General Chat

Dear All

Hello

Hope you are doing well.


Now own up, how many of you wear glasses?

Or rather do you need them but don't use them?! :-D

And any embarassing mishaps?!


Take gentle care
Best wishes
Elizabeth, EOS
xx

I have worn glasses since I was 5 yrs old which is very very many moons ago.
Still have to wear them.I actually don't mind now after nearly 65 yrs. :-D

Have never worn glasses. Thank goodness, as I would lose them all the time (and find them on end of my nose probably).

Expect, at 67 now, I will have to wear them soon. Will get a cast-off pair from Elton John :-) ;-)

Hello Elizabeth :-)

Unfortunately yes, i should have been wearing them at a much youger age than I did, ( about 43) but you make allowances for poor vision without really realising it. I can't manage without them, except to read at night.

The upside is that when I first get up and see myself in the mirror, i don't look as bad as I do later when I've put the glasses on...sort of breaks me in gently to the horror lol :-D

Have worn glasses since I was forty over forty years ago!!!

Have one bifocal lens and one plain glass lens for my lazy eye.

Had a cataract operation seven weeks ago on my lazy eye which did not improve the sight in that eye- it is still lazy.

Robert I too have a lazy eye (wish the rest of me was too) variafocal for one and plain for the other one, I'm told I'm told I have the beginnings of cataract in both eyes but I will tell them to leave the lazy one.
I have worn glasses 56 years so can't understand why people avoid them when it helps you to see. :-)

I was first prescribed glasses when I was 16. (both parents wore them). However, I didn't wear them except sometimes for reading. when I was in my 30s I went for a check up because I was having difficulty recognizing people and since then have had varifocals and worn them all the time. don't even think about it now, worse having to wear hearing aids but even don't think about them either now.

silly moment? Going to wash my face with glasses on. More than once!

Picked up my new ones yesterday Elizabeth.
I also have cataract in both eyes..old age eh :-)
This time I went back to bifocals as varifocals
were terrible for me.

Emma :-)

Need glasses very much, have done since I was 9 years old, and hate them! Have recently gone back to contact lenses, the varifocal sort - the soft ones are great. Am seriously looking into lens replacement surgery!

Hi ZZzzz,

Before I had the cataract operation on my lazy eye I was told that the cataract was so bad if I didn't have it done, the lens could break causing damage and pain to the eye.

You should do what the eye Surgeon suggests.

I started wearing them for reading since about my mid forties and hated it. Even many years later I still feel that if I take them off out of the way I will be able to see better especially in the car! :-S I wear varifocals now and it is really tricky painting walls at the ceiling edge as you need to tip your head right back with varifocals. Going down steps was tricky at first too. I have been guilty a few times of looking for my specs that are perched on top of my head.

Wear your sunglasses if you are blue eyed like me. Blue eyed people have less pigment so their eyes let in more light, including UV light. Years ago I could never understand why people needed the lights on at work. Now I know they probably weren't blue eyed.

Glasses - yes since 18 for long distance only. Now bifocals for everything.

Contact lenses - couldn't get on with them!

didn't have to wear them until I was about thirty - now have varifocals with reactalite so I don't have to bother with sunglasses - expensive but worth it

I wear reading glasses.
Once I realised my arms weren't long enough (to hold things far enough away) I went off to the optician and found that I needed specs!
I seem to spend a lot of time looking for them when they are already perched on top of my head, silly but true! :-D :-D

Thank you Robert I shall do that, I didn't think of it that way, all I thought was why operate on an eye that can't see properly anyway.
Do you find that you can't just step onto escalators but have to "find" the first step first nor catch things thrown at you IE tennis balls cos you can't line up where they are coming from?

I wear specs and boy do I need them!
Trying to read these posts without them .
I thought AnnCardiff had an exceptionally clever Avitar, and that she had somehow managed to create her very own speech bubble

Specs on... I can see that it's a cushion behind her back ...which seems to lead to her post!

Oh specs! I hate the darned things.I have had reading glasses for a few years,then needed a pair for driving .Now I am on to Vari vocals that do the whole lot.I have had them for a few months now and wear them all the time :-SI still get a bit wobbly when walking in them as i feel the need to lift my feet a bit higher to meet the ground (if that makes sense) so walk like I'm three sheets to the wind sometime.
Now when it comes to looking in the mirror with specs on ,I think how old I look now :-(..I think it's because I look like I'm frowning all the time and bringing my head up and down to get things into focus.BUT I have to wear them because if I take them off I can't see a flipping thing lol.....Hate the pits they make either side of my nose :-S :-S
I have vari focal sunglasses too.But because the lenses in them are a different shape from my normal ones I can't walk without looking like I am a puppet on strings.
Am I getting old? Yes :-( :-(

it's a shawl actually :-D

I too have reactolite so don't need sunglasses.

I've worn glasses since I was about 21 and should probably have had them before then. I have astigmatism and started to get short sighted in my 30's and had bifocals.

I tried varifocals once but hated them!! I also had cataracts removed last year - a brilliant operation. I still need glasses, but can see reasonably well without them and the optician says I have 20/20 vision with them on!

OH, blue eyes and all, has superb distance vision and can read things like bus numbers before most people can see the bus!!! He says it's the result of a life spent sailing, looking at the horizon.