I actually like my glasses, I like the way they look. As said above, I prefer my contacts because the glasses slide down my nose and the vision is a million times better with my contacts, peripheral vision especially. It’s just no contest.
Oh no, we must hear it. Upon reading this sentence, I was terrified. I must have closure.
Tell you what, tell us and I’ll give you a cookie. Remember, the dark side has cookies. 
Bear in mind that the guy was a friend of mine but the details I got second hand. I am no eye specialist, so hopefully someone can correct any factual errors. As I understand it he didn’t sterilise his contacts properly. Some infection occurred and the bug was resistant to antobiotics. He actually was in hospital and they pumped him full of them hoping to kill it but when attacked this thing sort of formed a sac which was impenetrable.
Eventually he losy his eye and now has a glass eye (I’m talking about two years ago here). The scary part was if it had managed to travel to the other eye (which I have no idea is possible).
As I said I am no expert, and was not told the full story first hand. It is not something you raise directly.
The only facts I can state with certainty: Infection on contact lens. Glass eye.
If I liked my glasses, I wouldn’t be spending money on contact lenses each month. 
I do own glasses, but don’t usually wear them outside the house.
I wear contacts not for the way glasses look, but for the way they feel. . . After a long day, the things tend to get heavy on my face, and I just don’t like that weight on the nose. Thus, I wear contacts.
Now, I will give my eyes “a break” and wear glasses at night and on the weekends, but it’s not a constant thing. Besides, I have those funky ‘Air Force’ glasses with the flat temples that I like (because they rest flat on my head). I like 'em, but my girlfriend gives me wide-eyed stares whenever I put them on.
Tripler
Yes I’m a four-eyed geek. But I accept every minute of it.
I don’t really care about the way I look in glasses, I really can’t see as well with them as I can with contacts. Plus, peripheral vision is pretty cool. (I have hard core bad vision, -9.25 in one eye and -8.5 in the other.)
Of course I have a pair of glasses that I wear first thing in the morning and last thing at night, but I’d be afraid to go out in them just because my vision is compromised with them. I wouldn’t even watch TV with them. Not to mention the way they can get fogged up, the annoyance of getting rained on, etc.
I hate wearing contacts and glasses, but for different reasons. I’ve been wearing contacts for over ten years and they constantly bug my eyes. I’ve tried all the new types without success. Why do I wear them? I work as a structural engineer for an aircraft company. Anytime my duties call for me to go out to a hangar, I have to wear safety glasses. If I wear glasses to work, I have to wear these huge wrap about safety glasses that really restrict my vision. The ones I wear while I’m wearing contacts are kinda cool looking. Unless I have something going on at night, the contacts come out as soon as I get home from work.
Long time (since 8th grade) contact wearer here, and this is pretty much how I feel. My current glasses are nice and look good on me. I just cannot get used to how my vision seems impeded when I wear them. I love wearing contacts and not having to turn my whole head to see something on the side. I wouldn’t dream of driving in them - I’d see blurry shapes (other cars) coming at me peripherally and freak out. Plus, I’m the type of person who does not like wearing anything on my face like that - the weight on the nose does come into play for me, too.
I forgot to add- when I wear contacts, I can wear non-prescription sunglasses over them. When I wear glasses, and want to drive or be in bright lights, I have to have a pair of prescription glasses to switch them out with, and that’s a pain.
My eyes need a break, though- today’s a glasses day.
I don’t wear contacts, but I just got a pair of reading/computer glasses (that don’t work, by the way) and I’m dying to wear them! They’re soooo cute! They’re very fine RED wire rims. I have to go back to Lenscrafters and get it straightened out.
Slight hijack here, but am I asking too much to want my readers to function at the computer as well? I already have a 2nd pair of glasses on order for distance (that part is brand new). Do I need THREE pair of glasses? Should I just stick with my cheaters that function for both reading and computer? Trifocals? Won’t it be difficult to function with bi- or tri-focals?
For those of you worried about vanity, something needs to be said:
Women with glasses are hot.
Dorothy Parker didn’t know everything.
raises hand I hate my glasses. I don’t like to be seen in them. I rarely wear them, except at home. And I have a nice pair, it’s just that I really believe (and have been told) that I have very nice eyes. So I’d rather show my eyes off, they’re large and pretty.
Plus glasses are forever dirty - 2 seconds after you clean them they’re dirty - and they get sweaty and slip down off your face and they’re always in your way. I can hardly feel my soft contacts, and they’re always clean…I just prefer them so much.
