No fix that I'm aware of but there are work-arounds:
1) For people that already wear glasses, use bifocal/trifocal/progressive lenses
2) For people that don't wear corrective lenses, use "reading glasses" and constantly put them on and take them off as you switch between looking at close/distant things.
For contact lens wearers, there are some options:
1) Bifocal contact lenses. These gave me a constant headache.
2) Monovision. Essentially one eye tuned to distance and one tuned to close-up. I could not get used to this.
There are some surgery options but really only to give you something like monovision through surgery instead of contacts. Unfortunately there's no fix for the root problem that I am aware of.
Fast forward to today, my wife and I, both 50, have many sets of dollar store 1.25x reading glasses strewn around the house. I try to only use them when absolutely needed. I imagine an optometrist visit is in my future within the next few years but I'm trying to hold out.
Now she doesn't laugh anymore.
Everyone I've talked to says basically the same thing as you. It sneaks up. You don't realize at first the compensations you are using, unless someone says something. Or when the first thing you do on a new computer is crank up the font size. LOL.
This is my situation. It sucks. I only have one really good pair of reading glasses; I am starting to think the strategy of having a dozen pairs all over the house might be a better option. What's worse, for me personally, is that I get motion sick really quickly with the glasses on. I have to work quickly when I need them to see something.
