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Mosbonian · 10:37 PM

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**Fire Me Boy!** · 05-01-2010, 10:26 PM

I wore contacts in high school in the early-mid 90s and in college, then started having issues caused by not getting enough oxygen to my eyeball. Went back to glasses for years and made the leap back at the beginning of this year. Much better experience this time around.

In February I got a 1-year supply the doc said I could "easily" stretch to 2 years.

**alnorth** · 05-01-2010, 10:28 PM

I've worn contacts since I was about 15. I never had the option of choosing glasses (except as an emergency backup) because my vision is weird. One eye is pretty good, the other is damn near blind, so on my pair of emergency glasses, one lens is a LOT thicker than the other. That is bad because with those glasses I pretty much have either double vision all the time, or a headache with my mind constantly focusing the 2 clear dancing images into one.

So, I've pretty much always been told by the eye doctor that I had to have contacts, and I love them. Even if I could regularly use glasses instead, I wouldn't now. I use 2 week disposables, taking them out every night, carefully following all the cleaning directions my eye doctor has given so I dont get any eye problems that would force me back to glasses, which as described earlier, would suck for me.

I have no desire for laser surgery, for a couple reasons. One, my vision is not stable, the prescription shifts every 2 or 3 years so it would probably not be a good permanent solution for me. Two, I am perfectly happy with disposable contacts. They are comfortable, convenient, inexpensive with my vision plan at work, so there is no reason for me to want to take the risk of eye surgery.

**alnorth** · 05-01-2010, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

On the contacts thing, I'm a little squeamish about having stuff in my eye, and after taking a light-speed rock to the glasses when mowing the lawn as a teenager, I'm kind of comfortable with glasses being a kind of armor protection for my eyes.

Plus I also think that glasses are kind of cool face jewelry.

Touching your eye is a really tough skill to learn. Even though it was so long ago, I still remember how hard I struggled with it years ago the first few weeks as a teenager, overcoming the basic lower-brain instinct that nothing should ever touch your eye.

Now I can do it like nothing, I'll still blink if a bug is coming at me, but I could touch my finger to my eye without blinking, with no problem at all.

demonhero · 05-01-2010, 10:34 PM

n00b, birth control goggles next month for me. I've had to wear contacts since high school, but I'll be getting Lasik as soon as uncle sam pays for it.

DBOSHO · 05-01-2010, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

I'm afraid to get contacts, and I'm afraid to get lasik. On the lasik, no one knows what happens to an eye that's had lasik for 40 years and is aging, so until a full generation dies with perfect vision I'm going to hold off. On the contacts thing, I'm a little squeamish about having stuff in my eye, and after taking a light-speed rock to the glasses when mowing the lawn as a teenager, I'm kind of comfortable with glasses being a kind of armor protection for my eyes.

Plus I also think that glasses are kind of cool face jewelry.

That was my big thing about them, but trust me, after you put them in a few times, its no big deal.

Sanka · 05-01-2010, 10:46 PM

I use to wear contacts. I just got glasses though, during the spring time I can't wear contacts because of my allergies. I lose atleast 2 contacts during the spring because they just pop out.

SCTrojan · 05-01-2010, 10:52 PM

Wore contacts for about 25 years. Got PRK about 18 months ago. Pretty good decision. My wife just did Lasik and she loves it. Neither of us miss taking out and putting in lenses.

Like someone else said, you'll get over the eye touching thing really quickly. I'd much rather wear contacts than glasses.

88TG88 · 05-01-2010, 10:53 PM

I wear 'em

they cool

Sanka · 05-01-2010, 10:56 PM

I forgot to mention, I like wearing contacts, but the females seem to like me with the glasses look as well.

MoreLemonPledge · 05-01-2010, 11:12 PM

80/20 contacts/glasses. I'd love to get LASIC at some point, because I'm pretty much blind without them (-7.75, if you know what that means).

ArrowheadHawk · 05-01-2010, 11:17 PM

This thread got me to do some research and I found out that there are actually two brands of extended wear toric lenses. I'm going to find an optometrist on Monday that will prescribe them to me. It would be nice to lose the glasses but I cant stand to take contacts in and out every day.

MoreLemonPledge · 05-01-2010, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by ArrowheadHawk

This thread got me to do some research and I found out that there are actually two brands of extended wear toric lenses. I'm going to find an optometrist on Monday that will prescribe them to me. It would be nice to lose the glasses but I cant stand to take contacts in and out every day.

It literally takes 30 seconds out of your day to put them in/take them out.

