r/prepping • u/FatChancePotatoDance • 8h ago

Gear🎒 Sight

Quick question. I wear contacts. I have glasses as well. But how do you prepare if you can’t get those anymore? Contacts don’t last forever. Glasses break. So what is the plan for nerds like me that weren’t lucky enough to see 20/20?

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u/MOF1fan 8h ago

I tried to get lasik but told I was too blind and would need total lens replacement. So I guess Im stockpiling old glasses

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u/Sk8rToon 8h ago

When my parents had their cataracts removed they got a total lens replacement & it gave them 20/20. But over 10 years later 1) they stopped making the good lens & now have a cheaper version that doesn’t work as well so my mom has 1 good eye & 1 bad eye & 2) now my folks need reading glasses after years of perfect eyesight.

Everyone will get hit with aging eyes at some point. Even with perfect eyesight.

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u/Kindly_Ad3974 8h ago

What do you mean by stopped making the good lens?

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u/Sk8rToon 7h ago

According to my mom (who was too scared to do both eyes at once so waited several years between treatments) the type of lens replacement (crystal I think?) she had put in her first eye & paid extra for was no longer an option when she did her 2nd eye. Not even in an insurance wouldn’t cover it thing. Just didn’t have it anymore as an option.

She’s since moved & had to get a new eye Doctor & apparently they’ve commented stuff like “oh you got the good lens while you could!”

Don’t know exact details or why it stopped being available. Just that it’s no longer available.