#42

Pretty sure you can if you know your prescription.

#43
  • worn glasses for: since the last year of primary school - so 27 or so years
  • scratched or finely polished: somewhere between - getting towards the latter lately
  • how many pairs do you own: two - one that i actually wear, one that i’ve not worn for fie years and keep meaning to put in the donation box
  • do you ever wear lenses: yep - started off with monthlies when i was about 15, then moved onto rigid gas-permeable a couple of years later. have been wearing those ever since. until about a year ago, i’d have them in all day eavery day, but my optician put the frightners on me by talking about what would happen if i continued to do that, and told me to cut back, so now i’ll wear them to work, but tend to whip 'em out (wahey!) when i get home. will wear them for sports, driving, when going out in the sunglasses sun. otherwise, i’m upping the glasses wear-time. it seems obvious, but having a good pair (wahey!) has made such a difference in my willlingness to wear glasses. got 'em from this place - www.nicheopticaltailor.co.uk - which looks a bit pretentious, but they’re ace. went in thinking i wanted brown metal frames and ended up with black/grey plastic cos the people there actually know what they’re doing and will steer you towards something that suits your face shape/hair colour/etc, rather than vision express/specsavers where they just nod and try to get you to buy something, anything. which is not a dig at the high street opticians - vision express are where i get tested and are boss with all their up to date tests and keeping a look out for tell tale signs of health stuff in a way that i really doubt an independent could ever manage.

tl;dr glasses and lenses: yes. online ordering: no thanks.

#45

Hey

I’ve got contacts but I have a right mare with them. Either I put them in and one falls out and I don’t notice til I’m in public. Or I’ll catch it with my nail, put it in and then it feels scratchy then I remove it in bits.

I got myself some pink glasses the other week AND some prescription sunglasses which are just wild

#46

have had glasses for about 28 years or something?
pretty short sighted (-5 ish) so have to wear them all teh time, and my lenses are dead expensive if i don’t want them to be ultra thick
so scatches really but starting to get a bit of wear on them - they are a good 4 - 5 years old though i think, i really like them - i always spend a lot of glasses as y’know, they are on my face all the time. - i don’t polish them as much as i should do

i always have two pairs - when i get a new pair i keep the former current pair as a spare

also wear contacts - maybe 3 times a week, used to wear them a lot more but it’s bad for your eyes innit - i have daily disaposable ones - mid range i think

#47

Never even tried contacts. No thanks.

Don’t wear my glasses all the time - can just about get by without them, but should wear them a bit more than I do.

#48

Worn glasses since I was about 18, but not much until I was mid 20s
In good nick, though arms a bit stretched from children fiddling with them
Got spares (Specsavers!)
Nope, not putting plastic in my eyes.

Really need to get some prescription sunglasses though.

#49

when i got contacts you have to go and have a lesson in how to put them in
I went at 8:30 on a friday morning, slightly hungover. I could have cried at how frustrating it was

#50

I can’t even imagine trying.

I once lost sight in my eyes for about half an hour (absolutely terrifying) and was rushed to hospital. By the time they saw me my vision had come back, but that made it worse as they had to do eye drops and take my eye pressure, which despite having had my eyes dilated and numbed, required like 8 attempts as I could not handle the idea of something touching my eye.

Puts me on edge just remembering it all :frowning:

#51

urgh yeah! I was the same but you do get used to it.

I had to have that weird eye dilating drops and i was practically on the floor trying to get away from the man putting them in!

Also day 1 of wearing contact lenses i saw someone who told me the horror story of them getting an X ray with their lenses in then trying to remove the lens later in the day and pulling off their retina or something gross like that
(sorry)

#52

Ah JFC I did not need to read that! Sounds like something from a Cronenberg film.

#53

:fearful:

Horrendous.

A friend of mine was in hospital for 3 weeks and has lost almost all vision in one eye after getting some sort of infection/necrotising parasite or something from reusing contacts that weren’t cleaned properly (I also think they were meant to be one use ones)

Absolutely terrifying. I went to visit him in the hospital and had to face away from him :frowning:

#54

Things I have learned from this thread: I will never wear contacts.

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#55

not nearly as bad as that - but when i used to have the lenses that you clean and reuse - (I used to sterilize the lenses with some germ destroying stuff overnight - but with a little tablet that would slowly neutralize the the liquid so it was safe to use the lenses the next day) - i once (drunk i expect) didn’t put the neutralizing tablet into the cleaning box, popped a lens in the next day and FUCKING HELL - proper proper awful burning sensation - really nasty!

i’m amazed i didn’t completely fuck my eyes over actually given the amount of times i’d come home when i was about 17 or so, steaming drunk and having to struggle with the cleaning routine - christ knows how i managed it effectively all but one time.

#56

you shouldn’t wear lenses when swimming - can fuck you up

get some perscription googles - they are only about £12 or something

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#57

I really want some prescription googles. But the ones I’ve tried are a really bad fit. Way too narrow for the bridge of my nose. :frowning:

#58

About ten years.
Polished, but permanently grubby. Every time I have a night in drinking wine I wake up with red wine on them the next morning.
One pair scrip lenses, one (identical) pair scrip sunglasses, the same combo I’ve had since I started wearing them. (I am unimaginative).
Never in a billion years am I touching my eyes. I can manage fine except when cycling in the rain.

This is now the cycling in the rain wearing glasses thread.

#59

Sounds like me at the same age. That cleaning stuff was peroxide based from what I remember - I also managed to stick them straight in my eye on a couple of occasions. Felt like being pepper sprayed.

#60

I’m wearing brand new glasses for the very first time today :nerd:

(They are exactly the same as my old glasses)

#61

I didn’t realize so many people were seriously icky about touching their eyes.

Like its unpleasant but you really quickly get used to it.

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