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Just wondering how many wear them, and is it permanent or just for reading etc....?

I had my eyes tested yesterday because my distance vision has been getting increasingly blurry, and was absolutely shocked to discover that I have a stigmatism (sp?) in my left eye and will need glasses pretty much all the time! It's just something I'd never really thought about before, so I thought I'd find out how many of you are in the same boat......
 
I'm short-sighted (hence my walk-up start to being a mod) and have worn glasses since 1988.

The last two tests have actually shown my eyesight to be improving a little. The optometrist reckons it is not common but possible that they can get better! he reckons at my rate I might have pretty darn good vision in about 15 or 20 years!
 
Like Mobbs, I'm shortsighted. I've worn glasses since I was five, and have better sight in my left eye than I do my right.

Its funny, but after thirteen years of wearing them, I still get the age old question: "Do you wear them to bed?"
 
I have worn specks in front of the computer for years. Nothing serious, just something to relieve the strain of staring at a CRT for 8 hours a day.

However last winter I finally went to the opto to get a serious pair. My long-range vision has been steadily deteriorating to the point where I can no longer read menu boards in cafes, or signs at a distance. The final straw came when I had to start squinting to read the Glenelg Oval scoreboard - before consumption of beer ;)

Now I'm just starting to get into the habit of wearing my specks more often than not. 32 years old and on the way downhill: My eyes are dim, my back is bent, my legs are old and knackered...
 

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Nope, but with everyone else in my family needing them (Mum's actually short-sighted in one eye and long-sighted in the other:p) chances are I'll need them eventually.
 
Originally posted by Uncle Steve
......... The final straw came when I had to start squinting to read the Glenelg Oval scoreboard - before consumption of beer ;)

During last season it was probably a good thing that you had trouble reading the scoreboard.


Now I'm just starting to get into the habit of wearing my specks more often than not. 32 years old and on the way downhill: My eyes are dim, my back is bent, my legs are old and knackered...
32 ????? Mate,wait 'til you get to 41!!!!!!
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I've got terrible eye sight (short sighted) and I wear glasses all the time except when I'm playing football or at the beach when I bung in the contacts. I actually prefer wearing glasses to contacts.

BTW there are a heap of women who look awesome in glasses. Think Miss Hancock on the old WCW shows - yum yum!
 
I started wearing glasses when I was about 9 and my vision got progressively worse (short sighted) and I switched to contact lens around 5 years later and now I use the sleep-in contact lens but I dont sleep in them because I cant, I just need the sleep-in ones because I have really really dry eyes
 
Originally posted by Kid Dynamite!
Like Mobbs, I'm shortsighted. I've worn glasses since I was five, and have better sight in my left eye than I do my right.

Its funny, but after thirteen years of wearing them, I still get the age old question: "Do you wear them to bed?"
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Well do you wear them to bed? :)
 
I'm a speccy git as well have been since my early teens.


My oldest kid is five and he and I have managed to break two pairs so far and my daughter is two and we have broken one pair. Anyone else have kids breaking their glasses for them?
 

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I wear glasses all the time, I'm shortsighted. Before I started Uni in 1999 I had 20/20 perfect vision, but after 1 year my sight had deteriorated so badly I had to get glasses. I've been wearing them for 4 years now and it's not such a bad thing. In fact I feel strange without them. My eyes are in pretty good health but my vision is at the point where I can't see anything that well if it's not close up, so I have to wear 'em all the time.
 
I have been wearing glasses since I was 3 - for short sightedness. When I was 4 an old irish guy said to my mother " he's a young fella to be wearing glasses - would they be for his eyes?"
 
I don't need them yet, but I expect I will do with all the computer work.
 

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I wore them every day from age 2 to age 18.

I had 20/20 vision, but I had to wear bifocals because I was born with a lazy eye condition that required corrective surgery, which I had done at the age of 8. If I hadn't done it I may have gone blind.

Once I got into my teens my vision got better to the point where I didn't need the bifocals, and eventually I just stopped wearing glasses altogether. It was more of a self-image thing, but my vision seemed okay, so I just stopped.

I haven't worn them for about 7-8 years now.
 
I have glasses for astigmatism as well. I think I'm a little long sighted, but not to the extent where I'd actually need glasses for it. I was prescribed glasses when I was about 11, but after the novelty wore off each time, I didn't really start wearing them until I started uni, and suddenly realised that I actually needed them. Of course, that event also coincided with my family getting the internet, and the condition has deteriorated a fair bit over the past 4-5 years, so that if I try to read without my glasses (which I can do with no real hassle in my actual vision) I get sore eyes and a headache. I still usually only wear them for reading and watching tv/movies/football, but these days I wear them out if there's the slight chance of those activities taking place. I detest wearing them to drive though, particularly at night - I can never get them quite clean enough that the light doesn't bug me.
 
My retina started to detach in one eye and tear in the other requiring surgery to repair them, but in the process my distance vision suffered so now I have to wear glasses if I drive at night or want to watch my kids play sport. Still I'd rather that inconvenience than losing my vision which would have happened if I hadn't had surgery.
 

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