31 or 32. Have had the Rx updated maybe a gazillion times since.

I got my first reading glasses in the 'burg, after years of close board work in architecture and graphics and the resultant severe headaches. Glasses on, headaches gone. Have had contacts for 25 years, one 3.50 and one 1.25, and computer specs which are one frooking ingenious invention.

In response to this post by RoswellGAHokie

Posted: 10/25/2019 at 4:01PM

For the fogeys, how old were you when you started wearing reading glasses? ** -- RoswellGAHokie 10/25/2019 1:41PM

I waited and in the 50th bday I bought readers -- TheNuke 10/25/2019 11:43PM

53 or 4. Younger sister needed them before I did so of course I made sure -- 81_Hokie 10/25/2019 8:34PM

Was at my sister's house in my forties and picked up a pair of her glasses -- AZHokie59 10/25/2019 6:32PM

Never. I'm nearsighted. ** -- EDGEMAN 10/25/2019 5:53PM

58, wearing 1.0 ** -- 133743Hokie 10/25/2019 5:47PM

Added a reading contact about 55 years old. ** -- UTPr0sim 10/25/2019 5:21PM

My close up vision is fine. Distance vision went downhill around 25 -- Tafkam Hokie 10/25/2019 4:53PM

42 ish ** -- Razor4VT 10/25/2019 4:13PM

31 or 32. Have had the Rx updated maybe a gazillion times since. -- PhotoHokieNC 10/25/2019 4:01PM

25 - Prescription Glasses; 40 - Lasik; 50 - Reading Glasses ** -- El Paso Hokie 10/25/2019 3:53PM

Presbyopia gettin' after ya?** -- thankbud 10/25/2019 3:51PM

My late 40s, dang arms shrunk with age. 55 and I still have 20/20 vision. ** -- thankbud 10/25/2019 3:37PM

58 now, started about ten years ago. I now have to use two . . . -- HokieKip 10/25/2019 3:37PM

About 50 ** -- Stork 10/25/2019 3:36PM

Immediately at 44.... -- Freddyburg Hokie 10/25/2019 3:32PM

Late 40's, still only need them for reading at age 71. ** -- 7Hokie1 10/25/2019 3:32PM

Not yet, but non script bifocals at about 38 -- JoesterVT 10/25/2019 3:29PM

51 and for about the last year or so -- swordsman1 10/25/2019 3:20PM

Just got my first pair of progressives. I'm 50. ** -- reestuart 10/25/2019 2:51PM

This year...49 ** -- VT Pops 10/25/2019 2:49PM

About 45-46 -- RTFC 10/25/2019 2:47PM

30. Everyone else in my family had glasses early. ** -- MontyPythokie 10/25/2019 2:40PM

"See early, see often" - MP's Uncle Huey in Looozsiana. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 10/25/2019 4:03PM

Probably 50, I have horrible vision, 20-800 range so I have contacts -- fordham 10/25/2019 2:38PM

Reading glasses around 48-49 then progressive lens glasses at 54** -- coshokie 10/25/2019 2:33PM

Late 40s. Then contacts, which simplified my day2day life. ** -- Tank 10/25/2019 2:30PM

Do you have progressive contacts? They work ok? ** -- statmanfromHCyrs 10/25/2019 2:37PM

Yes... -- Tank 10/25/2019 2:43PM

OK....I was more curious about how it is using for both reading and not -- statmanfromHCyrs 10/25/2019 2:52PM

Yeah, they improve my sight for both reading and far. ** -- Tank 10/25/2019 3:48PM

Never had reading glasses. Got a prescription for a slight astigmatism -- B777Fr8Dog 10/25/2019 2:23PM

Ugh, I think I've had vision correction longer than most of you old people -- hoosnowahokie 10/25/2019 4:14PM

56 and haven't yet. Getting close though. ** -- VermontHokie 10/25/2019 2:19PM

Also known as, "The year my arms got too short" -- Coach McGuirk 10/25/2019 2:13PM

Late 40s ** -- Teewinot 10/25/2019 2:10PM

Last year or two - say 46 ** -- HokieMacDaddy 10/25/2019 1:59PM

31 or 32. Have had the Rx updated maybe a gazillion times since.

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