I wore contacts for about 13 years. Then last year, I had severe irritation in one eye followed by severe irritation in the other eye a month later. It’s been glasses for me ever since.
I had the Excimer surgery done in 1998. Worked wonders. Supergirlfriend wears glasses normally, but just got contacts.
Just got contacts after 7 years of glasses. Only thing holding me back was the fear of poking myself in the eye. I’m over that now. I love my newfound peripheral (sp?) vision.
Until I get enough money to have an eye operation. But I doubt it because:
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I may never save enough money. Ok, so its only like $3000-5000, but I do not have that money, and all incoming money will be spent at university and survival.
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I sometimes have problems of dry eyes.
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I already know my myopia condition is out of bounds for those of those surgeries.
I prefer glasses for fear of poking my eye, and caring for it. I am…let’s say that my coordination is not very good, and I am afraid of stupidly losing $200.
Of course, right now I want better glasses. These are four years old.
Contacts.
I hated my glasses. I was constantly taking them off and putting them on all day.
Now I have contacts which I just stick in my eyes in the morning and take out at night.
Zev Steinhardt
At some point my self-esteem grew strong enough that I didn’t feel like I had to wear contacts to make myself look more attractive. I also realized I could sleep five minutes later since I didn’t have to mess around with contacts.
I happily surrender my peripheral vision for freedom from little bits of stuff getting stuck under my contacts and hurting and making my eyes water and get bloodshot.
glasses aged 12 - 16. Contact lenses (starting with the ‘hard ones’ :eek: ) then, until aged 35. Then started having multiple problems with my eyes, and have gone back to glasses ever since (age 46 now)
frankly at this point, as long as I can still see at all, I’m grateful, I tell ya.
Contacts if I am going somewhere. Even to the store. I have poked myself in the eye before and I thought I wanted to die. Good thing I got to my physician before it got worse. The stupid thing was was that I couldn’t see(pardon that) my eye doctor; I had to see my general physician. And even then I had to see the Nurse Practitioner. I like her better, but geez. If I were dying would my doctor see me? Anyway, my eye doctor is not open on Mondays. That sucks(for my eye anyway). 
Back to the subject. Had glasses since 5th grade, switched to contacts for my Junior High graduation. Love contacts, but don’t mind glasses. Cannot drive without contacts though. My blind spot is widened when I have glasses on. I also believe that although my prescription is correct for my glasses, they don’t let me see as clearly as my contacts. “Oh, was that McClintock? We were supposed to turn there, huh?” Of course, I don’t drive anyway, so who cares. Hee, hee. I am just a navigator.
Glasses, mostly, for the last few years. Contacts before that. After the kids were born it just seemed like too much trouble to keep up with all the rigamarole that goes along with contacts, and the solutions are expensive. I’m going for an eye exam, soon, though, and I might try contacts again.
Definately contacts. I will only wear my glasses when it is cold outside. I cannot stand wearing them when it is hot outside and I have to constantly push them up my nose.
I go back and forth between them. I started out with glasses, got contacts in college, then back to glasses. I prefer the contacts for the peripheral vision and all, but I’m so accustomed to wearing glasses that I still find myself going to push them up even though they’re not there!
I have disposable contacts that I take out every night and wear every day. I use the glasses at night when I want to read in bed (after taking out my contacts) or if I’m getting “bored” with my look.
Got glasses in 6th grade (my sister and childhood friend, Billi, called me “Simon” from Alvin and the Chipmunks based on my 6th grade picture).
Begged and begged and begged some more for contacts, which I got in 9th grade.
Went in the military and had to wear glasses (BC glasses aka birth control glasses - butt ugly black frames, totally in style now) through basic. Then had to pay for my own contacts (which were expensive!!) so I stuck with glasses for most of my military time.
Got out and have had contacts pretty much ever since.
Glasses for me. Can’t stand the thought of sticking stuff in my eyes. Plus, I like the flexibility of being able to put them on/take them off in a hurry (it probably helps that my vision isn’t all that bad). That, and I’m one of those odd people who considers themselves to look better with glasses than without them.
Glasses, but don’t like it.
Nearly always take them of,
if soemone wants to take a picture of me (right Montfort).
Have tryed contacts,
but couldn’t have it because of my allergy,
irritated my eyes to much.
Contacts for me, definitely. I had to start wearing glasses in second grade, and they quickly progressed to thick coke-bottle glasses, and I was teased mercilessly for the next 5 years, until I got contacts. Pissed me off, too. People who wouldn’t even acknowledge me when I had glasses would actually talk to me (usually to ask me for last night’s homework). I wear my glasses around the house or if I have to run out to the 7-11 for something quick. I feel like I’m behind a wall of glass when I wear my glasses, and sometimes I feel like an ugly kid with my glasses on, which is how I used to feel. It might help if I got some different glasses- the ones I own now are about 10 years old, real big, and real thick. I’m dying to get that new type of thin plastic lenses and frames that actually are flattering. Maybe someday soon… or that laser surgery to correct my gawdawful astigmatism.
I wear contacts unless I am reading in bed or something like that.
I just don’t like the way that glasses give you only partially corrected field of vision, with contacts you get an entirely corrected field of view. I like that.
Contacts here.
I used to have glasses and now I don’t even know where they are. I use Acuvue2 disposables. I keep them in constantly, which is really hard on my eyes but I havn’t had an infection in the past 11 years. They are really dry right before I go to sleep, that’s how I know when to go to bed, and really dry right when I wake up. If I took them out before I slept I wouldn’t have any problems with them.
I buy them at Costco(A discount warehouse) and a box of six pairs costs $30. That’s damn good deal considering a pair lasts me 2 weeks.
They dry out a fall off my eye and I lose them, when I’m inside it’s okay, but when I’m outside they’re long gone, especially swimming.
I love my contacts. I wore thick glasses from grade 2 to grade 7, at which point I convinced my mother I would curl up into a ball and die if I didn’t get contacts. I use those Acuvue2 contacts as well. I don’t take them out every day, probably every couple of days when I have time.
I just got a new pair of glasses. Since I only wear my glasses maybe five days a year, on bad allergy days, I hadn’t bought a new pair since 1988. I got the style that has fashionable slim oval lenses, which my friends assured me would be a big improvement over my gigantic old glasses. How do people wear those every day? When I have them on, there’s an area directly in front of me, about the size of a postage stamp, that is in focus. I’m sticking with my big dorky glasses that actually enable me to see. I don’t care if I look like someone from Square Pegs.
Glasses. I came into a little money a couple of years back, and brought two women (my wife and a friend) with me to go shopping for frames. The two pairs I have now both look great on me: a pair of lock-ons, and some perscription shades.
And I am never, ever going to even try laser surgery. Call me a weenie, but there you have it.
Of course, I’m probably biased because I can’t wear lenses. I live in a barn, with a LOT of dust; and I drove my doctor nuts when I got a scratched cornea a little while back with the sensitivity of my eyes. She couldn’t get enough dye to stay in my eye, as it kept washing away, even with nerve-deadener (her words, not mine) in it.
Only problem: a full face motorcycle helmet that lifts in front (so I can get it on over my glasses) cost me almost $1000. Ouch!
I’ve had contacts for approximately 3 weeks, after wearing glasses for ten years. I used to be afraid of poking myself in the eye, but I don’t care anymore. Someday, when I’m a rich, famous race car driver (har, har), I’ll get laser surgery…