Glasses, contacts, general eye health thread.

[Rozzy]

Being severely short sighted I wear glasses and look like the nerd that I am.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I've been atomic nearsighted since I was a kid, so it's contacts or lenses so thick you can see the sides of my head
in the last fifteen years or so I've picked up a bit of an astigmatism that manages to balance out the nearsighted a little bit so I can almost read stuff on a big screen

mostly contacts for my choice since I was a kid
I get the smallest pack of disposables and wear them into the fucking ground taking them out and running basic solution through them most nights, then after a few years I get a new script a half-dozen or whatever
next time I'll probably get a glasses script too and some cheap china shit glasses later

I've never been interested in lasics or whatever.

 

[Cheeseknife]

Didn't Null post that one thing where that guy "cured" himself of wearing glasses by just exercising his eyes?

This is effectively how you can cure Strabismus. Sometimes, the musculature in one eye is overbearing and this causes the eye to cross. As a result, the good eye will overcompensate while bad eye will start to become weaker. Certain glasses can be worn that will force you to correct your own vision. Pinhole glasses are a good example:

 

[Jarolleon]

There is a site called 39dollarglasses that sells exactly what you'd expect, they've worked fine for me.

 

[GloryHole Stalker]

thats what amazed me too, contacts barely cost fucking anything whereas glasses still are about as much as a smart phone. i guess you could argue its because you could wear the same glasses forever but how many people do that?

That would be me friend... been wearing the same pair of specs since 2001. When I can't see outtta 'em anymore, or they crumble to dust, I'll get new ones, lol.

Edit: Big Glasses ain't getting a shekel from me until it's absolutely necessary.

 

[OrionBalls]

So, after about two decades, I finally got a new pair this year when the bridge cracked on my old ones. Actually sprung for the transition lens, because it sucks not having sunglasses. I won't do it again. They're nice in some regards, but if I'm outdoors and it's overcast, they still darken, which makes working from a screen harder. It also appears to be socially off putting. I notice people don't look me in the eyes as much, probably because they can't see them. I am glad that big frames are back on style, though. Much better range of vision without moving my head.

 

[Lightsaber Dildo]

My eyes are extremely terrible and I'd prefer not to wear glasses OR contacts, but corrective vision surgery scares the fuck out of me more than anything else. Knowing about how the procedure works and all the stuff going near my eyes while I'm wide awake and sedated makes me violently uncomfortable just imagining it.

 

[Fatal Shooting]

I always had problems with what I thought was dryness when wearing contact lenses, but recently switched to lenses with a much lower water content and the dry feeling went away. Apparently sometimes oxygen deprivation feels like dryness, and lenses become less oxygen permeable the higher the water content.

The only downside is that if you get a little flake of mascara or whatever in your eye it'll stick to the lens much more firmly that it did the ones with more water, they seem to be more permeable to everything. Comfy though, so it's worth it.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

on the subject of contacts, I'm running low on disposables and feeling too damn lazy to get a fresh script
is there any shady contact lens dot com type site where they won't ask for a script if I fill out all the numbers?

 

[Fatal Shooting]

on the subject of contacts, I'm running low on disposables and feeling too damn lazy to get a fresh script
is there any shady contact lens dot com type site where they won't ask for a script if I fill out all the numbers?

Vision Direct, they're based in the UK but post internationally except to the US.

 

[Neurotypical Mantis]

I LOVE RUBBING MY CORNEA I LOVE MAKING MY ASTIGMATISM WORSE

 

[Overly Serious]

Didn't Null post that one thing where that guy "cured" himself of wearing glasses by just exercising his eyes?

This is apparently possible. On the L1 Tech show they mentioned a type of glasses that exercises your eyes and is proven to improve eyesight very effectively. They were made by an Asian company and unknown in the West. I've not been able to find the episode or time where they name it though. But I'd love to hear if anybody can point me at them. It wasn't flim-flam, they were proven to work.

paying $800 every yea

Holy fuck! How much? Who the Hell pays $800 for glasses? In bongland an eye test is free and you can get normal-looking glasses made for £60. More designer ones for £100+.

 

[BobbyBriggs69420]

Contacts really really hard to take out?

Been wearing contacts a long time with no problems. Around feb a new brand "Total 30".

These seem the same as any other most days until night some days. They can be hard as hell to get out, I stick my finger up there and slide to the side but nothing happens, it doesn't move. I keep trying and trying and eventually get it. Saturday night I had so many problems I guess I broke vessels in my eye and caused a "red blotch in the white area" that's still there a bit today.

It's not every day and it's more likely to happen if I've had my eyes closed a bit, like if I fall asleep a bit early and wake up a half hour later to get to bed for real.

Is there a one weird trick to make this easier? Get back on my old brand? Or should I go to the doc's office with my favorite minecraft controller?

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

I hate the very concept of contacts. I'm not putting shit in my eyes every day. I'll stick putting on my glasses in five seconds.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I hate the very concept of contacts. I'm not putting shit in my eyes every day. I'll stick putting on my glasses in five seconds.

contacts really don't take much longer once you get used to them, like, from walking to the bathroom to walking out will be all of sixty seconds
but there is a HELL of a hurdle to clear of "just wrench your eyelid open and slap this plastic onto your eyeball, it'll stick to your eye all by itself! isn't that great!"

 

[User names must be unique]

in bongland an eye test is free

Dole bum detected. It's only free if you don't contribute to society, are over 60, under 16(?), or already have significant eye problems AFAIK

Though It's only £20+ depending where you go, I normally pay £35 in total to get an OCT test because I have family history of glaucoma.

 

[Freshly Baked Socks]

I got eye surgery 10 years ago ...
Best 4k I ever spent.

metoo (20+ years ago)

The only downside I can state are that I sometimes miss having eyeglasses because they're nice bug and dust safety guards for your eyeballs. I immediately noticed more crud flies into my eyes.

And because all the correction is focused in the center of vision, there is a limit in the periphery of view where objects become more fuzzy, but I rarely give people the side-eye.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

except to the US.

okay but I need america

 

[User names must be unique]

okay but I need america

Should have befriended a UKCuck to take delivery and mail them on to you.

 

[Fatal Shooting]

Contacts really really hard to take out?

Been wearing contacts a long time with no problems. Around feb a new brand "Total 30".

These seem the same as any other most days until night some days. They can be hard as hell to get out, I stick my finger up there and slide to the side but nothing happens, it doesn't move. I keep trying and trying and eventually get it. Saturday night I had so many problems I guess I broke vessels in my eye and caused a "red blotch in the white area" that's still there a bit today.

It's not every day and it's more likely to happen if I've had my eyes closed a bit, like if I fall asleep a bit early and wake up a half hour later to get to bed for real.

Is there a one weird trick to make this easier? Get back on my old brand? Or should I go to the doc's office with my favorite minecraft controller?

Get a cotton bud (q-tip for the burgers) and bend it in half so it works like a pair of tweezers. It's smaller than your fingers and doesn't lose it's grip when it gets wet.