How many people here wear contact lenses?

[alnorth]

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.