Do wear contacts, glasses, both, or none?

[dhinojosa]

Poll question: Do wear contacts, glasses, both, or none?

Do you wear contacts, wear glasses, wear both, or do you use nothing because your eyesight is so damn perfect. Or, have you recieved surgery to correct eye problems?

[terrya]

1. None. However, I should get an eye examination.

I probably need glasses. My eyesight has been getting sort of blurry...especially while I'm reading.

[tjwmason]

9. That's old age creeping up on you

You'll be needing a walking frame soon as well :evilgrin:

[terrya]

11. No kidding.

The big "five-o" is just around the corner. :-(

I never thought, when I was a kid, that I would get to this age. We kids just couldn't comprehend getting to the "ancient, one foot in the grave" age of FIFTY.

[tigereye]

19. you need those cheater glasses Terry

no shame in that. My eye doctor told me they were fine to use with my eye level. Better than bifocals, I can tell you.

[terrya]

21. I was thinking of those, tigereye.

Those could work. It only seems to affect me when I'm reading...or sitting in front of the pc monitor. Otherwise, my eyesight is ok.

[tigereye]

24. I wore glasses for years and then was able to stop

I'm farsighted.

When I worked at my first job at the Library for the Blind here, I had to get bifocals because using the computer all day gave me a headache. (we had to pick out books for folks with visual impairments) I hated the bifocals. And I am so glad I don't need them again. The cheapo ones seem to do fine.)

( boy this sure sounds like a fogie conversation, doesn't it? Next we'll be talking about our sciatica.) ;)

[seemunkee]

27. I'm at that point also

Move the newspaper a few inches too close and I can't read it. My wife has caught me using her magnifiers a couple of times.

[asthmaticeog]

2. Funny, I just got new glasses yesterday.

[chickenscratching]

13. flashy flashy? or boring schmoring?

[asthmaticeog]

14. nerdy nerdy.

[chickenscratching]

15. Nerd:

1. A foolish, inept, or unattractive person.
2. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.


God, you disgust me.
:puke:

[Trigger Hippie]

3. I've had glasses

only about two and a half years (I'm 28). I never needed them before, but I suddenly got near-sighted. I've grown to like wearing glasses. I feel smarter. :silly:

[GOPisEvil]

4. Both, but not at the same time.

:7

Today, it's glasses.

[dhinojosa]

7. Chicken!

:beer:

[SarahB]

5. Both.

Usually my glasses though. I used to wear my contacts more, but I got new glasses a few months back and like them much better than my old glasses, so I wear them more. :)

[Left Is Write]

6. I wear glasses.

I have three pairs plus sunglasses.

[tjwmason]

8. Both

I get a stock of 15 pairs of lenses per month, and wear glasses on the other days. It's all wonderfully easy as they're disposable lenses, paid directly from my bank account, and delivered to me by post.

Until recently I wore lenses all of the time, but I decided to go slightly more easy on the eye-balls.

[tyedyeto]

10. Both...sometimes at the same time

I wear contacts but need drugstore readers for seeing close-up.

[chickenscratching]

12. Glasses

I found a lovely store called the Spectacle Shoppe that sells vintage frames a few years ago, and found a pair I liked. Apparantly because they're so "crazy" looking it wasn't until two years ago that people stopped insisting that I only wore them "to look cool".

Honestly, am I that transparent? :eyes:

[asthmaticeog]

16. Where'd you find someone to put new lenses into antique frames?

I swear, every time I try that, the opticians refuse on the grounds that older frames break too easily. :shrug:

And it kind of chaps my ass, since I have a pair of my father's old 1963 civil engineer-looking hornrims you can pound friggin' nails with, and I *really* wanna sport 'em.

[chickenscratching]

17. "it kind of chaps my ass"

excellent.

Well, the Spectacle Shoppe (located in the Twin Cities), though it does sell a large range of new frames, specializes in seeking out old frames to sell, as well as putting in new lenses into antique spectacles. Just lucky it's nearby I guess.

You should check out their site: http://spectacleshoppe.com/



Here's a tiny example of what they have in their unique/antique section:

[tigereye]

20. I really like the ones wiht the birds

those are clever.

[asthmaticeog]

28. Thanks for that link, I just emailed them.

I wish I'd done more research into the vintage market before I sprung for a new pair yesterday, but fuck it, it's only money, right?

[chickenscratching]

29. 'tis only make believe.

:crazy:
good luck with the Spectacle Shoppe!

