Question of the day - Thursday 15 October

Hey Everyone




Do you wear or need glasses/contacts?





I don't need to wear glasses all the time. But i do need them for driving

Glasses for everything.

I never wanted contacts.  I'm far too lazy to deal with them.

I wear bifocals except when on the computer.

I wear glasses for everything.  I'm not supposed to need them for reading; but my vision is so bad I end up keeping them on all the time.

I used to wear contacs and I loved them! But then I developed an infection in the cornea of my right eye.  It took a month to restore my vision and even longer for my tear production to go back to normal.  I tried contacts again about 8 months later; but they just were not comfortable anymore.  Both in how they felt in my eyes and in how they corrected my vision.  My proper prescription gave me headaches.  A weaker one; I couldn't see as well.  So after I finished using what i"d bought I just didn't get any anymore.  I only mind when we go have family pictures done or I have to dress up for something like a wedding.  

Glasses for everything - have needed them since I was a kid. Wore contacts for a while in my late teens/20's, but went back to glasses later on.

I got my first pair of glasses in the fourth grade; my first contacts when I was a Freshman in high school. I went to college and got a degree in Optical Science in 1989 and trained clients how to insert and remove contacts, as well as both made and sold eye glasses for several years until I went into nursing. In 2003, I had Lasik surgery done. I didn't think I would ever have to wear glasses or contacts again, but I now have about 5 different pair of sunglasses and probably 15 different pair of reading glasses! So many different styles and colors! 

Ironically, when I need a pair, I can never find one! 

Yes... I have been wearing glasses since I was 5. I have poor vision and I am only 30.

i've never needed glasses. however, now i'm in my early 50's i do need a magnifying glass (or glasses that magnify) to read very tiny print.

I've been wearing glasses since I was about 3. Bad genetics I've never tried contacts. The thought of poking something in my eye makes me queasy and uncomfortable.

I have been wearing corrective lenses since grade 5.  My parents let me start wearing contactlenses in my senior year of high school, and I have worn them ever since.  I am now 54.  I mostly wore hard lenses which were uncomfortable many times.  It is just since ten years now that the doctor told me I could wear soft lenses, because she let me try a sample of Dailies and I have never had one moment of discomfort with them, no exaggeration.  My prescription is for distance, and I and the doctor are both surprised that I do not need bifocals at my age.I discard my lenses every day.

And yes, I can relate to waking up with no lenses on, not knowing where I placed my eyeglasses!!!!

One time, when I was in college, I was getting ready for my summer job on the night shift and lost a contact lens while dressing for work.  I called into work that night and scoured the room inch by inch, very caefully, as any wrong move or step, the lens would be crushed because it was hard plastic.  I was happy to report to my parents the next morning, after six    hours of scouring I had found my lens!  I was now ready to go to bed so I could be ready again for the 11pm shift.!!!

Glasses since I was around 3 years old, I think. I have pictures of me as a wee little girl with blue glasses. Was not amused then and am not amused now. And now they're bifocal. And what a royal pain they are.

My father was an opthalmic opticcan. When I was 8 the school sent home a letter saying I needed glasses:nod:.
When I was 18 I got my first pair of hard lenses. I couldn't get used to themake. After a few years I had another pair made by a different optician and they were wonderful. Then I came here and eventually got breathing lenses! After some time they became uuncomfortable so I stopped wearing them. I changed opticians and was recommended soft ones. He gave me a pair with a similar number and they were glorious. I wore them for years. My mum died when I was 52 and I'd gone home for the funeral and suddenly they weren't comfortable so back to glasses I came for nearly 20 years. I'm glad the teen years are over.

I wore them all the type before I had cataract surgery. Now I only need them for reading and computer. I can drive without them. I splurged and bought myself a pair of Costa sunglasses with readers. They are nice for driving and when I get in the stores, I can still read. I can push them up on my head when I don't need to read, better than having to manage two different pairs of glasses.

I began wearing glasses when I was in the fourth grade. I switched to contacts when I was in my mid 20's. I wore them for at least 12 years. I had all different kinds. semi hard, hard, gas permeable, soft, etc.....I developed a mild dry eye and then a small corneal abrasion. When abrasion healed, I tried returning to contacts. I could never get the comfort from them that I had before the abrasion. I went back to wearing my glasses most of the time. When the time came for bifocals; I re-tried the contacts, with  reading glasses for close work. It did not work out. Since then, I went the graduated lenses form of bifocal glasses. Yes, it is a pain, but I get all the extras: extra thin lenses, automatically tints according to the sun, anti-reflective, scratch resistant coating. The frames are not expensive but the lenses are 3 times the cost of the frames.. Vanity is out the door for me. 

Never when I was younger, or in school, but as an adult I wear them for distance & mostly for night time driving.  Now that I'm 46, I have started to need reading glasses for tiny print, & only the lowest #1.