Glasses Vs Contacts Vs Laser Eye Surgery

unreggd

My personal fave are contacts

they give you a full field of vision and aint too much of a hassle once you're used to them

I hate wearin my glasses when Im watchin telly and eating at the same time!

And Laser eye surgery is too risky for me, i tend to be the guy who always gets that 2% chance of DEATH or whatever

vote please!

xebec

Glasses at the moment, use contacts sometimes but they tend to get itchy after about 4 hours. Definitely considering laser eye surgery soon, waiting till I join a company who cover it on the medical plan

445279.ie

Been using contact for 17 years. Used to use monthly but use daily lenses now.

Wear glasses at home and when not working/playing.

Too afraid to get laser eye surgery done

Nightwish

I love my glasses. I won't be going for contacts or laser surgery, the thought of poking at my eyes is enough to make me vomit.

robinph

Contacts now, but would have said glasses just over a year ago due to fear of poking my eye. Decided that was being silly and am now much happier with the contacts.

crosstownk

Glasses ftw. I tried contacts a few years back and they stung my eyes, plus I'm not too gone on poking at my eyeballs. I remember once when the wife had a contact lens make it's way behind her eyeball - that would freak me out. I'm not one for any unnecessary surgery so there's no chance I'll go for the laser treatment.

Yep glasses all the way! I've been wearing them for more than 20 years and they don't bother me at all.

runswithascript

Don't they give you a general anaesthetic for the LES? I mean I don't need glasses or anything but it seems to me once the LES is done it's done.

Then again glasses can sometimes look very sexy in a yes, miss, keep me back after class sort of way

WindSock

unreggd wrote:

And Laser eye surgery is too risky for me, i tend to be the guy who always gets that 2% chance of DEATH or whatever

How many times have you died? you are speaking from beyonndd the graave.

I HATE glasses they are so unflattering on all i think, but I take about 10 mins to get contacts into each eye. I would love to try laser, but eyes not bad enough yet I'm told.

ethernet

Glasses for now. Just can't stand wet mornings when the vehicles splash rainwater in your face and dirty the lenses. Couldn't hack the idea of putting contacts so near my eye like that. Can they get stuck/dry if you don't put in eye drops?

Gramps had LES about a year ago. I think he now knows which grandchild I am!

APM

wearing contacts now for almost 2 years. Couldn't bear the thoughts of touching my eyes etc but really had to try them for sport related reasons.
Best thing I ever did. Now wear coloured ones going out as well as normal ones.

No more glasses fogging up, wiping them waiting for a bus on rainy days etc.

Still wear glasses at home watching tv or whenever I'm at home for a long stretch

FX Meister

Contacts > Glasses < Laser Vision > Contacts
FACT

hello_kitty

Laser surgery...just do it

I had waited a year after I'd saved the money as I was convinced it would go wrong but once I had it done it was just amazing to be able to see with such clarity.
Money well spent!!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

getting my right eye lasered this friday, and the left eye done two weeks later (****ing christians and their good friday, forcing me to wear glasses for an extra week)

Crucifix

Mainly contacts, but I do a bit of glasses on the side.

FX Meister

Mordeth, don't you mean "forcing me to wear glass for an extra week"

Supercell

I've a little better than 20:20 and thats the way I want to keep it , no fupping way would I stick crap to my eyeballs and shades in summer make me want to sneeze.
Laser one at a time, just do it!

Fajitas!

Glasses for me...

I can't touch my eyes without going 'euugh', and the extremly small chance of anything going wrong with eye surgery, along with the touching of my eye...just wouldn't work. I'm a photographer - I need my eyes uncut

nesf

Contacts are nice but they don't come with prisms so I get headaches if I actually try and do anything while wearing them. Grand for a night out, but not for a day writing or reading stuff.

monkeyfudge

Glasses are brilliant. They make you look clever.

To me getting laser eye surgery is equivalent to a gay man getting counseling to stop him from being gay, or a black person getting pigmentation surgery to make them look white.

