Do you prefer glasses or contacts?

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I wear glasses currently, but I’m thinking about switching to contacts because I don’t like how I look in glasses. Which one do you guys prefer?
 
Glasses. The risk of infection is just too dang high with contacts. Also, people mistake me for smart.
 
Contacts won’t hold enough beer to be able to smell the hops, so I use glasses . . .

oh, wait . . .

I use reading glasses, which these days spend most of the day on my nose.

At my next appointment, though, I expect I’ll get bifocal prescription, too, for driving. Not for clarity in general, but to read distant signs. OK, and small letters on the television across the room . . .

I’ll consider contacts, though–I spent a year wearing bifocals, my first year of graduate school, and that frame in front of my face was distracting. After a year or so, I went in again, as the end of the hall was clearer without them than with them.

As it turned out, my eyes hadn’t gotten worse, but better: I was the only one in my program whose stress level had gone down from going into it! 😱 I had been practicing law, and apparently I was under so much stress that the tension was pulling my eyeballs out of round! As I relaxed, my vision got better.

But I don’t think that that’s going to happen this time.

I actually discussed the bifocal contacts at my last appointment, but given that my initial use of reading glasses was actually caused by muscular stress (my slightly different eyes fighting for focus), he recommended against it, given the way that the eye chooses different concentric rings . . . (my initial prescription was nothing in the right, and the minimal in the left. Things were clearer without them, but the headaches went away. . . .)
 
I wear glasses for the last 30 years, because I wore soft contacts in high school, college and for a short time after college and then became a “contact lens failure”. My eyes didn’t make enough moisture to keep the lens from scratching my cornea, and eye drops did not fix the problem. A scratched cornea doesn’t start to hurt for about 1-2 days and it is unbelievably painful. After about 2 episodes of scratched cornea, I gave up and just switched over to glasses. Fortunately the whole hipster world was going “nerd chic” at that point so it was not a problem from a fashion standpoint, although I was really sad I could not continue with the contacts.

I know since then they came out with disposable contacts and I don’t know if those are any easier on the eyes. You might check with your eye doctor.
 
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Glasses!! Don’t think I could ever get used to wearing contacts, just the feel of something in my eye would drive me nuts.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
you can touch your eye with your finger
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thinking about that gives me shudders … … no thanks. I’ll stick to glasses 😉

(edited to add - I can’t even put eye drops in my eyes for when they get dry and irritated).
 
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Are you wanting the mods to delete your post from this casual discussion thread?
 
I am really at a loss as to your objection. What “chatter” are you referring to? The subject is of interest to me because I wear glasses and would have loved to wear contacts but my eyes did not produce enough moisture to do it. What is so inappropriate?
 
I wasn’t being uncharitable, but was not sure whether you meant the entire thread, or your own post. Sometimes if one edits their own post soon after posting no edit symbol appears at the top of their post to indicate its’ been edited. So wasn’t sure which it was.

But I am also a little perplexed as to why you do feel it doesn’t belong on CAF in the casual discussion subforum, considering the wide range of topics the other threads cover.
 
There is no disrespect. If you don’t like the subject, ignore it. Do you find the games here disrespectful to? Serious discussion IMHO doesn’t belong in Casual Discussion.
 
I find that you are not correct that this is a site for only serious discussion. I would hope that your world has some room for joy and laughter. I am finding your comments to be sad and uncharitable. If you don’t like it, stay away and go to the other sub-forums that are more to your liking.
 
You really are funny. So you say good day. Am i suppose to longer comment because you said good day?. 🤭 Sorry it doesn’t work that way.
 
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CatholicCrusaderes said:
My objection is that is is desecrating a forum where many of us come to seek serious discussion on very interpersonal matters of catholicism and faith.
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You’re in Casual Discussion subforum. We chat about social things and play silly games here. If you prefer the serious discussions, they’re in every other subforum. Nothing in this thread is breaking the rules or “desecrating” the forum.
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I consider this the “online house of God” and expect members to treat it with due respect.
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It’s a Discourse chat forum with ads all over it. It’s not a church, it’s not consecrated in any way.
Nor is there anything disrespectful about a discussion of glasses vs. contacts.
I’m having a hard time taking your objections seriously to be honest.
 
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CatholicCrusaderes said:
I find the whole idea of a “casual discussion” page disgusting and disrespectful on a site that is for serious discussion of Catholicism and God.
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And yet you are participating on this “disgusting and disrespectful” page yourself. 🤔
 
Getting back on topic, I prefer contacts due to sports and an active lifestyle. Like to have peripheral vision without turning my head and running with glasses is no fun.
 
I have mostly worn glasses with a a couple of intervals of contact lens use. I guess my eyes tend to be dry and I worked In laminar flow hoods so I didn’t tolerate contacts well.
 
I had my first pair of glasses in 5th grade for distance only. I don’t remember when I started wearing them “fulltime.” Maybe middle school, or junior high as it was termed back then. Never tried contacts until after college. I had them when I got married, but I don’t think I wore them much after that. I honestly don’t mind glasses enough to go through what is for me, the chore of wearing glasses. I have Invisalign (bifocals) rimless glasses and I hardly notice them most of the time.
 
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