"Corrective Lenses" (Glasses, Contacts etc..)

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Hi all, Happy New Year,

I can not play with my glasses on (near sited). Without my glasses, the balls look like "ear muffs" on the opposite end of the table. I have an astygmatism, and with my glasses on, I can not focus on objects close up, (when on the computer I have my glasses off).
I am looking for recommendations for the best options available. Can I tell my optometrist I want a "Special prescription" for pool playing? Would the recommendation be contacts, or a high framed set of lenses.
I am 31 and not real enthusiastic about the thought of vision correction surgery at my age, primarily because I dont know the long term affects of this type of procedure.
 
I got myself contact lenses. I have astygmatyzm and I am farsighted.
If I would be nearsighted I'd done laser surgery. Unfortunatelly it is not recommended for ma since am far.
 
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My, optomitrist told me that i have perfect vision in my left eye but my right eye is dead. He also told me that i have no depthperseption so that makes really hard for me to see.
 
Hi Scott. I just got contact lenses a few months ago, and it's hard to describe the effect they have had on my game. For the last two years or so, my vision was getting gradually worse - but for some reason I refused to acknowledge it.

One day at my billiards league, on a whim, I tried on a friend's pair of glasses. It was the first time in my life I tried on someone's glasses and it actually made me see better. I couldn't believe the difference. The next day I went and made myself an appointment to get contacts.

Learning to put them on and take them off was very difficult for me, but now it's much easier. And I still remember the first time I played pool with them - the balls looked so SMALL! They no longer had that haze around them... I can actually see the edges again!

The effect on my game has been wonderful. I am playing with confidence again for the first time in a long time.

Good luck, whatever you decide.

Happy New Year,
Steve
 
I do not know what “SIGHTED” I am but I see thinga at a Distance Really Great. Can not read anything like a menu with out READERS.

I have a set of 1.75 Reader I bought at the Hardware Store I can see over, as they are VERY THING READERS.

Sometime I wear them to play, and use them to check close Details of Ball position, Dirt on a Ball, or Table for Reference Point/Aiming Point.

Mostly I play without my Reader, but I think 30% of the time I use em, and they seem to help.
 
I am not sure what sighted I am either. I was in the same dilema. I used to take my glasses off when I played pool because the frames got in my way. I had the same problem when shooting shotgun.

I found that Randolph Engineering makes glasses with adjustble nose bridges so that I can position the glasses on my face so I can see the cue ball and the end of the table. It brought my game back almost immediately to what it was before I started losing my sight.

Jim
 
Scottster said:
Can I tell my optometrist I want a "Special prescription" for pool playing? Would the recommendation be contacts, or a high framed set of lenses.
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Yes you can. Sorry, I'm not an optometrist fan, I prefer an opthalmologist, but tell them you need a perscription for playing pool. I'm not sure, but I believe they call this an intermediate vision script. I just told my opthalmologist that I wanted perfect vision from 3 to 10 feet and he wrote the script. I ordered a pair of Hy-Wyd's on that script and until I had my LASIK done, they were the best thing I'd ever had. After the LASIK of course, I don't need glasses at all, but when I used them, I preferred the Hy-Wyds because the bridge adjustment made it possible for me to adjust them to look exactly through the optical center of the glasses. I tried playing in contacts for awhile, but I didn't like that because they dried out in the pool room atmosphere. Wetting drops are an OK fix for this, but I really preferred wearing the glasses.

Later,
Bob
 
Scott,

I am very nearsighted and have been wearing contacts since I was 10 yo. I have extremely bad vision and am not eligible for any of the vision surgeries available today.

I wear gas permeable lenses since I have astigmitism also. The optometrist knows I play pool and corrects my lenses accordingly. The lenses are special order, btw.

Schedule an appointment with an eye doctor and describe you needs with him/her. I can make some pretty unbelievable cut shots 9 feet away.

