Anyone else choose to *not* wear contacts?

[bicentennial_baby]

I tried them out for about a year...I really didn't like shoving them in my eyes every day. :shrug:

[Gormy Cuss]

1. Me. It was the contacts or the chiles.

I wear glasses now.:-)

[bicentennial_baby]

3. Ha! Great point!!

I've worn glasses for 16-17 years now, I'm used to it. I liked some aspects of the contacts, but I really didn't enjoy them overall.

[Radio_Lady]

41. Glasses here, since my early 40s. I did try contacts once --

"Monofit" is what they called them then.

One prescription for the right dominant eye (distance)

One prescription for the left eye (reading)

It left me with a great big headache.

Goodbye to that option.

In peace,

Radio Lady in Oregon



http://www.novareinna.com/index.html

[Sheltiemama]

46. I tried that last year for a day or two

I got my first pair of bifocals, and my optometrist fitted me with a trial pair of the monofit lenses to see if I could wear them. I get enough migraines without them, thank you very much. I know I could get bifocal lenses, but I just don't want to. The glasses are faster and easier.

[Radio_Lady]

48. Actually, I went with "progressive power" lenses -- no lines.

I adjusted to them very quickly and have been wearing them for decades now.

Husband is doing the same.

In peace,

Radio Lady (and Audio Al) in Oregon

[flvegan]

2. I refuse to use them.

Getting near my eyes is a thing with me.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Same here!!

Which is why putting them in and taking them out was torture for me....ugh.

Do you wear glasses sometimes? I'm nearsighted.

[flvegan]

13. I wear them from time to time.

Mostly reading. I don't need them for the computer...usually.

[FloridaJudy]

5. Yup. I'm nearsighted.

I only need correction for distance. I spend far more time reading, cooking, sewing, and writing than I do driving or watching TV. It's easier just to use glasses for the few times I need to see far away.

[bicentennial_baby]

Yeah, exactly....

I should take my glasses off for up-close stuff, but I always forget....d'oh.

[RevolutionaryActs]

6. I have not tried them, I don't think I do

btw your sigline made me :spray:

[bicentennial_baby]

8. Heehee!

:rofl: I'm glad someone finally noticed it!!

I think that contacts are teh suk.

[RevolutionaryActs]

9. it's fucking hysterical

:rofl:

[Redneck Socialist]

36. Holy shit, that's funny as hell.

Thanks for pointing it out.

[LynzM]

53. I agree!

:rofl:

[_testify_]

7. Same here

I'm really 'eye-shy' - I can't put drops in them let alone try to get contacts in and out.

I've been wearing glasses for about 12 years now, and I happen to like the way they look.

[bicentennial_baby]

10. Yep, me too...

All of that eye touching was driving me nuts, and yes, I prefer how I look with glasses. :)

[_testify_]

12. It's an accessory :-)

Plus, it's an icebreaker when I show someone my nifty Flexon frames that are nigh-indestructible. Can bend them in half, etc.

[ghostsofgiants]

11. Yeah, I gave them a shot but hated them.

And I like how I look with glasses.

[lost-in-nj]

14. I wear contacts

because I find it easier for me...
I do have to wear reading glasses for up close stuff.
I went for Lasik surgery but my eyes are so bad that my Corneas weren't deep enough for the laser.....
My 2 kids and husband had it done though.....


It actually took me a long time to wear contacts....
now I love them

lost

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. Me. I refuse to wear them.

And with my allergies, I don't think I could, anyway.

Plus, I've had glasses so long that I've come to find my face without glasses to look empty and unrefined.

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. I got too lazy to clean them. I was gonna get disposables but I got too lazy to pick them

up at the doc's. (True story)

[Frosty1]

17. Thank goddess for the new Laser surgery

I was allergic to the cleaning solution for contacts.

[Mythsaje]

18. I could get them in, but I couldn't get them OUT.

I gave up after a month. I'm wearing glasses until I can afford Lasik.

[kedrys]

19. Every eye doctor I've ever had, apparently

They all wore glasses. :shrug:

I've worn contacts for almost 30 years, and I can't deal with glasses at all because of how extreme my prescription is. The ones I have now I can wear for a month at a time.

