i can see clearly!
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i can see clearly!
I just got contacts today and it is frickin' amazing! Everything is clear and there is nothing getting in the way and they don't even feel that weird to me. I had a terrible eye phobia and the technician who helped was a genius--she let me come to the conclusions as to how it worked rather than just told me what to do.
It is really cool--all of you w/ glasses should try it.
lrschum
It is really cool--all of you w/ glasses should try it.
lrschum
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Originally Posted by lrschum
I just got contacts today and it is frickin' amazing! Everything is clear and there is nothing getting in the way and they don't even feel that weird to me. I had a terrible eye phobia and the technician who helped was a genius--she let me come to the conclusions as to how it worked rather than just told me what to do.
It is really cool--all of you w/ glasses should try it.
lrschum
It is really cool--all of you w/ glasses should try it.
lrschum
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Originally Posted by g_taco
yawn...I got the laser surgery done. Contacts use to hurt my eyes by the end of the day. I decided to go for total freedom. Nothing like having your eyes zapped with a laser beam and waking up to 20/20 vision (mine were -8.5 before surgery).
And I've had a sort of light sensitivity for years so my eyes always vaguely ache if I am not wearing sunglasses outside.
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I prefer this soft, fuzzy haze. Wearing my glasses makes everything look so harsh by comparison. The world is a much warmer place when you have bad vision.
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Originally Posted by gilby
I prefer this soft, fuzzy haze. Wearing my glasses makes everything look so harsh by comparison. The world is a much warmer place when you have bad vision.
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i've tried contacts before - i have a crippling case of eye phobia however. the last time i got them the nurse had to hold open my eye while the doctor tried to force the contact in. they couldn't get them in and i never could by myself. i don't know how you guys can touch your eyes...it's just not something i'm capable of apparently. *sigh* i wish i could though.
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Originally Posted by timmhaan
i've tried contacts before - i have a crippling case of eye phobia however. the last time i got them the nurse had to hold open my eye while the doctor tried to force the contact in. they couldn't get them in and i never could by myself. i don't know how you guys can touch your eyes...it's just not something i'm capable of apparently. *sigh* i wish i could though.
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I've heard that a lot of men in their twenties have an eye phobia. I know I certainly did/do. I say "did" because I can put them in now, and also "do" because it still freaks me out a bit.
I know that some people have it way worse than I do. They are really easy to take out, it's keeping both eyes open when you put them in that sucks. I thought I had put on in this morning but apparently it flipped off and landed on the bathroom floor--it's a miracle I didn't step on it!
They are taking a little getting used to (I have a minor headache after wearing them at work and reading off of a computer screen all day), but I am already when I put my glasses back on I am like: "this isn't as good as the contacts, put me in...put me in...
But not until tomorrow.
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I know that some people have it way worse than I do. They are really easy to take out, it's keeping both eyes open when you put them in that sucks. I thought I had put on in this morning but apparently it flipped off and landed on the bathroom floor--it's a miracle I didn't step on it!
They are taking a little getting used to (I have a minor headache after wearing them at work and reading off of a computer screen all day), but I am already when I put my glasses back on I am like: "this isn't as good as the contacts, put me in...put me in...
But not until tomorrow.
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I haven't had any problems with them so far... Except for that day that the left one had a tear in it and I didn't notice untill the day after...
Need to go get another set of the disposables soon. Glasses just don't work when you're wearing a winter facemask...
Need to go get another set of the disposables soon. Glasses just don't work when you're wearing a winter facemask...
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one night, while severly under the influence of some funky fungus, i sent my mind reeling by putting my glasses back on.
[i'm about -3/3.5ish, so not too bad]. but it was a pretty astounding thing to experience everything suddenly being in literal focus...
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[i'm about -3/3.5ish, so not too bad]. but it was a pretty astounding thing to experience everything suddenly being in literal focus...
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I speak from experience when I say that, regardless of what your optometrist tells you, it's a REALLY good idea to take your contacts out every night, even if they're soft disposables. I had left mine in for about a week (they were good for 15 days), and woke up in the middle of the night with searing pain in my sockets. Stumbled into the bathroom to sort it all out, flipped the light switch, and... nothing.
Long and short, I was 90%+ blind for two whole days. Went to the emergency room, where they discovered that the lenses had managed to work a small circular divot in the whites of my eyes around my iris, effectively "spraining" them to the point where my pupils became, err... fixed into the fully dilated position. My vision was slow to recover, I was ridiculously photosensitive for weeks afterwards, and my eyes have never been fully the same since.
On the plus side, I got to stay home from work for two days and drink beer in the dark accompanied by a completely random assortment of selections from my music collection. 'Twas surprisingly relaxing.
Isolated incident? Not according to the emergency room attenadants and the battery of eye specialists that I saw in the following week. Food for thought, just my $.02, your mileage may vary, etc.
Glasses por vida.
Long and short, I was 90%+ blind for two whole days. Went to the emergency room, where they discovered that the lenses had managed to work a small circular divot in the whites of my eyes around my iris, effectively "spraining" them to the point where my pupils became, err... fixed into the fully dilated position. My vision was slow to recover, I was ridiculously photosensitive for weeks afterwards, and my eyes have never been fully the same since.
On the plus side, I got to stay home from work for two days and drink beer in the dark accompanied by a completely random assortment of selections from my music collection. 'Twas surprisingly relaxing.
Isolated incident? Not according to the emergency room attenadants and the battery of eye specialists that I saw in the following week. Food for thought, just my $.02, your mileage may vary, etc.
Glasses por vida.
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Originally Posted by NYCpistarider
Or you could just have Lasik surgery and never worry again. Of course, with the money I spent on Lasik I could have bought several new bikes...
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Again, not to be the hapless contrarian here, but I had a friend go completely and PERMANENTLY blind thanks to complications from Lasik surgery. Granted, this occurred in the early years of the procedure, and I'm sure that much in the way of the variables have been eliminated from the equation by now, but for my money, there's just no way I'm gonna roll the dice with my vision.
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Originally Posted by sameness
Again, not to be the hapless contrarian here, but I had a friend go completely and PERMANENTLY blind thanks to complications from Lasik surgery. Granted, this occurred in the early years of the procedure, and I'm sure that much in the way of the variables have been eliminated from the equation by now, but for my money, there's just no way I'm gonna roll the dice with my vision.
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Yeah, I was talking to my boss the other day and he said that he wore contacts for years and then got the surgery done and it was the best decision ever. Apparently, there is a greater statistical risk of poking your eye out while putting in contacts than having a major complication w/ lasik (i.e. partial or total blindness). And from what I've heard, poking your eye out is really, really hard to do when you put in contacts
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Originally Posted by lrschum
Yeah, I was talking to my boss the other day and he said that he wore contacts for years and then got the surgery done and it was the best decision ever. Apparently, there is a greater statistical risk of poking your eye out while putting in contacts than having a major complication w/ lasik (i.e. partial or total blindness). And from what I've heard, poking your eye out is really, really hard to do when you put in contacts