ncbill
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Gave up soft contact lenses after college...just switched back to glasses.
Twenty years ago I finally went for LASIK.
Twenty years ago I finally went for LASIK.
I have been wearing contacts on and off, mostly on, since about age 14; lately though I have been wearing glasses only and cannot tolerate my RGP multi-focal lenses. Contacts do provide superior vision for me. Hope not to have to give them up but it does seem the eyes are drier than before. I’m 63.
I have been wearing (gas permeable) contacts since age 19. Lately, about every 3 or 4 days, I have a glasses day, and not bother with them.
So, my question is, at what age do you think people give up on contact lenses and just wear glasses?
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I have been wearing (gas permeable) contacts since age 19. Lately, about every 3 or 4 days, I have a glasses day, and not bother with them.
So, my question is, at what age do you think people give up on contact lenses and just wear glasses?
Yeah, I know that if I have cataract surgery some day, they may can fix my vision. And, I am chicken (and too cheap) to get the laser correction.
I have been wearing (gas permeable) contacts since age 19. Lately, about every 3 or 4 days, I have a glasses day, and not bother with them.
So, my question is, at what age do you think people give up on contact lenses and just wear glasses?
Yeah, I know that if I have cataract surgery some day, they may can fix my vision. And, I am chicken (and too cheap) to get the laser correction.
Never wore contact lens but I've needed glasses since my early 20's... By the time I was ~40 I needed bifocals... There is no way I could have passed my states driver license test without glasses since I was ~25... Then in my early 60's, I noticed I that I was starting to see better and better as time passed. . Matter of fact, when I took my driver license test in my mid 60's I passed w/o glasses. Now in my early 70's all's I need is reading glasses with very small print. So there is hope for "some of us" as we get older that you may not need glass/contacts or surgery to correct our vision. I was told by an optometrist that what happened to me is not "that" unusual.
I had to start wearing glasses at around 10 and for some reason I absolutely loved it. Then in my 20's I decided that glasses made me look dorky and I would get laid more wearing contacts. I switched but I'm not really sure if it made a huge difference. Once I stopped caring about my... social life, I went back to glasses. And I like them as much as I used to when I was a kid. I think that cool frames are like jewelry so I treat myself to something new every year or so.
I'm 53 now. I started wearing glasses due to myopia in 4th grade and my vision has gradually worsened since then. I started getting an astigmatism in one eye, then the other, about ten years ago. I started getting presbyopia a few years ago, and that's gradually getting worse. I saw the eye doctor a week ago and he diplomatically said without saying that I am probably starting in the early stages of cataracts.
Day in, day out I wear glasses. They are the most precise for me in terms of the prescription. On vacation sometimes I'll wear contact lenses, which are basic -7.5 or -8.0 soft disposables. I think the contact lenses tend to physically correct the astigmatism. I also think the eye with the worse astigmatism makes wearing a lens in that eye more uncomfortable than the other eye. The lens feels "wrinkly" in that eye; the other eye is pretty much completely comfortable.
I've thought about RK and LASIK since they have been around. But they are not for me; even with all the drawbacks and issues with glasses, I'm not personally willing to risk the (unlikely but possibly serious) downsides of eye surgery. Because I am so nearsighted, there is also the possibility of (a) not being corrected to 20/20 and still wearing glasses, or (b) getting corrected but requiring subsequent touchups. Both of those would be "failures" to me.
My Dad is 86 and had cataract surgery last year. I get the impression that nearly everyone who makes it to that age has cataracts and gets them fixed. And my understanding is that you can have corrective lenses implanted which should get you to 20/20 (or close). So I think people wearing contact lenses in their 80s would be rare simply because they could just have corrective cataract surgery instead.
Not that big a deal...I was -8 in both eyes but with little astigmatism when I had LASIK nearly two decades ago.