How's the eyesight?

mikemac1

Most every subject has been done before in AH but I can't ever remember this

So we'll have a go
I couldn't think of a witty title, t'will do

Were you cursed with being short sighted and wore glasses in school? I was

Or maybe you are an office drone these days and are staring at spreadsheets and accounts all day and you feel you're slowly getting worse

Did you wear contact lenses far too long, come home and fall asleep drunk and have problems the next morning?
I've done that It's not advisable

But I got the laser eye surgery a few years back and it was the best money I ever spent

So many options so I couldn't do a poll for every option

ThinkAboutIt

Who said that? Hello, is there anyone there?

davet82

masterbation causes blindness


so who has trouble with their eyesight again?

Immaculate Pasta

PLEASE WRITE IN A BIGGER FONT IF POSSIBLE BECAUSE I CAN'T READ THE OPENING POST. THANK YOU :cool:

FatherLen

i can read small writing really far away. its my super power.


that and being able to stop mid stream.

Dudess

Pretty strong overall, one eye moreso than the other. I'm the only person in my immediate family who doesn't need glasses. Had an operation on my eyes when I was small though - that's why my sight is good.

Mr Benevolent

20/20 with glasses. Ultracool either way. Slowly going blind due to other causes though.

mackg

Very short-sighted don't wear the glasses as often as I should though because I have a terrible habit of breaking/losing them. Planning on getting laser surgery asap once I get out of the financial black hole that has been my education. I want to travel a bit after college and looking after glasses/contacts on the move is one less hassle then I need considering my poor track record in the area.

I went on holiday to Liverpool last November and decided to get new contacts before I went, went to the opticians where they told me they couldn't give me lenses because it had been over a year since my first lens test and I would have to get another test before they could give me new ones as is their policy. Problem was my flight was leaving in an hour or so and I had no time, so after some cajoling they gave me one pair of the long term lenses (think they last a month?) and told to me to come for the test when I got home, I had lost the lenses by the time I reached the apartment where we were staying, I havn't bothered with them since. I'll get a set of the daily ones when I go back playing 5 a side but that's it.

GLaDOS

Wear glasses/contacts. I not blind without them but reading signs or recognising faces is near impossible.

davet82

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Wear glasses/contacts.

i guessed that from your user name

The Internet Explorer

Samantha Brick.

IM0

with my glass' on I have 20/20 vision

GLaDOS

davet82 wrote: »

i guessed that from your user name

Stereotypes exist for a reason :pac:

Seve OB

mikemac1 wrote: »

Were you cursed with being short sighted and wore glasses in school? I was

Yep

mikemac1 wrote: »

Did you wear contact lenses far too long, come home and fall asleep drunk and have problems the next morning? I've done that It's not advisable

On many of an occasion

mikemac1 wrote: »

But I got the laser eye surgery a few years back and it was the best money I ever spent

I got it done last week. At the moment it feels like I've fallen asleep with the contact lenses in!!

mike65

Short sighted since mid teens (right eye the shorter of the two), but only had my prescription changed once in the last (mind your own business) years.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Pretty decent I've never worn glasses. I do struggle at times with my long distance vision though.

FatherLen

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Pretty decent I've never worn glasses. I do struggle at times with my long distance vision though.

just put your hands to your eyes like your looking through binoculars.

Koshea

I can see things, that's the way they're supposed to work yeah?

Apart from that;
Right eye Longsighted, left eye short sighted, (I'm sure there's a couple of things I'm missing), amblyopia (lazy eye) technically giving me "double vision" but seeing as I can't focus in with both at the same time, never have I had double vision, quite the opposite in fact.

Which meant being turned down by the army/gardaí/air corps/aeromedical doctors due to "total lack of depth perception", although I don't seem to walk into walls the whole time unless I've a good few on me.

Cue the last visit to the optometrist;

"There's so much wrong with your eyes and yet they still work perfectly, if I had a student here you'd make a great case study"

mikemac1

Koshea wrote: »

"There's so much wrong with your eyes and yet they still work perfectly, if I had a student here you'd make a great case study"

Possible opportunity to make some cash?

Fart

I'm 24 and recently got an eye exam as I was sure I was short sighted. Turns out I was right, but not by that much.

So many hours on the computer did that to me. Damn PC Gaming.

If I was younger, I wouldn't have gone for an eye test nor told my parents that I think I may need glasses. Perhaps it's because I thought it was uncool to wear glasses.

At 24 though, fcuk it. Why should I care, glasses are awesome when they improve your eyesight. I don't wear them out, but it's a novelty for me to put a movie on the laptop, put my glasses on and it's so much clearer.

