Who here needs glasses or contacts?

I am curious to know how many people here have a prescription for corrective eye wear. Also, for those of you who do, how much do you feel you need it? Can you get by without wearing your glasses or contacts or do you find them necessary to function properly?

For those of you with glasses, who has bi or tri-focal lenses?

 

everything is blur about a foot or so from my face.. i wear them when i'm awake otherwise i can't see anything


i wish i could just have them lasored

 

i don't have any glasses yet, but i will soon. i just need a sitter so that i can go get my eyes looked at and get a prescription. my eyes seriously went south during my last pregnancy, and didn't bounce back like they did after my first pregnancy. now i can't see at night, and everything is kinda hazy.

 

I wear contact lenses, and no, I can't really get by without them. Everything is a blur. I mean, I can see things, but not very clearly.

I don't wear glasses at all, I don't even own a pair, just contacts, and I take them out in the evenings before I go to bed. The few times I fell asleep with them in, my eyes were so dang dry when I woke up I could barely even remove the lense from my eye.

 

I just switched from glasses to contacts. I can see decent without, but for my job I need them otherwise I get headaches (I work in IT). I have the ultra-thin contacts that you leave in for 30 days. You sleep in them and everything. I have had them for almost 2 weeks now and I love them. I usually can't even tell they are in.

BTW - I have a friend who had Lasic surgery, and he swears by it. He paid $2500 per eye, and he said he walked in and they lasered them and he was done in 15 minutes, and his eyesight improved immediately.

No pain, no fuss.

I think as long as you find a reputable doctor it shouldn't be an issue. I am actually considering it, but my vision isn't really that bad, so I hate to take a chance.

 

I wear glasses to read or when I am on the computer. I could do both without them, but then things tend to blur.

 

I wear glasses... I can see fine without them except far away things tend to get fuzzy

I mostly wear them to prevent headaches.... I used to get really nasty ones at least once a day, after reading or watching tv or playing computer. I've had them for years now

I tried wearing contacts, but they never felt right on my eyes (they were coloured/tinted too, maybe that was the problem) but I could never get used to wearing them, I ended up throwing them out What a waste of money. I like how glasses frame my eyes too

 

Worn glasses for over 30 years. Started so young becasue somebody blieved that my eyes wouldn't get worse if I started wearing them at aged 7!

Now it's so bad, I can't find my glasses!!!!!!!

 

I'm telling you, I had a pair of blue colored contacts, and they just never felt right on my eyes either. They used to pop out too, out of nowhere, and weren't all that comfortable. Plus, I never felt like my vision was as sharp with the colored ones compared to the standard clear ones.

 

I haven't worn my galsses in years. My vision is getting worse, but I can still see well enough.

 

I wear contacts, and REALLY need to wear them. When I take them out I put my glasses on.

When I first got my contacts I was like "WOW" i could see so much better, didnt have that area where if you look out the side of your glasses or if you look down or upward at a certain angle your vision seems blurred. My peripheal (SP??) vision was so much better with contacts.

 

when I switched from wearing glasses to contacts, I had a problem with them too. they would just pop out of my eyes, and they were uncomfortable. it took a good while for my eyes to get used to them. now, I never notice they are in.

 

I have contacts and glasses. I can't see four inches away from my face...my eyesight has been getting worse and worse since I was about 12. My opthometrist said I'll probably be legally blind by the time I'm 30 if my eyes keep getting worse at the rate they are.

I usually just wear my contacts because I feel sort of "off" when I wear my glasses...I guess I just don't feel right...and like another poster said, it's nice to be able to see peripherally with contacts.

 

I do, I'm freaking blind. Just went to the eye doctor and gort some new contacts. At least they haven't gotten any worse, same precription as last time I went 6 years ago

 

Wow. I swear I am the only person in the universe who doesn't need the aid of corrective lenses. All my friends and family do, except for me. And it seems everybody in this thread does as well.

 

i would recomend the book "take off your glasses and see" it has a whole bunch of exersises that you can do to improve your vision. it's worked for me.

 

I wear contacts... I absolutely have too. lol.. I can't read below the 'E' without them in.

 

i dont wear glasses except for reading and computer use or when my eyes are really tired...

 

I wear tri-focals.

 

I have really good vision, I was supposed to wear glasses when I was young, but I never did. My vision just corrected itself, and got better after I started doing my Chi-gong exercises.