[TreasonousBastard]

20. Actually, miss them...

now that I had cataract surgery in one eye and retinal damage in the other, contacts are out of the question until things get settled down.

But, I was using disposables, which I was able to keep in for weeks at a time, sometimes months. I know, everyone told me I was nuts keeping contacts in for so long, but I was one of the few who actually could without damage.

The disposables never felt as if there was anything in my eye and the really great thing was that I had "normal" vision without lookng through glasses frames. I could use telescopes, binoculars, cameras... all the way they were supposed to be used. Sure, I had to wear reading glasses, but because both my eyes were corrected, I could see close work a lot better than with nothing in.

[SeattleGirl]

21. I don't wear them anymore.

They seem to dry my eyes out rather quickly anymore.

Plus, I wear progressive lenses, and I found that, even with contacts that are supposed to correct for that, I still had to wear reading glasses when reading some material. The reading glasses would eventually cause eye strain, so I just gave it up.

It's glasses for me all the time now.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. I wore them for years, don't any more.

Got to be too much of a hassle, especially after I started needing reading glasses. I ditched the contacts, got varilux lenses for my glasses and simplified my life considerably.

[SarahB]

23. I prefer my glasses.

I wear them probably 95% of the time, but I choose contacts on some occasions. I wouldn't want them every day, but I like to keep my options open. :)

[XemaSab]

24. I can't stand having anything near my eyes

x(

So, teh glasses. :)

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

63. Same here...

I tried them once, but it just totally creeped me out. You'd have to strap me into one of those "Clockwork Orange" contraptions every morning just to get my contacts in.

Not for me.

[hippywife]

25. I started wearing glasses in the 4th grade.

I'm now 49. I wore contacts in my 30's and went back to glasses when I could no longer afford them. I'd like to go back to them but I need to be able to take my glasses off when I read. I don't like bi-focals or progressive lenses so I doubt I would care much for contacts that address both near and far vision. So, I wear glasses.

[malta blue]

26. I wore contacts everyday for over 15 years. A couple of years

ago I just stopped. I love the feeling of not having them in my eyes.

[MrScorpio]

27. I've never tried them

I think I look cool in glasses

[Maestro]

28. Back in the 80s I tried them for one year.

I constantly looked stoned so I went back to glasses. I don't plan to ever try them again.

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

76. Actually, that worked really well for me

I was smoking pot in the basement at my parents' house. When I went upstairs my mother asked me why my eyes were so red, and I said "contacts"! Worked for years...

[Orsino]

29. Me, too.

Don't like the idea of gluing stuff to my eyeballs.

I've been wearing glasses since 1970, and am okay with that.

[redwitch]

30. tried them for a few months.

Hated putting things in my eyes, never got used to it.

[YankeyMCC]

31. There was a time

that I would not leave the house without my contacts. But after a couple of cornea scratches and getting weary of poking them into my eyes everyday I just looked for more stylish glasses.

I understand they've come a long way though in terms of comfort and safety, I tried to go back to contacts about 4 years ago but it didn't last.

[raccoon]

64. Same thing happened to me, cornea scratch. It was decades ago

but cornea scratches can be a mofo because they can recur.

Ever since, I've worn glasses. A sib had lasik and has been really happy with it, but I'm scared to do it.

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

32. I have worn contacts for over 30 years...

I play alot of sports and I see so much better with the contacts. I have progressive lenses now and that allows me to forgo the reading glasses. If I am doing really close work I can take the contacts out and see great. I can't imagine going without my contacts when I am skiing or on the boat. I have tried to play golf without them and that was a disaster.

I am getting new glasses in a couple of days with no-line bifocal and Transitions lenses, so maybe that will get me off the contacts, but I don't think so...

[kwassa]

59. you have progressive contact lenses?

didn't know that was possible!

I gave up contacts because monovision was driving me nuts. I had worn contacts for about 25 years.

