Monday, September 21, 2020

Eyeglasses. Or look, individual leaves!

I spend a lot of time on my laptop or staring at my phone, like a lot of other people. There's reading going on various sites, apps and novels (I have a timer on the app I use for books that lets me know when I should take a break, but I always ignore it) so eye straining happens. Because of that my eyes got stingy and red and they even hurt. After I got asked for the umpteenth time if I don't get enough sleep I decided that's it, I have to go get my eyes tested. So I made an appointment. 

Good news is my eyes are healthy. Bad news is I do need glasses (but not for reading, surprisingly). Worse news is I knew for a while that I needed glasses. 

Okay, hear me out. At my previous jobs I had to get my eyes tested regularly. I never, ever could see clearly all the letters the doctor was pointing out to me, but they always said my vision is fine. I can see very well things that are close, I don't have too much trouble with the ones in the distance, but everything's blurry. Well, I did not know they were blurry before I got the glasses. I saw things like that since... ever, so that's how things were for me. But then I got the glasses and everything went clear and crisp and well defined. Literally HD.

I was honestly shocked by the difference. Without glasses I cannot see clearly about 5m in front of me (it gets worse with more distance, obviously), I had no idea my vision was so fucked. Actually, on my laptop I always have to keep it somewhat close to me in order to be able to read stuff, but with the glasses no such a problem. 

Oh, yes, although I do not need glasses when reading I told the doc I use the laptop a lot so she gave me a prescription that helps with that too. Anti-glare I think it's called. So now I am able to see clearly things that are far away from me and my eyes don't sting/hurt anymore when using the laptop. Isn't that great? It is. 

What I want to say is that sometimes doctors suck and if you feel like something is off, make an appointment yourself and specifically ask for whatever test you need. I've been to different doctors (ophthalmologists) throughout the years and I guess since it was a routine check up they didn't feel like doing their job. Now that I think about it, some of the other tests were skipped, like measuring, weighting and other basic stuff. 

All this time I could have seen properly...

One interesting thing I found out is that glasses don't actually change your dioptre if you are using them for reading instead of... gazing(?). They only change the way the eyes focus. There are all kinds of 'rules' I kept hearing and one of them was about all the different ways glasses can actually damage eyes. Well, they don't. Or at least they don't in the way some people say they do. If you hear something like that, look it up, ask a specialist, don't just believe them. People might have the best intentions and unknowingly spread wrong information that at worst might make things worse for you and at best be an inconvenience. 

So yeah, actually seeing stuff is pretty nice, highly recommend it. 

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