I think I had -4.50 in both eyes and I had no problems. My friend had WORSE vision and they did his eyes too so you should be fine. By the way, my glasses were not very thick but I did have to pay extra for thin lenses.
Oh and Cranky:
I think they can accommodate larger pupils now. If you’re interested, go get your eyes checked by one of the laser surgery places. The first exam should be free and they do several tests to see if you’re a good candidate.
contacts.
Mmmm…contacts.
Now, my mom HATES contacts. So I never even thought about them until my eye doctor had some spare time one day (and i didn’t feel any true need to scurry back to school) So he dropped some contacts in. I was instantly in love. no way was I leaving that office in glasses. As far as I was concerned, I didn’t need to put on glasses ever again.
I refused to put on glasses for years after. I have since only worn glasses when my contacts were still packed from moving.
I love the suckers. Eventually my astigmatism might get bad enough I can’t wear soft onces anymore. I will then get lasered.
I love contacts. I wore glasses for years, but contacts are so much more convenient. I never have to worry about losing/breaking my glasses! I have full peripheral vision! I can buy any pair of cheap, stylish, nonprescription sunglasses I want on a whim! When I go swimming, I can wear standard, cheap goggles and still see! (That last one is important in a triathlon - I can’t imagine what it would be like trying to find my bike out of 1000 in the transition area after the swim without glasses on.)
I used to fear putting things in my eye but trust me, you get over it. Within 2 weeks, I was popping them in and out like nobody’s business.
I had mine done about three years ago (cost wasn’t a factor…I conned my insurance company into paying for it…hehehehe). They still did it one eye at a time. And I was in a LOT of pain for a few days after. That’s why they prescribed Percodan. God, what a wonderful drug…
I’m the same way. I’ve worn corrective lenses for 25 years, and have lost count how many times I’ve switched. Right now I’m wearing glasses.
The biggest problem with contacts, other than the cost and the time wasted putting them in, is that I have to tote around the following wherever I go:
Contact cleaner (multipuropse)
Contact case
Hi Opal!
Glasses
Glasses case
Why? Because when I wore contacts, one of them (on occasion) would irritate my eye, and I’d have to remove both and wear glasses. So I had to lug around all the crap. And that sucked.
Because I have advanced keratoconus, I don’t really have a choice in vision correction. I wear rigid gas permeable lenses in both eyes (right cornea was transplanted back in 1997).
When I first wake up, and before bed I wear glasses…but they just prevent me from bumping into walls…not much visual acuity.
Lasik (or any other refractive surgery) is contraindicated for kc patients…who already have thinning corneas.
Glasses since 5th grade – switched to contacts this year (I’m 22 now) and I can’t imagine going back. I always thought “Who the hell wants to stick stuff in their eyes?” and I remembered all the troubles my mom went through with her contacts, but I wear Acuvue Torics and they couldn’t be easier. Pop 'em in when I wake up, pull 'em when I go to sleep, toss 'em after 30 days.
and Voice:
You get over it really quickly. I don’t even feel them anymore.
p.s. My first post, and it’s about contacts. I always thought it would be sex.
Glasses, until they get implantable contacts working right. I live far too active a lifestyle to ever consider
contacts, and I’m too young and my vision is still changing so LASIK and friends would be wasted - I’d have to have it
done again in ten years.
The implantable contacts are really quite the trick,
except they’re still experimental so you can’t just
go and have them put in. More expensive than LASIK, too,
but at least you can take them out if you need to. Can’t
bring back burnt cornea.
-Ben
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Don’t think that is physically possible . . however what does suck is whenver the contact decides not to lay flat and bunches up and slides into a corner of your eyeball! Pain in the ass! I have to quickly plant myself in front of a mirror and try to find it and dig it out of my own eye! Asking a friend to help locate it is loads of fun too . . 
For people who are oogy about contacts, but asked if one can get over it … I really do agree with balance that you will most likely get desensitized to this after a while, even as short as a week or two of wearing contacts.
The coolest thing about contacts is that when I put them in, I barely even touch my eye. As soon as the contact gets near my eyeball, it practically jumps off my finger. Does this happen to anyone else?
Taking them out involves more eyeball touching, but it’s literally for about a second. Even when I was a wild party girl with inch long fingernails, I learned to put them in and take them out with my knuckles.
My vision is so bad that when I wear glasses, I can’t see well enough to find my glasses in the first place. There have been so many times where I would wander around the bedroom looking for them, when in fact they were on the nightstand exactly where I left them, or even worse, I would knock them off the nightstand while I was groping around for them. I love my extended wear contacts mostly because I can wake up and actually SEE.
Contacts. I went on strike in grade 9 and refused to wear my glasses. I wanted contacts. My dad finally gave in, well, a few years later. I really do need a pair of glasses. My last new pair was 17 years ago, and I certainly don’t have them now. It would be nice to see the tv from the couch in the evenings (I can only wear my contacts for 6-8 hours or so, and I’m legally blind in one eye). It’s on my list of things to do. I did try a few pairs on recently, and I suddenly remembered why I quit wearing them. I do not have a face for glasses.
Back when I still wore glasses I was doing some work in the garage, bumped into something and my glasses got knocked off! After groping around for a few minutes trying to find them with no luck I had to go into the house and find an old pair of glasses with an old prescription. Thank God I knew where I had them or I’d really be screwed. I went back to the garage to look for the lost glasses and of course they were right where they fell. I was lucky I didn’t step on them!
When I was having my eye problems that caused me to switch back to glasses in the first place – keratitis – I couldn’t wear contacts for several days. I did not have an up-to-date pair of glasses handy, so I wore the pair I had worn almost a decade-and-a-half ago. God knows why I still had those old glasses (in an easy-to-find location, no less), but I’m glad I did.