General Chat

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

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

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

Contact lenses - couldn't get on with them!

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.

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.

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!

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 :-)

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!

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. :-)

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.

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 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 :-) ;-)

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

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