I'm 24 and I just found out I need glasses

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Bah. You people with your near-perfect vision pretending to be short-sighted just draw attention away from us genuine mole-people. :smiley:
My contact lenses are now -10.5 / -11.0, and I think my specs are something like -11.75 / -12.25 :cool:

With a prescription as low as yours, glasses should be pretty affordable providing you don’t go overboard on the designer frames, and you’ll probably notice a significant reduction in tiredness, headaches etc when driving, watching movies, etc. Seriously, don’t try to do without, give your eyes a treat. After you have got used to them you’ll wonder how you managed without.

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Definitely get the glasses. My eyes weren’t that bad when I got my first pair in early junior high, but I was amazed when I wore them outside for the first time. Trees a couple hundred feet away were no longer amorphous green blobs but made up of individual leaves! I couldn’t believe how much sharper everything looked. Of course, being a vain teenager I wore them as little as possible outside the home until my parents deemed me fit for contacts.

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I’m 21 and have been wearing glasses since kindergarden. Until 19 I had to get a new pair every year. In addition to new lenses this meant new frames since I couldn’t go without them long anough for new lenses. I’m nearsighted and farsighted. 20/200 in one eye and 20/220 in the other. I tried wearing contacts, but in 3 months I was only able to put them in without help twice. I’m not a candidate for LASIK, but have signed up for a varient on cataract surgery where contact lenses will be surgically implanted in my eyes.

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…though I suspected I have for a few years, now. (well, “need” miught be too strong a word…“could benefit from” might be more fitting.) Having to squit and lean forward a lot whilst sitting in the back of the classroom trying to take notes, while those sitting next to me seemed to not need to, kind of clued me in that my vision went a bit downhill since my last vision test in high school. Upon graduation and going off to see the world, it didn’t matter, what with a lot less of my time dedicated to sitting in the back of a room trying to read what some old guy was writing on a projector. But, being back in school, I am once again reminded that I can’t see as well as those next to me, so I scheduled an eye exam and just got done with it today.

The result? I have mild astigmatism, which is a bit worse in my left eye than my right. When he started the test, I could barely read the last line on his little chart with my right, and barely read the next to the last one with my left. With the fancy vision-corrector thingy in front of my face, I was able to go three more lines down (it was projected onto the wall, so what was the last line when we started ended up being the third to last after he scrolled in some tinier lines.)

I don’t know anything about what an eye-presription looks like, but my OD is -.25 for sphere, -0.50 for cylinder, and 180 for axis. My OS is +0.25 sphere, -125 cyclinder, and 7 axis (anyone feel like telling me what these numbers actually mean?)

I still haven’t decided if I’m actually going to go ahead and get glasses. They cost money, I’d probably forget them places, and as said, the only time it’s ever a problem is a few times in class when I can’t read a few random words in the notes the prof. puts on screen. Though, on the other hand, I might look damn sexy in a spiffy set of frames, and that’s always a plus. :smiley:
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I vote that you get 'em and wear 'em. You’ll see better, I guarantee. Besides, if I’ve gotta wear 'em I want company! :wink: Go to someplace like Sears that has a $99 special or something like that, get a pair that you like and try them out. If you don’t like them (which I think you will), no harm, no foul and you’re not out a lot of money. If you find they really help your eyes, save up and buy an “upgraded” pair if you’re a fashion junkie.

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Not being sure about getting glasses, if you have vision problems, is like not being sure about getting car insurance, if you have a car.