My biggest problem is sport. I get really irritated at the way my glasses jiggle up and down or threaten to slide off my nose as soon as I start running about and get sweaty. I tried contacts but I kept getting little eye problems. For swimming I mostly keep my glasses on and my head out of the water. But I do have prescription goggles - we buy them off the rack here and it isn’t expensive.
I know where everything is at home so I can walk around without glasses just fine. But if I ever mislay my glasses I need help, or another pair of glasses to find the missing pair. I always carry a spare when travelling
I once had to share a shower with 30 other guys in a dorm-like setting. There was one pole with 8 or 9 shower heads facing in all directions, so you got a panoramic view of 30 guys’ soapy junk. I took off my glasses and saw nothing but white and pink blobs. It was the one time in my life I was glad that I’m near-blind without my glasses.
I always keep my glasses near at hand, but every once in a while I’ll knock them off the nightstand or mistakenly leave them in bed before falling asleep. Trying to find them in the morning looks quite comical, I’m sure. I have my face two inches from the ground while I lightly pat the floor in all directions desperately. I don’t actually know what I’d do if I couldn’t find them. I almost literally can do nothing without them.
No, scuba and snorkel goggles will not fit over your glasses. They fit tight to your face and need to seal. You can get lens put in your scuba mask; I was lucky on my trip to Hawaii that the local snorkel shop had prescription masks for rental. I rented their -10 diopter mask (they had only one).
My dad always had special prescription goggles made so he could play wild, flailing basketball. It worked but the goggles were pretty funny looking. (And the elasticized headband strap was always stiff from perspiration. Eww.)
Another legally-blind without corrective lenses here. I was so relieved when my new contacts case came colour-coded for rights and lefts; I used to have to practically kiss the counter to be able to read the R and L on my old case.
I tend to wear my contacts pretty much 24/7 just to avoid having to wander around without. I can get around, it’s just a huge hassle, especially if I’m not at home, but you learn to deal through experience. If you’ve seen a certain colour and shape blob enough times, you can usually infer what it is based on context, but it’s always a guess and I’d have to get within a couple feet to really tell.
For instance, sitting at my desk right now, maybe 2-3 feet from the computer screen - If I take my glasses off, I can’t read the text on the screen, even with squinting.
C’est la vie.
I think people with good vision overestimate the bother and handicap of needing lenses. I’ve needed glasses since about age 12.
Though I did wear contacts for about a decade, I also wore glasses a large part of the time. I’m no longer allowed to wear contacts (stupid work rule, chemistry lab) so I’ve worn glasses exclusively for about seven years.
People that haven’t worn glasses may wonder - isn’t it a bother? Don’t you constantly feel them on your face? Aren’t the frames in your peripheral vision a bother?
For me at least, the answer is no. I simply don’t notice them. It does take about a week wearing glasses, but after that I simply don’t notice them and the “glasses POV” seems like normal vision.
As for how you function without glasses, e.g. in the shower - well, in my case, at least, it’s not as though I’m blind. I still see colors and shapes just fine. This is sufficient for showering. I can find the soap, shampoo, loofah, etc. just fine by color and shape.
As for misplacing my glasses - yeah, I do do that all the time. But I have two replacement pairs (old frames; my prescription hasn’t changed since high-school) so if I ever really lose my current pair I can put on an old pair to help find them
Oh and there are things I can donwith my eyes closed, like go to the bathroom to pee and then back to bed. For those things, I don’t bother trying to find my glasses.
This reminds me that I am lucky to have a sweetie who apparantly doesn’t mind that I am a female who basically shaves blind, so by feel. Bad enough for a guy, I am sure, but try increasing the real estate of what you’re trying to mow to about 30 percent of your skin surface and then doing it with your eyes closed.
And THIS reminds me that being basically blind is a godsend at public hot springs
Not so much that I don’t want to watch <'cause I do!> but I’m shy…and if everyone else in the pool or spring is nekkid, then so will I be. I take my glasses off and it’s amazing; I can’t see them so they can’t see me! It’s awesome!
