How many of you wear glasses/ contacts?

dave98 · 10-06-2011 05:01AM

Karsini wrote: »

I've been wearing glasses for about the last 15 years. I'm very short sighted, can only see clearly up to about 10cm without my glasses, so I need them pretty much all the time. Have wanted to try contacts for a while, apparently I look like Harry Potter with my glasses on... :pac:

Hi Karsini
I was in exact same position, I am really really short sighted, always wanted to try contacts. Finally nplucked up the courrage one day and went to specsavers. Was a disaster...firstly couldnt see the contact properly, then I was afraid to touch my eye. Left it go then for a few years.
Then last summer, I decided to give it another go. The eye doctor was soooo understanding and got me to wear them. He put em in my eye first time and I really didnt feel it. That gave me confidence to wear them. It took a few weeks to get used to it but now I hate wearing the glasses.
I can put in/out the contacts in a few seconds, try it if you can and go to a small opticians that can spend time training you

CrazyRabbit · 10-06-2011 02:55PM

strobe wrote: »

Had the gogglers zapped a few years ago. Seeing (heh) what I use to spend on contacts and glasses I think it probably started paying for itself a year or two ago.

Plus you get to smell your own eyes burning (really), which was nice.

Actually..it's not burning. The laser vaporises the tissue. There's no heat involved. I think 'burning' would put a lot of people off. And the smell only lasts a few seconds and isn't all that bad.

Spread · 10-06-2011 03:13PM

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Explain please?

I find if I don't wear them when shaving my top lip that I leave little tuftks of growth at the top of my philtrum.

Luxie · 10-06-2011 03:29PM

barbarians wrote: »

Needed glasses since I was nine years old, now need to wear them all the time except for reading book/newspaper.

Wear contacts for nights out, sport or other things where the contacts just offer more freedom and wouldn't be getting in the way.

Will seriously consider laser eye surgery when I'm older (now 16) but the I'm happy with glasses and contacts for now.

Also, I'm -5.25 in both eyes. How do other boardsies match against that ? Better or worse ? :P

I'm -6.50 in the left and -4.75 on the right, so on balance I work out the same as you.:pac:

Firetrap · 10-06-2011 04:12PM

barbarians wrote: »

Also, I'm -5.25 in both eyes. How do other boardsies match against that ? Better or worse ? :P

Me too. -5.25 in left eye, -4.75 in the right. I'm too chicken to risk having laser surgery done though even though saying goodbye to glasses and contact lenses would be nice. I know someone personally whose eyesight in one eye got damaged permanently by laser surgery

10-06-2011 04:17PM

barbarians wrote: »

Also, I'm -5.25 in both eyes. How do other boardsies match against that ? Better or worse ? :P

Is that all!!

Let's just say "worse".

Glasses every day since I was 5. Tried the contacts thing, passed out on the floor. Can't even watch my fella putting his contacts in, I have a fit. I don't much like things in my eyes! Not a candidate for laser eye surgery, only for the lens implants, and since I wont watch someone putting soft contacts into their eyes, I don't fancy my chances of being able to cope every day knowing I've got something implanted into my eyes. I'd go insane :eek:

scotty_irish · 10-06-2011 04:20PM

i need them for seeing things far away, unfortunately the tip of my nose is far away now.(-6.50 and -7.00)

GLaDOS · 10-06-2011 04:38PM

Wow a lot of blind boardies, I'm only -1.75 in the left and -2.75 in the right :P

Elliemental · 10-06-2011 05:27PM

easyeason3 wrote: »

So how many of you wear glasses or contacts everyday?

I used to have glasses that I had to wear watching tv etc but on Tuesday I picked up my new prescription glasses that I have to wear driving, reading, using the computer etc.

I'm shocked at the difference tbh. My new glasses are the business, the world is a less fuzzy place

Reading glasses from the age of ten, and then full time, blind bastard glasses from the age of twenty one.

fedor.2. · 10-06-2011 05:29PM

Its true so, most of ye are nerds

Elliemental · 10-06-2011 05:38PM

fedor.2. wrote: »

Its true so, most of ye are nerds

And proud of it!

Latchy · 10-06-2011 05:51PM

I have the reading glasses about 5 years now but I can still see the number of a bus a mile off

The Left Hand Of God · 10-06-2011 06:54PM

Glasses for about 20 years and then glasses/contacts for about 5/

Had laser eye surgery a year ago and now perfect vision but no ability to laser things with my eyes

Best money I ever spent though!

booboo88 · 12-06-2011 10:48AM

Since I was in 4th class, love wearing contact lenses as i blooming hate wearing glasses, seriously considering eye laser surgery cuz I'd personally love to be without glasses.

Kasabian · 12-06-2011 11:42AM

Thankfully I still have good eyesight, considering I had an accident with a bag of lime that seriously burnt my eyes years ago. Most scary and painful thing I have ever gone through.

Doctors and Nurses thank you for your skills and talents.

JonB · 12-06-2011 11:49AM

I couldn't believe how bad my vision was until I got glasses....

coffeelover · 12-06-2011 12:02PM

Got glasses last year for driving and watching TV. I couldn't believe how much my eyesight had deterioted

Freddie59 · 12-06-2011 12:13PM

I suppose I'm the exception to the rule in this one.:o For years I had perfect vision in one eye. Little or none in the second. As I got older and glasses were required there was no way they could balance both eyes.The differential was too great. Suffered severe headaches when wearing the glasses.

In 2007 I had laser eye surgery on the bad eye. They brought the vision up to 100% in it. When checked afterwards I was told I had 20/20 vision in the unlasered eye, and better than 20/20 vision is the lasered eye (I thought 20/20 was as good as it gets myself

).

But there were still problems. The lasered eye was at 100% and the unlasered eye at 97%. If they brought the second one to 100% it would have rendered my reading ability to be a disability.

The only solution - glasses!:D So I have bifocals (couldn't use varifocals) for TV/distance+reading. But I will need glasses for PC as well. Modern technology............:p

How many of you wear glasses/ contacts?

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