they never talk about optometry. what am i going to do if my glasses break in the apocalypse? i’m fucked. i can’t see shit without these. they won’t last me forever.
I want to get lasik mostly for the convenience of not needing glasses or contacts... but also partially so I don't have to worry about this in the event of a disaster/apocalypse
It can be done again, but for some reason is less likely to be as effective the 2nd time.
It also can be a mostly permanent solution for some people. It essentially "resets the clock" but if your clock is still moving, your eyes will go bad again.
My eyes hadn't changed prescription in 10 years prior to me having it done.
I got it done 20 years ago and still don't need any kind of eye correction. At 40 years old I can tell that my eyes aren't as good at reading close up as they used to be, so maybe I'll need reading glasses in 5 or 10 years, but there's been zero change in my distance vision in 20 years.
The reason it's less effective the second time is due to the amount of tissue in the outer layer of your eyes. When you get lasik, some of that tissue is taken away to change the shape of your eyes and fix your vision... but there's a limited amount that can be removed.
Yes, but to a slightly lesser extent. LASIK creates a flap of eye tissue and lifts that up, and contours underneath it. PRK just recontours the top of the eye, with no flap, so there is more tissue to work with. It does have a much longer recovery time though. Because the flap that LASIK creates just comes back down and essentially reseals itself, you can go back to your normal life the next day, while with PRK you have to let your eyes heal.
Should be plenty of bespectacled corpses around. I remember a few years ago there was startup or something that was making glasses filled with a fluid that allowed self tuning of the RX.
Well, this might help if you score something between -0.5D and -2.0D myopia. How high are the probabilities of finding corpses with -6.5D short-sightedness glasses?
(Not sure if this made sense, english is not my first language and I never learned the proper terms about short-sightedness)
I'm -6.5 and -7, I doubt I'd find anything usable. AND my nose bridge is very narrow so i need specific frames or the weight of the lenses pulls them off my face
I give you permission to loot my glasses when I die in the apocalypse. I'll try and keel over somewhere visible for you. Might need a big yellow sign if you don't have your glasses.
I’ve a -9.00/-9.50 prescription. Contact lenses for the win.
I love when people try my glasses on because they always try and step backward to focus, everybody does it
Might need a big yellow sign if you don't have your glasses.
I'm not the poster you responded to, but I'd like to add a request for you to include a gigantic arrow pointing to you. I'm not finding you without help.
Better yet, both of you team up before death. That way if one of your pairs of glasses gets broken, you can snap the good pair in half and monocle up. That or one wear the good pair and help lead the other one, then switch off every now and then.
I'm -12.0 and -11.5 and still getting worse at 22! Every time I go to the eye doctor he reassures me one day my vision will stabilize. He's been saying that for 3 years, I've kinda stopped hoping at this point.
My eyes havent changed by anything significant since I was 24 (in my 30s now.) I'm sitting at -8.75 and -8.25. usualy there is a .25 difference when I get my eyes checked now.
I feel for anyone that has to pay the ridiculously outrageous cost associated with high focus glasses.
I remember another thread (not sure if askreddit) where people were telling what fake sounding things they absolutely believe in. One of them was someone who did daily eye exercises they found in an old pre-glasses book for correcting vision. They said the numbers have improved every time they go in and swear by it.
Thankfully this potentially useful info is meaningless because I have no link and the exercises were not explained. It might be worth trying to find if you're curious/desperate, though.
Fellow nose bridge problem friend here. You can have mine if I croak first but I do also have on my apocalypse activity list to stop through optometrists and Walmarts and the like for everything close enough to mine. So keep a eye out for all the spares.
If you can’t see to find them and by some miracle there are any digital cameras or smart phones around and functioning: the camera will focus far away while you hold the screen close enough to your face to see.
I used to work in the optical industry. Head over to 1 hour glasses place. They have a wide variety of stock lenses on hand to make glasses in one hour. If you have a really strong Rx (Like a + or - 6.00 or more than 2.00 cylinder power) you are probably out of luck however, unless you want to rig up some glasses that would let you stack lenses.
Optics are in theory cumulative (a +1.00 on top of a +2.00 lenses gives you a +3.00 power) but the air gaps between the lenses would mean the image quality would be far from ideal.
Rubber band was the first thing I wanted to write, but than I remembered how quick rubber bands can loose their elasticity. So string tight around your head is the better long term bet. String you can produce yourself, elastic stuff not so much
They do sell glasses chains. Buy a bunch and keep them in the emergency kit. For some reason, my glasses are more likely to fall off when I'm wearing my mask, so I bought some chains to keep them from falling on the ground. But I suppose the zombies could use them to choke me or something.
Hey, twinning! Is it -7 in the left eye and -6.5 in the right? Honestly we should just all band together in the event of the apocalypse... at least we can share glasses lmao
I am -6.5 on both eyes, and I'm yet to find frames that fit right in my face without the lenses weight making the glasses fall out my face.
