Back to wearing glasses - ICK!

[Roxyluvsme13]

I'm sorry you have to wear glasses again, I'm so used to my glasses now that I'd feel weird if I ever had contacts or could actually see again without them . On the bright side of things, now you get to pick out cute frames and look fashionable .

My prescription is like in the high 6's or low 7's, so I'm sure I'm almost legally blind LOL. Every time I went to the eye doctor, my eyes were worse, but now I think they're finally settled out. Hopefully I don't get any blinder as I get older, or I will be blind!

[pomtzu]

I'm sorry you have to wear glasses again, I'm so used to my glasses now that I'd feel weird if I ever had contacts or could actually see again without them . On the bright side of things, now you get to pick out cute frames and look fashionable .

My prescription is like in the high 6's or low 7's, so I'm sure I'm almost legally blind LOL. Every time I went to the eye doctor, my eyes were worse, but now I think they're finally settled out. Hopefully I don't get any blinder as I get older, or I will be blind!

Yup - I wore glasses most of my life. What was funny was, that for about a week after the cataract surgery and I no longer had to wear them, I was constantly looking for them - thinking I had misplaced them. Talk about a creature of habit!! It was just as difficult getting used to NOT wearing them, as wearing them in the beginning.

And your eyes will probably stabilize for quite a while. My prescription changed a lot up until I hit my early 20's, and then it never changed again till I reached my early 40's. Then it was downhill from there.....

[moosmom]

OMG!!! Just about peed my pants at that picture!!!

[Miss Z]

I WISH I could still wear glasses! I had a lovely purple pair, and like catnapper, used to match them to outfits. On account of my condition, I can now only wear contact lenses. They are the bain of my life. Living in smoggy London, where there's forever a road digger or a street-sweeper around the corner on my walk to college, I'm always getting dust and grit under them that makes my eyes stream and sore for the rest of the day. The worst is when they decide to play up when I'm in a dissection, or administering treatment whilst on placement - not much I can do about it other than carry on and blink like crazy!

It is a shame that glasses are so expensive, even so!

[Karen]

Zara, what do you have that requires contacts instead of glasses?

My eyes have changed throughout my life, so Bri, don't count on your prescription staying the same for a long time! The last check I had, they only needed minor adjustments, and some of that was because the astigmatism in my right eye has rotated. Didn't even know one could DO that! The tiny cataract moved, but thankfully hasn't grown much enough to be a problem yet, but the astigmatism also rotated.

Always changing, but at least I can see as long as I wear my glasses! My Dad has glaucoma, which is under control with eye drops, but he also has wet AMD in one eye, and dry in the other, and has had cataract surgery in the past. So I'm thinking I'm probably gonna get all that eventually, or at least some of it!

[pomtzu]

Karen - you might want to consider polarized lenses rather than just tinted, with all of your eye issues that you already have. Polarized will block 100% of UVB and UVA rays, which can cause permanent eye damage and lead to MD. Tinted offers NO protection against these rays.

Just saying......

[Taz_Zoee]

This thread is making me feel guilty about making a doctor appointment. Looks like I'll be doing that next week.
And maybe I'll get new frames. Maybe that will encourage me to wear them more???

How is the knot in your eye Ellie??

[Karen]

Karen - you might want to consider polarized lenses rather than just tinted, with all of your eye issues that you already have. Polarized will block 100% of UVB and UVA rays, which can cause permanent eye damage and lead to MD. Tinted offers NO protection against these rays.

Just saying......

Thanks - all my lenses have had UV protection for as long as it has been available, I will also check about UVB, it may have it, not sure. Thank goodness for plastic polycarbonate lenses. I have always been conscious of being in the sun, and shielding my eyes as well, as even as a child my folks made sure were were careful about that, as I am also very pale ( we all are) and sunburned easily. I'd say I feel like a poster child for skin cancer, but not as bad as Paul, as he's already had some removed, and has annual check for it. Irish skin like his is notoriously vulnerable, even if he has dark hair.

[Miss Z]

Zara, what do you have that requires contacts instead of glasses?

Keratoconus - a lovely little genetic present from my father. It's a condition where the cornea thins and loses its rigidity, causing it to bulge or slip. Hence, the contacts effectively hold it in the correct position. Glasses would work in the short term for the vision, but wouldn't help stabilise the condition in the way the contacts do. I guess the nature of the condition is that the cornea is constantly changing shape, and thus the contact lenses don't fit as well after a while, allowing bits underneath them and driving me insane in the process!

[pomtzu]

Asiel my dear - you really MUST have that other eye done so you can read what I wrote. BIG GOOF!! No - the cataracts DID NOT come back, but my eyes are going thru the good old aging process and changing once again - thus the need for glasses again. The procedures that I will probably have to have done are not on the eye, but on the eyelid. The oil gland/duct is clogged and has to be opened, and then some other procedure done to the tear duct - I'm not too clear on exactly what they do there - but I guess I'll be finding out soon enough if this doesn't go away on it's own.