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How old were you when you began wearing glasses, if you do?
A friend let me look through her glasses when I was 12 and it was a whole new world. I've no idea when it got so bad, but, the eye doctor said they were 20/200. It was the nearsightedness that often accompanies puberty. It runs in families. My 2 children have it, but, much less than I. So did my mom, but, she didn't know to look for it with me. My 2 brothers didn't need glasses.
I started wearing glasses at 3, in 1950.. they were unattractive to me, heavy, real glass.
At 15 my parents got me contact lenses, I was very happy about it.
After 47 years I had dry eyes and it was hard to wear the lenses, the Dr said I had
the beginnings of cataracts and I had surgery. I was glad to get it done but wouldn't you
know that now glasses are a lightweight fashion accessory. Wish they had been when I
was young.
I was 7. It's been 30 years now. Forget contacts. Tried them, hate them. Also don't want to have to keep buying them all the time. Don't like the maintenance. I have allergies, need to rub the eyes sometimes. Don't like to put things in, take things out. I like my glasses and how I look in them anyway. I'm so used to them, it's like part of my face, after all these years. Have near-sightedness, my script got up to -8 but it's around -7.25 now.
When I needed glasses in MS/HS, I barely wore them. I hated how they looked. That just resulted in me sitting around, unable to see the board a lot of the time. When I finally got contacts at the end of HS, it was great.
I still prefer contacts to glasses but I will wear both now. I find that my vision is crisper and that driving is easier for me with contacts. But after all these years, my eyes are more sensitive to them. Hope to get Lasik in the next few years.
I have been wearing glasses since I was three. I'm 41 now. Glasses technology sure has come a long way in that time. Used to be, they were so thick and heavy they actually left a dent on my nose where they sat. These days, they're almost like everyone else's. I can't imagine going without; I can't see anything on the eye chart at all without them.
I tried contacts briefly in high school, but at that time my prescription (-14 and -12.5 now, maybe -10 back then) was only available in either hard or gas permeable lenses, and the gas permeable ones were HORRIBLE. I never got used to them. I used to have to stick this tiny plunger on the lens and suction it off my eye to get it out.
How old were you when you began wearing glasses, if you do?
A friend let me look through her glasses when I was 12 and it was a whole new world. I've no idea when it got so bad, but, the eye doctor said they were 20/200. It was the nearsightedness that often accompanies puberty. It runs in families. My 2 children have it, but, much less than I. So did my mom, but, she didn't know to look for it with me. My 2 brothers didn't need glasses.
How about you?
I was 19 when I began wearing glasses, I am far sighted. I am now 60 and wear trifocals.
I was 11 and my Sister was 5. I wore hard contacts when I was in H.S. and people thought I was stoned since my eyes were always half closed. Soft lenses were a revelation.
My Sons needed glasses in middle school and they really wanted contacts (as did my DH) but they all couldn't bring themselves to put them in or take them out- so every morning they laid their heads in my lap to put them in and again after dinner to take them out. They finally got the hang of it after about a year.
I am now blind and it is hard to think about the years that I complained about needing glasses/contacts. It is so easy to take things for granted.
I started wearing them in late high school/early college. I can get around and do basic things without mine, but do have trouble reading small text and am legally obligated to have them driving. I very rarely take them off these days.
I started out wearing bifocals for some reason or another and later in life people sometimes thought they could guess my age simply because of my glasses which didn't really tell much of anything since I'd worn them beginning with age 12.
Because of auto-immune difficulties, I took prednisone for many years, which caused fast growing cataracts. They were removed and I no longer needed glasses to drive, which lasted a few years, then my eyes reverted to myopia and I'm back to wearing glasses to read and to drive.
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