Contacts or glasses?

[pmbryant]

Silly post-midnight poll. What's your preference (for yourself)?

[JohnKleeb]

1. other

neither but my eyes are far from perfect. Perhaps you should meet my left eye, 20/400 and my right 20/20.

[pmbryant]

5. Wow

That's quite a mismatch! How do you correct the 20/400 eye without glasses or contacts?

My eyes are quite different as well, but it's only a difference between really bad, and really really bad.

:-)

--Peter

[JohnKleeb]

10. *groans* its awful

Laser surgery wont do it Peter, seen the doc a couple of times. However my right eye really helps out. Drawback is I need a waver signed to get my learners permit, and my damned parents havent got it signed yet. Its all good though, I see like I do out of my right eye, its good, but my left eye is just eek. Supposely the brain is so used to not seeing out of the eye, even laser surgery wont help.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

43. Can't you get glasses

with only one corrected lens? The other could be plain glass (or plastic).
Or one contact lens?

[Lestat de Lioncourt]

2. Contacts

I hate wearing my glasses. I look like a thin version of Drew Carey when I wear them. :(

[Kathleen04]

3. My eyes...

are fine right now, but I would wear glasses...I'm too wussy to stick something in my eye.

[Cush]

4. Glasses

I'm pretty finicky, there's no way I could put contacts in.

[pmbryant]

6. Contacts are getting trounced so far

A bit surprising to me. I thought it would be more evenly split. I am torn myself, alternating back and forth. Best (and worst) of both worlds.

--Peter

[Terwilliger]

7. recently started wearing contacts

LOVE em...kick ASS!!

[pmbryant]

11. That was my initial reaction too

Wore 'em for many many years, but got a bit overcomfortable with them, leaving them in far too long. Eventually, my eyes rebelled.

After a couple years back with glasses, I want to switch back. Or back and forth at least.

--Peter

[demconfive]

8. Glasses

I always spill my booze when I try to drink out of contacts.

[pmbryant]

9. LOL

Plus they simply don't hold as much.

:D

--Peter

[demconfive]

13. Exactly.

Actually, I do wear glasses. I've never worn contacts, as they seem to be to much trouble.I never have to mess with my glasses; off and on in under 2 seconds. Plus, they make me appear smarter than I actually am.

[Dagaz]

12. Been wearing contacts since the mid 70s

.

[proud patriot]

14. glasses all the way contacts are ,,, well

a pain in the eyes

[FDRrocks]

15. Other?

I've chosen to not wear glasses but a low prescription improves my vision.

[Printer70]

16. Contacts

Play sports. Contacts help. I don't want to be feeling for my glasses when the other team is moving the ball up court.

[sleipnir]

17. Chicks with glasses are HOT!! (It's True!!)

I dig chicks with glasses, (I've got 20/20) but damn, that's one weird thing about me, a nice stylish pair of glasses will really get me going!

[Nevernose]

31. I second that motion! (n/t)

[Pithlet]

33. My husband loves when I wear glasses

I picked contacts, though. I've been very nearsighted since I was 5 years old, and was teased and thought of as the nerdy kid with thick glasses all through school. My parents wouldn't let me have contacts until I was a senior in high school (oh, how I begged for them!). So, I think I have a complex about how I look in glasses. I even bought a very trendy pair of frames last time; the retro squarish black frames. Husband loves them. Alas, I still hate how I look in them.

I wear my glasses around the house, and on routine errands. Contacts for all other occasions.

[Piperay]

18. Glasses

mostly for reading but they are bifocals and I wear them more and more as my sight gets worse and worse. :cry: I HATE the glasses but I don't think I could ever put anything into my eyes, I have enough trouble trying to put in eye drops. :argh:

[pmbryant]

22. Putting stuff in your eyes

I always had that same aversion, but in college, I finally got so tired of wearing glasses constantly (thick ones, too), that I gave in and tried contacts.

The optometrist spent a lot of time with me training me on putting them in, taking them out. It must have been exhausting for him. He later said I was his most difficult 'pupil'. But the training worked, and soon it became quite routine for me.

--Peter

[DemExpat]

19. Glasses...my eyes were always too sensitive for contacts...

Never could wear them more than 4-5 hours....

And the RELIEF when I took them out!

Now that I need reading glasses contacts are even less attractive to me, and I'm too chicken to try the laser treatment.

DemEx

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

20. Other - I switch back and forth between contacts and glasses

-4.00 left, -4.25 right (nearsighted)

What's this 20/20 and 20/400 stuff?

[GOPisEvil]

21. Contacts 90% of the time - glasses the other 10%.

When I'm awake of course. :silly:

I am thinking about lasik though. :scared:

[wingnut]

23. LASIK

yay

[ProfessorGAC]

39. Scares Me

If i had two good eyes, i'd probably do it. But the idea of laser cutting slits in the only good eye i have is too scary. I envy you, though.
The Professor

[wingnut]

50. worked perfectly

2 hours after surgery I had 20/15 vision.

[LynneSin]

24. Both

I have certain outfits I like to wear my glasses with and other times I need my contacts.

It varies from day to day!!

[populistmom]

25. Both

Seriously myopic here also. I wear contacts during the day and my glasses in the early evening on. I find glasses can annoy me, especially in the Summer, but some days contacts do too and I just keep the glasses on. Depends on my mood.

[ProfessorGAC]

26. Glasses Now

Used to wear contact lenses. Then the industry decided, with no data, that contact lenses were dangerous because of potential eye injuries. (Even though i work in an office.) Contacts were banned from the premises.

