Glasses Vs Contacts Vs Laser Eye Surgery

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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 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.

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.