I wore contacts for 35 years but, for the last year, my eyes have felt very sore whenever I've tried them even for only an hour or so. It's really frustrating as I'm too shortsighted to enjoy playing sport without contacts.
I've heard that rather than undergoing laser surgery, it's now possible to have contacts surgically implanted. Would anyone ever consider that?
Have never got on with lenses - make my eyes look puffy.
For some reason as I have got older, having been short sighted in both eyes I am now +1.5 and -1.5 which for anyone in middle age and upwards is the holy grail as you can read and see distance ‘well enough’ albeit not perfectly obviously in either case.
I use both,bins most of the time.Contacts on the motor bike or holiday but I can only wear them for four/five hours a pop.Wish I had the balls for surgery.
Neither, use a laser to simply fix your eyes. I assume you have this there, it's so common in the US that dentists are starting to do it. Takes 5 min per eye. Done. No more spending on glasses or lenses, etc. I was something like 20-160 vision and 5 minutes later am 20-18. This was 7 years ago. Have never looked back. Over 10-15 years costs less than bad vision. Just not sure it works as well (or at all) for reading glasses.
Obviously one can wear clear lenses regardless, but it’s quite nice to wear different glasses to vary the way you look from time to time (rather than have corrective surgery).
Glasses from about 9. Dabbled with lenses in my 20s (1980s) but was a right faff so back to glasses. Had daily disposables for weekends from about 40 for 5 years but then started going long sighted which was worse in the lenses so back to glasses. Now have varifocal glasses which took a bit of getting used to but now seem miraculous!
Both. Been wearing bins since I realised I couldn't read the number on Killer's back when he was down the other end.
Have been wearing contacts also for about 30 years too. Increasingly can't be bothered putting lenses in so use them mostly for sport or during the summer when I know I'll need sunglasses on.
Had to wear glasses from age of 10 when couldn,t see the board in class.Good old Dad paid for my first contacts when I was 17 and never looked back.
In 1965 most lenses were hard ie not gas permeable as now so they took some perseverance but I was determined not to return to specs .
Basically I have worn contacts 90% of the time for the past 53 years supplemented with off the shelf reading specs in recent times.
If I was younger I,d definitely check to see if laser surgery was possible but think I,ve probably missed that boat.
On the whole my lenses experience has been positive especially when one of the early hard ones slipped causing me problems at Stamford Bridge during the Chelsea v Man Utd match in the late 60s (only there to see George Best) Some concerned young men insisted that my friend and I be handed down to pitchside over fans, heads from where we were escorted around the pitch to the dressing rooms so that I could suction out the little b*gger and reinsert it ! Caught a glimpse of us walking behind the goal on MOTD that evening!
I wore contacts for 35 years but, for the last year, my eyes have felt very sore whenever I've tried them even for only an hour or so. It's really frustrating as I'm too shortsighted to enjoy playing sport without contacts.
I've heard that rather than undergoing laser surgery, it's now possible to have contacts surgically implanted. Would anyone ever consider that?
Laser surgery I was told for 40+ is unsuccessful, lens replacement is what I had and while expensive and not the most pleasant is the best thing I've had done. Look on YouTube to see the procedure and remember you are awake when it's done.
Thankfully don't need the but will go with glasses if/when I do. Hate anything going near my eyes, have to have mine tested annually with the drops that dilate the pupils, can't stand it.
I'm shitting myself at the moment as I've developed a mole on my eyelid and know I'll have to get it sorted before too long.
If it's any help, my brother in law just had that very kind of mole removed and he's absolutely fine which is a bugger cause he's a Leeds supporter...
I wear spectacles 90% of the time, but contacts are useful when playing sport, watching birds (so the binoculars fit nicely to the eye sockets) or watching Charlton (for the full widescreen experience)
We refer to them as "ladies" not "birds" in progressive society now please Leuth.
I wear spectacles 90% of the time, but contacts are useful when playing sport, watching birds (so the binoculars fit nicely to the eye sockets) or watching Charlton (for the full widescreen experience)
I've tried contact lenses and to me it was like a scene in hostel. I began wearing glasses about 6 or 7 years ago to football and I should have started sooner as I distinctly recall giving Jerome Thomas a gob full for wasting possession only for @carlsberg to whisper in my ear it was Ambrose who had given the ball away
I now wear big fuck off glasses most of the time, life is a lot better in ultra HD than the previous sub standard definition I was getting. Playing 5 a side is funny for the first 20 minutes as my eyes adjust to a floodlit 4g arena and I put all the shanks down to not wearing bins.
I got told I have astigmatism so maybe that's why I found contact lenses disgusting, that and the thought of one of them disappearing into the back of my eye or falling asleep with them in and ending up like Neil Morrisey from a very funny but revolting episode of men behaving badly
At work it's glasses as I'm staring arlt a screen all day. Wear contacts for going out or doing sport. I also have 2 lots of contacts, cheap online ones if it's just for a few hours, if I need to wear them all day I have some pricey ones as they'll keep my eyes more hydrated.
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I've heard that rather than undergoing laser surgery, it's now possible to have contacts surgically implanted. Would anyone ever consider that?
For some reason as I have got older, having been short sighted in both eyes I am now +1.5 and -1.5 which for anyone in middle age and upwards is the holy grail as you can read and see distance ‘well enough’ albeit not perfectly obviously in either case.
Have been wearing contacts also for about 30 years too. Increasingly can't be bothered putting lenses in so use them mostly for sport or during the summer when I know I'll need sunglasses on.
In 1965 most lenses were hard ie not gas permeable as now so they took some perseverance but I was determined not to return to specs .
Basically I have worn contacts 90% of the time for the past 53 years supplemented with off the shelf reading specs in recent times.
If I was younger I,d definitely check to see if laser surgery was possible but think I,ve probably missed that boat.
On the whole my lenses experience has been positive especially when one of the early hard ones slipped causing me problems at Stamford Bridge during the Chelsea v Man Utd match in the late 60s (only there to see George Best) Some concerned young men insisted that my friend and I be handed down to pitchside over fans, heads from where we were escorted around the pitch to the dressing rooms so that I could suction out the little b*gger and reinsert it ! Caught a glimpse of us walking behind the goal on MOTD that evening!
I now wear big fuck off glasses most of the time, life is a lot better in ultra HD than the previous sub standard definition I was getting. Playing 5 a side is funny for the first 20 minutes as my eyes adjust to a floodlit 4g arena and I put all the shanks down to not wearing bins.
I got told I have astigmatism so maybe that's why I found contact lenses disgusting, that and the thought of one of them disappearing into the back of my eye or falling asleep with them in and ending up like Neil Morrisey from a very funny but revolting episode of men behaving badly