[BroadwayBrat]

18. Both - for now

I used to NEVER wear my glasses out of the house, but about a year and a half ago, I used my insurance to go and get new contacts...the damn eye doctor told me that I had to go through a class on how to put in and take out contact lenses because I was a new patient *my sister recommended him to me* - now, I had JUST taken my contacts out in front of him for the exam! THEN put them back IN! I tell you, I was so mad....I only get one eye exam every 24 months with my insurance...and he would not even give me a prescription to get new lenses.. :mad: SO anyway, I ran out of contacts about a month and a half later, with no replacements, I have been stuck with my glasses ever since....man I can't wait to get my contacts back! I miss being able to wear sunglasses.... I miss being able to see the alarm clock with out having to be 6in. on top of it...and I hate cleaning my glasses all the time! Its so annoying!

Sorry...rant done

:rant:

[ghostsofgiants]

22. Glasses

I used to wear contacts, but I just don't like wearing them.

[Trigger Hippie]

26. I tried contacts once...

at my doc's office. They literally had to hold my head down while putting them in because I strugged so hard. Needless to say, I'm back on the glasses. I just can't stand having stuff stuck in my eye.

:hi:

[Not_Giving_Up]

23. Currently glasses...but

only because I'm out of contacts...tore one of my last disposables.

[edbermac]

25. I'm bi...

Focal, that is...:evilgrin:

[meow2u3]

30. Glasses, since I lost my contacts two years ago

I still need a new prescription I can't afford :(

[u4ic]

31. I have both

but wear glasses more often. They're just easier.

[bigwillq]

32. None (nt)

[Mutley]

33. None, yet.

But both of my parents have horrible eyesight, and I've been noticing a slight decline in my eyesight over the last few years. SIGH! I guess I should go see an eye doc sometime soon.

[donheld]

34. Glasses since about age 7

real bad stigmatism.

[yvr girl]

35. I wore glasses from Kindergarten to grade 3

Then my eyes got better.

[LSK]

36. wore contacts in high school

But by my 1st year of college they really bugged me and I ditched them.

[AlienGirl]

37. Glasses only

I hate having anything in my eyes, so contacts are right out. If I had a lot of money and a Valium the size of a beach ball I might get laser surgery. Might...

...naw, probably still wouldn't.

Tucker

[Jamastiene]

38. None, but

I need some glasses. I could probably never bring myself to put little things on my eyeballs though. I can't even put eyedrops in my eyes without sort of bathing my entire eye socket area with the drops and letting it run into my eyes. Never have been able to look and do it like some people.

Of course, then again, I used to think I could never open my eyes under water. Until one year when I grew some cayenne pepper plants. I had some ripe red ones and picked them that summer. I set them on the edge of the deck while I went to turn the garden hose off. I rubbed my eyes one the way to pick them back up. I never got the chance to pick them up before I found myself inside the house with my eyes under the faucet with cold water running right on my eyeball. Aaaaahh, relief. After a while, they stopped burning and I went back and got my cayenne and used it in homemade chili later. It was good chili, but I had to wash my hands after cutting up the peppers. I had no trouble remembering to do that either.

[Mutley]

45. ouch!

I don't think I could do contacts either. I can't even watch people put them in. A friend of mine will mess with hers just to mess with me!

[Jamastiene]

46. It's creepy, isn't it?

I don't know how they ever get over the thing of putting little things on their eyeballs.

[6000eliot]

39. Glasses

And I hate them.
:grr:

[SmokingJacket]

40. My eyesight is getting better as I age.

Soon, I won't need glasses.

Then, I'll be farsighted.

Then I'll be dead.

:woohoo:

[DemGirl7]

41. I wear glasses for distance...

while most of my family wear glasses for reading.

[JohnKleeb]

42. nope

[BlondieK143]

43. I wear both.

Although I think I'm super dorky in glasses so I mainly wear my contacts. :)

[Reverend_Smitty]

44. Glasses

I used to wear contacts in high school but I got too lazy to put them in when I got up in the morning, that and I've always been prone to eye infections

on edit:
I didn't start wearing corrective lenses until 10th grade, before that I was almost blind but in denial. The eye doc was surprised that I got good grades because there was no way in hell I was able to see the chalk board. I literally had to get within 2 feet of it to see it!

[Left_Winger]

47. Been wearing glasses since I was12

I tried contacts once back in the 80s, but never quite got the hang of putting them in.