How's the eyesight?

Who said that? Hello, is there anyone there?

PLEASE WRITE IN A BIGGER FONT IF POSSIBLE BECAUSE I CAN'T READ THE OPENING POST. THANK YOU :cool:

Very short-sighted don't wear the glasses as often as I should though because I have a terrible habit of breaking/losing them. Planning on getting laser surgery asap once I get out of the financial black hole that has been my education. I want to travel a bit after college and looking after glasses/contacts on the move is one less hassle then I need considering my poor track record in the area.

I went on holiday to Liverpool last November and decided to get new contacts before I went, went to the opticians where they told me they couldn't give me lenses because it had been over a year since my first lens test and I would have to get another test before they could give me new ones as is their policy. Problem was my flight was leaving in an hour or so and I had no time, so after some cajoling they gave me one pair of the long term lenses (think they last a month?) and told to me to come for the test when I got home, I had lost the lenses by the time I reached the apartment where we were staying, I havn't bothered with them since. I'll get a set of the daily ones when I go back playing 5 a side but that's it.

mikemac1 wrote: »

Were you cursed with being short sighted and wore glasses in school? I was

Yep

mikemac1 wrote: »

Did you wear contact lenses far too long, come home and fall asleep drunk and have problems the next morning? I've done that It's not advisable

On many of an occasion

mikemac1 wrote: »

But I got the laser eye surgery a few years back and it was the best money I ever spent

I got it done last week. At the moment it feels like I've fallen asleep with the contact lenses in!!

Pretty decent I've never worn glasses. I do struggle at times with my long distance vision though.

I can see things, that's the way they're supposed to work yeah?

Apart from that;
Right eye Longsighted, left eye short sighted, (I'm sure there's a couple of things I'm missing), amblyopia (lazy eye) technically giving me "double vision" but seeing as I can't focus in with both at the same time, never have I had double vision, quite the opposite in fact.

Which meant being turned down by the army/gardaí/air corps/aeromedical doctors due to "total lack of depth perception", although I don't seem to walk into walls the whole time unless I've a good few on me.

Cue the last visit to the optometrist;

"There's so much wrong with your eyes and yet they still work perfectly, if I had a student here you'd make a great case study"

I'm 24 and recently got an eye exam as I was sure I was short sighted. Turns out I was right, but not by that much.

So many hours on the computer did that to me. Damn PC Gaming.

If I was younger, I wouldn't have gone for an eye test nor told my parents that I think I may need glasses. Perhaps it's because I thought it was uncool to wear glasses.

At 24 though, fcuk it. Why should I care, glasses are awesome when they improve your eyesight. I don't wear them out, but it's a novelty for me to put a movie on the laptop, put my glasses on and it's so much clearer.

mikemac1 wrote: »

Did you wear contact lenses far too long, come home and fall asleep drunk and have problems the next morning?
I've done that It's not advisable

Remembering that you have to take out your contact lenses before going to bed when you're drunk when all you achieve is that you practically blind yourself is probably worse :P


I'm short-sighted (-5.25) in both eyes, so pretty bad. Needed glasses since I was 9. I can read a book or the newspaper without my glasses fine but without glasses or contact lenses I'm practically blind. Literally in school, I could be sitting in the front row of the classroom and still couldn't make out what was written on the board.

Off-topic, anybody else suffer from floaters ?

I've worn specs for about 15 years. I got laser surgery about 7 years ago, but I had to get glasses again about a year later. I might get it again, but only of it gets really cheap. My eyes are now as bad as they were when I had them zapped, so I'm kinda glad I did it or I'd be really bad now, instead of just sort of bad.