Glasses

[A]

Sarah Louise, that sounds even worse. >.<" Not only do you need glasses, but not all the time, so you have the manage the on and off stuff. Ouch.

As for me, I think I've worn glasses since the age of 3 or 4, when my parents said to look at the plane in the sky and I didn't see it. x3

[Shantel]

I've worn glasses since I was 17. I hated it at first but after awhile, I liked how I looked with glasses rather than without. Contacts just seemed like a massive hassle to me and my fine-point coordination sucks too so that would have made it an even bigger hassle so I stuck with glasses and I haven't looked back.

I tried contacts and they worked well at first but eventually i had a lot of eye watering and it became more trouble than it was worth. I think I have dry eye because they water a lot in the cool autumn air when I first go out in the morning. Got used to my rimless goggles, they look good and from a distance you wouldn't know I was wearing glasses anyway. I'm hoping they come out with lenses that don't attract dust.

[SarahM777]

I had contacts for quite a while. The big problem with them was I would fall asleep with the hard lenses in. Big No No. Ouch.  They were not practical when one is working in a dusty place,full of sawdust. I am going to have to get a couple of new pairs soon. I don't like bifocals,and it's just as easy to have the two pairs and change them when I have to drive.

[Ms. OBrien CVT]

I fought getting bifocals for a long time.  I had them once and I got a pain in my neck.  But my eye doctor said that was because I was using them incorrectly.

This last pair are bifocals, and it took me about a week to get use to them.  However now I am glad I have them.  No changing glasses to drive or read.  I just look through the part I need without moving my head.

[Cindy]

I have both distance and reading problems so when I wear contact my right eye has my 'reading' contact and my left eye the distance contact. My glasses are gradated so I can flick my eyes up and down for reading or distance ant any level. I was surprised how quickly I got used to the contacts with different lenses in each eye.

But seemingly our brains are comparatively poor with handling sight so it compensates very quickly by ignoring stuff that doesn't make sense with what we have 'learned' as being normal.

[Shantel]

It seems that the eye's lens changes shape when one gets older and the curvature becomes more radical making it difficult eventually to use even a soft contact as it refuses to adhere properly. The eye doctor commented about my cataracts and I went, "Whaaaat huuh?" Seems that everyone gets them, I didn't know I had them and frankly it's the least of my visual problems because I have macular degeneration..(boo-hoo!) My girlfriends understand that and submit to an occasional little friendly grope knowing that when I go blind I'll be able to identify them.

I was forced to go to lineless bifocals which do the trick, but getting used to them was interesting at first when I stepped out on the street and looked down it seemed as if the curb had jumped up in my face. Bifocal wearers need to move their head when looking down and not just the eyes or....surprise!!!

[Apples Mk.II]

It seems that the eye's lens changes shape when one gets older and the curvature becomes more radical making it difficult eventually to use even a soft contact as it refuses to adhere properly. The eye doctor commented about my cataracts and I went, "Whaaaat huuh?" Seems that everyone gets them, I didn't know I had them and frankly it's the least of my visual problems because I have macular degeneration..(boo-hoo!) My girlfriends understand that and submit to an occasional little friendly grope knowing that when I go blind I'll be able to identify them.

I was forced to go to lineless bifocals which do the trick, but getting used to them was interesting at first when I stepped out on the street and looked down it seemed as if the curb had jumped up in my face. Bifocal wearers need to move their head when looking down and not just the eyes or....surprise!!!

It is not aesthetically pleasing, but...

http://www.superfocus.com/

Could it help?

[Shantel]

It is not aesthetically pleasing, but...

http://www.superfocus.com/

Could it help?

Thanks sweetheart! I'm nowhere near the point where I have to wear "coke bottle lenses" yet. I did look at the site, gee they are butt ugly, though it was nice of you to post it. I did read the disclaimer at the bottom which says: " Superfocus glasses do not improve loss of vision caused by cataracts and retinal disorders (such as macular degeneration)."

[Apples Mk.II]

" Superfocus glasses do not improve loss of vision caused by cataracts and retinal disorders (such as macular degeneration)."

Doh! I though they'd help with the bifocal thingy... Sorry.


You know, As a kid I always wanted to wear glasses, I though they were quite cool...  Just be careful what you wish for. It was hell for years, even in high schools with smaller kids calling me "p*to gafoso de m*erd*" from behind a fence. (Sorry, I'm not translating that). To be honest, glasses never suited me very well, but now my face looks empty without them.

[DanielleJ]

I had to wear glasses since I was in the fifth grade, should have had them sooner. I ended up having to have surgery  for cataracts a couple of years ago, and I just love not having to wear them full time. I can actually wear some nice sun glasses. I also had eyelid surgery which opened my eye up so my makeup looks better. For those of you on a budget and want to get designer glasses try eyebuydirect.com they have a lot of frames at less the half the cost.

Hugs Danielle

[Apples Mk.II]

I also had eyelid surgery which opened my eye up so my makeup looks better.

