Do you prefer glasses or contacts?

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If you’re of a certain age, you need glasses to find your reading glasses.

That is if you don’t use bifocals.
 
I’m tired of both. I’ve been wearing glasses since I was 11 and contacts since I was 18.

When I’m home I wear glasses. I wear the contacts when I go out.

I’ve got multi focal contact lenses, regular glasses, and reading glasses that actually make my vision worse. 🤓 👓
 
Have worn glasses/contacts since high school. I wore mostly contacts for about 30 years but switched to glasses full-time when I started needing bifocals. Also at the same time, as birthdays piled up, my eyes got drier and drier and made contacts very uncomfortable. I really don’t like wearing glasses and would switch back in an instant to contacts if I could…
 
At one point in time, everyone I worked with seemed to be getting corrective eye surgery. I would have too but I wasn’t a good candidate for the procedure (now, it may be different). Every single one of my co workers are now back in glasses! They were able to ditch the contacts or glasses for about 8-10 years…and then their vision wasn’t acute enough to stay away. And they all went to glasses except one who went back to contacts…but, owns glasses for around the house.

I’m not sure why the surgical correction doesn’t last…or maybe it’s due to aging eyes but I’m kind of glad I never had it done! They all wore contacts before the surgery. As a matter of fact, we all knew when they were about to go in because they had to refrain from contacts for a period of time before the surgery. One guy I had never seen in glasses before…man, he was almost blind! He even jokes about his coke bottle glasses 😂😂😂. He lasted 8 years. He went to bifocal contacts and still struggles with them but he really dislikes wearing glasses.
 
You know, all of my children talk about getting lasik surgery and I keep saying to wait. They ask why and I say that because for me, the jury I’d still out on what happens when you get older. And now, thanks to you, @Pattylt, I am getting some ideas.
 
LASIK doesn’t fix close vision, just for distance. Eventually nearly everyone goes back to glasses. But the good thing is my vision is still much better than it used to be. My glasses weigh less because they’re not as thick, so are much more comfortable. I can still legally drive without my glasses, but I don’t. I can watch tv without glasses if I choose. But in no way can I read without glasses.
By the way, I didn’t have lasik, which is much better. I had the old RK surgery.
 
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But the good thing is my vision is still much better than it used to be.
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I agree. My friend with the coke bottle glasses doesn’t need anything close to what he needed before the surgery. Most of them are just very disappointed that needed to back to correction at all. Ten years is still ten years but it isn’t for life! I guess it depends on your expectations to begin with.

I would have had lasik surgery if I qualified. I was very disappointed that I didn’t but now I’m glad…as I would have hated going back to glasses.
 
Glasses are easier for me to deal with. Even if I could tolerate having something directly on my eyeball, the hassle of taking care of contacts is more than I’m willing to contend with. The older I get, the simpler I want living to be.

As it is, I’ll probably need cataract surgery before too long. And the idea of artificial lenses that could, and probably will distort my color vision does NOT appeal to me.
 
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I got my first pair of glasses in the third grade. I remember when I received them…they smelled so new! I have always liked new things! Later…when I was a young Lady…I would always have stylish frames…had my initials engraved on the lenses…had a small rhinestone…loved the large frames…them the wire-gold frames…then, got my first pair of contacts…wow…they were the hard ones…then, on my honeymoon, I was trying to remove one of them, after having too many glasses of wine…the contact got stuck on my lower eyelid…I reached for it and it slipped and cut my cornea! I suffered all night long in awful pain! I never wore them again! After many years, my vision is near 20-20, and I just wear glasses for reading now. 🤓 😎 😷
 
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You know, all of my children talk about getting lasik surgery and I keep saying to wait. They ask why and I say that because for me, the jury I’d still out on what happens when you get older.
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I had the new type of lasik called RELEX SMILE two years ago, and what we were told to expect is that the correction lasts roughly until you reach forty, since you can’t stop the natural changes that happens to the eye over time. It could also happen sooner, especially if your vision isn’t stable before having the surgery.

Even so, it’s easily the best value I have ever gotten for my money and I’d recommend it to anyone who can. I was really lucky with my surgery though, as my cornea was apparently ideal for the type of surgery and I ended up getting full 20/10 vision when my sight settled.
 
I’ve heard horror stories about lasik surgery, where people have been left blind afterwards. Too risky for me, even if the risk is low. Once our vision is gone, it’s usually gone for good. My eyesight is just too precious. I won’t gamble.
 
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At one point in time, everyone I worked with seemed to be getting corrective eye surgery. I would have too but I wasn’t a good candidate for the procedure (now, it may be different).
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Not an option for me, as the serious stuff corrects in the other direction: the radial cuts/lasering pull flesh together, which changes the roundness of the eye in the direction to cure nearsightedness. But being farsighted, I need correction in the other direction.

Also, I don’t think anyone has pointed out the hard contacts retain some correction once removed, as he eye makes some adjustment to their shape.
 
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the eye in the direction to cure nearsightedness.
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Yes, this was the issue with me as well as astigmatism in my left eye but none in my right. Being farsighted is often handy, though…I could read street signs well before anyone else. When age degeneration hit me, my arms were no longer long enough to read the paper! I used to say I didn’t need glasses, I needed longer arms!
 
I remember two cycles of my father’s arms getting shorter . . . the first was solved with drug store glasses.
 
Well for me it depends! I wear my contacts more than my glasses. I feel more alert when I wear my contacts but idk if that makes any sense haha! I think it took a little bit of getting used to when I first got contacts but now I really like them. And I wear my glasses at night or when I feel like having a lazy day and not taking so much time to get ready
 
I would prefer contacts (worn for 40 years), but my now have problems with dry eyes and so don’t wear them as much. I really like contacts over glasses - they don’t get steamed up, don’t get rain on them.
 
Contacts for me. Have worn them for 35 years. Started with gas permeable lenses but changed to monthly toric lenses about 15 years ago due to taking up sport.

Overall the gas permeable lenses gave me better vision but were very easy to dislodge and sometimes would fall out if I touched my face and happened to blink at the same time. I don’t know why but they seemed to have the ability to jump great distances as on the occasions I managed to find them they were nowhere where I lost them. Don’t have that problem with the torics and have never had any eye problems wearing contacts.
 
I don’t think they make contacts just for reading 🙂. Actually, I would wear glasses anyway. You can get blue light blocking filters on the lenses, and you should have that if you use the computer or any digital device a lot. I don’t think they make that for contacts. Why not try out different styles of glasses and see which might suit you? You might find a shape that does.
 
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