For people with glasses...Bifocals or 2 pairs of glasses?

[Kim]

My eyes were "perfect" until a few months ago when I started waking up with red, swollen, gooky eyes, along with other issues. GLASSES were supposedley the answer but doc said I only needed prescription for driving/distance and could get a "cheap" pair for reading. But my eyes seem to have gotten worse. Is it BETTER to have glasses on ALL THE TIME instead of just when you need them?

[Lifesighs]

I wore glasses or contacts for years, I had lasik in 2001 so I didn't need any until about 2008 I started need reading glasses from the drugstore. I can still do without them in good light. For the last 2 years I"ve needed the mildest reading glasses for the computer. Has to do with eyes aging and getting stiffer instead of flexible.

[Wayne Goodwin]

I tried to get reading glasses but they don't make them for me .

[Lucinda Stone]

i have the monovision contacts too, they work really well for me... last year i had to wear readers with them but i had the 'reading' eye lens tweaked a little so don't need them now, and true, you do lose some distance but i could never see down the road to begin with, so why start now, lol...  my bifocal glasses, which i will only wear at home, are a fairly old prescription, good for close stuff but can't see distance....  i wore big gonky glasses since i was 10 or so, so when i finally got contacts at about age 30, i haven't worn spectacles since then...  i remember back 'in the day' when we went out "clubbing", my friend always made me take off the glasses, she said i looked so much better, couldn't see a damn thing tho, so i was the one with the slightly vague look about me, lol....

[Wayne Goodwin]

Men looked better i guess with your glasses off ....

[Kim]

Yeah, Problem...I had the squinting and the heaadaches but headaches have been a daily part of my life for about 10 years and the other stuff just started. I had a full exam with dilating drops and the whole nine yards from an Opthamologist and she said my symptoms were from severe dry eyes. I woulda thought allergies too. But when I got the glasses and got the lubricating drops, for the most part the "Pink eye LIKE" symptoms went away for the most part. I do have occassional problems. NOW, lately I'm having burning that I think IS related to my seasonal allergies that I have some years and other years I DONT. (The older I get, the BETTER and SHORTER my allergy season is.)

I would NEVER get Lasix surgery. Unless its changed, it used to improve your distance 100% while making your close-up vision WORSE. I dont need to see things far away all that much.

Flipper...its hard to have a hangover when you drink water and milk all the time when these episodes are happening but it was a good suggestion anyway....LOL!

 

[flippr 2.0]

sometimes my stupid sense of humor gets away from me.

[frenchy]

nothin wrong with your sense of humor flipper , i thought it was funny and knew you were kiddin .. i'm sure kim has a good sense of humor and knew you were kiddin too .. 

well , i officially have css .. can't see shit .. along with crs .. can't remember shit, which is pretty similar to craft .. can't remember a fucken thing .. and sometimes i even have cds .. can't do shit .. never had chs tho which is also known as grandma's disease .. can't hear shit .. for the poundin i gave my ears over the years what with the guitar amps and all i can still hear pretty good .. but my eyesight is pretty bad .. i didn't need glasses when i was a kid but my eyes were never that good .. i can remember when i was younger i used to caddy for extra money and the golfers would always ask me caddy where did my ball go ?/ and i never knew .. of course i was pokin smot on the 3rd hole so .. who cares anyway ??  so now i have to wear glasses all the time but i don't have too many pics of me wearin em cause i think they make me look dorky . but i still get a wink and a smile in the supermarket from time to time .. must be them bored housewives on drugs i been hearin about .. but thats another post ain't it ?? 

[Kim]

Flipper....KEEP your sense of humor, humor is ALWAYS a  good thing to have and use....I guess I was trying to throw a little DRY (eye?!) humor in there too....LOL!!

[flippr 2.0]

yea,i'm not out to insult anyone,sometimes i type faster than i think,i'm real good at putting my foot in my mouth,

[frenchy]

yeah i've done that too flipper .. it takes some peope awhile to get used to me till they realize i'm just teasin em .. i never set out to upset anyone on purpose but .. joke em if they can't take a fuck .. 

[blithe spirit]

I've done contacts and they didn't help my vision as much as glasses. I started wearing them when I was about 10 or 11 for reading. As I've gotten older I went to the graduated lense which is a type of bifocal. In a couple more years I'll probably have to have cataract surgery...sort of of goes with the territory in Florida, all the sun.

When I am using my allergy meds, I have to use drops cause it dries up all the fluid, not just in my nose.