Ditto on the sunglasses thing. And peripheral vision. And the rain-on-glasses thing.
Face it, glasses are a lot of work. If you like them, great, but they’re a pain in the ass to me. I think contacts are actually much less maintenance, plus I get an eye exam every two years on the dot with my contacts. With my glasses I sometimes didn’t go for years.
And not all women with glasses are hot.
I love my glasses. I have two pair, one wire-frame and one big black plastic, and they both look good.
The reason I wear contacts is that glasses don’t fit my lifestyle. I walk to work, I ride my bike all over the place, I sail, and I dance. In the winter, I snowboard. My eyes are more sensative to light than average, so I wear sunglasses whenever I’m outside. I could get prescription sunglasses, but they’d be more expensive, not as useful, and I’d have to carry two pairs with me everywhere. For active sports, peripheral vision is important. And having your glasses come off on a crowded dance floor is no fun. You have to stop and try to grab them before they get stepped on.
I wore contacts for many years, and then didn’t for probably an equal number of years, then decided to give the monovision contacts a try the first time my optician suggested (horror of horrors!) bifocals. I got the bifocals and he gave me a sample of the monovision to try.
I never did adjust to the monovision lenses. I don’t think I wore consistently enough to do it. But the final blow was when my mother-in-law told me (in the nicest possible way, of course :rolleyes: ) that I looked so much older in contacts because the glasses did a better job of hiding the dark circles under my eyes.
It’s been glasses ever since for me.
Although they don’t tell you, most eyeglasses are returnable. If the store doesn’t have the policy (most do) then the manufacturer does.
Most contact lens wearers give little thought to their frames because they don’t like wearing glasses and of what’s covered by insurance is used up in getting lenses.
Just the correct size and frame shape make a world of difference.
WishIHadACoolName I got my opticians license ages ago but really never worked in the field because I went back to school. Do you like it?
What’s your distance RX and the RX for your reading glasses if you don’t mind me asking. Why don’t your reading glasses work?
Did they ask you about getting progressive lenses instead of three pair of glasses?
Yea, bi, tri and even progressives all take some getting used to especially for a person that’s never worn glasses.
I’m the same way. Couldn’t wait to get contacts as a teenager and stop looking so ‘nerdy,’ but now I just do whatever I feel like. The running joke at work is that I usually do wear the glasses on Mondays. I’m not a mornig person to start with, and like Garfield, loathe Mondays, so I’m usually not up to sticking the conacts in my eyes early in the morning.
I very recently at 26 got contacts for the first time in my life.
First I had a trial pair which I wore while I waited for my order to come in. The trial pair was OK. But then the order that came in? I can’t ever seem to get them in my eyes, they scratch sometimes! Once in a great while I’ll get them in comfortably but it takes about a half-hour, so I just don’t bother.
I like the way I look with my glasses on, but I wanted contacts because I hate that my glasses are always dirty, they get wet in the rain, and also because I wanted to wear sunglasses in the summer. I also have pretty eyes and I wanted them to be visible. Most days, though, it’s the glasses for me. Just can’t get the hang of contacts.
My prescription is Sphere: +0.75 (o.d.) +1.25 (o.s.); Cylinder: (can’t read it…sph?) and -0.75; Axis 065; Prism: nothing; Add: +2.25 (o.d.) and +2.25 (o.s.)
I have no idea what all of that means, but with my drugstore cheaters, I can see both my computer screens (2 and 2.5 feet from my face). With the new glasses, I can’t see anything more than about a foot or less from the subject. Like I have to be RIGHT UP ON TOP of items on store shelves. I can’t read either computer.
The distance glasses will be mainly for TV. I haven’t picked them up yet because our insurance changed and I will be putting that cost onto the new one.
I used to HATE wearing my glasses, until I started forking out for the light-weight ultra-thin non-reflective type. Now I don’t mind wearing them for days at a time. Of course if I’m going to see a movie or a baseball game, or if I’m going to do something physical like hiking or sloshball, or if I’m going to a club or a party I only wear my contacts, for obvious reasons.
My optician, who I adore, finally convinced me that I have to get out of the contacts for a while if I want to keep my eyes healthy. She freaked me out with the possible consequences. So now I usually wear disposable contacts for a week or two, then wear glasses for 1 to 5 days. But yeah, if I’m going somewhere fancy or social, I wear the contacts every time.