The hardest is social interactions. When a face is a blob, you can’t read their emotions or be sure you are looking in their eyes. It is a disconcerting experience.
I am -8 in one eye and -10 in the other. I survive. I pretty much don’t ever go without corrective lenses, either glasses or contacts. I’ve discovered when it comes to pools and beaches, I’d rather just laze on the towel with my glasses and people watch rather than deal with swimming.
I did have some funny moments when for various reasons I’d go a week or so in a semester wearing only glasses and freak out all the people who had no idea I needed vision correction.
My sister had a retinal detachment at 19 so I’m all paranoid about that. She and my dad also both have glaucoma and the two of them and my little brother have or had cataracts so you know, we’re just a family of fucked up eyes.
Respirator glasses. 2 types, the kind Rob got issued by the Navy, and the kind that fit inside the mask that I used to have, I can’t find them online but they were reverse pince nez - they squoze outwards instead of inwards so they wedged themselves inside the mask. Veru comfy.
Ah =) those $75 prescription goggles go up to -10 and down to +5 … so you do have an affordable option. You can get -8 in one eye and -10 in the other =)
Now I just gotta figure out which eye is which and learn to be ok with looking like a goggled dork the whole time I’m at the beach. (I’m really ok with just sunning myself and looking at the cuties.)
I wonder how do people put on contacts then? Wear glasses, ready contact on finger, then take off glasses and place contact? Disposable contacts come in only 1 packaging, how do you differentiate between left and right? Contacts can also be “inverted”, if you put them on like that, they’ll be uncomfortable, but you can still see.
My contacts can’t be inverted, because they’re rigid gas permeables; they’re not soft enough to flip inside out. As for the rest, I generally wear my glasses while I wash the right contact (the left lens case stays closed so I can’t accidentally spill it). When the right one is clean and rinsed, I take off my glasses and put in the contact. Then I wash, rinse and insert the left one. When I take them out, I fill the lens case with the soaking solution, take out the right one, put it in the case and close the right side, then take out the left, put it in the case and close the left side. Always right, then left. Always keep the side I’m not holding in my hand closed to avoid spills. It’s just habit now.
I don’t need to look at the contact to put it in; I just know after so many years where my finger needs to be to hit the right spot. If I’m off by a little bit, the first blink moves the contact into the proper position.
In my case, the right contact has a little tiny black dot, just in case I do somehow mix them up. Also, if I were to switch them accidentally, my eyes are different enough that I wouldn’t be able to see quite right, and I’d switch them.
With soft contacts, that’s pretty much what I do, only before I put one in, I inspect it very closely to make sure it isn’t inverted. Those transparent numbers are pretty easy to see if they’re an inch from your face, and it makes it easy to spot stray bits o’ fluff and dust too. The rest I can do pretty much by feel, no sight needed.
My eyes are -6.5 and -7.75. I can do nothing without glasses or lenses.
I am an arms length away from the screen right now and if I remove my glasses see a white screen with a blue line across it. I can’t see any text, it’s all gone. I shave by feel in the shower and do not swim at the beach or pool unless I am wearing contacts.
I have most of the same issues as everyone else here and panic sets in if I cannot find my glasses within 5 seconds of waking.
The thing that you may not think of though is this: when I don’t have my glasses or lenses in I cannot hear what people are saying to me. I must rely an awful lot on lip reading and body language. My ears have been tested and my hearing is close to perfect. It isn’t an auditory problem.
I see a lot of people here with my same issues I can’t really see anything further than an inch or two from the tip of my nose clearly, I also have floaters and was wondering if anybody else here also have floaters in your vision (floaters are like little dark sometimes long worm looking things that will show up in your sight especially in the day on a bright day) and is\was at age 19 with a -10 D eye sight here if so how bad has your vision gotten since then?
^^^ last sentence was suppose to say if any body here the age 19 or around that age or if at age 19 you had - 10 D eyesight and if so how bad has it gotten over the years and why have a lot of you stop using contacts?
