Do you wear glasses?

(major hassle = "seeing" a movie at the theatre)

I'm sick of them. I feel like they make me look even uglier, I'm tired of the way they feel on my face, I want to wake up and look around at things and be able to see what the time is or similar. I wish to God I could have eye surgery, but my eyesight is so bad that they currently can't correct my eyesight via even the most current technological advances. As for contacts -- I thought they were a bad idea when it took me two hours just to put one of them on, and the taking off part took nearly forever as well.

*big massive sighs*

How do you deal with putting them on when you've got tiny little eyes? What are your tips, suggestions, ideas, etc.? Also, my eyes are v. easily irritated. I have to wear sunglasses when the sun is out or my eyes get teary and I'm rendered blind for several minutes.

Help here would be much appreciated.

Like oops, I had a real bad time getting started with contacts because of course, you aren't used to sticking things in your eyes. In my case, my eyeballs are huge with respect to the size of my head, so my contacts are huge also. I literally have to wedge them into my eyes, but I'm used to it enough now that I can just pop them in and out with no reflex reaction.

Two years ago! Ouch.

Six years on, this prediction has proved false.

Since I spend like 50 trillion hours a month either reading or using a computer, this state of affairs is a total mystery to me. And I LIKE glasses too. Sigh.

i really like boys in glasses. i met a guy that was ok looking a few weeks ago. then he turned up last weekend wearing glasses and i thought he was really really cute. it's like magic.

(btw switching to contacts aged 17 was one of the major turning points in my life! they make a huge difference in so many ways!)

I wore contacts for a while, but glasses are easier for now.

I did buy a backup pair of glasses a little while ago and ended up trying to wear these for a day while my lenses were irritating me. The near-vertigo loopiness of the lenses (and these were "specialized" lenses, too) had me grabbing walls and countertops while I negotiated around my apartment. Nuh uh. Contacts it is...

One of the main reasons I shy away from getting any: just plain fear, even though there are ones specially for astigmatism, these days.

In my case, my eyeballs are huge with respect to the size of my head, so my contacts are huge also.

At least, I'm not alone in that, then: I've always been told I've a big head.

I like wearing contacts, but I haven't got around to updating my prescrip in two years. I'm just a lazy bastard.

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PS: i forgot your CDs today, i told your wife to leave me a scathing message for me at home.

I do.

i heard she's gonna kill you with her hate

Also... contacts. Ok. Will *finally* try to follow that advice. Perhaps next month or so.

But with all the close-up work and reading I was doing, I needed to wear my glasses full-time by 18. I started not being able to recognize people without my glasses. After my first semester at university, I got soft contact lenses. They were great! I could see everything and was free of clunky frames.

Dee, I urge you to try contacts. Initially I, too, was scared of putting something directly on my eyeball, but I got used to it pretty easily -- less than a week. And the immediate benefits certainly outweighed the early trepidation.

Because I kept tearing my lenses, I switched to disposables in 1990. It was much cheaper and more sanitary than regular soft lenses.

Since coloured lenses are only slightly more expensive than clear disposables, I splurge and have fun with it. I like to do a David Bowie effect and wear one green/blue lense in one eye and a clear one in the other (natural colour is hazel).

Half the time I wear glasses to give my eyes a rest from contacts. It reduces the potential for irritation and infection. Plus, I do think that certain types of myopia can be reversed or prevented from worsening if I don't wear visual correction all the time. Does this make me as mad as George Bernard SHaw? My optometrist said I became myopic because of all the reading and computer work I did -- my eyes had to focus so much on things up close for 10-12 hours a day that they became unable to focus on things further away. Makes sense to me. So, he advised that I not wear visual correction when I'm in for a long stretch of reading or computer work as such habits will worsen my myopia. So glasses are better (easier to remove) when I'm holed up doing a lot of reading. When I am active or going out to a potentially violent gig, I'll wear contacts. Following my optometrist's advice seems to have worked because prior to following his advice, my visual acuity was worsening dramatically every year I was checked. But I have been able to keep the same prescription for nearly 10 years now.

I have superlightweight lenses, but I'm still conscious of the weight of the frames on my nose and ears. 8 ( I'm considering lasik surgery, but I'm scared of the potential complications.

But can't deny the dominant convention that glasses are unsexy (cf. Marilyn Monroe in How to Marry a Millionaire): A family friend told me that when my mother was at university, she was too vain to wear her glasses even though she really needed them. As she was supposedly the most beautiful girl at school, people thought she was being stuck up because she ignored them in passing. She wasn't ignoring them on purpose -- she simply couldn't see them. This is funny to me because I think my mother is hardly vain now. And she always wear glasses. She isn't interested at all in wearing contacts.