'Four Eyes'

[BlueCello]

Well, that time has come, and today on my trip to the eye people, I found out that I need glasses I always guessed this day would come, with both my parents having glasses, I was just hoping it wouldn't be so soon. I'd noticed that over the pastyear my eyes have deteriorated to the point where I couldn't read anything from a distance, and I can't decide whether having my fears confirmed is a good or bad thing tbh! Well, I know lots of people wear glasses, I just didn't know I would be one of them.

So, will my life change drastically now?? Will I forever be forgetting that my glasse are on my head, or dropping them down the back of the sofa?? You glasses wearers, tel me before I remember where I put them!

[Riknos]

I'm guessing I'll need glasses within the next 12 months. My eyesight has been getting worse for the past 2 years. Working all day using a computer is the cause I worked out. I dread for the day when I have to give in, my eyesight used to be razor sharp. I'm only 21

I just don't like the burden of having to remember to take your glasses with you, or contact cleaner etc if you have contacts.. One more thing for me to look after while I'm out getting stfaced

[mickk]

Can you have laser surgery, or do you have to wear glasses for a time first

[Technonotice]

I wore glasses for 22 years on and off from childhood, i always lacked confidence in general. got contacts 6 months ago and i feel great and have got "lucky" for the last 4 weeks running.

contacts ftw!

hth

Edited by Technonotice on Friday 1st August 14:46

[The Curn]

I wear glasses and I look great

My eye sight was spot on until one night when I was 21 and fell backwards off the wall outside a lap dancing club in Dublin (Angels I seem to remember). The next day driving to the airport I couldn't see number plates clearly.

They are not a hinderance at all. I have never lost a pair or broken them. I could imagine they are annoying if you play sport but that is not something that will affect me.

I would reccommend purchasing a hat for when it rains. I find it annoying when walking in the rain that they get spots of rain on the lenses. A good hat stops this.

[scotal]

BlueCello said:

I found out that I need glasses I always guessed this day would come, with both my parents having glasses,

BlueCello said:

Well, I know lots of people wear glasses, I just didn't know I would be one of them.

Errrrmmmm make your fking mind up???
Maybe you couldn't ead what you'd already written?
Having glasses is hardly the end of the world is it? Make sure you go to a really good optician who will fit the frames properly for you, not one who will simply flog you the most expensive combo in the shop.
Thousands of frame options out there so shop around.

Will you be wearing them all the time? In which case its unlikely you will lose them too often. Will you drop them? Not if they're fitted properly, or you knock them off.

[MentalSarcasm]

I have been wearing glasses since I was 15, had been getting headaches for a few months and the optician said it looked like I had been struggling with bad eyesight for well over a year without realising it. Took me an hour or two to adapt once I had them, felt very dizzy and off-centre and kept mis-judging where door-handles were.

I have never lost my glasses (prescription sunglasses are another matter entirely) nor have I dropped them down sofas. But when they're new the bridge of your nose and the bit of your ear where they hook over will be sore for a week or two.

[Skyrat]

Well you'll get to experience the morons who call you "speccy" and think:

1. It's funny
2. It's clever
3. You've never heard it before
4. It doesn't make them out to be among the most stupid people on the planet if that's the best insult they can come up with.

I'm not bitter, honest

[NeilBeforeZod]

BlueCello said:

Well, that time has come, and today on my trip to the eye people, I found out that I need glasses I always guessed this day would come, with both my parents having glasses, I was just hoping it wouldn't be so soon. I'd noticed that over the pastyear my eyes have deteriorated to the point where I couldn't read anything from a distance, and I can't decide whether having my fears confirmed is a good or bad thing tbh! Well, I know lots of people wear glasses, I just didn't know I would be one of them.

So, will my life change drastically now?? Will I forever be forgetting that my glasse are on my head, or dropping them down the back of the sofa?? You glasses wearers, tel me before I remember where I put them!

Spend some time choosing the frames, they'll be on your face for a long time. Take someone with you that you trust and make sure they're honest when you choose the Mickey Mouse ones. Make sure you get them properly fitted, makes a huge difference to comfort.

Alternatively, get contacts. Just don't forget to take them out, or it'll hurt. Or, as I've seen done, forget you've already taken them out and try to remove them again. That, apparently, hurts quite a lot once you sober up...

[oobster]

Once you get your new SPECTACLES wrap some sellotape round the legs for that warm schooltime nostalgia feeling.

[The Curn]

Skyrat said:

Well you'll get to experience the morons who call you "speccy" and think:

1. It's funny
2. It's clever
3. You've never heard it before
4. It doesn't make them out to be among the most stupid people on the planet if that's the best insult they can come up with.

I'm not bitter, honest

Strange. I can say that in 7 years of wearing specs I've not once been verbally insulted by someone for wearing them.

I've been called plenty of other things, but never the specs...