Question, please: The one for being able to open your eyes more (more) or for removing excess skin (blepharoplasty)? I have a lof of extra skin (which I won't touch since I'll be doing FFS in a future), but the eyelids are a different story. They were already quite heavy, but after lasik corrective surgery one of them starts falling whenever I am tired (I put so much strain daily to keep them open that I already have forehead wrinkles). Tomorrow I'm calling for a consultation, since I was recommended to check that if it was muscle damage and dispel any possibility of myasthenia gravis before operating.

I don't know If they will simply calibrate the low eyelid to make it fall at the same level than the other, or if they can adjust the two of them in a higher position. I don't mind waiting for FFS and keep a manly face, but this is far too embarrassing, especially when going to a night party and somebody starts taking pictures at 5:00 o clock (or when in a boring meeting I look like the old chinese guy from Gremlins). But I guess I have weird eyes, deep set and with a big brow ridge, so the eyelids tend to get trapped inside the bone arch. Maybe it is better just ask them to leave them at the same height.

[Shantel]

I had an upper blepharoplasty a few years ago. I had sleepy looking eyes like the actor Robert Mitchum, real houndog eyes! I hadn't realized that it had been as if I had been standing in a cave looking out for such a long while before that.

[PHXGiRL]

I don't wear glasses but do for the look. I like the way they look sometimes and their fun to wear.

[Apples Mk.II]

I had an upper blepharoplasty a few years ago. I had sleepy looking eyes like the actor Robert Mitchum, real houndog eyes! I hadn't realized that it had been as if I had been standing in a cave looking out for such a long while before that.

Agh. I was already checked at a plastic surgery clinic, and recommended to get a blepharoplasty, but I don't want double scars if I am going to have FFS in a future. I have so much skin that I usually trap it with the bro bone to avoid my eyelids going down.

I'll be getting a medical evaluation in december about what are the causes and what would be my options, but I'm looking to something like this:



Adjusting the muscle with ptosis repair to be able to raise them more, but conserving the saggy skin (no blepharoplasty) since that could be needed for a brow lift (which is part of the forehead recontouring. That would be a nive fix that would allow me to keep going on for a few years without major surgeries.


All right, back to the topic...

[DanielleJ]

I had a upper blepharoplasty for medical reasons to improve my peripheral vision. Most insurance will cover the cost if it is deemed necessary

[Apples Mk.II]

I will ask to be checked but I need to wait until december

I don't know, but it is scaring me a lot. I always feel something strange inside and over the bad eye like tired), and looking now they are slightly vertically misaligned, which would be the cause of why I have difficulty focusing when trying to read.


Sh*t, I'm practically having a panic attack. I don't know what the heck they did to me on that surgery, but I am getting quite scared. Mix thix things with my BDD / hypochondria and the anxiety soars. Practically anything can make me enter panic mode lately.

[Shantel]

I don't know, but it is scaring me a lot. I always feel something strange inside and over the bad eye, and looking now they are vertically misaligned, which would be the cause of why I have difficulty focusing when trying to read.


Sh*t, I'm practically having a panic attack. I don't know what the heck they did to me on that surgery, but I am getting quite scared. And I still have to wait a month to be checked.

Your eyes don't appear to be misaligned to me. Do try and not panic, best not think about it so much working yourself up like that, wait for your follow-up and bring up your concerns then.

[Shantel]

I had a upper blepharoplasty for medical reasons to improve my peripheral vision. Most insurance will cover the cost if it is deemed necessary

Me too, I was almost running over pedestrians in the crosswalk with my car which is NOT NICE! My insurance covered the procedure.

[Apples Mk.II]

Your eyes don't appear to be misaligned to me. Do try and not panic, best not think about it so much working yourself up like that, wait for your follow-up and bring up your concerns then.

Sorry, it was another of my panic attacks.

I checked against a mirror, and there it looks like one points slightly higher than the other, although it could be the strenght of the muscle pulling, who knows. Or even a visual correction after so many years with a bad posture including the head. I was not able to pass some focusing tests when obtaining my driving license, but they still gave it to me anyways (same as I always need some effort focusing to read or I see the things "floating". I need to keep calm. Anyways, nobody has noticed something like this in 6 years (except for the fallen eyelid)...

I can't believe I told my social security GP that I was having anxiety attacks over BDD and hypochondriac symptons, but he just told me to wait until the GD therapy and mention the other things there, since they would be able to redirect me.

It's been like this all my life, but lately, it has developed into full blown Body dysmorphic Disorder. Sometimes it is about male traits, others about perceived deformitities.



To be hones, I should have gotten that myopia. I did it partly because it was a trend, and also because I had been bullied for years because of my glasses. I had a bad experiencie with contact lenses and put it as an excuse to get it corrected.

Ok, it's true, I was almost blind before it, but...

[Shantel]

Apple Seed, Take a big breath and relax, you are overworking yourself. Turn off the tape that's running in your head and give yourself a break dear!