They examined her eyes at the time and they were the shape that should have been able to see, but she couldn’t. Now they really are extremely the wrong shape. So they either made a mistake at the time or it’s not a coincidence that she lost her clear vision after being traumatized.
I found one article on eyesight and depression but it seemed a little kooky so I won’t cite it here.
You probably won’t care, but just so you know, they make soft contacts in a much larger range now. You can even get them for people like me, so it’s pretty likely that you could wear soft contacts if you wanted to try them out.
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You were doing a really good job of the ‘contact-lens-salesperson’ role until then :eek:!
Ditto for me. I’ve been wearing glasses for almost 42 years now. For 13 years as a young man wore contacts, but gave up when I couldn’t handle the irritation anymore. Got examined for Lazik but was told it would not work for me. The doctor then pitched a lense replacement surgery that would basically implant contacts in my eyes, at the tune of about $5,000.00 per eye! I asked him what happens when my perscription changes in a year? (which it has since I was a kid) He said “Then you’d need a new operation.” No thanks, I’ll stick to glasses. My insurance covers all but $50 of that.
Oddly enough, my perscription has not changed in the last 2 years.
I’ve gotten quite used to them and have done many sport martial arts with them.
I love my glasses. I was diagnosed with optic nueritis (sp?) several years ago.
I used to have perfect vision, then one day I noticed I wasn’t able to read the paper. Or paint or do crafts. Because I couldn’t see anything up close. My opthamologist found that my right eye had become very far-sighted. So I have prescription glasses with just glass in the left eye, and a tri-focal lense in the right eye. I can still read and do close-up work, and I’m grateful for that.
Sometimes I consider getting a monocle. How very dashing that would be! It’s like a big ole contact lense, right??
Nearsighted, with astigmatisms.
The same exact thing happened to me, except that it was my late 20s. I had glasses until age 17, switched entirely to contacts, and then suddenly one day I couldn’t wear them for the entire day. And not long after that, I couldn’t wear them at all.
Toric (astigmatism) lenses have improved a lot over just the last few years, so I actually own some again, and can wear them comfortably for 4 to 6 hours at a time. I’m so used to the glasses at this point, I hardly ever bother, except for swimming and the occasional special event.
I got fitted (or whatever the appropriate term is) with contacts once, but the sensation totally squicked me out. I’m also entirely too lazy to properly maintain contacts, so I’m better off sticking with glasses.
I got contacts at age 12 in the hope that they would halt my myopia. I couldn’t get used to them, but my eye dr. said if I could wear them just a few hours a week it would still help.
Then I discovered I could not pass the eye test to get a driver’s license with just my glasses. Suddenly I got used to contact lenses and have been wearing them ever since.
I would get Lasik but I would have to go without my contacts for…a month? (Might have been six weeks.) I just couldn’t do that. That would mean I couldn’t drive for a month!
You know that crazy machine that puffs air in your eyes? No.
Stuff isn’t supposed to touch my eyes.
I’ve worn glasses since I was 4. The slight pressure of them on my nose and ears is like a security blaket now. If they break and I have to go a day or two without them I feel naked, or like I’ve lost something. Also, I don’t know about the prices these days, but when I was considering contacts as a teenager I found that mine would be far more expensive than normal ones because I have astigmatism. My budget is tight enough.
I wore glasses initially starting at 25 (I am 46 now), entirely for astigmatism. My vision was otherwise 20/20 or close to it. I chose glasses because at the time contacts did not handle astigmatism well. I grew to accept glasses as part of my experience, and really don’t mind them now, and in fact like them.
I’m old enough now that I have presbyopia, and I have a “reading” pair of glasses as well as a “distance” pair, but I can use the “distance” set for anything except stuff like reading the letters on a lightbulb, and I’m typing this message using that pair.
Peripheral vision is not an issue for me – I can see without glasses! but I choose not to because it gives me a headache. I really can see fairly well when not wearing lenses; I can drive without glasses, but I don’t like to do so. Velociraptors will need to come at me from behind if they want an advantage.
They do this test every time I go to the eye doctor because i have glaucoma. I find it is much easier than the puff of air test. I don’t even feel them touching my eye, and I am lucky that I have no problems with blinking when I shouldn’t
I can’t see a thing beyond a two-foot radius without my glasses, and have minimal perif. vision anyway. I had surgery at the age of 2 to “pull” my eyes into place (born cross-eyed), but on a good day I’m blind as a bat.
