How many of you wear glasses?

[pennydreadful]

So with all this back-and-forth over BayDonnie wearing glasses, and the ensuing discourse as to whether it's a nerd stereotype... I'm wondering - how many of us here wear glasses?

I have to wear glasses for any kind of reading... since I'm usually reading, that means I've nearly always got them on.

[Donatello19]

I don't, but I always wanted to have glasses. I thought they looked cool.

[Candy Kappa]

I'm extremely near sighted, and it's only gotten worse over the past 10 years.

I hated wearing glasses, especially when I was doing Ju-Jitsu. Now I use contact lenses, have since 9th-10th grade. It's been so long since I used glasses the old pair I have don't help me any bit to see anymore.

Lenses gives me so much more freedom then I've ever had with glasses. But i should have had a extra pair of glasses in case I can't afford a new batch of lenses. I use daily lenses, and sometimes I can't afford new ones, so I often wear the same lens pair over several days. In fact, due to student loans I've not been able to buy new lenses last month, the pair I wear now I have had on my eyes for over a week, on Monday I can get a new pair and order new batch as I've gotten my salary by then.

[Powder]

I wear them, and they're very stereotypical geek glasses at that.

[RaphAndDonnie]

I've got an astigmatism so tiny words are not for me In other words, yes I do. I've been wearing glasses for about..the last two months I think and I got them at my mall's LensCrafters. They're OK and at first I was very particular about having them pushed up against my face so that I didn't look around the edges and having them spotless but now I'm a bit more relaxed with them and don't mind as much.

[Candy Kappa]

First time I tried contact lenses, everything looks different. Holding a regular 500ml coke bottle, I thought it was a new bigger bottle

[BubblyShell22]

I've worn glasses all my life due to being blind in one eye. If I didn't have them, I wouldn't really be able to see at all.

[Katie]

Originally Posted by Candy Kappa

First time I tried contact lenses, everything looks different. Holding a regular 500ml coke bottle, I thought it was a new bigger bottle

Hahaha! I know what you mean. I'm super super nearsighted as well and gave up glasses about 5 years ago. I'd worn them since I was 8 and couldn't believe the difference.

-8.50. You know I can't see at all.

I love my contacts

[Candy Kappa]

Woah, I'm -6 on my right eye and -5,75 on the left. Although testing a new weekly lens I was given -8 on both.

When I was in for check ups for testing if my eyes was legible for contact lenses, my eye doctor did tell me that the skin under my eye lids could get irritated and react on the lenses. But I've been fine. I don't feel a thing even when using the same pair for days, gets a bit dry after the dirt night, but after that it's mostly a breeze. Still feels good to take them off.

[Katie]

I've never had a problem with mine either. I wear Air Optix night and day. I think those are only supposed to go for a month, but I wear them until they just get tooo scratchy...so like 2 months or so.

I take them out at night though. Never been able to sleep in them. I can't understand how some ppeople do that.

[Candy Kappa]

Mine are day lenses, so if I want to have them for a longer time I have to sleep with them. Personally it's not so bad falling asleep, it's the waking part, as it feels more comfortable just keeping the eyes shut after sleeping with the lenses on.

Bit of an hassle if I've fallen asleep on the bus.

[Raph's Girl]

I have astigmasim and have been wearing glasses for nearly 30 years now. I'd attempt contacts but my eyes are too messed up for that due to other health issues.

[Shiro Kame]

I've always needed glasses. My eyes are getting weaker and weaker with double vision from an astigmatism. I can't wear contact lenses since my eyes are shaped differently from others. I try not to wear geeky glasses.

[Powder]

I've come to really like how I look in glasses, and thank Pai Doth Noor I do, because there's no chance I'll ever get contacts. I have a really big thing about touching my eyes, no bueno. Can't do it. They're suuuuper sensitive, and I'm a wuss to boot.

[CyberCubed]

I have glasses but I never wear them. I prefer the way I look without them and that's more important than seeing long distances.

[Katie]

I have astigmatism in my left eye and I thought I could never wear contacts, but I asked about it one time and they said I could try. Never going back.

I have glasses....and they are current.....but I hate wearing them

[raphmike]

yes, i wear glasses only help see far and without i read book or sewing.

[blindturtle02]

I wear shades, but that's just because allot of other blind folks wear them. Feels weird when I forget them before going out because I wear them pretty much everywhere.

[Cipher]

My eyesight is 'rill bad without aid, but nine days out of ten, I wear contacts instead of glasses. (Usually my wearing glasses is a signal that I didn't go to bed early enough to give the contacts six hours in their cleaning solution.)

Woah, I'm -6 on my right eye and -5,75 on the left. Although testing a new weekly lens I was given -8 on both.

Oh, wow. I'm -4.75 and -5.

Originally Posted by Powder

I have a really big thing about touching my eyes, no bueno. Can't do it. They're suuuuper sensitive, and I'm a wuss to boot.

I actually had to try it twice. You get used to it, and become more comfortable touching your eyes in general. Eye things still really bother me, but I can now do contacts no problem.

[Leo656]

I used to. My vision was about 20/40 when I was 10, so I wore them for a couple years. It was okay, they looked alright - I forget what they're called, but they're the style Harold Ramis wore in "Ghostbusters" - but they were a pain in the ass. To this day, I almost always read until I pass out, and I broke my glasses constantly by falling asleep wearing them. That, and in the summer I'd always get a bad raw spot where the nose piece would slide against the side of my nose when I was sweaty. Eventually they checked my vision again and said that my eyes had gotten a little better, up to 20/30, and that even with the glasses they said the best I'd ever have was 20/25, so I figured that was close enough and just quit wearing them when I was almost 13.

Sometimes as I've gotten older I feel like my eyes are getting blurry now and then, but I can't honestly tell. I'm sure I'll have to wear them again at some point in the future, at least sometimes, since literally everyone in my family has had to. Until then I figure I'm fine.