Stairs!

[jayuk]

Does anyone else have this problem?...when walking down stairs I have this "requirement" to actually see my foot hit the last 2 steps......and its happened more so in the past 18 months throught contact lenses and glasses...........and I currently only use one eye for vision.........actually ive just answered my own question! Its must be the inbalance?...

Jay

[Anne B]

Stairs are just a nightmare Stairs in the dark are even worse.
If i have to go anywhere that has stairs you can guarantee i will make a fool of myself.

[GarethB]

I have a habit when walking upstairs making sure my toes hit the rise of the next step so I know my foot is properly on the step.

Coming down stairs I always make sure my heel hits the step riser part so again I know my foot is fully on the step.

I think this is a thow back to when I was partially sighted and tought how to approach steps safely. I always put my hand on the hand rail and keep my hand ahead of me so I can tell where the steps turn or end before my feet reach that point to avoid going a**e of tit and making a fool of myself.

[Michael P]

Normally i have no problem but when I walk around having forgotten to take my reading glasses on I tend to bump into all sorts of things and it usually needs two "hits" before i realise why this is happening.
Now KC and senility is definitely a legitimate subject but I can only manage to bump into things twice a day. Four times...no chance

[brigid downing]

Yep

I can probably thank stairs for my diagnosis. It was only when falling down them was seeming to become a regular habit that I decided to seek the opinion of a optician.

The unfortunate habit of the Highways agency to put road signs where people could not read them, and the very blurred pages on teletext, which scrolled faster than anyone can possibly read should, with hind sight, have been factors also

Brigid

[brigid downing]

Oh, and I just remembered - Escalators

Stairs that move (in case I have spelled something else )

How dangerous are those. On Holiday in Budapest a few years ago, trying to use the underground, NIGHTMARE.

I had glasses but not contact lenses at the time. Budapest, for those who haven't been yet, is built either side of the river Danube and one side is basically a big hill. The underground network runs round the city and under the rive so depending where you are some of the stations are very deep, down huge escalators which zip up and down very fast. With limited vision it really was an act of faith to get on them.

Mind you, John Lewis near us also has escalators and I don't enjoy them either!! even with contact lenses
Brigid

[Andrew MacLean]

If you think stairs are bad, and they are, then try hill walking.

aaarrghhhh

For those with good binocular vision, when hillwalking try it with one eye closed.

Still, live dangerously is my motto. You never know what tomorrow will bring!

and, has anyone else noticed how everywhere in the world they paint a bright stripe at the leading edge of the stair tread, except in marks and spencers where they helpfully paint the bright stripe on the anterior end of the tread so that the monocular constomer has an enhanced opportunity to break a leg when using their moving stairway

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[jayuk]

Ok, so its not just me!!...I think its depth perception......but funni thing is, is that I dont get it anywhere else, for example Driving, reverse parking, etc....completely normal as when I had 20/20 in both eyes...but its jsut stairs!.....and the last two!!....

Maybe im wierd! (nod your heads!)

[Vic]

I know I have bad depth perception, and it does make negotiating stairs a bit of a challenge, especially in the dark. I find it particularly hard when there are only one or two steps somewhere and they aren't that obvious - guaranteed that I will fall down them. And walking on uneven ground and up hills and such can also prove interesting.

Vic

[Val G]

Never mind stairs, just walking around outside is bad enough! I always seem to be walking around with my head down. I'm sure this habit has developed to stop me trying to focus on distant objects causing eye strain and the inevitable headaches! But I'm starting to feel it must look a bit weird!