Sanka · 05-01-2010, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by ArrowheadHawk

but I cant stand to take contacts in and out every day.

You don't really have to take them out every day. I use to go weeks with out taking them out. In fact the only reason I ever took them out was because of my allergies.

ArrowheadHawk · 05-01-2010, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by MoreLemonPledge

It literally takes 30 seconds out of your day to put them in/take them out.

Its also the fact that I think my eyes need more oxygen and the normal lenses bother me. The extended wear lenses allow your eyes more oxygen. Plus, so what I'm lazy. I want to wake up and see.

Sure-Oz · 05-01-2010, 11:22 PM

I said **** the glasses and got lasik

05-01-2010, 08:41 PM
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05-01-2010, 10:26 PM	#16
Fire Me Boy! Cast Iron Jedi Join Date: Nov 2004 Casino cash: $9999900 VARSITY	I wore contacts in high school in the early-mid 90s and in college, then started having issues caused by not getting enough oxygen to my eyeball. Went back to glasses for years and made the leap back at the beginning of this year. Much better experience this time around. In February I got a 1-year supply the doc said I could "easily" stretch to 2 years.
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05-01-2010, 10:28 PM	#17
alnorth . Join Date: Dec 2002 Casino cash: $57156239	I've worn contacts since I was about 15. I never had the option of choosing glasses (except as an emergency backup) because my vision is weird. One eye is pretty good, the other is damn near blind, so on my pair of emergency glasses, one lens is a LOT thicker than the other. That is bad because with those glasses I pretty much have either double vision all the time, or a headache with my mind constantly focusing the 2 clear dancing images into one. So, I've pretty much always been told by the eye doctor that I had to have contacts, and I love them. Even if I could regularly use glasses instead, I wouldn't now. I use 2 week disposables, taking them out every night, carefully following all the cleaning directions my eye doctor has given so I dont get any eye problems that would force me back to glasses, which as described earlier, would suck for me. I have no desire for laser surgery, for a couple reasons. One, my vision is not stable, the prescription shifts every 2 or 3 years so it would probably not be a good permanent solution for me. Two, I am perfectly happy with disposable contacts. They are comfortable, convenient, inexpensive with my vision plan at work, so there is no reason for me to want to take the risk of eye surgery. __________________ how many emo kids does it take to change a lightbulb? HOW MANY?! none they just sit in the dark and cry
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05-01-2010, 10:34 PM	#19
demonhero Starter Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Kansas/bama Casino cash: $10004900	n00b, birth control goggles next month for me. I've had to wear contacts since high school, but I'll be getting Lasik as soon as uncle sam pays for it.
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05-01-2010, 10:46 PM	#21
Sanka Veteran Join Date: May 2007 Casino cash: $-1583023	I use to wear contacts. I just got glasses though, during the spring time I can't wear contacts because of my allergies. I lose atleast 2 contacts during the spring because they just pop out.
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05-01-2010, 10:52 PM	#22
SCTrojan Veteran Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Across the park Casino cash: $4889719	Wore contacts for about 25 years. Got PRK about 18 months ago. Pretty good decision. My wife just did Lasik and she loves it. Neither of us miss taking out and putting in lenses. Like someone else said, you'll get over the eye touching thing really quickly. I'd much rather wear contacts than glasses. __________________ And to the Royals: it will take a lot more than this to break my fandom. I wish I knew how to quit you. But I don’t. - Rany on the Royals - July 2, 2009 This was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of season. This was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of team. Sports are pain. And then, suddenly, they are perfection. - Rany on the Royals - Nov. 2, 2015
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05-01-2010, 10:53 PM	#23
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05-01-2010, 10:56 PM	#24
Sanka Veteran Join Date: May 2007 Casino cash: $-1583023	I forgot to mention, I like wearing contacts, but the females seem to like me with the glasses look as well.
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05-01-2010, 11:12 PM	#25
MoreLemonPledge M-I-Z S-E-C Join Date: Apr 2009 Casino cash: $10004927	80/20 contacts/glasses. I'd love to get LASIC at some point, because I'm pretty much blind without them (-7.75, if you know what that means). __________________
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05-01-2010, 11:17 PM	#26
ArrowheadHawk Rock Chalk! Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Topeka, KS Casino cash: $7744961	This thread got me to do some research and I found out that there are actually two brands of extended wear toric lenses. I'm going to find an optometrist on Monday that will prescribe them to me. It would be nice to lose the glasses but I cant stand to take contacts in and out every day.
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