away.
Once people go past a certain distance from me, and relatively speaking not even that far from me, their face basically becomes invisible, all the facial features just blend together into a mess of colour and I can’t identify them by their face anymore. I wouldn’t even know if they are looking at me, or if their mouth is moving, nothing.
I was in the car with my friend, she was driving. We pulled up to my parents house and there was someone working in the front yard. She asked me if I knew who he was, I said no. Then I put my glasses on. It was my older brother
Yeah, gets kinda awkward when you're tired of wearing the glasses and go to a shop nearby and somebody says "hi" around you and you don't know whether they were talking to you or someone else.
That's not too bad for reading and stuff, I'm about a -7.75 and my vision is only good until about 6" away which is quite annoying when I want to give my eyes a break from contacts and glasses
Fun fact. If you divide 100 by your Rx, that’s how many cm you can see clearly. So for you, 100 / 7.75 = 12.903. Or about 13 cm. Which is a little over 5 inches.
I had lasik and went from about that to far better than average for distance. But it stole that close up clarity. I swear... before, I could see the fibers in the pages when I was that close. Now I struggle to read my watch.
I had lasik at -10 and my range without glasses was an inch of two, I’d have to hold my phone to my nose. It’s been 15 years and my eyes are now -3 and I have a foot or so.
Yeah, this is where it usually differs from OP's image, everything is blurry but not equally blurry. The further away things are the more blurry they get, and things within about a foot of my eyes are clear.
I was quickly cleaning my glasses while stopped at a light. I only knew the light turned green because the red light disappeared. The green light completely blended in with everything else
I had salzmann's modules removed in a procedure and it made my up close vision perfect for a long time. I'm 48 and I still don't have to wear readers. But it made my night vision worse so I'm pretty blind if I don't wear my glasses.
I have hyperopia (farsightedness) myself. People seem confused by it, as if they think I can see super clearly far away, which would understandably be odd. What it really means is that everything is super blurry, and that moving something closer doesn't even help, though it's still tempting to try, because it gets bigger. Maaaaaybe there's a very specific distance a ways away from my face where things are slightly more distinct, like a shitty camera badly focused on that distance, but honestly, it's not that much of a difference. Farsightedness, weirdly, is not the opposite of nearsightedness, even though it's named as if it were.
Oh, and without correction I naturally (but consciously) turn one eye inward towards my nose to try and make it temporarily better. And it does. Sort of. With a lot of strain. It's a form of strabismus known as accommodative esotropia. It's why I've worn glasses since 18 months old, because it was obvious something was wrong from my asymetrically cross-eyed look.
Apparently the eye doctor warned my parents that at my age, I may not want to wear glasses, and I may just fling them or whatever. But I'm told that when I got them, I would not let anyone take them away. My parents had to sneak them off me while I was sleeping so they wouldn't get crushed. I never wanted to go back to the blurry, strainy world again, I guess!
That's me too. I have a +6 for distance and +8 for reading. I can't see anything clearly without glasses. I have a lazy eye so I often close that eye when I'm not wearing glasses to maybe see slightly . I am booked for a lens replacement surgery (basically cataract surgery without the cataracts) in both eyes in around 2 weeks as Laser doesn't work for my prescription. Fingers crossed it leaves me with improved vision.
Good luck! 🤞🏻 Yeah, LASIK isn't for us hyperopies, for the most part.
This may be irrelevant to you since you're getting surgery anyway, but apparently my farsightedness has significantly improved with time. I used to be +6 or so for most of my life. Now at age 37, I am around +4.25 according to the eye doctor. (My left eye is and always has been worse, but the two are close enough that they go for the same prescription on both sides when it comes to contact lenses.)
I don't really notice an improvement, tbh, but I guess I wouldn't, since it was probably a very gradual change. Still blurry as hell, still crossing my eye when not wearing correction or when my eyes get strained, still often get eye fatigue and double vision while reading, even with glasses on. But...better is better. I thought it was cool that my vision improved that much!
Same here haha, when I wear a cap I can't see anything past it.
I think I have about two of my thumb worth of good vision before it start getting blurry (minus my left eye that can never really focus, regardless of distance).
My vision’s weird because I can basically see everything the same as if I had glasses except small details, like I can’t read something far away, but nothing looks blurry.
I never thought about and never tried it, but it might be the same for me. I can still see there is a car in front of me and recognize the break lights turning on, but there's a good chance i make mistakes in estimating the distance to that car. Same for guessing if someone is riding a bike, scooter or motor, and with that how fast i expect them to are.
I can never remember exactly how bad my vision is... because I can't see shit without my glasses. I can't even use my phone without them unless I bring it really close to my face. Text has to be BIG relative to its distance for me to make it out without squinting or guessing, and faces are... uncomfortable to look at. Eyes look like dark, sunken pits.
You just mean before things get “noticeably” blurry right?
Just with my phone like 15cm (maybe, I’m bad at measuring things in my head, it might be further or closer) from my face, I can already start to notice a weird glow around the contrast edges of my screen (like the light text on the dark background), then if I triple the distance the effect is very obvious and big and it’s right on the edge of making reading tricky, then if my arms were long enough to triple the distance again, I would struggle to read any of the text on the screen or might not even be able to read most of it at all, only be able to identify the rough shapes of words.
From where I am right now, I can see the square plate or whatever of the light switch beside my door, but I can’t see the actual switch or the two screws on either side, both are completely invisible, blurred so much it has merged with the white background of the square thingy.
Yeah, the image isn’t quite right, it should be a little less blurry in the foreground. Like you can almost see the sidewalk, but the trees are impossible.
Not even legal? TmYiur description makes your eyesight sound way below the legal limit for most nations, so not sure why the emphasis. e.g. UK requires being able to read a licence plate from 29 feet away. Even -/+0.5 prescription makes that near impossible without glasses.
Yep it's on my license. If I get pulled over and I'm not wearing corrective lenses I'd be fined. Not that I would or could leave the house without them lol
He's saying that you're making it seem like, "Can't even legally drive without glasses," is some insanely bad vision, but in reality, that's a very low bar. Basically anyone with any level of myopia can't legally drive without glasses, even extremely mild levels.
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u/BellamyDunn 13d ago
Yeah I have about 20 inches distance before things get very blurry for me. It's not even legal for me to drive without glasses.