F*cking traitors the lot of them!

constitutionus

been wearing glasses so long none of my mates would recognaise me without em. besider im lucky in im one of those people where glasses actually make me look better.

tried contacts once but my eyes went mental. suffer from hayfever so maybe my eyes thought it was a particularly bad bout of that but they wouldnt stop watering. in the end the optomologist had to take em out.
that said that was years ago and they were the old "hard" lenses so maybe i could use em now. but as i said it'd just look too weird, not to mention it'd take ages to get rid of the "panda" look

as to the OPs feeling on laser surgery i too fall into the catagory where if something can go wrong it will. happen to be in the 1% of the population where dental anasethic takes twice as long as normal to work on me and had the joyous experience of finding out in the dental chair !
mind you its not the fact something might go wrong, its that i had a mate who spent 10k on getting it done only to have his vision start to blur again in less than a year. methinks laser eye surgery is something you should wait till your mid 20's to get so your eyes have settled down.

slipss

Longfield wrote:

I've a little better than 20:20 and thats the way I want to keep it

Better than 20:20? Are you an owl or something?

DEmeant0r

glasses. I have contacts, but i only use them when doing sports and going out. I will be doing surgery in a few years time when i've saved enough money.

seamus

Been wearing contacts now for nearly nine years. Have been wearing monthlies, but I've found that they're drying out very quickly in one particular eye, and leaving it quite sore for a couple of days, and me having to wear my glasses (not that I mind). Some lenses barely last two weeks.

So I'm debating whether or not to go for the extended wear monthlies or the dailes. The extended wears last for ages, and are super comfy. But they're tougher to get in. Feels like putting solid plastic in your eye. The dailies are really convenient, but very expensive for someone who wears their lenses 6-7 days a week like me.

After seeing laser surgery performed on TV a few times, I'm not sure if I could be awake while I knew what they were doing. If they could temporarily blind you while they did it, that would be great.

nesf

seamus wrote:

The dailies are really convenient, but very expensive for someone who wears their lenses 6-7 days a week like me.

Unless you've money to burn, wearing dailies 6-7 days a week is just not an option compared to monthlies or permanents.

445279.ie

seamus wrote:

The dailies are really convenient, but very expensive for someone who wears their lenses 6-7 days a week like me.

I get them from VHI website and they only work out at about €1 per day and I wear them 5-6 days a week.

Voodu Child

Out of curiosty, what % of people need glasses/contacts/laser?

Whatever it is, its WAY too high for evolution to have allowed to creep into the gene pool. Surely all the blind cavemen would have been eaten by dinosaurs ?

Im sure opticians know EXACTLY what causes it, right down to a T (ie TV or whatever) but when is the last time you heard an optician say 'dont let your kids watch TV, thats what makes em go blind'?

Exactly, they aint telling us cos they'd go out of business....evil conspiracy?

Caliden

Got Lasek done last thursday and by the following morning I could see!!!
You'd be surprised how far along the technology has come in recent years. I remembering seeing a video on youtube of the doctor MANUALLY cutting back the cornea but mine was all done with a machine.

Absolutely painless, only annoying thing was watery eyes after it was done for the rest of the evening. No pain the following day at all.
I'd recommend anyone considering getting it done to do it! The gift of sight!!
My sight wasn't actualy bad before but it did require me to wear glasses to watch TV/drive/lectures in college but I can see everything now.

Judt

Caliden wrote:

Got Lasek done last thursday and by the following morning I could see!!!
You'd be surprised how far along the technology has come in recent years. I remembering seeing a video on youtube of the doctor MANUALLY cutting back the cornea but mine was all done with a machine.

Absolutely painless, only annoying thing was watery eyes after it was done for the rest of the evening. No pain the following day at all.
I'd recommend anyone considering getting it done to do it! The gift of sight!!
My sight wasn't actualy bad before but it did require me to wear glasses to watch TV/drive/lectures in college but I can see everything now.