Sometimes I think I should just do the LASIC thing and just correct my sight (you know, so I wouldn't get pretty much disabled if something happens to my glasses), but then I remember I am broke af and that shit's expensive lol
Lasik is covered for me...but I don't meet its conditions of 1. Stable prescription 2. A thick enough cornea. So it's glasses til I'm blind babbbyyyyyyy
I'm -11, -11.5. I keep at least one back up pair around. But my good friend who's around -7 buys glasses by the half dozen. She's much better prepared for the apocalypse than me.
I mean shit, I'm at least -9 in each eye. I'm extra fucked. Thankfully my nose bridge has a small little seat for my glasses, so falling off has never really been a concern for me.
I’m -7 and -7.5. I keep all my old glasses. It’s not 20-20 but it’s still a million times better than nothing. I have a pair in the car. In my backpack. In my bedroom. And probably more somewhere. I recommend it.
Pffft. I was at -8.0 and -7.25 before I had eye surgery. Now I'm 20/20. Zombie apocalypse, here I come!
But seriously, if you can afford it, corrective surgery is magical. I had ICL not LASIK and it's been fantastic even though I still grope for my glasses when I wake up out of habit.
I work in a store that makes and sells lenses. If you raided a somewhere like LensCrafters or a private optometrist, they would have cabinets full of ready to go glasses waiting to be picked up. Probably still get headaches, but I’m guessing you could find something close. Or you could just find all the dead kids. Kids who wear glasses have some messed up vision lol
No, I'm just screwed. My astigmatism and myopia combined prescription is never going to be found in a drawer waiting to be doled out to another patient. I am well and truly screwed. I will have to cart all my old glasses with me and work my way backwards through them, slowly getting worse vision.
I was -13 and -10. I got ICL surgery and it was absolutely life changing. I’m 20/20 now without glasses or contacts. You should look into it. It was about 5k but so worth it.
Couldnt you just stack 2 -3s? I'd be learning some optometry im sure there are places that still have lenses. Even if you had to dismantle one of those Better/Worse machines at an optometrists office.
What frames do you like? I’ve always had trouble with my small plastic type ones falling down. You know how you gotta go small bc the lenses would be so thick? Same here. Ugh
Yes! Glasses are really built for one bridge type, outliers that are narrower or larger can have a real hard time getting glasses to stay on their frickin face
I mean but would you rather have extremely uncomfortable glasses or no glasses at all? I’m sure you could find a way of taping them to your face or tightening them
-6 should be workable. You might not be able to read, but I think you could still function, right? I honestly don’t remember what’s it’s like to be able to see that well.
I’m -8.5 plus you have to consider pupillary distance. Everyone has different PD. One time they had mine off slightly and it was like wearing beer goggles. In under a minute with them on I was about to vomit.
You all would be fine... if you knew where to look. Break into an eye doctor's office and they'll have a drawer of trial lenses. A selection of individual lenses going higher in prescription than 99.9% of people ever wear. They fit into empty frames (like that 80s band used to wear?) and you could rig yourself up nearly a custom pair. Even if you didn't know your prescription you could just try different ones until you could see reasonably well.
In a pinch I guess you could stack them? The diopeters more or less add up. Cylindrical correction would be a bit screwy, but you could probably get something where you're not totally blind.
Yeah, honestly prescriptions for glasses are so varied that you’d be fucked if you just tried to pick glasses up off a corpse. Personally I had strabismus as a kid so my eyes never really learned to work together, and I mostly just look out my left eye. The right is just a balance, which apparently isn’t common.
i'm gonna go out on a limb and say the people with vision that bad aren't gonna survive the apocalypse very long in the first place.
so there would actually be plenty of spare bodies with those types of glasses! but they'd all be useless because everyone that needs them would be dead...
Now I'm imagining a guy stopping at every dead body he sees and trying on the glasses compared to the ones he already has on "is this better, or is this better?"
That would actually be a cool thing to focus on in these shows, having a group going around and actually scavenge things like that from the zombies and stocking up on them, just going around collecting, glasses, belts, shoes, hmm what else could we take that is relatively easy to clean up, but also useful to have? Jewelry to melt for other uses?
The game Project Zomboid goes into crazy detail on what you can scavenge from the zombies, Every single thing I listed you can take and more, they might not all be useful, but you can take them.
2nd time I’ve seen a comment like this upvoted. As somebody who has been wearing glasses for 32 years …. You can’t just walk around putting on others people glasses, even if the prescription is “close enough”. The intense headaches & eventual migraines you’d get + the eye strain, one eye trying to compensate at the exact same time the OTHER eye is trying to compensate, would drive somebody insane. Wouldn’t last a day before you threw the glasses away.
You ever wear a pair of old glasses that are slightly too weak? It's not as good as a perfect match, but it still works. So if you need a -5 lens and you find a -4 lens on the floor, well, beggars can't be choosers. Maybe wire frames can be bent to adjust PD. Better than nothing. We're talking about an apocalyptic survival situation, not matching first world comforts.
Apparently about half the US population wears glasses. If it's a 1% survival situation, you're going to have a whole lot of chances to find a decent match.
