Wednesday's Question of the Day: glasses

swampwitch · Mar 13, 2013

Good morning friends and strangers!

I just got some new glasses and I'm really unhappy with them. My entire life I've disliked glasses and opted for contacts, but in the last 10 years or so, I've had some glasses that I've really liked and felt were stylish. Plus, I could see really well with them.

This year, my prescription changed quite a bit and my doctor and I decided I would get progressives. I went to a well-respected but pricy place since progressive lenses have to be done correctly and tailored to each individual. I hate my glasses, they are terrible! I can't read my laptop at all, I have to fling my head back (or lift the glasses up off of my face) to look through the bottom of the lenses, and then I can only see the top half of the screen. I'm making errors at work because of this.

I can't see distance well, either, I have to slide the glasses to the tip of my nose to look through the top part. And the middle part of the glasses, the part you usually look through, doesn't seem to have much correction at all in them.

Also, the frames are really heavy and start hurting my face by the end of the day! I don't know, they are like thick metal man-glasses or something.

Wish me luck I'm going back to see what can be done. Hopefully they will make it good, or I will start hating glasses again.

How about you? Do you wear glasses or contacts or both? Do you like them?

catsallaround · Mar 13, 2013

Glasses-I know I could never get contacts in. I have an ongoing eye issue and the gel/cremes is hard enough

I HATE the pair I have had for a few years now. But I have been happy with all my other pairs. Should be able to replace the ones I have now in 6 months/end of year for sure, that makes me happy

larussa · Mar 13, 2013

I wear bi-focals but I also have a separate pair of glasses just for using on the computer. I know what you mean about lifting your head up and down while wearing progressive or bi-focals. Get a separate pair for just close up's and use them at work or home when you're on the computer, otherwise you will go nuts. It works great for me.

blueyedgirl5946 · Mar 13, 2013

SwampWitch said:
Good morning friends and strangers!

I just got some new glasses and I'm really unhappy with them. My entire life I've disliked glasses and opted for contacts, but in the last 10 years or so, I've had some glasses that I've really liked and felt were stylish. Plus, I could see really well with them.

This year, my prescription changed quite a bit and my doctor and I decided I would get progressives. I went to a well-respected but pricy place since progressive lenses have to be done correctly and tailored to each individual. I hate my glasses, they are terrible! I can't read my laptop at all, I have to fling my head back (or lift the glasses up off of my face) to look through the bottom of the lenses, and then I can only see the top half of the screen. I'm making errors at work because of this.

I can't see distance well, either, I have to slide the glasses to the tip of my nose to look through the top part. And the middle part of the glasses, the part you usually look through, doesn't seem to have much correction at all in them.

Also, the frames are really heavy and start hurting my face by the end of the day! I don't know, they are like thick metal man-glasses or something.

Wish me luck I'm going back to see what can be done. Hopefully they will make it good, or I will start hating glasses again.

How about you? Do you wear glasses or contacts or both? Do you like them?

I do wear glasses, progressive for years. I do not have any problem seeing through them for everything I do without any head contortions. I once got a pair and when I put them on, I couldn't see. The eye dr. said you have to get used to them. Wear them a couple weeks and see how you manage. Well I had to take them off and put my old ones back on to see how to drive home. I wore them with headache all the time. Finally just quit trying and waited out the time until the doctor said I could go back. I worried them until they just let me start over. They rechecked my eyes and various things and said they were right. I told them, I can't see and I am going to be a permanent fixture in this office until I get some I can see out of. I finally told them just give me some new lens and put them back in my old frames. It worked. So my experience has been if you can't see with them as soon as you put them on, they are wrong. Say on their case until you get satisfied.

MoochNNoodles · Mar 13, 2013

I have worn glasses since the 2nd grade. I got contacts when I was 16 and wore them for about 9 years. I loved them. Then I got an infection in the cornea of my right eye. It made my vision blurry and I was at the eye doctors several times a week for a month! It took that long for my vision to come back. I had to see a neurologist for testing too to be sure it wasn't a nerve thing. The eye dr eventually said it was an infection from over-use of my contacts. You could literally see the swelling in my cornea. Ever since contacts just aren't comfortable. I had a hard time getting the right prescription in them too. Thing either weren't clear or they were clear but I'd get a headache...like they were trying to give me super vision!

I miss wearing them sometimes; but at least now I don't have to worry about fussing with them if I want to take a nap (never had the kind you can sleep in). I do miss them on the rare occasions that I have to dress up.

My gripe with my current glasses is that they slide down my nose constantly. When we tried tightening the nose pieces they didn't sit right. So I push them up all the time.

Willowy · Mar 13, 2013

My mom wears Progressives and she once got a pair that just didn't work for her. They kept telling her she'd get used to them, and she never did. She wishes she had pursued a fix or refund, but she just kind of figured it was a problem with her eyes and not the glasses. But as soon as she got a new pair and they worked immediately, she knew that the other pair must have been calibrated wrong or something.