Pervert!!!!

robinph

voodoo_child wrote:

Whatever it is, its WAY too high for evolution to have allowed to creep into the gene pool. Surely all the blind cavemen would have been eaten by dinosaurs ?

I think your average blind caveman would have died well before he reached the age of 25 or 30 so age related issues with eyes wouldn't have been a problem for him. Also considering that he didn't need to be able to read the newspaper he probably never realised that his eyesight was rubbish, as long as he managed to roughly aim his sharp pointed stick the right way round at the big hairy beast charging at him it wouldn't hugely matter if he couldn't tell what colour the heffalumps eyes were.

seamus

voodoo_child wrote:

Whatever it is, its WAY too high for evolution to have allowed to creep into the gene pool. Surely all the blind cavemen would have been eaten by dinosaurs ?

Im sure opticians know EXACTLY what causes it, right down to a T (ie TV or whatever) but when is the last time you heard an optician say 'dont let your kids watch TV, thats what makes em go blind'?

Well, as said a caveman would be lucky to live into his late twenties, so many of the issues we see with age-related eyesight deterioration wouldn't fly.

You also have to remember that man was a pack hunter. So those in the pack who couldn't see so well while hunting would be held up by those who could. Certainly, although I got glasses when I was ten, my eyesight was still sufficient up until I was about 14/15 that I could have "hunted". If I had been a cavemen, I'd probably have fathered a couple of kids by then

There's also a certain level of compensation too - that is, without glasses your brain and eyes will work harder to improve your vision. I would consider myself blind now, but give me a couple of hours without any corrective lenses, and I could probably manage to function. My brain and eyes would be working harder to try and make clearer images, but they're only relaxed now because my glasses do the bulk of the work for them.

Hereditary eye defects can also be dormant. My Dad is blind as a bat. But of four kids, I'm the only one who suffered as badly as he did. My eldest brother (now in his thirties) still only needs glasses for driving and watching TV. But of his kids, some of them could need glasses from the start. So the gene would still have managed to propagate through those offspring in whom the defects lay dormant.

megadodge

The first thing to strike me about this survey is it's impossible for someone who hasn't had the laser surgery done to know what it's like, so how can they offer an informed opinion and secondly I'd be amazed if anybody who has actually had the laser surgery done would actually vote for either of the other two.

To those worried about getting it done - just do it !!
You will thank yourself every day thereafter.

And aside from the freedom it offers, over your lifetime laser surgery will SAVE YOU MONEY when you take all the differing costs of glasses and/or contacts into account.

its that i had a mate who spent 10k on getting it done only to have his vision start to blur again in less than a year. methinks laser eye surgery is something you should wait till your mid 20's to get so your eyes have settled down.

As a person who had it done and researched quite a lot beforehand I have serious problems with this quote.

1. I've never heard of anybody anywhere spending that much money on the ordinary laser surgery.
2. I've never heard of anybody whose vision actually deteriorated (I got it done over 11 years ago and they're still perfect).
3. Any reputable operator will not let you get the surgery done until your eyes have stabilised for a minimum of 2 years, which usually means nobody under the age of 20.

WhiteWashMan

for some reason, i read the title of this thread to include glass eyes.


must go to the optician.

Miguel_Sanchez

unreggd wrote:

I hate wearin my glasses when Im watchin telly and eating at the same time!

Do you shove the food in your eyes or something? I've never encountered problems with my glasses that hinder my dining.

seamus

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

Do you shove the food in your eyes or something? I've never encountered problems with my glasses that hinder my dining.

As a "normie" he probably finds it odd not being able to see his dinner clearly without having to look at it.

Kiith

I've been wearing glasses for a few years now, but i'd seriously consider getting laser eye surgery. I dont mind the glasses, but they can get annoying at times, and i hate being half blind when playing football (have a phobia of contacts ).

