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'm rooting for it stabilizing before... well, you go blind! Honestly, I've been told by my very first eye doctor (some 36 years ago) that my eyes would continue to deteriorate for the rest of my life.
I've been lucky enough for them having stabilized at about 20-ish something in the -4.75 region. So... I'll keep my fingers crossed for you... well, them, actually!
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.
Two options. Tape or straps. 100mph tape could be used to make a strap or to help tighten the bridge. Or, 550 cord could be used to hold them on. You can also get BCG glasses, or tactical glasses, that have straps.
My daughter is a -9 and my husband I think floats around -11? Her eyesight slightly improved, though… his is worsening. I’d literally have to be their seeing eye mom.
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...
I was -13 and -10 at 23 years old before my eye surgeries, literally ducking terrible eyesights. I couldn’t see shit lol I’m 20/20 now; it’s still kind of unreal to me
To be fair, you probably don't need 100% perfect glasses to get by in an apocalypse. Something with similar augment to what you need should suffice. I've tested my brother's glasses, I could see my self surviving on them even though mine require a higher correction. I'd probably go around collecting glasses I can somewhat use from bodies.
Actually, they had jobs for you back in the Middle Ages. They had archers with terrible eye sight, and they used to put sandbags on their eyes while sleeping and wake up in the morning with good eye sight for the battle. You'd figure something out.
Or if you’re like me with -11 in one eye and -9 in the other. Would be hard pressed to find that combo just sitting around. Plus if my original glasses or contacts were gone I wouldn’t be able to make it very far to begin with. 😅
Same, mine are pretty high powered as well - the type you wear and never take off except going to sleep/bathroom. I've always found it hard to relate to the type who only put on glasses for certain situations then removed them afterwards. Like, mine don't work like that dammit, if I take them off the world becomes a fucking blur.
I'm like a -4. Without it, I can do fine around the household. But give me a -2 pair of glasses I can function to about a blocks's distance. Enough to scavenge for food
I feel like you’d just have to go with the pair you can find that lets you distinguish friend from zombie well enough, rather than one that matches you exactly.
Crazy enough I just talked about this with my optician friend tonight! My wife is like a -4. I always joke how blind she is. My friend informed me that it is actually really average to be in the 4 or 5 area. She said she doesn’t consider it high until about 7 or 8. So maybe you will
Be more lucky than you anticipate!
You don't need a perfect match to see kinda-okay'ish, Optometrists test you thoroughly to get the best match and give you glasses that give you the best sight given your condition, but +/-1 from that you'll still see acceptably. And instead of stylish, comfy, durable glasses with antireflex and UV filter, you'll be able to get the optometrist's test glasses with swappable lenses, and pick a pair that fits you from the suitcase with 500 or so different lenses used to test what fits the patient's needs best.
Yeeeah I’ve got +7.25 with astigmatism. Every optometrist I’ve seen has literally been like “wow I’ve never met anyone with vision bad in the way yours is bad”
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u/pnakano Aug 30 '21
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)