No no no, it really isn't that bad. If I described it to you, it would sound 100x worse than it actually is.
Put it this way, if I had to have it done again, I would.
I wouldn't. Friend had it done and ended up in hospital for a month with no sight. His vision has now returned but not to the quaulity it was.
Take your lenses out then you wouldn't see what's going on - easy :-)Originally Posted by Little-Miss
Really Skell? Id love too, but then i saw the procedure!!!
I've worn glasses since I was 13 - My astigmatism prevented me wearing contact lenses when I was younger. Though lenses are available now, I really don't fancy sticking things in my eyes.
I am very short-sighted, however with age my distance prescription now over-corrects my eyesight for reading... so this year I had to go for of vari-focals - brilliant, but expensive!
Blimey, Chris gets a long lunch break.....
Had laser eye surgery eight years ago, but now need reading glasses - boo! Out with a couple of old school friends last night and none of us read our watches, a very sad state of affairs. Of course it may have been the martini not our age!
I have needed glasses since the age of 19 and have worn contacts for 24 years. I have astigmatism too, but can wear lenses. I am naturally short sighted and my lenses now over-correct my short sight so that I could not read which was really frustrating and led to me moving a lens out of the way when reading small print (people around are often upset when I do this - dunno why!). But now I have varifocal lenses, which work well.
As for laser surgery, I was told that if you are long sighted you will end up with perfect sight, at least until you get to a certain age, but if you are short sighted your long sight will be perfect but you will immediately need reading glasses. Couldnt really see the point.
When wearing my lenses, I do need reading glasses for very very small print, so I bought some stylish metal framed ones from the local chemist for £4.99
Contacts I would certainly not go with, I tend to fall asleep too often. I would not go for eye surgery either - I would not want to risk it. Both my kids wear glasses and both have had ops to correct squints - [ interestingly enough only this morning I took my youngest for an eye checkup at the hospital and he has now been signed off so it's a normal opticians for him now ] - glasses cost my family a small fortune as I certainly don't compromise on style. I don't use the 'fast outlets' too - I opt for a local opticians who welcome us when ever I go in which is quite often to get the boys glasses repaired and 9 times out of 10 they won't even charge me. The customer service is pure quality.
Also as I pay into the HSA every month I get half the cost back on all the pairs of glasses I purchase.
I should wear mine more often but after a days work I tend to take them off.
Having been very shortsighted I love not having to wear glasses all the time, playing sport without glasses is a massive plus. Never fancied lenses can't bear to have anything to do with my eyes!
I've been wearing glasses since high school and I've figured that there's only two routes which you can go down. A) Buy a black pair of frames and pretend that you're not half blind or B) Buy an outrageously cool pair and just say "screw it - my vision isn't going to get any better, might as well accept it".
A few years ago I decided to go for option B and bought an awesomely bright coloured designer pair, you'll always get people commenting on them and it'll set you apart from all the people with boring specs, go for it!
Hear Hear. Can't beat contacts, if you can wear them. I was terrified at the thought of touching my eyes and used to have to back myself into a corner to put them in but the incentive for me was that I didnt want to wear glasses at my wedding, and without them I wouldnt have been able to see anyone! The new softer lenses are a dream to put in, and you do get used to doing it very quickly.Heck, it seems everyone has duff eyesight.
Me too.
As for falling asleep with contacts (I'm looking at you, Mattx), worry no more! Get some lenses made from Lotrafilcon, and these are perfectly fine to sleep in. Lotrafilcon A lenses are OK for up to 6 days continuous wear (I use these, handy for camping), and Lotrafilcon B are up to 30 days continuous wear.
As for solutions, forget the all in one no rub solutions, they dont't work very well. I've tried them all. The best solutions are peroxide with a surfactant, AOSept or Boots Deep Clean are the best. Just stick your lenses in the basket, and the bubbling catalyst/surfactant cleans the lenses. No rubbing, no fuss. Simples, as they say.
Oh, and laser surgery scares the bejaysus out of me.
So far, none of my children need glasses (mrwITch has perfect sight, bless), but if they did, if possible I would get them contacts asap.(depends on the eye problem of course)
I quite often try that. They are a pain when you drop them, they never travel vertically and not so easy to find when you only have one eye to see with.Absolutely. After a while you can do it with your eyes closed.
And we still haven't seen a Spec_Box picture yet (but he has just posted about needing a telescope...)
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