milocat
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Location: 55 degrees north in Alberta, Canada
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Post by milocat on Jul 25, 2016 15:19:34 GMT
2. I am legally blind in my left eye. My right eye sucks too but with glasses or contacts it can at least be near perfect.
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Post by littlemama on Jul 25, 2016 15:20:14 GMT
10.
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Post by kath323 on Jul 25, 2016 15:36:14 GMT
I was 10 when I got glasses for distance and when I went to high school (13?) I started wearing them full time. Switched to contacts around that time and wore them pretty exclusively until three years ago.
Now I wear my glasses 5 days a week and have daily contacts for when I want to wear them. I see just a bit more sharply with glasses, as I have astigmatism in one eye. I do wear a toric lens for that eye, but it's not as crisp as wearing glasses.
Getting prescription sunglasses this year was life changing! I never should have waited so long to buy them. Yes, they were expensive, but being able to see and wear glasses instead of contacts all the time is pretty awesome!
When I was younger I felt like the only one wearing glasses, but now they are fun accessories, so I like wearing them.
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Post by myshelly on Jul 25, 2016 15:42:20 GMT
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Mystie
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Jun 25, 2014 19:53:37 GMT
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Post by Mystie on Jul 25, 2016 15:43:24 GMT
I was six when I got my first pair of glasses. Coming up on 46 now, and I ordered my first pair of bifocals thus morning. :-(
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Post by compwalla on Jul 25, 2016 15:44:52 GMT
I was eight, third grade.
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scrapaddie
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Jul 8, 2014 20:17:31 GMT
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Post by scrapaddie on Jul 25, 2016 15:45:41 GMT
I started wearing glasses when I was 8. I'm 45, and I think I'm getting to the point where I'm going to need reading glasses. I did use some last week when I made cookies and the recipe on the back of the caramel chip package was super tiny. ETA: I wear contacts, so adding reading glasses isn't a huge deal. I may end up trying monovision eventually. I have been doing mono vision for around 20 years... No problems at all!
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scrapaddie
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Jul 8, 2014 20:17:31 GMT
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Post by scrapaddie on Jul 25, 2016 15:46:08 GMT
9--/!you get no sympathy from me!!
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scentcrazy
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Sept 7, 2014 22:03:33 GMT
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Post by scentcrazy on Jul 25, 2016 15:48:48 GMT
I'm wearing readers now but will have to get my eyes checked.
I'm in denial that's what has taken me so long.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Jul 25, 2016 15:53:40 GMT
I first got glasses when I was in 5th grade. Wore contacts from 7th grade to about age 30, when they started irritating my eyes. I hated wearing glasses and didn't wearing any corrective lenses for a few years. Then gave in and got glasses. I got bifocals about a year ago. I just turned 41. Even with my glasses I don't feel like my vision is quite right.
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Post by Woobster on Jul 25, 2016 17:25:08 GMT
I was 10 when I got my first pair as well. Been wearing them (and occasionally, contacts) ever since.
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Post by myboysnme on Jul 25, 2016 17:37:09 GMT
Almost everyone needs reading glasses in their 40's and bifocals if they grew up nearsighted. When I had lasik done at age 40 I got 20/20 vision but they told me I would soon need reading glasses. I finally got them at age 50.
I got glasses in first or second grade and then hated them so I hid them on the closet shelf and pretended I lost them. In like 4th grade I needed them really badly by then. From that point on I was a daily glasses wearer until I finally got contacts at about 25 and then the lasik surgery at 40 when I started getting dry eyes.
The lasik was the best gift I ever gave myself, but I now own about 15 pairs of reading glasses all over the house.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2016 17:46:31 GMT
I think glasses popped up in my school pictures in 3rd grade so 8/9? I lose clarity without my glasses at 2 feet. Anything more than 6 feet away are just shapes and colors blending together. I've been wearing contacts since I was 15 and don't intend on stopping any time soon.
