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Do you smoke?

Do you have high blood pressure?

Are you diabetic or close?

Do you eat enough fats?

Do you wear good sunglasses?

Do you get enough of the eye vitamins?

etc.

Without addressing these, you're just guessing.

Pool players' eyes are precious and deserve more attention than our games do, imho.



Jeff Livingston
 
nice to read you like your glasses and they are helping you play better
 
I have old eyes and the balls are fuzzy........ tried glasses but parallax irritated me....... the balls move when you move your head..... so I got contacts......... the first week it took me a frustrating half hour to put each one in........ after a month...... I pop them in on the first try most of the time........
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they are great......... good vision...........

don't be a baby.........poke yourself in the eye a few times...LOL
...... use them

Kim
 
Quick question for the corrected vision sharp shooters...How long did it take to adjust to actually being able to see the balls? I have had astigmatism in my left eye for the last 20 years. I have glasses that fix it, but I rarely wear them, as my vision is good, other than seeing things a little fuzzy sometimes. I wear my glasses maybe 2 weeks total out of the year, and never shoot pool with them. Anyway, this past weekend I was shooting at home and noticed the edge of balls seemed more fuzzy than normal, so I dug the glasses out of the drawer. Wow, what a difference in clarity. The edges looked crisp and clear. I decided to play my APA match wearing them, and got smoked! Missing shots and cuts that I haven't missed in years. Even though I could see the balls clear, my "aim" felt off.

Anyone else experience this? I don't know if my brain is used to adjusting for my left eye, and wearing glasses screwed my brain up or what. Now I am second guessing myself. Should I try to get used to glasses, maybe check out contacts, and hope my game improves, or go back to fuzzy edges where I feel comfortable making balls. For those who started playing with glasses, was there a period where you had to re-learn how to see the balls? Did it take long to get through?
 
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jokrswylde said:
Ha. You read my mind!
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I figured you were still typing.

I've had both of your problems and PATIENCE is the key here. Your brain and eyes have to re-learn how to communicate with each other again.

One way I use to help my brain and eyes do that is just before I squeeze the trigger. When I go to SET, I move my eyes from the cue ball to
the object ball and I WAIT FOR ONE FULL SECOND before pulling back the cue.

This one second sometimes seems like an eternity but allow the time, anyway. Also, this pause can mess with your natural rhythm, so
you have to deal with that, too.

And finally, wear your glasses more often, even away from pool, IF you're going to play without them from now on. Experiment more with this.

Cover one eye and look down your cue. Is it bent? Do the same with the other eye. Do this both WITH glasses and without. This is why
your eyes felt funny...they were seeing the world bent the other way or more the same way, but differently than before, for sure.

I'm babbling now, so good luck.



Jeff Livingston
 
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lfigueroa said:
My amateur diagnosis (as someone who has worn contacts for decades) is that you need to change the brand of contacts you're wearing.

Different manufacturers make their contacts different sizes. This is something I learned way back when I was experiencing what you describe. So my optamologist switched me to Bausch & Lombs -- theirs were larger, covered my eye better, and the problem went away. Nowadays I wear Air Optix. Which are extremely comfortable. Your doctor should have access to all kinds of different lenses, though he may push a particular brand. Tell him you want to switch.

Lou Figueroa
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I had a horrible time when I switched to soft lenses. I went through a few brands before I found the one that's right for me. Before, I couldn't even take a 10 minute nap without being in pain. That's never a problem now.
 
chefjeff said:
Get your butt to an ophthalmologist...yesterday!


Fyi, for pool, you mot likely don't want 20/20.


Jeff Livingston
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Someone just asked me in a message: "What vision do I want for pool?

I had cataract surgery in May this year. We were trying to make---er keep is a better term-- my eyes be -1.0, just a bit near-sighted, that is, I can see from a couple of feet up to about 6 or 7 feet away before things go fuzzy. That means I can shoot pool without glasses, and I can read without 'em and legally drive without 'em.. convenient things, for sure for an old guy....much better than constantly dealing with reading glasses.

My surgeon comes in for my post op checkup and said, "Boy we hit the nail on the head," bragging as he always does. But we didn't hit the nail, we missed it and each of my eyes is now -1.5, so my distance is such that I cannot see the end of a 9 footer very well. I play mostly league 8-ball, but I love the room on a bigger table. So, I just deal with that as best as I can and have developed aiming techniques that work for me somewhat.

My surgeon and I have gone around and around on this issues for years, about 15 years now. He was always the 'everyone must be 20/20' crowd even as I begged him to do my lasiq at about -1.0. I explained that I am almost never outside and having a need to see distance unless I'm driving and I'd be happy to wear glasses for that, but I wanted to see the pool table from 3 to 9 feet. He almost went ballistic telling me to not talk to him about that vision "spectrum" or whatever it's called. It took him 5 years to finally agree to do my eyes my way.

The funny thing is, he took credit for telling me about HIS idea for not doing 20/20 anymore for people who work inside most of the time, so they could have the ability to both read and drive without correction. I let him think it was his idea, cuz he was gonna be cuttin' me...much like never complaining to a cook until after dinner.

Babbling again...sorry, i hope this helps. Minus One is good for pool, imho. I'm not a doctor so take it with skepticism and get second opinions, etc.


Jeff Livingston
 
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