[rude-boy]

I would go with contacts as a first but make sure you get a pair of glasses you can live with made up as well as you will find there are days when your eyes are a bit sore, or you just can't be bothered to put the lenses in. Also make sure you have a bottle of Brolien (sp) solution at home/in your wash kit at all times.

I'm greedy. I wear Daily disposables most of the time as i can't be doing with solutions and the final cost difference is pennies. I also have one set of clear normal glasses for filming if i need and a pair of tinting ones which change with the light. Works well for me as i am too chicken to go the laser route just yet.

[missliv]

I stick to contact lenses myself. Can't stand having hoops of metal stuck to my face, obscuring my beeeauuuuuteeful blue-green eyes.

Yes, I am a vain c*nt and I don't give a sh*t.

[968]

rude-boy said:

I would go with contacts as a first but make sure you get a pair of glasses you can live with made up as well as you will find there are days when your eyes are a bit sore, or you just can't be bothered to put the lenses in. Also make sure you have a bottle of Brolien (sp) solution at home/in your wash kit at all times.

I'm greedy. I wear Daily disposables most of the time as i can't be doing with solutions and the final cost difference is pennies. I also have one set of clear normal glasses for filming if i need and a pair of tinting ones which change with the light. Works well for me as i am too chicken to go the laser route just yet.

Bad bad bad advice.

If you've never worn anything before, start with glasses. They are safe. They are easy to get used to. They have no risks attached to their usage.

Secondly, Brolene is the piss of satan and should never be used. It causes horrible drop allergies and is of very poor use as a bacteriocidal or bacteriostatic.

Thirdly, if your eyes get sore when using your lenses, that's not a good sign. It suggests that either the tear film is very poor and the eyes are drying out, or the lenses are not being tolerated by the cornea, because they are causing ischaemia. If you are getting into this situation, I would suggest that your optom needs to look at your cornea, closely, and ensure you aren't beginning to develop changes which, further down the line, could end up as big trouble.

Oh and PS, I don't think anyone with scruples would ever do LASIK/LASEK to a patient that has not worn glasses or lenses before, unless they have a big error in prescription.

Edited by 968 on Friday 1st August 15:10

[smutbag]

I wore glasses from the age of 13 until about 19, when I got contact lenses. I am now 27 and have had enough. Hoping to get laser surgery soon.

If you can go for laser do it! And don't wear them unless you need to or your eyes will become lazy.

It depends on how bad your sight is, mine is -4.25, so I can't see much without lenses or glasses and it's a nightmare.

I have lost a lense when changing at the swimming, couldn't fecking see a thing and had to crawl about the floor, totally blind, in my costume, sopping wet trying to find a tiny clear bit of plastic. It's not a good look - and feck knows how I was going to drive home if a chap hadn't found it for me.

I have sat on glasses, broken them, other people have sat/leaned on them, stood on them, lost them - then not been able to see in order to find the little feckers.

On the plus side, take them off and it makes for interesting sex...

Yeah, good luck mate - glasses are a total pain in the arse!

[onomatopoeia]

I've worn spectacles since I was 7 and full time since I was about 11. If you have decent ones you don't notice them. I never lose them, sit on them etc. because I don't take them off except to shower or to sleep.

A few suggestions would be:
(1) don't buy the cheapest, think about how much of your life will be spent wearing them and be prepared to spend accordingly. You really do get what you pay for.

(2) if you go to a chain they WILL push the lenses of the manufacturers they have deals with, these may not be the best option. I was talking to a lens technician from a well known chain about what I have and he told me that the chain he works for would sell me those lenses (dual layer, 1.7 RI Ziess glass lenses), but only if I walked in and asked for them specifically as they don't have a discount deal with Ziess.

(3) Plastic is popular and lighter but it scratches, even with the scratch resistant coating and eventually it is like walking around in fog. Consider high refractive index glass which keeps the thickness and weight down.

[968]

smutbag said:

If you can go for laser do it! And don't wear them unless you need to or your eyes will become lazy.

Not true. A common urban myth. This results from the fact that one gets used to good vision, when wearing glasses and when you take them off, your vision seems worse.

[69elan+2]

Could be a whole lot worse - remember the kid at school that used to have to wear NHS glasses, but with tape covering up one lens?

Every school had at least one per year, ours was called Nathan Tudgenbottem.

[molestrangler]

I need glasses for close up work in my workshop and it's a pain in the arse because I have to keep taking them on and off and when I put them in my overall pocket all the bits of abrasive, for example from a disc grinder, scratch the glasses and they are b*ggered in about two weeks.

So it's cheap throw away ones for me and I wish I hadn't interfered with my self so much as a kid.

[Technonotice]

69elan+2 said:

Could be a whole lot worse - remember the kid at school that used to have to wear NHS glasses, but with tape covering up one lens?

Every school had at least one per year, ours was called Nathan Tudgenbottem.

i had those rancid frames, so i smashed them up and couldn't see anything!