JohnMarston

My ehygsigt ivs cgomplentely fjrine

barbarians

mikemac1 wrote: »

Did you wear contact lenses far too long, come home and fall asleep drunk and have problems the next morning?
I've done that It's not advisable

Remembering that you have to take out your contact lenses before going to bed when you're drunk when all you achieve is that you practically blind yourself is probably worse :P


I'm short-sighted (-5.25) in both eyes, so pretty bad. Needed glasses since I was 9. I can read a book or the newspaper without my glasses fine but without glasses or contact lenses I'm practically blind. Literally in school, I could be sitting in the front row of the classroom and still couldn't make out what was written on the board.

Off-topic, anybody else suffer from floaters ?

bnt

When I was about 10, I was a good little boy, always sitting at the front of the class. Then another boy was naughty, so the teacher brought him to the front and sent me to the back. Cue major "WTF?" moment: why's the blackboard all blurry? :eek:

Glasses ever since: my left eye lens hit -10.50 dioptres by my mid 20s, which (if you know about myopia) is ... not good. When I was living in the UK I qualified for free eye exams, that's how bad the optician thought it was. (I don't get free exams here in Ireland, funnily.) Since then it's improved slightly (-9.50) and stable, so I'm considering surgery, when I can afford it, but I might get turned away as too risky.

barbarians wrote: »

Off-topic, anybody else suffer from floaters ?

Not off-topic at all - it's a known side-issue with myopia. They're all over my vision as I look at a white wall. Had them so long they don't bother me at all.

davet82

barbarians wrote: »

Off-topic, anybody else suffer from floaters ?

i get that all the time, no matter how much i flush it just wont go down

JohnMarston

One of my eyes is weaker than the other, but stronger one compensates for it. My optician insists i dont need glasses. That may change

mikemac1

bnt wrote: »

Glasses ever since: my left eye lens hit -10.50

Since then it's improved slightly (-9.50).

Jaysus, now that's seriously short sighted

Sorry, not trying to call you out or anything, that's just realy extreme

I'm considering surgery, when I can afford it, but I might get turned away as too risky.

Well there is only so much they can do.

I don't know if they would work with you but sure head along for a consultation anyway

Snakeblood

I can't see 3D, so **** you sony, **** you to hell.

**** YOU AVATAR.

GLaDOS

barbarians wrote: »

Off-topic, anybody else suffer from floaters ?

Yeah, doesn't really bother me though

Snakeblood

davet82 wrote: »

i get that all the time, no matter how much i flush it just wont go down

I just pick them up and throw them out the window. Saves water.

kylith

I've worn specs for about 15 years. I got laser surgery about 7 years ago, but I had to get glasses again about a year later. I might get it again, but only of it gets really cheap. My eyes are now as bad as they were when I had them zapped, so I'm kinda glad I did it or I'd be really bad now, instead of just sort of bad.

foxyboxer

I have great sight from my left eye but poor from my right.
So I have prescription glasses.


Wearing that eye patch was such a social faux pas.

Fizgig Bandicoot

I'm shortsighted/blind as a bat. -7.25 in each eye. I've had contact lenses since I was nine, started out with the gas permeable ones, and have recently gotten the monthly ones. I very rarely wear my glasses.

Also, to the person who had -10.5, don't be so sure that you can't get surgery. My aunt was-14 in one eye and -15 in the other, was one of the first people in Ireland to get laser eye surgery (back when they had to do each eye on different days and you had to wear a huge eye patch for ages afterwards. She was probably in her early 40's.) She is in her mid 50s now and her eyesight hasn't deteriorated again yet.

Snakeblood

foxyboxer wrote: »

I have great sight from my left eye but poor from my right.
So I have prescription glasses.


Wearing that eye patch was such a social faux pas.

Yaar, matey, I finds them very attractive.

Kamjana

For some reason i always thought everybody on boards wore glasses.

Princess Peach

Last eye exam was about 2 years ago for my driver's license and I had 20/10 vision

I can see far far away.

kylith

barbarians wrote: »

Off-topic, anybody else suffer from floaters ?

All my life.

ziggy23

My eyesight is perfect but the muscles around my eyes are really tight causing headaches. I'm meant to wear glasses for the computer but always forget.

KKkitty

The Internet Explorer wrote: »

Samantha Brick.

Shoulda gone to specsavers

mattjack

Koshea wrote: »

I can see things, that's the way they're supposed to work yeah?

Apart from that;
Right eye Longsighted, left eye short sighted, (I'm sure there's a couple of things I'm missing), amblyopia (lazy eye) technically giving me "double vision" but seeing as I can't focus in with both at the same time, never have I had double vision, quite the opposite in fact.

Which meant being turned down by the army/gardaí/air corps/aeromedical doctors due to "total lack of depth perception", although I don't seem to walk into walls the whole time unless I've a good few on me.