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

68. I use Bausch & Lomb SofLens MultiFocal

Best contacts ever! I can see far, I can see near, and I can see in the middle, which really surprised me. So now I can see my speedometer (!!) and everything else on my dashboard. Great for computer work, also. They come in all of the standard sizes and strengths, but have a second number (add) that designates how strong the close-up setting should be.

A few years ago I tried using a full-strength lens in my right eye and a half-strength in my left to see if I could train my eyes to see far with one eye and near with the other. That was horrible and made my head spin.

[kwassa]

82. I did that for about ten years

it still is a bad compromise, with the near and the far, though I was used to it for quite awhile.

[Lorien]

33. No choice! I have -14 vision. It's either contacts or coke bottle glasses n/t

[Reverend_Smitty]

51. wow! I thought my -7 prescription was bad!

[Cabcere]

34. I used to wear them all the time

but after I quit rowing I got kind of lazy, and now I wear glasses 99% of the time instead. :hi:

[femmocrat]

35. Me. I never wanted them.

They just seem like too much trouble.

[SPKrazy]

37. I've only worn glasses for 2 years now

or maybe a year and a half

anyway

i've not considered them

i really only need them to see things :P

[Redneck Socialist]

38. I wore them for years, didn't even own a pair of glasses for a long time.

Now, not so much. They got to be a hassle. I wore gas permeable and they became very uncomfortable and I haven't been able to find a pair of soft lenses that really fixed my vision to the degree I wanted.

When I started wearing glasses ( a million and a half years ago), lenses were glass and because my eyes were so bad the glasses were heavy and ugly. Contacts were a blessing in comparison.

A few years back I got an eye infection and couldn't wear my contacts. I didn't even own a pair of glasses, so off I went to get a pair. Lo and behold, lenses are now light weight and there are a million good looking frames to choose from. Cool! I began wearing my contacts less and less and my glasses more and more. Finally I decided contacts were just too much hassle and now wear my glasses almost exclusively. I have contacts but rarely wear them. (shrug)

[Ivan Sputnik]

39. I wear both contacts and glasses

I used to wear contacts all the time, but lately, after a few hours of wearing contacts, I find my eyes get too dry. So I've started wearing my glasses more. I do like having the option, though. Sometimes I just get sick of wearing something on my face.

[KitchenWitch]

40. Me.

My eyes just never got used to contact lenses.

[mwooldri]

42. I got converted to contacts from glasses.

I've worn glasses since age 9 for distance. My eyes got "worse" as time went along and about stabilized at -3.5/-4.0 for the last few years now.

When I found out that there are contacts that I only need to replace and change out every 30 days I went for it, because I didn't like the idea of changing my lenses daily, poking in and out of my eyeballs all the time. It works for me.

Sometimes I miss glasses but they've never been a real fashion statement for me.

Mark.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

43. Yep.

[Sheltiemama]

44. Me, for the last year

I wore contacts from the time I was 15 until last year, when I was 39. I started wearing my glasses a little more frequently in 2001, when my work hours changed. Who wants to deal with contacts when you get home at 12:30 in the morning? Then I started wearing my glasses even more frequently about four years ago, when I had surgery. I didn't leave the house for weeks while I recovered, and I took a lot of naps, so I just wore my glasses. Last year, I was up at all hours of the night for months with a sick dog with bladder cancer, and I wouldn't give up even the five extra minutes of sleep I would have had to trade off for putting in my contacts. I got a new pair of glasses last fall -- my first pair of bifocals -- and I'm never going back. I've also called it quits on dating, so I'm not trying to impress men anymore. After the first of the year, I'm going to get a second pair. The ones I have now are rimless. Now I want a funkier pair. I've decided to become one of those women who use their frames as accessories and wear whichever one strikes my fancy each day.

[WinkyDink]

45. Me. Too frickin' lazy to ditch my specs, after 50 years!

[Arugula Latte]

47. Wore glasses/contacts for 30+ years. No more because of ...

Lasik, baby! }(

I found that glasses drove me crazy because they'd get stretched out, scratched, steamed up, raindrops on 'em, slip down my nose, etc. Contacts were easier to lose, got sand/cathair under 'em, could often feel scratchy, pain to put in, etc.

