This is the inevitable thread for ILxors in their forties

Turning 50 that is

I got too old for this thread a few months ago. But just saying that feeling for the first time when you realise you can't read small text anymore is so deflating, it's a much worse feeling than an itch you can't scratch. It's like solid mass turning into a mirage and taking the piss out of you. I've got used to it now but it is still rage inducing that they have such small text on the printed stickers on prescription drugs boxes.

i had my readers on my night stand, but now they travel to the couch, the kitchen counter, etc. looks like i need another pair or two.

this has been happening to me too. i take a picture of it with my phone and then zoom in :/

lol

the worst is directions on pills / supplements / multivitamins. like, i can't understand how i could have ever read them without a magnifying glass.

i would take this vitamin a supplement but i can't find my glasses to find out what the right dose is

on the other hand, it's pretty fun to do a milhouse voice "my glaaaasssesss, where are my glaaasses" every time i can't find them

Oh I know where that one is, I just saw this one bumped today and was mourning my lost early middle age

― Guayaquil (eephus!)

not to one-up you but i lost the first 43 years of my life

I can read small print, no bother, without glasses. Then again, if I wear my normal glasses, no chance.

(Am a "60's" representative, just passing through)

Have you considered printing out the smoke detector instructions in large print? This being the 40+ thread where we grew up with paper manuals for things…

I still have “the manuals folder” …

I have gone from no glasses at all to cannot read at all without glasses in about 5 years, not sure if it's just that my eyes have adjusted to them or if it will get worse

still take them off to see long distance, but driving with the satnav on means perching the things on the end of my nose, the solution would seem to be varifocals I guess, don't even turn 44 until Sunday.

this has been happening to me too. i take a picture of it with my phone and then zoom in :/

Can’t find it on the App Store but plenty of copy cats

I went to the Apple Store and the staffer in his 20s opened up my air pods case and read the tiny serial number inside the flip cover. I was like what is this magic

I was pleasantly surprised by the effectiveness of readers. And the cheap price tag!

I kept thinking, Crap, I don't want to go back to the optometrist and pay $350 for glasses.

I had been doing readers for a long time, but they were getting annoying. They'd break often and I didn't like doubling up when I wore my regular glasses. Finally got progressive lens glasses and bifocal contacts, big improvement. I highly recommend them.

i just struggled to read a fish food label for 5 minutes because of the small type

Tell me more about bifocal contacts, please. This is different than doing two different contacts for near/close correction? I tried that one and didn’t last an hour.

the thing that complicates things more is my astigmatism... it's one of the things that makes me a bad driver, my peripheral vision is trash. you know how you're supposed to flick your eyes to the side to check your rear and side views? yeah i always just turn my head. YES I KNOW THIS IS BAD.

Can contacts correct a bad astigmatism these days? Asking for a friend from another thread.

Not sure about "bad astigmatism," but I have contacts that correct mine

I have two astigmatisms and my contact lenses are designed for it and help me see but other than that lol

i hated contacts even before transition, these days having big femme glasses is kind of a must for me haha

My 10 yo looked at my phone and said “why is everything so big?” I was like, “I’m old”

2023: the year vision broke

2023: What The Fuuk Does That Say

2023: Putting my readers on to see my GTA crew's Discord channel.

Can contacts correct a bad astigmatism these days? Asking for a friend from another thread.

hi there, i am both 40 and also have experience trying several different contacts to correct my bad astigmatism in my right eye. in short: there are many different brands that claim to do it, and in my experience they all suck. at least for me, they end up irritating my eye, in some cases even making it bloodshot, but usually just feeling uncomfortable, making me blink a lot, lots of taking it out and cleaning it and putting it back in, etc.

after years of wearing just one contact (on my non-astigmatic but just plain bad vision left eye), i finally got glasses a few years ago and will likely never go back

i've never read this thread, but i'm gonna guess it involves lower back pain

2023: Putting my readers on to see my GTA crew's Discord channel.

PS4 team set up so we can make our farmville drug and weapons deliveries without being griefed by the 13-year-olds.
https://mcceoteam.com/

Don't reveal too much about yourself. The guy who admitted he was 34 is now referred to as "Grampa".

Thank you! I’ll check this out

i think this might be one of those glimpses into the "next thread" but ...

going from spotting "local celebs" at shows to ... spotting "local celebs" at the hospital pharmacy

“Pushing 50” vomits

Can we talk about foot problems?

Sure, if you want.

Let’s hear it

I've walked a *lot* this year but shit my left big toe is hurting right now. I have a voice that keeps whispering GOUT, but, despite my old man suffering from it a fair bit, I don't think it's that. Wear and tear?

I just passed the threshold for 40's thread this year, but interloping here about my ankle. I have a clear memory of a doc telling me pre the ankle surgery "this is a life changing injury" and cocky early 30's me thinking 'tone it down grandpops, I'm indestructible'. But this piece of metal in my ankle has no doubt been life changing in all sorts of shit ways. I have been limping since my mid 30's and had all sorts of problems and persistent low to mid level pain with it.

But unexpectedly the condition of the ankle has also got better the older I get. The doc gave me a door hinge analogy about my broken ankle at the time and suggested it likely will cause a lot of discomfort but will be justified in the long term - it seems like he wasn't talking absolute shite!

it seems like joints generally get worse with age, so at least you’ve got the one replacement part that just needed some breaking in?

it's getting colder now and I've probably cursed my luck here and it will start paining like hell every morning.

but generally at the moment I think my plated right ankle does actually feel better than lefty. It's got bionic powers.

I'm close to ending my '40s and I still feel in top condition. I lost a lot of weight in 2016 and have kept it off, I scrupulously watch my diet (it's no longer a problem, nor do I need to relax it on vacation), work out every day, drink coffee only in the morning, drink booze moderately during the week. Smoking a bit more after those drinks when there are other friends has become a problem I need to watch, however.

I don't want to go to the other thread.

At least we know where to use apostrophes

Alfred was talking about ending his 1940s

Lol I was waiting for someone to bump this. I missed the eyesight convo in July but that's the only thing I've noticed that's different now than it was five years ago. If it weren't for that feel pretty much the same as when I was 30ish. Prob need a new RX soon but I'm not gonna complain too much cause so far I've gotten off v easy.

In the style of the foggies in that other thread (jokes) - 28/45.