Cue the last visit to the optometrist;

"There's so much wrong with your eyes and yet they still work perfectly, if I had a student here you'd make a great case study"

We're over here, you're posting in the Ladies Lounge.

wolfeye

I'm blind in one eye and cant see with the other.

yup your right my guide dog typed this

Susie_Q

I got laser eye surgery 9 years ago - it was a fairly new thing in Ireland at the time. Eyesight still great and I honestly think it was the best money I ever invested.

Tar.Aldarion

I am a bit shortsighted and it's really annoying. I don't need or wear glasses day to day but I can't really see anything far away etc. If I wear glasses for a while my eyes get quite sore/strained/tired. I can never find my way around without glasses as I tend to just walk around with my head down not looking at things, as I have to squint to see them well, whereas when I can see well i also tend to remember everything etc. I would say I know Amsterdam better than Dublin even though I was there for a few days, simply as I wore my glasses for the whole trip. :-p Laser eye surgery might be on the cards at some point! Although I do like my glasses.

CrazyRabbit

I was short-sighted for most of my life. Couldn't see clearly more than 12 inches away.

I got laser eye surgery a few years ago and have perfect eyesight ever since. Really quick procedure (18 secs per eye) and no pain/discomfort. Actually, I rather enjoyed it.

I remember when I first got the temp protective lenses out(for LASEK only), and looked down the road. I was stunned. I could see things more clearly than when I was wearing glasses. For probably the first time in my life, I could actually see the world properly.

Easily the best money I ever spent.

FYI...How well they can correct your vision depends on the thickness of your cornea. Most places offer a free check/consultation.

bnt

Fizgig Bandicoot wrote: »

Also, to the person who had -10.5, don't be so sure that you can't get surgery.

Where did "sure" come from? I said they might say no, that's all - and I will get checked, when finances permit.

mikemac1 wrote: »

Jaysus, now that's seriously short sighted

Sorry, not trying to call you out or anything, that's just realy extreme

No, you're right - but for years I didn't really know how bad until the UK optometrist gave me the "free test" form to fill in. That's when I started looking at the numbers to see what they meant. It's not a big deal these days, but I have been warned to watch out for signs of a detached retina.

Apart from the potential medical problems, I never get to enjoy any cheap specs offers, since I need the expensive high refractive index lenses. Last year my frames broke, but the lenses are still good, so I wanted to reuse them, saving $hundreds. The opticians couldn't find the same frames again, but I managed to talk them in to letting me get a smaller frame and chopping the lenses down to size. Which is not as simple as it sounds - they had to make sure the lenses' optical centres still lined up with my eyes, otherwise I would have become cross-eyed or wall-eyed ... :eek:

rain on

I'm not long- or short-sighted but I have astigmatism, made worse by working in an office for the last few years. I wear glasses for work now which I don't mind at all. Couldn't ever see myself getting surgery, I'm way too squeamish about eyes.. I'd just be thinking about A Clockwork Orange the whole time

Meauldsegosha

Susie_Q wrote: »

I got laser eye surgery 9 years ago - it was a fairly new thing in Ireland at the time. Eyesight still great and I honestly think it was the best money I ever invested.

Same here and I agree it was the best money I ever spent. Hated wearing glasses never found a pair that suited me. Was terrible with the contacts, would leave the in all day and night even the disposable ones.

Got my eyes tested last September and everything was perfect.

Fluorescence

Pretty decent (+1 in one eye and + 0.95 in the other). I'm supposed to use reading glasses when at the computer or reading for extended periods of time but I haven't gotten around to buying a pair yet. Effort of that :pac:

CrazyRabbit

rain on wrote: »

I'm not long- or short-sighted but I have astigmatism, made worse by working in an office for the last few years. I wear glasses for work now which I don't mind at all. Couldn't ever see myself getting surgery, I'm way too squeamish about eyes.. I'd just be thinking about A Clockwork Orange the whole time

I promise you that there is nothing to it. All you see is a complete blur from start to finish (from the drops they put in your eyes), and then a cool light show. Within a few mins, you've got perfect eyesight!

Teyla Emmagan

kylith wrote: »

I've worn specs for about 15 years. I got laser surgery about 7 years ago, but I had to get glasses again about a year later. I might get it again, but only of it gets really cheap. My eyes are now as bad as they were when I had them zapped, so I'm kinda glad I did it or I'd be really bad now, instead of just sort of bad.

Me too, I had it done 7 years ago and it lasted a year and a half. But I will never get it done again, I'd rather just stick with the glasses. Am too nervous of any potential long term damage. But at least they aren't any worse now then they were originally.

What a waste of 4k though!!!

Babybuff

could be better, short sighted, astigmatism and hereditary glaucoma risk. Don't really bother wearing my glasses much, only sometimes when watching tv or when I want to actually see better. Beer goggles work fine though.

Fine, it's either 20/20 or 20/10. The most recent test was a couple years ago.