Eyeglasses

[Mozart]

How many of you are blind? 

I got new glasses today, i am -3 and -325 :/

Has anyone tried to do the bates method?

[DavidW]

-4, -.75 in one eye, -4, -1.25 in the other eye.  I wear toric contacts during the day, and when I'm not wearing them I've got a good old trust pair of eyeglasses to wear.

[Brahmsian]

-2.50 in each eye.  I use to wear contacts and eyeglasses, now I only wear eyeglasses, as I just cannot stand wearing contacts any longer.  I can always 'feel them', and my eyes get very sore from wearing them for long stretches.

I plan on getting the laser eye surgery one day.  It keeps going down in price, and becoming a more refined technique.

[DavidW]

Ray you should know that if you have that feeling problem with contacts it's usually the result of either chronic dry eyes or allergies.  The thing about laser eye surgery is that you will most likely have even worse dry eye problems, and your eyes will be irritated just like when you wore contacts.

[Renfield]

My eyesight is so bad (relatively speaking), I haven't even made a point of remembering exactly how bad it is.

It's in the region of -5.00, -1.75 / -4.25, -1.75, if I remember correctly. I wear glasses, obviously, and occasionally soft contact lenses; though I've mostly grown out of the habit of wearing them, over the past couple of years.

[Mozart]

Im afraid of the surgery, I heard like 1/4 people still need glasses after it? And that it is not permanent.

I wore contacts when I was younger, they would make me eye feel dry too, I have astigmatism. The contact would become very stretched and the next time I would wear it, it would be hard to get it in my eye comfortably. And then sometimes they would fall out! I quit contacts around 19.


The bates method is supposedly a way to improve your eyesight, by training the eyes to see better. I will give it a shot, the worst things that can happen is I will look like an idiot doing the exercises.

[Josquin des Prez]

I was thinking about getting a prescription since my eyes get really dry and tired after prolonged computer use, which i cannot avoid because of my job. Has anybody tried those type of glasses? Do they work? 

[Novi]

Those glasses look good, Mozart.

I wear contacts and wouldn't have said I was blind until last week, when I walked into the wrong loo at the local pool. Gender iconography becomes an amorphous mess to the unlensed eye...

[Bulldog]

I wore glasses since teenager time but switched to contacts in my late 30's after getting into a fight with the dog next door.  Twenty five years later and I still love my contacts that I put on first thing in the morning and take out about midnight.  I have glasses for late night tv viewing and a bunch of reading glasses for close looks.  I like those plastic reading glasses that you can throw all over the house without any resulting damage.

[DavidW]

I was thinking about getting a prescription since my eyes get really dry and tired after prolonged computer use, which i cannot avoid because of my job. Has anybody tried those type of glasses? Do they work?

I don't know but do you use eye drops?  Refresh plus works well for me.

[listener]

actually by BEETHOVEN   WoO.32  Duo (Sonatensatz) in E-flat for viola and cello 'with Two Eyeglasses Obbligato'

[(poco) Sforzando]

I was thinking about getting a prescription since my eyes get really dry and tired after prolonged computer use, which i cannot avoid because of my job. Has anybody tried those type of glasses? Do they work?

If you're getting towards age 40, a condition often develops called presbyopia which means the eye cannot change focus with the same flexibility as when you are young. Therefore a pair of prescription reading glasses is often advised for close work.

I have all of you beat as my uncorrected myopic vision is -10 in one eye and -12 in the other. But I can be corrected pretty well with contacts and glasses (not perfectly, as I have a slight cataract in the right eye). It is really hard to describe the way the world looks to me when I'm not wearing contacts or glasses. I cannot read printed material any farther than three inches away from it, and especially in the dark, any point of light looks like a multi-colored starburst about 10 times its actual size.

[knight66]

When at school, at one point I was placed at the back of the class and without realising what the problem was, increasingly I was copying from the kid I sat next to. I could never quite make out what was on the blackboard. Then one day the teacher wrote in red chalk and I could not make out anything at all beyond the carmine blur.

It then came to me. I needed glasses. I thought about the buses I had missed, because they were so close by the time I could read the destination, that I was sticking my hand out too late to stop them.

I explained about the red chalk issue to my mother. She was not impressed. I had, weeks before, mentioned to her that one boy I knew had new black framed glasses and they looked good. She took this red chalk nonsense as an attempt by me to join the black glasses club.

This went on for many weeks until she finally gave in and took me to an optician to lay the matter to rest. Much to her surprise, I was diagnosed as being very short sighted. I chose 'the' black frames, though they hardly enhanced my spotty face. Mother had the grace to apologise and I know she felt genuinely guilty about that one.

A generation later, when my wife and I would take my young son to the swimming baths, I could always quickly pick my wife out by her distinctive peach coloured costume. Then she bought a black one and I could never find her, she had to find me.

This fed through to keeping an eye on my son, fine if he was within six feet of me, but in a melee of kids, I had no idea which one he was. Eventually I resorted to wearing my glasses and just not swimming. I could, for a king's ransom, have got prescription goggles, but the king's ransom went on other things.

Mike