So i quit wearing them. Then a couple of years ago, this time with data, they re-approved them, showing they were actually safer than glasses with respect to splashing liquids and vapors. Go figure!

Now, i've only got one good eye, from the MS, so i don't see the point in getting just one contact lens.
The Professor

[Philostopher]

27. Glasses here, too.

I tried contacts for a couple of years, back when the daily-wear soft ones came down in price, but I have thyroid problems and, hence, dry eyes. After spending a couple of months dribbling synthetic tears in my eyes seven or eight times a day, I decided it was always going to be that way and went back to glasses.

Besides that, I'm only mildly myopic -- just enough to be annoying -- so I only really need my glasses when I'm driving (especially at night) or watching a sporting event, concert or a movie.

Hell, I'm a bit of a geek anyway, and they sort of fit the whole image I can't really escape anyway.

[skippysmom]

28. contacts

for 20 years now. I really like them and feel I have better vision. I used to have soft lenses, but switched to hard when I went to college and they are much more durable.

I have some cool looking glasses that I wear at night or on weekends, though. Think Lisa Loeb.

[mac56]

29. Reminds me of a joke...

A guy gets pulled over by a state trooper. The trooper looks at the guy's license and says, "Sir, it says here you're supposed to wear corrective lenses. Where're your glasses?"

"But officer," the guy says, "I have contacts."

The trooper replies, "I don't care who you know...!"

[arwalden]

30. BIFOCALS at that.

[Heddi]

32. I've worn both

and prefer Glasses, only because they're so easy to put on and take off.

I do like contacts, though, because I can wear them in the shower, while swimming, and they don't make my face look all cluttered like glasses do.

I wore glasses since I was 3 years old. When I was 15 I got contacts, and wore them for about 7 years, but just got tired of them.

They were soft contacts, so if I got my nails done (i.e. fake nails), I couldn't put them in or take them out w/o tearing them.

I was really bad about doing the major cleaning-thing once a week, so they'd get deposits on them which were uncomfy.

If I went anywhere like the beach, or an amusement park, I'd have to make sure I had my case and extra drops in case any goo or sand or whatever got in my eyes.

After a while, I longed for the ease and convenience of glasses. I can't wear them in as many situations as I could with contacts, but I still prefer them 2:1 :)

[pmbryant]

36. 3 years old

That is extremely young! I thought I was very young when I started wearing glasses, but I was twice that age. You and Pithlet have me beat.

I didn't get the nerve to try contacts until I was about 20.

--Peter

[Heddi]

42. I have pictures of me in Kindergarden

Before the glasses---eyes all squinty. I looked like I ether smelled something REALLY bad or had terrible constipation.

Then, I got glasses.

Oh that improved my look ALOT :not:.

Think of the way glasses looked in 1979 or so.

I had owl-eyes at a very young age. And for a double-dip of good luck, I have astigmatism, very very bad astigmatism.

Back in the 70's, they didn't have the paper-thin lenses they have now. Oh no. ooooh no.

In addition to having owl eyes, the lenses were so thick that they magnified the size of my eyes like 10x's.

I looked like I was wearing those goofy-eye glasses they sell at Spencers and other gag stores---the ones with the big goony eyes :(

I think I went to contacts just because the fugging glasses were so heavy--seriously! I have a permanent nudge behind my ears from the weight of the glasses.

However, now I have paper thin lenses in once-unthinkable wire frames. They look like normal people glasses, not something that Jerry Lewis would wear for gags :)

on a side note---do kids call kids with glasses "four eyes" anymore? Or is that *totally* 1980's and earlier?

[Pithlet]

48. I can remember

thinking that the way I saw was normal. I was shocked when they first put my glasses on. I didn't realize that lights weren't supposed to look fuzzy, and that the lines on the chalkboard at school really were words.

[chiburb]

34. After 35 years (!) of contacts, I...

Had surgery! My vote was "my eyes are perfect"!

[pmbryant]

37. Cool!

I can't even comprehend what that must be like. :-)

--Peter

[SOteric]

35. Amazingly excellent vision.

It's everything else that doesn't work right.

[bikebloke]

38. Specs

I'll stick with my prescription ash trays. Contacts are too much trouble. Plus, as my A-to-B device is a bike, the specs keep stray bugs out of my eyes.

[AlienGirl]

40. Glasses

I like how I look with glasses on. Plus I am really freaked-out by putting anything in my eyes.

Tucker

[Breezy du Nord]

41. I cannot see in my right eye

So I only have a perscription for the left one. (Glasses, I mean. I tried contacts and didn't like them.)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

44. Glasses for comfort, contacts for vision...

I see things much more clearly with contacts; but I can only wear them for so long before they start to feel uncomfortable.

Also, if I want to read small print with contacts on, I need a magnifying glass. I'm afraid I'm about due for bifocals...

[geniph]

45. I had LASIK surgery five years ago

it was the best thing I've ever done for myself. First time in 32 years I'd been able to so much as walk down a hall without contacts or glasses. It's wonderful.

I did ten years of research before settling on a surgeon, though. I do recommend doing your homework beforehand; there's too many fly-by-nights doing LASIK these days.

[spooky3]

49. me too, and I agree.

[CO Liberal]

46. I've Been Wearing Glasses Since 1960

First kid in the Second Grade to get them. I got them a few weeks before JFK was elected president.

[Nikia]

47. Contacts

I look like a mega geek in glasses. I have fairly thick glasses. My husband thinks I look alright in them though and thinks that it is funny that I ask if he cares if I wear them in the evening.
I've been wearing contacts since sixth grade after getting glasses in second grade. I did some damage to my eyes wearing them. Now I get a new pair every month and have for the past two years. My eyes have healed now.