Who wears glasses

[Tim]

Yep Mom has glasses. I have been thinking about getting them checked since she pulled out in front of another car a couple weeks ago :nutty

[HappyChristian]

I have had to wear glasses for over 20 years - one day I was teaching school, and the alphabet above the chalkboard was blurry. I figured I'd better get in and get checked. I have one eye that is farsighted and one that is nearsighted, plus astigmatism and some lack of depth perception. I don't like driving at night because of my depth perception problem. Most docs can't believe my eyes when they first examine them. I'm past due for an exam and new glasses. The headaches are starting up, and my eyes are blurry by the end of a day at the monitor...takes about half an hour to clear up!

[Sojourner]

I started wearing glasses when I was 15....36 years now! Been wearing bi-focals for the last 4 years, but really needed them about 2 years earlier. My Mom had cataracts removed from both eyes a couple years ago. Dad has macular degeneration and cataracts, so he's nearly blind.

Must have been tough for those folks who lived 1,000 years ago who needed eyeglasses. Maybe that's why they were called the Dark Ages. :lol

[HappyChristian]

I started wearing glasses when I was 15....36 years now! Been wearing bi-focals for the last 4 years, but really needed them about 2 years earlier. My Mom had cataracts removed from both eyes a couple years ago. Dad has macular degeneration and cataracts, so he's nearly blind.

Must have been tough for those folks who lived 1,000 years ago who needed eyeglasses. Maybe that's why they were called the Dark Ages. :lol

:ha

[Tim]

I have had to wear glasses for over 20 years - one day I was teaching school, and the alphabet above the chalkboard was blurry. I figured I'd better get in and get checked. I have one eye that is farsighted and one that is nearsighted, plus astigmatism and some lack of depth perception. I don't like driving at night because of my depth perception problem. Most docs can't believe my eyes when they first examine them. I'm past due for an exam and new glasses. The headaches are starting up, and my eyes are blurry by the end of a day at the monitor...takes about half an hour to clear up!

I have the same problem minus the dept perception issue. As long as I have my glasses on my night vision is pretty good. I have a pair of glasses with the AR (Anti reflective coating) that really make a difference with the headlight glare when driving at night.

[Flourgirl]

I have worn glasses for years, am thinking about changing to contacts. Would love to have Lasik done in the future to :smile

[HappyChristian]

[quote="Tim
I have a pair of glasses with the AR (Anti reflective coating) that really make a difference with the headlight glare when driving at night.

[Madeline]

A friend of mine wears glasses and her lenses have become thinner over the years. Her doctor told her that wearing glasses actually improves your vision unless your staring at something from 2 inches away.

[Chelle]

I don't wear glasses, and never had.

Consider yourself blessed! :smile

I have worn glasses since 1993 -- and I mean the same pair of glasses. Lord willing and finances permitting, I'm going to change that this year. I want smaller frames, and I'm hoping to get those "Transitions" lenses that automatically adjust to changing light (so I don't have to get a separate pair of sunglasses). I'm what you'd call "tender-eyed" (my eyes are blue and sensitive to light).

BTW, does this happen to anybody else -- as soon as you step outside into bright sunlight, you sneeze?

[bibletotingunslinger]

:amen: Chelle, I will pray for your need.

[pneu-engine]

I wear glasses only for distance and driving, otherwise I don't need them. My eyes completely debunk the thinking that our eyes have to get worse with age. (I'm 63) I see better up close now than I did ten years ago, but not as good as back in 1993 at which time my "up-close" vision was 20/10. :lol

Way back in 1999 I bought a pair of glasses that had, auto-darkening, scratch-proof polycarbonate lenses, 15 levels of focal gradation, and titanium frames. These frames are so flexible they will actually bend double at the nose bridge. They cost $550.00, but were well worth it. I really appreciate the fact that they cannot scratch, because I am really hard on stuff. :lol:

[JerryNumbers]

I've been wearing glasses since 1989, which is about 18 years.

I've had my eyes injured twice. Once got them completely filled with Portland cement. I was hauling the stuff in the mid 70's, while unloading at a batch plant early one morning a pipe messed up and filled my eyes with the stuff.

I believe it was a bit over 8 weeks when my sight finally came back. I had nearly given up, for everything was just a big blur. One morning I got up, opened my eyes and everything was crystal clear.

Them in about 1990 I had a nail bounce back and put a home in my right eyes next to my pupil, had surgery on it, about 10 weeks later it was back normal.

Its amazing at the questions I get asked when I'm getting my eyes checked, they want to know how I got them so scratched up.

Thankfully neither of these incidents seemed to do lasting damage that has hurt my eye sight. But I have been told this may cause me to get cataracts.

I think many of us take our sight for granted, as we do many other things. The 2 incidents that happened to be really ahs made me appreciate my eye sight.

I've heard that when cataracts first start growing on ones eyes, that sometimes their eye sight starts getting a bit better, them soon it starts getting worse. any of you ever heard that?

[Chelle]

Chelle, I will pray for your need.

Thank you, BTGS! :smile

[LAF]

I have reading /computer glasses.Don't need them for anything else at least for now .

[IM4given]

Here was what I looked like when I wore aviator glasses - single vision no less!