Help for "Old Man Eyes"

[bruceb58]

Re: Help for "Old Man Eyes"

I did mis speak about the muscle hardening...its the lens that hardens and the muscle can't bend the lens anymore to help focus close. There may be treatments for presbyoptia but LASIK isn't one of them.

http://www.seewithlasik.com/docs/lasik-presbyopia.html
"If you are 40 and considering LASIK, presbyopia is an important concept to understand. LASIK has no absolutely no effect on your eye's focusing muscles or on the crystalline lens, so it does not correct ordinary presbyopia." --Jason Jacobs, M.D.

 

[Tim Frank]

Re: Help for "Old Man Eyes"

I did mis speak about the muscle hardening...its the lens that hardens and the muscle can't bend the lens anymore to help focus close. There may be treatments for presbyoptia but LASIK isn't one of them.

http://www.seewithlasik.com/docs/lasik-presbyopia.html
"If you are 40 and considering LASIK, presbyopia is an important concept to understand. LASIK has no absolutely no effect on your eye's focusing muscles or on the crystalline lens, so it does not correct ordinary presbyopia." --Jason Jacobs, M.D.

OK....on-line vision diagnosis........there's a good idea.:facepalm:
How about:
http://www.herzig-eye.com/your-eyes-after-40.htm?gclid=CJ2745Cr0aoCFUJrKgod8hpdMA

"Until recently, the only solutions to the loss of reading vision were reading glasses or bifocals. The Herzig Eye Institute offers several other treatment innovations to correct presbyopia:

* Monovision LASIK
* NearVision CK?
* Refractive Lens Exchange (RLE)
* Implantable Contact Lens (ICL)."

 

[bruceb58]

Re: Help for "Old Man Eyes"

You may want to read up on Monovision LASIK. All Monovision LASIK does is under correct one eye and leave it nearsighted so you can still use it to read. The other treatments you mentioned aren't LASIK.

Before I got my LASIK I could read without my contacts in. Monovision LASIK is similar to what is done with contacts where you also under correct one eye but for a lot of people, myself included, I didn't like using one eye for far and one eye for close so didn't want to go the monovision LASIK route. Basically, monovision would have given me my eyesight in one eye close to what it was without my contact in with little or no correction. Gave me major headaches as the brain has to switch back and forth. I prefer seeing perfectly far with both eyes and using reading glasses for all my close work. According to my doctor few people choose going Monovision.

I did tons of research before I go my LASIK and finally had it done by the one the best best doctors in Los Angeles, Dr Maloney. This is what he told me along with other doctors told me.

Tim, have you had LASIK or spoken to a doctor about LASIK?

 

[Tim Frank]

Re: Help for "Old Man Eyes"

You may want to read up on Monovision LASIK. All Monovision LASIK does is under correct one eye and leave it nearsighted so you can still use it to read. The other treatments you mentioned aren't LASIK.

Before I got my LASIK I could read without my contacts in. Monovision LASIK is similar to what is done with contacts where you also under correct one eye but for a lot of people, myself included, I didn't like using one eye for far and one eye for close so didn't want to go the monovision LASIK route. Basically, monovision would have given me my eyesight in one eye close to what it was without my contact in with little or no correction. Gave me major headaches as the brain has to switch back and forth. I prefer seeing perfectly far with both eyes and using reading glasses for all my close work. According to my doctor few people choose going Monovision.

I did tons of research before I go my LASIK and finally had it done by the one the best best doctors in Los Angeles, Dr Maloney. This is what he told me along with other doctors told me.

Tim, have you had LASIK or spoken to a doctor about LASIK?

No corrective procedures at all. As far as a laser getting intentionally pointed into my eyes...not a chance until it is completely 100% bulletproof. That's just for me, and i am in no way suggesting there's anything wrong with the various laser-based procedures. I'd never wear contacts, either....

With no intervention, I have that split" profile...one eye better for reading, one eye better for distance. I have glasses for reading and a set for driving, but really only need to use either at the end of the day if my eyes are a bit tired.
So it works fine for me....as my wife says "you don't get headaches, you cause headaches...."

You seem to have done your usual extensive research and due-diligence....doesn't surprise me at all.
I'm just suggesting that this is way more complicate than is sensibly discussed and advice offered by laymen in a boating forum.

There are at least 1/2 dozen contradictions and errors in here already.

Just best to "see" a doctor....IMO

 

[bruceb58]

Re: Help for "Old Man Eyes"

Just best to "see" a doctor....IMO

Agreed!

 

[MH Hawker]

Re: Help for "Old Man Eyes"

i have just went through the same thing over a period of several years i lost the ability to see well enough to fix things, it started in agound age 50 , and got worse as time passed, and when i got around to seeing the Dr i found i had catracts, not bad enough to opperate on but enough to really mess me up, dont guess go and see the DR it is needed, in my case they did 2 lens replacments, and i went from 20/600 to 20/25,, but go and see the docter,