So I am just curious as to who here wears glasses, contacts, has had eye surgery, has fine eye sight without needing the items mentioned previously, etc.
From first grade until I was 16, I had worn glasses. Then when I was 16 I switched to contacts, as I felt they made me look much more attractive. Now, at 28, I am thinking about making the switch back to glasses, though I sometimes worry that I won't feel happy this way, as perhaps I am just too vain and think I look too ugly wearing glasses.
Last week I ended up getting an eye infection, and I had had an eye infection a year previously, both times relating to the proper cleaning of my contacts. Now, something is amiss, since I never had problems from age 16 until now, and then suddenly have problems close together. But the doctor was concerned that the bacteria could end up damaging my eye, and it scared me enough to think about ditching contacts altogether.
Not really looking for advice, since it is a personal decision that I have to make, but just curious as to what everyone else here uses.
Glasses here since ninth grade (14 years old). Didn't really start wearing them until college, though, since I thought they looked dumb. I figured that in college nobody would know me anyway, so if no one knew what I had looked like prior to wearing glasses then they couldn't look dumb on me :-[
I don't think I could wear contacts, since I get really freaked out about putting things in my eyes.
I had glasses since fifth grade for seeing distance. I got glasses around 2004 if I'm correct.
I'm lucky to have great vision, so i don't need any glasses... ate lot of carrots in the childhood... ;D
but in my family dad is wearing glasses and sister is on contacts... 8)
I have a prescription for glasses, but only wear them a few times a year, only when I really need them. At college, if I can't see something written on the board, I will put them on only when I need to see, and then take them off. And when I used to live in the suburbs with my parents, I used glasses when I did driving lessons because I needed them to legally drive safely! I'm not ashamed of my glasses at all, people really like them on me. I just prefer not to have them on because I find having nothing on my face is comfortable :D
I would get laser surgery when I'm older and can afford it.
I wear glasses and think they look good on me. I have needed them since I was young, but only got them 3 or so years ago.
I've got excellent eyesight. I had 20/20 vision throughout childhood and into at least my young adulthood. I think they've started to slip a little in the last five years, but at this rate I shouldn't even have to think about corrective lenses until middle age.
I don't mean to brag, but I am very pleased with my fortunes on this as I'm a very visual person: reading, video games, movies, etc. I've long thought that blindness would probably be the most horrible disability that could ever happen to me.
I have one eye thats short sighted and one thats far sighted and somehow that balances out my vision so I don't need glasses. Some people I know that wear glasses look weird to me without them :P
Quote from: security16 on April 27, 2014, 10:38:21 pm
I have one eye thats short sighted and one thats far sighted and somehow that balances out my vision so I don't need glasses. Some people I know that wear glasses look weird to me without them :P
There is a woman I work with who looks weird when she doesn't wear her glasses. She always wears glasses to work, but then she wears contacts I think primarily on the weekend. I might start going this route, only wearing contacts when I go out.
I see sharper then most people. So no need for glasses, laser or contacts.. :o
i have had glasses since grade 2. vision is progressively getting worse and am starting to think about lasik, but unfortunately dont have $4,000 kicking around
Had glasses for near-sightedness since I was 10, when we discovered that I couldn't see what was written on the blackboard in school anymore. I guess I played too much games. Now I have pretty strong glasses (though they are well made so they don't look very thick) and I wouldn't be able to do much without them. I've considered contacts but I'm so used to glasses and people are used to see me in glasses, so I never really bothered with it.
Wore glasses for awhile about 2 decades ago, but now I recently started wearing them again and it does make a big difference for me.
Yeah my glasses are really thick too, and they are old. I've decided that once I get paid, I will buy a new pair of glasses and frames, something a bit more stylish, and reinvent myself, haha. Then only wear contacts for special occasions.
I've had to wear glasses since I was in 3rd grade. When I got to junior high school I switched to contacts. The contacts were all-right for a while then they began irritating my eyes so much I couldn't stand them. I switched back to my glasses in high school and have wore them ever since.
I've been wearing glasses since I was six weeks old (seriously), so they've always been a part of the way I look. I tried getting contacts last summer and they weren't for me. Almost all of my friends say I look weird without them, and I personally think my eyes are too small for my face (probably because I've been wearing glasses for so damn long), so the glasses kind of correct that because my eyes are really bad and they become pretty magnified.
The idea of getting LASIK eye surgery has always been rattling around in my head and as I get closer to being 21, it continues to sound nicer. I'd probably still wear glasses, but it'd be nice to not absolutely have to.
I have weak eyesight so I use glasses.
passed 25 and my sight is still perfectly strong. But i have to wear sunglasses if the wheather isn't cloudy. My eyes don't like midday sunlight. Also the wind will cause to tears so i'm also using transparent glasses for wind protection. And sunglasses as combo sun/wind protection :)
thinking about the purchasing of photochromic lens