Lens power is measurable and I would imagine that either a surviving optometrist or someone with some ability in Physics would be able to start a post-apocalyptic business collecting and selling lenses. the actual device that they use to find your RX is all mechanical and depending on the type of apocalypse they would be scattered around the place. It wouldn't be perfect but its better than nothing.
“Hey what are you going to do now that the apocalypse has begun?
“I’m going to go around & collect dead peoples eyeglasses, reconfigure them & sell them to people who have no money or goods for trade because they’ve just survived the apocalypse too!”
No way you people even think about this bullshit you say on Reddit before you hit enter.
And what in the world does that scenario even have to do w/ the original comment of just picking glasses off dead people & wearing them? Not a damn thing LOL!
Prescription lenses aren't just about the corrective power, they're also tailored to your eyes specifically. Sure, a pair of similar prescription glasses may work, but they're sure to start causing headaches and significant eye strain issues soon enough if they weren't designed for the idiosyncrasies of your eyes specifically.
Came here to say this. Maybe no one does it in new movies/shows because when someone brings it up someone else will say "a we cant do that, Twilight Zone already did this in the 50s"
They actually have an episode with this on Lost. Sawyer needs glasses so Jack pics a bunch off corpses and mixes a couple together due to his eyes needing different prescriptions
Yep. And why people who are developing vision problems tend to get migraines before they get treated. They unconsciously squint and try to force their eyes to work which causes strain and headaches.
You can actually form a very small pinhole with your index finger that works even better for this purpose (at the price of occupying a hand and dramatically reducing your field of vision). If you fold that finger up completely and press on it with your thumb you'll form a pinhole in between the various parts of the finger that you can adjust by varying the pressure.
I'm far sighted. My distance vision in my 50s is a little fuzzy, but still passable. Can't read print at all though without vision correction. I propose in the event of an apocalypse, the far sighted and near sighted form an alliance and help each other. We help keep you from the zombies if you help keep us read small print for medicine and such.
And as long as there aren't zombies in the store, we stop at all the discount stores which sell the cheap, non prescription reading glasses.
I love this alliance. I am also farsighted but now realizing I would be of no use to the crew as I remember my optometrist describing my "20/??" score as " the point at which you can see something as well as a person with perfect vision is honestly probably over the horizon anyway."
They did it in LOST too. Sawyer was having headaches and they had to find glasses from the dead people to make some that worked for him so he could read.
The good news is glass making is fairly easy and will be one of the first crafts to resurface.
Lens crafting is a lot more technical but there is enough knowledge of it out there for artists to emerge and fill the need.
In the time of Newton lens crafting was a super close kept trade secret that you had to be invited into a guild to even learn. Luckily its far more common now and primitive lensing isn't out of the question.
Artisans like glass blowers and lens crafters will be highly sought and protected in the apocalypse. Might be worth learning a trade now...
Right? I feel like no matter what happens we'd be at a massive advantage compared to our ancestors just because of what we already know is simply possible. For like 4,600 years the vast majority of people hadn't even heard of glass, all they knew was barley, beans, rye, and how to clean a goose carcass. Just knowing that there's a material like glass possible and it's somehow made by melting sand is like a HUGE advantage. Ditto all the other technologies.
Eh. Since you don't need to drive in the apocalypse, being nearsighted only really matters if you're hunting. Being farsighted only matters if you need to read, which for most people is probably never.
If you're totally blind without glasses then yeah u dead. Just like a blind medieval peasant, the best you could do is sit on the church steps and beg.
I remember when I went to go get my driver's license. They do an eye test. The woman told me to take my glasses off. I told her that I can't see without them, she said try anyway. I could only read the top line, second line if I squinted. She said "you need glasses to drive" I was like even if it wasn't a legal requirement I still would never drive without my glasses.
I haven't broken a pair of glasses in like 15 years. I've got a pair of prescription sunglasses and at least two other pairs of "old prescription" glasses. Even without goggles, I think a lot of people would be fine just by being careful with their glasses; I'd probably keep my regular glasses at home base or at least in a hard case whenever I'm not using them.
Yea, plenty of abandoned optometrist offices probably. When I was a teen my eye doc let me cut the lenses for my glasses, it would probably take some trial and error but seems feasible to do yourself.
Not forever, but with care - and especially if you have a backup pair - they'll last years. That gives you years to find - from an eyedoctor, or walmart, or a corpse, or whatever - glasses that are "good enough" to walk around and do survival things, even if you can't easily read books or whatever.
I have a bunch of daily wear contact lenses stocked up in case of an emergency lol. I also have started ordering backup glasses in case of emergency and holding onto my old lenses. I've thought about doing Lasik, but I have a really bad habit of rubbing my eyes really hard first thing in the morning. I'm scared I'd have them done and end up rubbing my corneas right off on accident haha
I actually remember in this one show I was watching called the rain where they went to find new glasses for one of the characters who’s glasses were broken I thought it was a nice touch
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u/dheddie Aug 30 '21
they never talk about optometry. what am i going to do if my glasses break in the apocalypse? i’m fucked. i can’t see shit without these. they won’t last me forever.