I've worn glasses since I was 8. Still single-vision. I have never even tried contacts; I really don't think I could put anything IN my eyes! I haven't gotten a new pair in ages. . .the kittens chewed off one of my earpieces, the glasses weren't new at that time, and "the kittens" are 3 years old now! So I really need to get to it. I guess my prescription hasn't changed because I can still see :tongue2:.

natalie_ca · Mar 13, 2013

I wear progressive lenses. I don't need glasses for reading, so my glasses have a very small area of just plain glass at the bottom of the lenses for me to read through. But I can't read with them at all. It's just like looking through dirty glass, even when my lenses are clean, when I'm trying to read. So I either take them off when I'm at home to read, or just look over the top of them when I'm at work.

I think I have 4 different fields of vision in my glasses, and I need to have a 5th added.

misty8723 · Mar 13, 2013

I wear progressives and like them. Recently, thought, I've had to get computer glasses. I wear the computer glasses all day at work and see just fine with them. For distances with these, I need to look out the top, which is rare that I need to. I can't drive with them, though. I never had a problem getting used to progressives, I just got tired of having to tilt my head back to look at the computer screen. These work so much better.

I've worn glasses since I was 11 and have no desire to try contact lenses. I just can't even imagine sticking something into my eye. Also no interest in the surgery. I only have one set of eyes and nobody is messing with them, unless I"m going blind. Sometimes it would be nice not to have to mess with the glasses, but for the most part I'm used to them. As for stylish - don't care as long as they aren't too obnoxious looking. I tend to look for the same style each time until they stop making them, then it's back to the drawing board.

angels mommy · Mar 13, 2013

I wear glasses to drive at night (or when cloudy), for clarity & distance. Sometimes at the movies too. My Rx isn't to bad. Kind of like the difference between an old regular T.V. & then looking at a HGTV.

kookycats · Mar 13, 2013

Since I had my cataract surgery I wear reading glasses, but don't need glasses for driving, TV, etc. anymore.

jcat · Mar 13, 2013

I wear both contacts (bifocal) and glasses (progressives), the latter in the evening and on weekends. Half the time I have the glasses off, because they annoy me, and I can read well enough without them.

ritz · Mar 13, 2013

I wear progressive glasses now, have worn glasses for over 40 years. Tried bifocals for a brief period of time, couldn't get use to them. In high school I wore contact lenses for about a year, but they always felt uncomfortable. This was in the 70s, when soft lenses weren't available.

At work I wear computer glasses (single lenses).

In the past three years, I find myself taking off my glasses entirely to read books/kindle or proofread or really tiny print.

I have to push up my glasses on my nose a lot, but after 40 years, I'm kind of use to it.

I considered very briefly getting laser correction, but would still have to wear glasses to read, so what's the point? Plus, one bad cut and ....

On my way to Greece this past year on the airplane one of the lenses popped out. That was not good but luckily I found the lens. I found an optometrist in Athens the next day. I wore the glasses, and put my finger through the (vacant) lens: no translation needed as to what was wrong with my glasses. Quickly fixed at no charge.

Maybe the lenses were put upside down; it happens.

blueyedgirl5946 · Mar 13, 2013

kookycats said:
Since I had my cataract surgery I wear reading glasses, but don't need glasses for driving, TV, etc. anymore.

I am going to be doing this in June. I don't know if I can bear going without my glasses. I am so used to them.

miagi's_mommy · Mar 13, 2013

I have been wearing glasses since I was 5 years old and I am 27 now. I don't like them, really but I just got new glasses I love.. so they aren't too bad.

I have to wear them all the time though.

Winchester · Mar 15, 2013

Had glasses since I was three years old....I have pictures of me with those things on. I hate my glasses. And now I have bi-focals, which are really crappy. It's on my drivers license that I must wear glasses when driving, so I pretty much keep them in my car at all times. I do wear them to drive, but that's pretty much it. I have the same problems as you, SwampWitch....constantly moving my head up and down to see. They're not worth it.

I used to wear contacts and absolutely loved them. They were CibaSoft in green; that's how long ago it was. So I had auburn hair with green eyes. (One time I was at work, this was back when I worked at the paper plant, and I was sitting in a chair.....my boss came into the office and he was standing there looking down at me while talking to me. Suddenly he stopped talking and said, "My god, you have beautiful eyes!" I just said "Thank you!" and left it go at that.....never told him they were contacts.) And I wore them for years. But I had trouble simply because I wore them so often and eventually my corneas started to suffer. The eye weenie said that he could see the blood vessals coming forward to my corneas, trying to feed them. My corneas were essentially starving. I can never remember what the word is for my problem, but it meant no more contacts. Ever. Even now, I can't wear them. And I loved wearing contacts.

So now, I don't wear my glasses at all, unless I'm driving. I do have a pair of prescription sunglasses that I wear when I'm out walking. I probably wear the sunglasses more than I wear my regular glasses.

Wednesday's Question of the Day: glasses

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