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stittsygirl
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Jun 25, 2014 19:57:33 GMT
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Post by stittsygirl on Jul 25, 2016 18:10:33 GMT
I'm 47 and have been wearing them consistently about ten years. They've become too big of a PITA at work though so I'm going in today to see if I can get contacts. This would be the first time wearing them, and I feel like I'm too old, but we'll see what the Dr. says. I wish I could afford the surgery right now.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2016 18:30:25 GMT
11 or 12 When puberty hit, I became VERY nearsighted. I wore hard contact lens from about age 16 to age 30. After I gave birth, one morning the lens would not fit properly. I have worn glasses ever since. For awhile I had trifocals. Two years ago, I had cataract surgery and that has not gone to my satisfaction. I paid $$$$ to have the Krystal lens--they are supposed to adjust to focus the way normal lens do. They don't. Additionally, the dr. gave me one eye distance and one eye near, hoping to eliminate the need for glasses. That has been a PIA. My brain won't "merge" the images or ?? it is supposed to do. I have ended up with bifocals. I could use just reading glasses but that is an awful PIA to remember where the glasses are. I'd rather just put on glasses and be done than trying to remember where the reading glasses were left behind. That's good info to have. I've already had lenses implanted but DH was just talking about the Krystal lens a couple of days ago and I warned him that (much like my vision correction surgery gone bad) that it's not a positive for everyone and living with the results can be very difficult.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2016 18:31:41 GMT
I was 5 when I got glasses, but probably needed them by age 3 or so. Even with glasses, my prescription kept changing every six months or so, so I was put in gas permeable contacts at age 9. With the brief exception of a year in soft lenses, I've worn RGP contacts for close to 30 years.
Lana
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wasil
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Location: Iowa
Aug 3, 2014 12:59:34 GMT
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Post by wasil on Jul 26, 2016 0:43:04 GMT
I got away with using cheaters for awhile but at 52 I finally gave in and got progressive lenses and wear them all the time.
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seaexplore
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Post by seaexplore on Jul 26, 2016 1:07:25 GMT
I was 11 or 12. I love my glasses but wish I could wake up with totally clear vision!
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caro
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Post by caro on Jul 26, 2016 1:10:50 GMT
Contact lens at age 13. I did have glasses first but hated them.
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theshyone
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Jun 26, 2014 12:50:12 GMT
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Post by theshyone on Jul 26, 2016 1:12:25 GMT
First day of college at 18. I'm not sure I'd ever even had an eye test in my life. But walked in sat at the back of room and couldn't see board. All through school I'd always ended up front row and never knew I couldn't see far away.
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Post by yivit on Jul 26, 2016 1:32:04 GMT
I was 9 and in 4th grade when I got my first pair of glasses. I'm horribly nearsighted and have quite a bit of astigmatism. I probably needed them well before then but that was the first grade that I wasn't sitting in the first couple of rows in class. I started wearing contacts in 10th grade (the same year I went from board-straight hair to an afro LOL) - they were hard contacts back then because of the astigmatism. I never had any trouble with them and only had issues with 2 pair the whole time I wore them (well after college). The first issue was when I lost a contact during a softball tournament and didn't have a pair of glasses with me - fortunately it was my right eye because I played third base in fastpitch (and batted either way but stuck with right-handed for that tourney since I couldn't see anything out of my right eye). The second time was an actual issue with the lenses because I was running the blueprint room for the summer where my dad worked and the fumes warped them (or maybe they just got contaminated - it's been a long time). I went away from contacts for a few years and tried to wear them again after I had my first child, but they were gas perms and I could only wear them at home because of the new building at work and all the offgassing of the cubicle furniture. I have torics that I wear sometimes now, but I'm usually in either my regular glasses (transitions) or my "reading" glasses (actually computer distance since I'm staring at screens all day). I had to get reading glasses at 48 but didn't admit that I HAD to wear them until 50 (I'm 54 now). I have to wear cheaters if I have my contacts in.
My eyes have never truly stabilized. I was SO excited a couple of years ago when my prescription didn't change (the first time in almost 45 years), but last year they did get a little worse. I've thought about surgery, but the risk is not worth the benefit to me (and I would probably still need glasses, just not as strong of a prescription).
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Post by meridon on Jul 26, 2016 1:51:05 GMT
I'm 40 and am trying contacts. I'm kind of on the fence about them. I hate dealing with glasses because they never seem to fit right and I end up pushing them up all day, but poking myself in the eye isn't much fun. I think I could get used to it, but I'm not convinced I want to yet. I'm waiting for school to start back so I can test them out in "real life" conditions before I decide and order more.
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Post by mom2rjcr on Jul 26, 2016 2:44:02 GMT
Since I was 7. I have been wearing bifocals for about 8 years now.
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Post by ghislaine on Jul 26, 2016 2:45:45 GMT
I was 3-years-old. We were living in France at the time so when my grandmother came to visit us she noticed the lazy eye that everyone around me hadn't noticed because it happened gradually. It seems that my kids will have my husband's eyes since my youngest is now three and is fine. He got glasses in high school.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2016 2:48:02 GMT
I'm 43 and don't need them yet. Also don't use reading glasses.
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Post by cyndijane on Jul 26, 2016 4:28:51 GMT
Second grade- so, about 8? Both parents and both sisters all started wearing glasses in the same school year. Definitely hereditary.
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