POLL: 20/20, eyeglasses, contacts, Lasik?

[weapon]

lasik.

[vicrock]

One problem with Lasik is, that if you have it done when young, it will overcorrect when you get older. Every time I go for an eye exam, my nearsightedness becomes less and less - if I had done Lasik 10 years ago, I'd be way out of whack by now.

[DaviDC.]

I wear glasses but take 'em off when I sit down at the computer & see just fine within a range of about 2'. It's getting increasingly difficult to focus in on things close up but I have a magnifying headband with LEDs on each side that gets the job done nicely.

One day I'll need new lenses to correct cataracts but I'm not there yet & couldn't afford it if I were.

[SDGuy]

Contacts at work, but only because I'm vain. My glasses would seem scarifyingly thick if I were to wear them in public: around -16 diopters correction.

[Racer X]

AllGold wrote:
I want the kind of vision I had when I was 15.

In my late high school and early college years my vision was gradually getting worse. I finally decided I needed glasses. I had a college friend recommend I go to the university Department of Ophthalmology rather than a regular optometrist because they would be a lot more thorough (not sure why I needed that--just to make sure I didn't have any medical problems I guess).

So the doctor did a zillion tests and apparently found nothing medically wrong. After he was finished he sat down with me and asked "So why are you here?" I said "Because my vision has gotten a lot worse. I can't see as well as I used to and I need glasses." He told me my vision was 20/20 in one eye and 20/15 in the other! My vision must have been crazy when I was a kid.

I have worn glasses ever since. I'm sure it hasn't been 20/20 for many years. My correction is entirely astigmatism though.

That great vision you had back in high school started to degrade when you discovered masturbation.... admit it.

[ztirffritz]

I got LASIK. I went from almost blind to 20/15 in both eyes.

[wave rider]

Glasses since fifth grade. Near sighted with some astigmatism.

Contacts for some years, since I'm doing lots of work in front of a computer screen now, mostly just the glasses.

Contacts for surfing.

Lasik sounds interesting. I'm old enough that my eyes are getting better. And kinda cheap too...

=wr=

[OWC Jamie]

Glasses.
wore contacts for amost 20 years without problems, but not 100% correcting my astigmatism.
I'm also developing an accomodation problem, fortunately progressives and constant eye exercise help.

[wickedsteve]

My glasses are intrusive enough for me.

[rz]

Been wearning glasses since the second grade. Tried contacts when I was 19 and HATED them. I got a goopy buildup in them within an hour, and had worse vision than glasses. Everyone I knew that had contacts said they saw better with them than glasses, but not me.

As for Lasik, I have a very good friend who had it done a couple of years ago, and she regrets it. She has really dry eyes now, and has to put in drops several times a day. Plus she says she doesn't see as well as she did with glasses.

I've never really found glasses to be that inconvenient. Most sports/activities that I participate in outdoors has me wearing sunglasses (perscription) anyway. And when I played volleyball indoors for years, I never found them to be a problem. And for SCUBA, I have perscription lenses in my mask. Ditto for swim goggles.