I have extremely bad vision–the E on the chart doesn’t even come into it. I’ve been wearing glasses since kindergarten, so I guess I’m just used to it. Like Solfy, I dislike the smears and having them on my face more than the blurs around the edges.
I wore contacts for years, and still wear them when I can, but that’s less than half the time. I had a severe allergic reaction to contacts a few years ago, had to leave them alone for a while, got a different kind, but my eyes get tired quickly and I can’t wear them for long periods of time.
What I really hate is when I lose my glasses. I never misplace them, of course, but if they happen to fall down or get knocked away I’m in big trouble and have to call for help.
I have hi-index lenses, which makes them much thinner, but I still get a fun prismatic effect at the edges. That’s kind of entertaining. Those very dark blue LEDs drive me crazy, though, they really move around a lot.
A big advantage to being so near-sighted is being able to see right up close. When I get cataracts and get my vision fixed, I’ll probably go for a small correction (-3 diopters or so) to keep a bit of that. I’m not a candidate for LASIK or anything like that.
Oh yes, me too. The puff thing I can just about cope with, but I hate eye drops. Contacts are out of the question. (Plus they’re expensive, and a palaver).
I rarely get smudges on my glasses; when I clean them it’s because of general dust being on them. I mean, I just… don’t touch the glass part.
I’m completely used to glasses and don’t even notice I can’t see clearly peripherally; like others have said, I can still detect motion there, and that’s what’s important.
Unless I absolutely had to, you couldn’t get me to switch to contacts. Glasses are an accessory (even if I have the same pair for a couple of years) and I have small, deep-set eyes. I feel I look much better with glasses than without. If I ever did have laser surgery, I’d get a fake pair of glasses to keep wearing. Seriously.
That doesn’t bother me. The alternative though—which is that they hold something resembling a fat pencil a quarter inch from your eye and ask you not to blink (wait, you have to do that twice?)–freaks me out.
Eye drops don’t bother me much, but there’s at least one kind (used for eye dilation) that gives me problems.
We have an alternate method of eye pressure testing, but I’m not sure it’s an improvement for you. Numbing drop goes in the eye (it might be given in the sequence of dilation drops rather than specially just for this), then I grab a “fat pen”-resembling thing, hold your lids open so you don’t blink, then tap lightly on the front of your eye with the pen-thing (Tonopen).
I’ve worn glasses for going on 14 years now. Usually do the contacts for special occasions or when going out. They tend to bother me a lot when at work and in front of a PC screen. So I wear my glasses most of the time when at home or at work.
And I’m frankly tired of the whole thing. I’m saving up for laser surgery. And If I had more balls I’d sign up with one of those “one eye for free” places right this second.
Probably wouldn’t be. For one, it’s mainly having it that close to my eye that bothers me. Two, I wouldn’t be surprised if the drops that bother me (and when I say bother, I mean I feel like I’m about to pass out and/or puke) are being used. Just blow on my eyeball already.
I tried contacts for nearly a year, they just didn’t work out for me. Half the time when I would put them in, my eyes would flare up into horrible watery itchy redness.
They were just more trouble than they were worth.
I might think about laser surgery at some point, but I’ve heard an awful lot of horror stories.
I think this is the problem, too. People go in so much for fashion that they wear these tiny little glasses. Well of course you can’t see anything. I’m not saying you shouldn’t buy stylish looking glasses, but you should try a happy medium.
I have no idea what you’re talking about. I have quite bad vision and I’ve worn glasses since I was 11. I don’t notice not being able to see out the sides of my head. How far do your eyes rotate to the side? Are you wearing teeny-tiny glasses?
well, I’m glad I read this thread, because I was genuinely curious about why anybody would wear glasses ever. I got my first pair of glasses in sixth grade, and then my first pair of contacts in 9th grade. I switched over to contacts because I have very sensitive skin, and the glasses were were causing really ugly sores on my cheeks and behind my ears, where the glasses rested.
I didn’t have a pair of glasses for years because I had to choose between buying contacts and updating my lenses in my frames. Now I recently got a new pair of glasses to have as back-up (and contacts I can wear a week at a time! WOO!) and I hate the things. I hate how dirty they get even though nothing is touching them. I hate how I can only see through what seems like tiny little squares (though the glasses aren’t that tiny). I hate the way they irritate my ears.
I’ve had glasses for about 50 years, and have never had problems with them. Judging from my ability to avoid idiots on the freeway, my peripheral vision is pretty good also. I briefly considered contacts when I was 20 or so, but every girlfriend I had with them seemed to spend an inordinate time cleaning them and fussing with them. Now I have progressive lenses. My wife need them also, and her contacts were good for closeup in one eye and distance in the other. It was claimed that this works, but I’m dubious.
At this point my glasses are part of me, and you’d have to pry them out of my cold, dead hands.
Out of curiosity, do you know which drop it is? I’ve never seen a patient react like that to drops, but I don’t see as many patients as the doctors do. I know where I work, we use proparacaine, then tropicamide, then phenylephrine; the first is a ‘numbing’ drop, and the other two are dilation drops.
Edit: It wouldn’t have been a drop that has a yellow tint to it, would it? (You’d notice if you wiped with a tissue and there was a yellow tinge left behind.)
I’ve worn glasses for 35 years. I never notice the edges are out of focus.
Peripheral vision isn’t clear for anyone - you never see somebody reading a book over there. It just detects motion and my uncorrected vision is good enough to catch somebody walking up at my side.
As to “why not contacts”? I just can’t see doing that - poking myself in the eye daily. My glasses have never floated around the back of my eyeball. My glasses have never done any of the crap that I see contact wearers suffering from (although there is the very rare “lens popping out” problem).
Vision surgery isn’t an option, either. Back when RK was the rage, I met a guy that it went wrong on. He had to wear coke bottle glasses that distorted his whole face just to correct for that bad procedure. These are the only eyes I have and I just can’t see risking them in this way. Besides, every pair of glasses I get are stronger than the previous pair. If I was made perfect by the laser, I’d need glasses in a couple years just to correct for my usual “drift”.
Yup, it was. I don’t know which drop it is (Mom tried to pry the information out of the doctor’s office–they wouldn’t give it) but it’s happened twice.
I like glasses because they’re inexpensive relative to contacts, they’re easy to clean (just get the dirt off, no sterilization required), and it’s really easy to remember to remove them when I go to bed. Glasses also help mitigate my otherwise slack-jawed-yokel appearance.
I’m farsighted with astigmatism, but my peripheral vision is adequate without correction.
I have tiny glasses, because otherwise my lenses get really thick. I don’t notice the blurred areas to the sides. If you move fast enough all danger comes at you from the front.
