All of the above are valid, but also consider the last eye exam and how old your glasses are. If its been a year or more, I would suggest getting another exam. I see people all the time who think they are still seeing good and they are far from it. Vision can change slowly and you adapt pretty quickly to small changes, and before you know it there is a big change you are unaware of. I have even seen people be completely blind in one eye and not know until they show up to their eye exam and cover one eye for testing. It is fascinating how some people can not tell something is off.

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All of the above are valid, but also consider the last eye exam and how old your glasses are. If its been a year or more, I would suggest getting another exam. I see people all the time who think they are still seeing good and they are far from it. Vision can change slowly and you adapt pretty quickly to small changes, and before you know it there is a big change you are unaware of. I have even seen people be completely blind in one eye and not know until they show up to their eye exam and cover one eye for testing. It is fascinating how some people can not tell something is off.

All of the above are valid, but also consider the last eye exam and how old your glasses are. If its been a year or more, I would suggest getting another exam. I see people all the time who think they are still seeing good and they are far from it. Vision can change slowly and you adapt pretty quickly to small changes, and before you know it there is a big change you are unaware of. I have even seen people be completely blind in one eye and not know until they show up to their eye exam and cover one eye for testing. It is fascinating how some people can not tell something is off.

It is amazing how many people at 66 think they see fine, and get tested and find out they shouldn’t even be driving without glasses (or cataract surgery).

I see people every clinic day that say they have no issues with their vision yet are seeing in the 20/50 to 20/60 range…denial is a great thing. But as mentioned above, sometimes you just adapt to the slow changes and dont realize that your vision is pretty garbage, but can be fixed.

There is a more likely scenario which you are dealing with, tho no way to prove it….but heres the explanation i would give for what you described above:

Eyes naturally shift toward far sighted as we go from mid adulthood to late adulthood. This is different from the onset of presbyopia, or the lack of focusing ability, many people will see a shift to a more far sighted (also why a lot of people think their lasik wore off, buts thats a different subject). This stops and reverses course as cataracts start to form , and cataracts create a near sighted shift. So many people will experience what you did, good vision that gets poor which then gets better on its own. This all typically starts happening late 50’s and then the reversal starts in the 60’s. Your timeline fits perfectly

The early stages of cataracts don’t typically cause much trouble with vision other than a shift in the prescription, so for people like you, there can be no rush to do surgery. But eventually the shift will continue and you will see well up close but your distance will be lousy again.