For one thing, I haven’t gotten used to them. They feel uncomfortable.
For another, they’re trifocals. The top part is for distance, the bottom part is for reading. The middle part is just plain glass. That’s the part for medium distance objects, and where I live 95% of my life, including most computer work. The problem is, they still distort things, and working on a computer and other similar tasks are damn near impossible with them on. I can fully get through my work day without them. In fact I’m better off without them.
They work best for me if I’m reading or watching TV. And I only really need them for TV if I’m watching something with subtitles.
It was a relief to finally go from reading glasses to bifocals. I was always forgetting the reading glasses and leaving them places.
Of course, since I can get by without the bifocals if I’m not reading (I can read the computer monitor as well without them) I sometimes find that I’m at work while they’re at home. Mornings are not my strong suit.
Glasses. My cornea is too thin so am not eligible for LASIK. Wore contacts for years but I work in dehumidified environments now and all the moisture is sucked out of my eyes to the point that the contact was fused to my eyeball every night. Unbearable. My prescription’s terrible so need glasses for everything, but don’t mind wearing them anymore (hated them when I was a kid).
Glasses exclusively. Astigmatism too bad for contacts and am not a good candidate for laser surgery. And I have to wear my glasses all the time; cannot see the big letter at the top of the eye chart without them.
To answer the question immediately above, I slide the glasses up or down my nose as needed.
I used to wear contacts exclusively, but my eyes were itchy a lot, and dry, and I got a little tired of screwing around with it all the time. So now I’m glasses all the time. For nice occasions I will wear my contacts. But I went with the Transitions lenses in my glasses this time around, and honestly, though it sucks that they don’t help when I’m driving (because windshields generally block UV rays already), I am completely addicted to walking outside and within a minute or so, my glasses have already shifted to shades.
My eyes are still strong enough to get past the near-sightedness correction to be able to read up close. Which is how my eye doctor described it.
I don’t wear them 24/7, I do take them off to sleep and shower. But I am nearsighted and the glasses are correcting distance. However even things 2-3 feet away are blurry, so I wear them all the time. I can see the outline of things pretty well, but no definition. If I take my glasses off now I can see the brochures on the table about 6-8 feet away but have no hope of reading what they say.
Yes, if I put a piece of paper or a book at normal reading distance, I can read without them. It starts out very blurry, and then after about twenty minutes either my eyes compensate or I get used to it, and then I can actually go some time without my glasses if I need to.
I can do everything and anything with my glasses. I loved having contact lenses, because it was wonderful to be able to see everything with sharp edges without something on my face. I may go back to contact lenses again.
I’ve been mostly glasses for the last few years, thanks to lifestyle-- the ability to roll out of bed and be at work five minutes later is good, as is the ability to take impromptu naps in the middle of the day between classes, usually in my car. All possible with contacts, but they require a better care regimen than I can provide on such short notice. I already nearly went blind this year because of eye problems, I don’t want to risk problems from improper contact use.
That said, I do wear contacts, especially for nights out, and will probably be increasing contact in the short term.
Started wearing glasses in 1st grade, switched to soft lenses when I was 14 or 15, and wore those until a couple years ago (around when I turned 40) when I was diagnosed with Keratoconus, “a degenerative disorder of the eye in which structural changes within the cornea cause it to thin and change to a more conical shape than its normal gradual curve.” (from Wikipedia)
Now I have to wear Rigid Gas Permeable (RGP), which kinda suck. Less comfortable (I generally didn’t feel the soft ones at all, but I can feel these). Also have to take them out at night. They’re expensive, almost $300 each, they pop out occasionally, and I lost one once. And ironically, they are sometimes tough to remove at night.
No, no I’m not. And maybe “admission of defeat” was too strong a choice of words. What I meant to say was, “Wearing them means I have admitted to myself that I have a real problem instead of trying to fake my way through it.”
I wear prescribed glasses for driving but don’t wear them unless I’m actually driving or watching TV. I don’t really need glasses for reading (yet) but I do a lot of detailed work with tiny components so I picked up a pair of cheap OTC reading glasses to help with that.
I wear reading glasses on occasion, mostly in poor light or when my eyes are tired. I’m 46, and have needed them for the past year or two.
I’ve had a prescription for an astigmatism, affecting my distance vision, for a year now, but haven’t yet had it filled. When he gave me the prescription, my opthalmologist said, “you could correct it with glasses, but if you can read road signs and see the scoreboard at a ballgame without a problem, don’t worry about it yet.”
I use two-week contacts. For something like 10 years I’ve left them in for two weeks, taken them out for a day or two every other weekend, and popped new ones in and went about my business.
On my last visit a couple months ago, the optometrist spazzed when I described my lens-wearing habit. Supposedly you’re never supposed to sleep with contacts in, since the lack of oxygen caused by both lens and eyelids is detrimental. This even includes biweekly or monthly lens.
I gave him a :dubious: and agreed to take taking them out more often, but habit is a hard thing to break. I love not having to clean my contacts.
But I am nearsighted and the glasses are correcting distance. However even things 2-3 feet away are blurry, so I wear them all the time. I can see the outline of things pretty well, but no definition. If I take my glasses off now I can see the brochures on the table about 6-8 feet away but have no hope of reading what they say.