Barbara
 
I've been wearing glasses for a long time, so I guess I'm just used to shooting pool with glasses on. I suppose it just takes time.
 
I have worn contacts for a long time. As a result of other threads on this forum, I got progressive contacts and they are the best I have had so far, although I am still considering eye surgery. Try those, (or progressive glasses) getting them fine-tuned for table distance. Good luck.

Linda
 
I really recommend the Decot Hiwyd glasses for you if you need an eyeglass prescription. They make a GREAT set of glasses for playing pool. Have really helped me to see alot better when I play. And no, this is not a paid endorsement.

Shorty
 
Scottster said:
Would the recommendation be contacts, or a high framed set of lenses.

I am 31 and not real enthusiastic about the thought of vision correction surgery at my age, primarily because I dont know the long term affects of this type of procedure.
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I used contacts for many years - in smoke filled pool rooms you MUST take some eye drops with you for long sessions.

As it turns out, I had laser eye surgery when I was 30. No problems to date (5 years later) - hell, even the government is giving it to the military folks (my brother is a Lt. Col. and got it "free" 2 years ago), so the results must outweigh the potential problems. I have 20/15 vision now, and I don't regret giving up the glasses and contacts...

-td
 
Scottster said:
Hi all, Happy New Year,

I can not play with my glasses on (near sited). Without my glasses, the balls look like "ear muffs" on the opposite end of the table. I have an astygmatism, and with my glasses on, I can not focus on objects close up, (when on the computer I have my glasses off).
I am looking for recommendations for the best options available. Can I tell my optometrist I want a "Special prescription" for pool playing? Would the recommendation be contacts, or a high framed set of lenses.
I am 31 and not real enthusiastic about the thought of vision correction surgery at my age, primarily because I dont know the long term affects of this type of procedure.
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Scott,

I had Lasik about 6 or 7 years ago. It's the greatest.

Chris
 
Correction ...

I have real bad eyes with double astigmytism (front and rear) with
scarred corneas. I have worn 'hard contact' lenses since I was 18 (40 years)
except for a few years when my eyes were in a healing state or until
I could get a contact lense replaced. I have played with
a soft/hard contact lense, glasses, and hard contacts. The hard
contacts wins hands down. Depth perception is wierd with glasses,
and they are just cumbersome to begin with. The soft/hard contact
lenses (diameter big like normal soft lenses and too thick, IMO) were not comfortable to me and eyesight was way too sensitive to the enivronment (being blurry under heat or cold extremes). Hard contacts are much more realiable for good vision in different environments, plus they offer better eyesight than can be achieved by glasses for someone with bad eyes. I now
wear Polycon 2's, and have since they were first an experimental lense.
I have to be able to get enough oxygen to my corneas or my eyes become
very irritated.

If you can get the laser surgery, I say go ahead with it,
otherwise, hard contacts are best (small diameter),
soft contacts (big diameter, IMO) next,
and glasses last.
JMHO with 40 years of eye problem experience
 
Glasses Vision Lasik

I had tried contacts in the past and just couldn't get them in and when lasik came along it was amazing. I had it done 4 or 5 years ago and initially, it cut 5 strokes off my golf handicap and made shooting pool enjoyable again (placed in the money in Reno and almost beat Santos to keep on going!) but unfortunately - in the last year or two - my vision has deteriorated.

Knowing that glasses just don't seem to get the job done (I can recall very, very few top notch players that played w/glasses) I have been researching getting lasik and must decide whether to get it done a second time or resolve to learn how to use contacts.

Its going to be a tough decision - if I get the lasik done a second time - will I have the same problems 5 years from now.....getting lasik done a 3rd time is a no-no.

I'm not blind by a long stretch but just not as sharp as I was and my eyes now focus slightly differently. Its hurt my putting at the golf course and my depth perception on the pool table. Spending time on the computer just makes it worse.

Lasik is amazing stuff but, according to my opthamologist, there is a percentage of patients that do suffer problems as the years go by.
 
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