For the record, roughly how much did you guys pay for your surgery? And did it take long to recover?

Country-Bumpkin

constitutionus wrote:

been wearing glasses so long none of my mates would recognaise me without em. besider im lucky in im one of those people where glasses actually make me look better.
QUOTE]

Im the exact same...during the summer I wear contacts so that I can wear cool shades and when I take them off everyone always says I look really strange without glasses. In fact the actual words are usually something like "jesus, you look weird without your glasses"

Caliden

mine was 2100 per eye, a tad bit expensive compared to most other places but it was covered under my dad's health plan so half of that will be reimbursed.

I got it done last thursday and by the following morning my vision was fine. Just a bit sensitive to sunlight but other than that it was perfect. Today I'm finished putting in eye drops so I can join the 20:20 club

Sleepy

Hoping to get laser done in the coming year but for now it's glasses...

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

FX Meister wrote:

Mordeth, don't you mean "forcing me to wear glass for an extra week"

i hate you

Zaph

Glasses, although it's not really a case of which I prefer, more that I don't have any choice. I'm one of the 10% who can't wear contacts, my eyes are too sensitive. The last time I tried my optician told me that my eyes were having a reaction to the solution on the lens, and that was only a drip from one, he hadn't even put the lens in at that stage! For the laser surgery I'd probably need a different operation first to fuse the retina to the eyeball (also using a laser), as detached retinas are apparently a hazard for people like me with larger head sizes, and even then there's a likelihood that they'd only be able to get me down to about -2 (from -8), so I'd still need to wear glasses. Screw that!

delta_bravo

Glasses. Only wear contacts for sport because my eyesight is so bad that the contacts arent the strength of my prescription. I dont think laser works as well on such poor eyesight anyways. ( I'm -13 in both eyes):(

Agamemnon

I wear contacts but I'll get the laser surgery some day soon cos I'm in my 20s and my sight has stopped getting worse. I use the daily disposable ones, which aren't that expensive these days (€35 for a month's supply).

Naikon

Glasses, I dont think I would risk laser eye surgery, as I have a "lazy" right eye alongside the "normal" 20/20 eye and having Lasik or whatever is too big a risk on the good eye considering getting the right eye done would be pointless as lazy eye robs a little bit of the visual acuity(20/40-corrected) that Lasik cant "fix"

Fighting Irish

monkeyfudge wrote:

Glasses are brilliant. They make you look clever.

To me getting laser eye surgery is equivalent to a gay man getting counseling to stop him from being gay, or a black person getting pigmentation surgery to make them look white.

F*cking traitors the lot of them!

:rolleyes:

catspring

contacts are teh win for me. wear my glasses about the house, but i find my vision is better with lenses (as they're closer to the eye).
i'd like to have laser surgery done but i'm scared... and broke...

Supercell

slipss wrote:

Better than 20:20? Are you an owl or something?

Hehe, nope. When I had my eyes tested a few years ago so I could get a provisional license the Optician told me I had 20:10 vision whatever that means, they at the time they said it basically meant better than 20:20 .

Malteaser!

contacts...i hate wearing my glasses and my eyes aren't suited to laser

Catari Jaguar

boreds wrote:

I HATE glasses they are so unflattering on all i think

Eh... yea. Thanks. That's nice.

Gazza22

Just can't wear glasses. They don't suit me at all. So i wear contacts for about 2 years now.

I am definitely getting laser done at some stage. I'm happy with the daily contacts at the moment, couldn't live without them!

Malteaser!

its not that glasses don't suit me its that they're just so impracticable like they always just seem to get in the way, and they drive me insane when they get wet and you can't see a thing or when they get all steamed up, contacts are just so much more handy!

constitutionus

Malteaser! wrote:

its not that glasses don't suit me its that they're just so impracticable like they always just seem to get in the way, and they drive me insane when they get wet and you can't see a thing or when they get all steamed up, contacts are just so much more handy!

cost me a woman a few week back :mad: :mad: