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doomquake · Posts: 765

I started wearing glasses back in grade 8 because I couldn't see the board during class. I'd just get headaches.

Most people I know don't remember me ever not wearing them now. Which is weird. Suppose it's been 9 years since then.

Also, I'm short sighted. Myopic or whatever the fuck its called.

HOW ABOUT YOU, FOUREYES?

aderack · Posts: 5018

Yeah, I need to get a new pair. Maybe a new prescription. I was gonna in Japan, where it's cheaper (!) and you don't need a prescription; that didn't happen, though. I've had this same pair for over a decade, and it shows.

I got my first glasses in middle school. Didn't wear them much-to-at-all until I got this pair, though.

doomquake · Posts: 765

Thats really crazy that you've worn the same pair for over a decade, but I suppose if you haven't really noticed a change in your sight with them, it's not an issue.

I'm onto my third pair/perscription now, and it's about time I went and got my eyes checked again I think. I've probably worn this pair for longer than the other two... my last perscription wasn't as big a change as the change from my first to second pair.

Basically anything that isn't 25cm in front of my eyes is a blur without them.

EDIT : Shit, it's my 4th pair I just realised. The last two perscriptions haven't been major changes, mostly just one eye getting worse. I totally forgot I went from big round tortoise-shell frames, to rectangular tortoise shell frames, to brown metal frames to the current pair.. dark blue plastic ones.

aderack · Posts: 5018

Just, money's always been an issue. About the time I should have replaced them, my parents got divorced and there wasn't any money to go around. Then I moved out and siphoned off of a small inheritance until I finally started making money on my own. I guess I could get a new pair now. They're so expensive, though.

Or. Well, thay used to be. I don't imagine they've gone down around here.

My eyesight's not that bad; I'm just sort of nearsighted. The significance is that I can't read text at a distance -- so had I reason to drive, I'd need spectacles to do it effectively. If I want to read the text on my monitor at 1600x1200dpi, while leaning back in my chair, I need glasses. Otherwise I need to sit upright. And so on.

Actually, on the whole I feel I can see better without my glasses. The world looks bigger and more three-dimensional when I remove them.

Nintendodragon · Posts: 259

No, I dont.

infact i work testing the eysight of diabetic patients, and take pictuers of their eyes.

extralife · Posts: 3316

I got me some glasses.

I got my first prescription when I was in fifth grade, actually. I didn't start wearing them until about six months after I graduated high school. They hurt my eyes; gave me headaches. I wanted no part of that. One day, I just put them on and decided to suck it up. I look like I should wear glasses, for one. I'm blind as shit, for two.

I credit my ability to write at lightning speeds with my refusal to wear glasses, though. In school, I always made it a point to actually take notes when I was supposed to take notes, for some reason. I never read any of them--not once. I couldn't see any board in any class from any seat, though, so I had to just write everything down as it came out of the teachers mouth. It got to the point where I could write down every word a teacher said, verbatim, without falling behind.

I thought I needed a new prescription a few months ago. I went to the eye doctor guy, and pretty much failed all the tests I thought I'd fail. I could only read maybe the fourth line on the eye charts. Still, he came back and said my eyes were fine and I didn't need a change. Maybe he was drunk?

B coma · Posts: 1455

A friend's pet snake broke my last pair of glasses over the summer. I insisted on keeping them for as long as possible after that though, after which they became broken in a second spot. I repaired them with glue.

I nearly lost that pair completely at a (strange coincidence) Hot Snakes concert in San Diego, which would have been very bad, because I drove there, and my friend was far too drunk to drive my car back to Riverside. And, I need my glasses to drive. I managed to snatch them from the floor before anyone moshed all over them. I almost lost another pair the same way at a Warped Tour years ago, but snatched them to safety from a far more perilous scenario.

When I was a kid, I lost my first pair in the ocean.

My new pair is only distinguishable from the the last pair up close.

doomquake · Posts: 765

Yeah glasses really are too expensive. I wouldn't buy new frames each time, I'd just get new lenses, but I dont have a spare pair and I wouldn't last the few days without them until they got back to me.

108's post on LPN about going blind by 50 really put the scare into me about diabeties. Especially considering how much Coke I drink. It's hard to give it up though.

Suppose I should begin doing more exercise than walking to the bus.

B coma · Posts: 1455

also

as a teenager I once had a crazy optometrist who told me I was lying to her during the eye exam, or rather "giving innacurate repsonses" to her questions.

She told me that my neck was crooked and that I was pretty much fucked, and gave me a prescription for two pairs of glasses, one for reading and one for normal use. After about a day of that I said "fuck it" because of the insane headaches that ensued. I could read perfectly fine with the normal prescription anyway.

A couple of years later I mentioned this to my friend's optometrist:

"Oh yeah, I've heard of her. She keeps on getting sent to the state board for prescribing unneccesary surgery".

aderack · Posts: 5018

Tim, how much did you say new glasses are in Japan? Like forty bucks?

Nintendodragon · Posts: 259

doomquake wrote:

Yeah glasses really are too expensive. I wouldn't buy new frames each time, I'd just get new lenses, but I dont have a spare pair and I wouldn't last the few days without them until they got back to me.

108's post on LPN about going blind by 50 really put the scare into me about diabeties. Especially considering how much Coke I drink. It's hard to give it up though.

Suppose I should begin doing more exercise than walking to the bus.

You only go blind if you dont control your diabeties. but if you are diagnosed young, its more likely you're type 1, Which means you'll probably be on insulin..

Its a pain in the butt, i dont think people realise how much diabeties affects people..

doomquake · Posts: 765

I haven't noticed any dramatic weightloss... any other signs to keep an eye out for?

And is it possible to reverse the effects of diabeties, if only a little, by correcting your diet and exercising, or if you have it you're a lost cause?

DavidDurica · Posts: 367

I'm nearsighted as all hell. Like, I can't read this text without glasses unless the screen is literally 4 inches from my eyes. Usually I wear contacts (Acuvues), but for the past couple of weeks I've been wearing my glasses.
I prefer my contacts when I have to interact with the hu-mans, as even though the lenses barely go past my eyes on the sides, you can clearly see around my head if you look straight in from the front. Also if I have to do anything outside I make sure I have my contacts in.

I ought to be wearing them again constantly by next month before Megacon.

BTW, about Diabetes, I produce this woman's show http://www.dearjanis.com/. She's seems genuinely knowledgable about this stuff. And she suggested that I read "Wind-Up Bird Chronicle".

Rya.Reisender · Posts: 985

5th class, same reason, short sighted, need new glasses but won't get them because the lenses will get really thick.

Nintendodragon · Posts: 259

doomquake wrote:

I haven't noticed any dramatic weightloss... any other signs to keep an eye out for?

And is it possible to reverse the effects of diabeties, if only a little, by correcting your diet and exercising, or if you have it you're a lost cause?

If you dont control it you will have problems, if you then control it you wont have as many complications... the feet are really sensitive, to the point where you wont be aloud to cut your own toenails..

But generally if you eat right and get some exersise you'll be fine.

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

Glasses are cheap in Japan? I wonder how much the pair I have might cost in its native land: the lenses were $100, the frames, from Japan, were $400. But they were comfortable as all fuck.

I too need to change my prescription, its been a while. Each time, I go, its gets lessen. My eyes are apparently getting better.

I started wearing them in the 2nd grade. I recall having a hard time reading the board, and a subsistute teacher making fun of me because of it. Asshole.

I like wearing glasses. Its been a part of my face for so long, its part of my identity. I think I sorta look weird without them. I also look far more Asian... for folks who don't believe that I'm half Korean, I take them off and they go "oh..."

I once had a girlfriend who hated seeing me without them. I had to wear them during sex, otherwise it would seem as if another guy was fucking her. Though she had other issues as well.

I think glasses make any girl instantly cuter. But I hate dumb broads who think they are nerds just because they wear them.

Also, folks who wear them but don't need to are dumb.

Rya.Reisender · Posts: 985

FortNinety wrote:

I think glasses make any girl instantly cuter.

So true.

Nintendodragon · Posts: 259

My girlfirend came back from holiday wearing glasses... she didnt need them but she thought they made her look clever. i told her to get rid of them, but it was qyite sweet that she wanted to look clever, Ahhhhhhh

Wilkes · Posts: 1603

Rya.Reisender wrote:

FortNinety wrote:

I think glasses make any girl instantly cuter.

So true.

That's not always true!

Rya.Reisender · Posts: 985

Wilkes wrote:

Rya.Reisender wrote:

FortNinety wrote:

I think glasses make any girl instantly cuter.

So true.

That's not always true!

Note that he said CUTER not CUTE.

Wilkes · Posts: 1603

I'm not going to post my face on he UGLY thread until I get new glasses. My current pair are on a slant they're so bent out of shape.

WHO HERE WEARS GLASSES DURING SEX?

I do. And for good reasons. The reasons being the topic of an acerbic conversation between a friend and myself.

My Friend: You wear your glasses during sex?
ME!: Yeah, I like to see what I'm doing. huhuhuh
MF: Ew. You should put in contacts only for sex.
ME: That's a terrible idea. With glasses, I not only get to see what I'm doing, I'm shielded from any errant fluids that might pass my eyes.
MF: ... What kind of se-
ME: BETTER THAN YOU, FUCKO

I do roll on to them after, sometimes. Or she does. Hence them being bent.

Wilkes · Posts: 1603

Rya.Reisender wrote:

Wilkes wrote:

Rya.Reisender wrote:

FortNinety wrote:

I think glasses make any girl instantly cuter.

So true.

That's not always true!

Note that he said CUTER not CUTE.

It's STILL NOT TRUE.

dhex · Posts: 2963

i've been wearing glasses for about 5 years now. just had to get a new pair (a lenscrafter sale = 99 bucks for everything)

BalbanesBeoulve · Posts: 2126

I started wearing glasses in elementary school. Probably around 1st or 2nd grade. But since Jr high i've been wearing contacts. Glasses are for nerds. I broke my last pair of glasses at a flogging molly show i went to a couple of years ago. I need to get a new pair to have around, even if i won't use them much. But yeah, they're too fucking expensive.

LW Joestar · Posts: 1358

I don't need 'em.

I have better-than-20/20 vision.

The doctor thought I was cheating.

Sawtooth · Posts: 2350

I started wearing glasses yesterday.

Mister Toups · Posts: 4943

aderack wrote:

Just, money's always been an issue. About the time I should have replaced them, my parents got divorced and there wasn't any money to go around. Then I moved out and siphoned off of a small inheritance until I finally started making money on my own. I guess I could get a new pair now. They're so expensive, though.

Or. Well, thay used to be. I don't imagine they've gone down around here.

I bought a new prescription last year and it ran me like $300-400. And that was during a sale.

Maybe I got like hoodwinked by the sales lady.

Jeff Garneau · Posts: 1622

NERDS

dhex · Posts: 2963

seriously. fucking lenscrafters. they live up to their name.

cog · Posts: 108

I wear them. Sometimes.

I got them after High School, and was told I should wear them for distance. I only really need them if I drive or something like that. I should probably wear them more often.

professor_scissors · Posts: 1033

I have a pair of glasses, but I haven't worn them in half a year. I don't really have much of a need for them.

aderack · Posts: 5018

FortNinety wrote:

I think glasses make any girl instantly cuter.

SNK disagrees. Apparently.

doomquake · Posts: 765

General Sherman wrote:

NERDS

hay go shave, sherman!! TWO EYES!!

Takashi · Posts: 820

I'm getting Lasix eye-cirurgy. I was going to get it 4 months ago, but they want to make sure my eyes are truly uniform before they burn a lense into them.

The State (and the taxpayers) cover my operation at 100%, since it's over 5 diops. Been wearing glasses for nearly 20 years now, and the bill for new mineral lenses is just too fucking expensive.

oneEIGHTkevin · Posts: 465

I wear contacs. Only go into nerd mode (glasses on) really late in the night. I'm far sighted with an astigmatism that makes one eye pull in if I'm not wearing glasses or contacs. Yeah I'm one of those freaky guys :(

If you're a glasses wearing guy I seriously suggest contacs. They allow you to see a lot more. Being far sighted with glasses means you lose soo much peripheral vision. Plus if you're far sighted glasses are basically magnifying glasses that make you look like you have gigantic eyes.

I remember after I quit wearing glasses all the time I could still feel them on my nose. I would always try to push them back up but WOOP no glasses! Phantom glasses.

Hot Stott Bot · Posts: 2097

oneEIGHTkevin · Posts: 465

Hot Stott Bot wrote:

If you're a glasses wearing guy I seriously suggest contacs. They allow you to see a lot more.

But glasses totally look sexy!

Also, contacts seem harder to deal with... I'd have to keep them in a case, or a bag, or something like that probably... and clean them? Or buy new ones? Or buy new solution? Or something?

Glasses can just kind of be thrown around at whim!

If I suddenly need to jump on a helicopter and go to the desert for 3 years while I hunt down the man who killed my sister on a secret mission for the homeland, my pair of glasses are good to go!

I hear there is contacs you can wear for like a week. Sometimes I get lazy and just toss my contacs in a case of old solution. It totally makes your eyes hurt like fuck but you get used to it. It's worth it. Later I'll probably pony up for surgery but my eyes have been self correcting themselves for awhile now and I want to see where that goes.

thatbox · Posts: 816

Third grade! Contacts are interesting if you haven't tried them, and maybe you'll like them enough to stick with them, or use them for sports, or when you feel like it. It's another option, so then you have three! (I'm -5.50 and -5.25 in mine!)

Takashi, explain the process involved in getting lasers shot at your face at other people's expense, please.

DavidDurica · Posts: 367

On abusing contact lenses.
The acuvue disposables can be safely worn for months at a time. I usually wear mine for about four months straight. I've been doing do for about ten years. I ran this by my opthometrist/under-the-table sample contact lens hook-up, and he said it wouldn't be harmful unless I forced them in while irritated, or other stupid things.

Extended Contact Lenses are great. I don't bother with surgery, as once you get used to contacts (usually a month or two), you forget they're there.

And if you ever want to do a cheap fremen costume, soak them in blue food dye for a couple of days. Seriously.

Wilhelm scream* · Posts: 148

been wearing glasses since grade 4....the ones I have now have neat clip-on sunshades!

Takashi · Posts: 820

thatbox wrote:

Takashi, explain the process involved in getting lasers shot at your face at other people's expense, please.

Well, first you find a country where people give 20% of their income to the state every month. Then you get your father emplyed in a massive state-owned company and your mother working as a public servant. Since the giant company has it's own heath care plan, they pay half the expense for the operation face on. Since the operation is also covered by the Government health care for public service workers, they pay the other part.

I've considered contacts, but back then my only choice was hard ones. This is also a one-time-oportunity, since next year I lose both benefits due to age.

skinny coder · Posts: 262

I got my first pair of glasses when I was in second grade. Putting them on changed everything. I was surprised to find with normal vision you could actually see the leaves on a tree!

I continued to get more and more powerful lenses as the years past. One of my eye doctor's said I had 'BIG E' vision, because I was unable to make out even the largest E on the eye chart. I was pretty near sided -- 20/400.

Note the was. For now I am glassesless, thanks to Lasik Eye Surgery. Woo.

I've had the surgery, I can explain what it was like for me. I'm not sure how well this story will translate into text, but whatever...

So the first step in Lasik Eye Surgery (once they've declared you are a valid candidate and they are sure your eyes aren't changing anymore, as Takashi already said) is to take some Valium... that way you don't go nuts. I was immensely calm the whole day, and while I actually found the entire Lasik process far more interesting than terrifying, I'm sure the Valium helped!

Then I'm lead into Room 1. This thing has a giant device which I'm to stick my eyes into so that they can be mapped. Basically, the computer looks at the my retina and creates a map which is used to tell the laser what to do to reshape the eye correctly.

Enough boring stuff...

Finally it's surgery time. Three people are there, the eye doctor and two assistants. One of them was there to basically keep my eyes wet during the surgery (as you can't blink.) They drop some stuff in my eye to numb all the nerves.

You know those scary alien abduction movies?? Where they do all kinds of crazy experiments to some poor human and they use this reverse clamp to hold open the poor guy's eye?

They've got that.

So now that my eye is stuck open they place this crazy eye cutting robot thing. It basically suctions onto the eye (it attached so hard that it broke a blood vessel in one of my eyes) and there's a camera or some sort of sensor so that it can track subtle eye movement. Then a cutting blade slices a near complete circle around the cornea of my eye. It sort of sounds like a tiny electric saw.

They remove the eye-slicebot and my doctor warns me. "When I flip back your cornea your vision will be extremely blurry. Don't worry, it's normal."

Holy shit. See, I'm focused on a small red LED and when they flipped the cornea back that light became so out of focus that it spread to cover my entire range of vision is a soft fuzzy orange glow. It was sorta like being underwater... but that's also inaccurate. I mean - I had bad vision, the BIG E, but this was unbelievable.

And it's finally time for the Lasers! I really have no idea what's going on at this point as I'm basically blind, but they start firing a laser into the back of my eyeball, reshaping it based on the map they created earlier. The Laser sounds incredible loud though, I assume that anyone waiting in the lobby would be slightly terrified from it.

They flip the cornea back, drop some other stuff in my eye and take five. And then they do it all again.

All in all it was very cool, and 100% pain free (well, except the numbing eye drops, there was a mild sting.)

The recovering process, though, is quite annoying. For the first day I just slept. The surgery was quite exhausting I guess, and the Valium was still in my system. And you have to wear these ridiculous eye covers for a week because rubbing your eyes will totally fuck things up.

One guy was driving his car while attempting to put in this antibacterial you get post-op. Shit happened and he ended up stabbing his eye with the tip of the dropper and pushing his cornea out of place! There was nothing they could do to fix it :/

I actually ended up going back six months later for a touch up, since my vision wasn't quite where I had hoped it would be. The process was identical except for one key step. Instead of using the robot to slice my cornea, they just found the old cut.... WITH TWEEZERS! He literally used small metal tweezer and manhandled the cornea lose.

I'll admit.. that got to me a bit.

But now my vision is 20/15+2 and I can watch TV in bed!

extralife · Posts: 3316

Your post scares the fuck out of me. I want to go hide in a corner. I am completely fucking serious.

DavidDurica · Posts: 367

skinny coder wrote:

{absolute horror}

I like contacts.

dark steve · Posts: 3002

That story kind of makes me want to get laser surgery. It sounds much wilder than I would have thought.

Why the hell don't they put you under?

chameleoneel · Posts: 1238

I started wearing glasses at the end of my Junior year in Highschool. so I've been wearing em for a couple years (graduated 2005).

I lived most of my life being able to see perfectly, better than 20/20. but, sometime around highschool, my eyes started to go bad, slowly, so slowly that I didn't really notice. eventually, I sorta noticed, but I kinda denied it for about half a year. but, when I finally bothered to get my permit, I totally flunked the eye test. so I'm near sighted, If i stretch out my arm and turn up my fingers so the back of my hand is facing my face, that is the cutoff point for my vision. can't see past the back of my hand.

I'm on my second pair of glasses. the first pair I got were really expensive, like 300 or 400 total, but that was when my parents insurance covered me. I went through numerous bendings and numerous rebendings etc. I even broke the screws, so I put sewing needles throught the screw holes and bent em around so the lenses stayed in tight. one day, while working at the Ply-wood mill that i work at, my glasses got knocked off, hit the floor, popped out both lenses, and the frame bounced onto a conveyor belt that lead to this giant spike roller (like in a mega man game). I couldn't see shit, and the dood who knocked my glasses off, instead of helping me, just sat there and said oh shit!

losing my frame was a huge problem cuz I don't have a great experience with contacts, just a decent one. I can wear contacts for only about 6-8 hours, and only when i'm like, out and about. if i want to watch a movie or play games, the contacts are not comfortable enough and interfere with my ability to relax and focus. so I NEED GLASSES. and when i lost my frame, was right when snake eater came out (now my favorite game ever). luckily, I had pre-ordered from gamestop and gotten a camo bandana with it, to which, I taped my lenses, and I wore this "headset" whenever I played games or sat at my computer.

eventually, after about two months (they took so long cuz the lenses I wanted were on back order, and I refused to choose another) I got new glasses. my work covered one lense ('cuz of the accident) and this time, I got the cheap hundred dollar package deal glasses. one lense was like 46 bucks, so I payed the difference.

skinny coder · Posts: 262

As gruesome as it might sound, it really was an interesting procedure and I had great results. No regrets at all. The only side effect from the surgery is that I see halos around bright lights after dark, and while it was really bad right after the surgery (I had to let other people drive me around after dark), it's very minor now.

Hell, I went back for more! Doesn't that say something?

dark steve wrote:

That story kind of makes me want to get laser surgery. It sounds much wilder than I would have thought.

Why the hell don't they put you under?

Well, that wouldn't nearly be as fun!

YOU GUYS ALL GOTTA DO IT!

chameleoneel · Posts: 1238

so, I just read the post about lasik surgery... :shock: yikes! man, they had better not manhandle my equipment, or I'm gonna freak out. Valium or not.

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

Everytime someone suggests I try lasik, I just tell them the procedure in gory details. Your's skinny coder has jumped to the very top!

dark steve · Posts: 3002

skinny coder wrote:

dark steve wrote:

That story kind of makes me want to get laser surgery. It sounds much wilder than I would have thought.

Why the hell don't they put you under?

Well, that wouldn't nearly be as fun!

YOU GUYS ALL GOTTA DO IT!

COME ON WHO'S WITH ME GUYS

Actually how much does that kinda thing run you?