Glasses for music Options

[MusicalNitWit]

DS has been developing migraines over the past few weeks and I am thinking about taking him to the optician. After observing and chatting to him about these migraines I have noticed they seem to come on whilst he is reading music. It didn't really cross my mind that it could be music score related as I thought it may be an excuse to get out of music practice, but he is developing headaches whilst singing Evensongs as well and he has no symptoms when reading other texts or doing school work. I was just wondering if when I mention it to the optician, he will think I am a loon or this is a common problem amongst musicians and it can be solved through glasses.

[porilo]

Simple solution for those who don't like glasses are contact lenses. I used to wear glasses but since I started to wear contact lenses there is absolutely no way that I would wear glasses again.

[TSax]

Simple solution for those who don't like glasses are contact lenses. I used to wear glasses but since I started to wear contact lenses there is absolutely no way that I would wear glasses again.

You might find you have to revise that opinion in the future!

I used to wear contact lenses pretty much all the time, and glasses only for an hour or so in the morning / evening.
Then I started working in quite a dry office staring at a computer screen all the time. The tipping point came when I was taken out to a very expensive restaurant and I couldn't enjoy it because my eyes were hurting too much. So I switched to wearing glasses most of the time and daily lenses at weekends or if I'm going out in the evening.

I was out last Friday evening with a friend, both of us wearing lenses, both of us 40-something. I was driving to somewhere we hadn't been before (driving is fine, my vision is perfectly OK to drive with lenses in). We couldn't find where we were going so stopped to look in the A-Z. But the print is tiny and we only had the courtesy light in the car and neither of us could read the street names. I also find I can't thread a needle or sew wearing lenses. If I've got my glasses on I can take them off and my near vision is fine, but I can't do that with lenses. My new plan is to get a cheap pair of reading glasses to keep in the car for any future map-reading emergencies!