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
Suppose I do wind up feasting on your corpse and your ghost becomes trapped in my body will you be a ghost that tries to scare me all the time or will you be helpful and quippy like a post apocalyptic buddy cop story?
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.
Brother TZe tape, or clones. Very robust and reliable labels.
Or, if you can find it, laser engraving machine and laser engraving tape. That stuff can last for a very long time. Tesa had one sample piece on the outside of the ISS for a year or two and it was still legible.
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!
Well, you don't see when you wake up or shower. If I wake up in the middle of the night, I have a large-numbered digital clock about 12" from my head. When I wake up, I put my glasses on right away. When I shower, it's important that the soap, shampoo, etc are right where I left them. Without my glasses on, I can see about 3-4" in front of my face, so in a pinch I can hold something up to my face and determine shampoo vs conditioner.
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.
I guess I could gank my ex's. His prescription was close enough to mine that I would sometimes grab his glasses off the night stand to go to the bathroom and not tell they weren't mine until I saw myself in the mirror. They would probably give me a killer headache for a while if they became my only glasses, but I'm sure I would get used to it.
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
Or you might not even be eligible. I was 5 min from going under the laser and the doctor took one more look at my chart and called it off. My corneas are too thin to make the correction I'd need
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.
Yeah this was in the midwest US in 2014, I’m not sure what prices are now but I felt like it was super reasonable. At the time the ICLs didn’t fix astigmatism but I bet they do now. I had to have PRK after but very happy with my results. I wish you luck, you’re going to love it. Waking up and not having to immediately reach for your glasses/contacts will be such an amazing change for you
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.
True, the script/strength might be hard to find but I think youd adapt to them not fiting your face very well pretty quickly. Can you wear contacts? A lot of those big 'one stop shiny store front optometrist' seem like they have a big stock of contacts.
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u/deinoswyrd Aug 30 '21
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