How to identify when you need reading glasses
The signs that you need a pair of reading glasses are often easy to miss, and the more you get used to them being there the less you notice as your vision gets worse. Identifying the clues early on is important, and buying reading glasses online with Direct Sight doesn’t have to be an expensive or troublesome task.
With that in mind here’s a little list of the main things you can to do help keep your peepers pristine!
Presbyopia is natural
The first step to deciding whether you need reading glasses is to understand that presbyopia – the inability to see clearly at close distances – is completely natural and the vast majority of us will develop it at some point in our lives. Using reading glasses is nothing to be ashamed of and most people over the age of 40 can expect to own a pair at some point in the future.
How do you read?
Unsurprisingly perhaps, one of the key indicators that you need reading glasses is how you read. Most people with presbyopia find themselves holding books/menus/laptops around 20 inches or so from the face, and if you feel like you’re having to stretch your arms out to see the words clearly then reading glasses are for you.
Tired eyes and headaches
Try to identify whether you’re suffering from tired eyes and headaches after reading for prolonged periods of time. This is a notoriously easy one to miss because headaches are often passed off as due to stress/some other reason. If you’re suffering from either of the two, stop reading and see if they go away.
Look at how you eat
Surprisingly, how you eat can be a great indicator of whether you need reading glasses. If you find yourself spilling little bits of food off the side of the plate or struggling to collect it all on your fork then reading glasses might be the next step. Remember that reading glasses are meant to counter the weakening of eye muscles which control close distance viewing, and despite their name reading glasses are not limited to simply helping you read.
If you think you might need them then it’s better to act sooner rather than later to prevent damage. Here at Direct Sight we supply a range of quality, affordable reading glasses and prescription glasses online, and with a host of frames compatible with our 2 for 1 deal you won’t find them cheaper anywhere online or on the high street.