I’m terrified about anything getting too close to my eyes, so contacts (and eye drops, and that horrible vision test with the light) are right out. I used theatrical contacts with my Halloween costume, thinking that after 30 years of glasses perhaps I should make an attempt to get over my fear (and how hard could it be?). Took one of my coworkers to get the darn things in, and once they were out I swore never again. I work outside a good bit of the time with various animals and EBD children, so glasses are a bit safer anyway from a cleanliness point of view.
True story: I went a few months ago to get a new pair of glasses and to have an overall checkup, as I’d noticed a significant increase in problems walking down stairs. The doc did the exam, expressed shock at my lack of perif. vision, stated my stair issue was a depth perception problem and I “should try to not look at the stairs while going down them” and sent me out to pick out my new frames. When my glasses came in, I immediately noticed a big problem with the 'scrip- if I looked straight ahead, there wasn’t a problem. If I tried to move, or look anywhere other than straight ahead, it was like I’d been on a three-day bender. I gave it a week, couldn’t stand it, and went back to the doc. This unbelievable exchange took place:
Doc: What exactly is the issue?
Me: I can’t look anywhere but straight ahead; if I try anything else, it’s all blurry and makes me a little seasick.
Doc: Now, I’m not trying to be insulting, but why do you need to look out the side of your glasses?
Me: 
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Doc: I mean, if I need to look at something to the side, I turn my head. I don’t typically look out the side of my eye.
Me: Well, if you’ll recall, I have nearly non-existent PV, so I move my eyes around a good bit to compensate. In fact, you’re the one who pointed that out. Also, I work with EBD children. It’s typically not a good idea to look straight-on at them, because 1) they tend to take it as a threat or a challenge, and 2) if they seem to be doing something wrong, I like to observe the behavior for a moment without drawing attention to the fact that that’s what I’m doing. It’s why I wear sunglasses the majority of the time; you’d be amazed at what they think they can get away with when they don’t realize your head can be facing in one direction and your eyes in another.
Doc: Oh. Good point. Let’s take another look, then.
Turns out that because the doc had refused to dilate my eyes at the previous visit (because I didn’t have a driver with me), my scrip was WAAAAAYYY off. New scrip, new glasses, no problems. Except for the fact that apparently that eye doc was an idiot. :rolleyes:
Glasses wearer for 20 years now, just like a lot of people here I started wearing them in school. I never wanted contacts, the thought of touching my eyeball with a plastic disc, no thanks, no thanks. If I ever get vain I suppose I could go for laser eye surgery.
You’re not ok with putting plastic in your eyes, but it’s fine to have someone cut your cornea with a scapel?
Well, it’s the difference between you touching your eyes daily vs. a trained physician working on them once. Some people can’t handle touching their eyes, getting contacts in, etc.
I can understand that. For me, I guess it’s the opposite. I can touch my eyeball and swirl my finger around without feeling any hint of ickiness, but when I think of peeling back the flap of cornea to shoot lasers under it, I get a little oozy inside.
I’m with you. I hate glasses. I cannot drive in them because of the blurry peripheral vision freaks me out. They fog up in the cold and slip off in the sweltering heat.
I’ve been wearing contacts since 8th grade and I am very used to them now. I have astigmatism and the toric lenses that I toss every 2 weeks are the perfect solution. I love them. I’ve considered Lasik, but contacts work out so well for me.
When I was younger, I wore the old fashioned hard contact lenses. Eventually I wore them 24/7. Slept in them, showered, swam, everything. As I mentioned earlier it took 13 years before I started to get irritated with them and then it was bang! Couldn’t wear them.
I need glasses to function. I have worn contacts and loved them. After chemo my eyes just seemed to be constantly too dry, just sort of almost irritated but not quite, to even think about contacts. I’d have the laser surgery in a heartbeat if I could afford it. I don’t mind my glasses. Sometimes they bug me, especially trying to read or watch tv whilst lying on my side. I get the polarised lenses, light weight, flex frames.
I have excellent peripheral vision but wear glasses. I had contacts for a couple of years in late high school/early college and I simply hated them. They make my eyes WAY more light sensitive and I can always feel them. The feeling of having something in my eye is really repulsive to me, and life’s too short to feel constantly creeped out.
Prescription glasses and sunglasses and I’m happy as a 20/15 clam.