It is a minor miracle that I no longer have those things in my life!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

49. Me--I'm squeamish about my eyes

and I saw the kinds of problems that my friends had with them.

[Pushed To The Left]

50. I'll stick with the glasses rather than putting something in my eye

Contacts seem like more of a pain then glasses would be. Now, if they had contacts that could stay in permanently I might feel differently. It doesn't hurt that my girlfriend has a glasses fetish!

[Reverend_Smitty]

52. Me

my whole family wears contact lenses and can't understand why I would prefer glasses.

A) because I'm too lazy to deal with contacts

B) I think I look better with them...I feel like my face is missing something without them

C) The only thing that saved me from a life with a glass eye was my glasses. If I were wearing contacts when I drunkenly fell into that bush one night, I totally would have lost an eye. As it was I only had to deal with a severely scratched glasses lens. I feel like I owe it to my glasses to keep on wearing them...hell they saved my proper peripheral vision! :P

[Critters2]

54. I wore 'em in college and grad school, but I got tired of the way

they made my eyes water all the time.

Now, I wear these cool shades

[krispos42]

55. Only around the house

I love my contacts, but I try to save them and let my eyes breathe by wearing glasses when I'm not going out.

They don't fog up when I come inside on a cold day, or when I open up the dishwasher or oven, and I don't lose any pheripheral vision. Besides, I like to wear my sunglasses when I'm outside, and it's easier without having to go over glasses.

I'm a -5.5 in each eye, so my lenses are fairly thick, anyway. I can see a grand total of about 7 inches clearly before things start getting blurry. :-(

IIRC, you wear striking black-framed glasses. Which, also IIRC, made you look, um, desirable. Something that I don't feel I can pull off, myself, so I just wear the contacts and let my "islands" (irises with brown around the pupil and green around the edges) make me look desirable. :-)

[tjwmason]

56. I like variety.

I'm in glasses today, wore contacts yesterday. I think that there are swings and roundabouts.

Plus - you look damn good in your glasses, if I may say so.

[NewJeffCT]

57. I don't need glasses/contacts yet - but I can't see myself using contacts

I'm 41 years old now and I know both my parents started using glasses when they were in their early to mid 40s... so, it will happen.

However, I can't see myself wearing contacts and putting something in my eyes every day.

[IdaBriggs]

58. Finally got the surgery -- SO HAPPY!

I was the next best thing to blind without my glasses/contacts, and now I wake up every morning and CAN SEE!!! I can see my toes in the shower!!! It took almost a year before I quit "automatically" reaching for my glasses, tho, and what finally pushed me into it was the ONE TIME my "auto grab" missed, they fell to the floor, and I couldn't see well enough to find them -- it really made it clear to me that my sight could be a life or death situation if my glasses were broken and I needed to do something like "not walk into walls" or "drive a car."

Plus I'm way hotter without my glasses, according to my husband. :)

[yellowdogintexas]

60. I LOVE LOVE wearing contacts! I wore them for years, then when I had to

go to bifocals, gave them up. Well w/bifocals computer work just wasn't happening...I couldn't get the vision right, so had a single vison pair made for desk work. So I had prescription bifocals, prescription sunglasses bifocal and desk glasses. Did this for years

Then I asked my eye care person about monovision. She fixed me up and I love it. I have astigmatism and distance correction on one eye and a slight near vision correction inthe dominate eye. Works great. Especially for desk work and driving. Although at night I can't always read street signs so I try not to go to new places in the dark .

Care: if you use the AOSept which now has a new name ClearCare cleaning system, it is easy,just pop them in the little baskets when you take them out; no weird chemicals and the lenses feel really good when you put them in. They are much more sterile with this system, too. They are also less expensive than the assorted stuff I used to have.

so they are always clean, don't fog up, I have peripheral vision, no weight on my nose, no out of alignment issues, and no more desk glasses to wear under my headset.

I have a pair of glasses that I wear when I have to, or if I just feel the need to give my eyes a rest, usually on Saturdays. I will be very unhappy if I have to give them up.

Now if Lasix could correct me so I only need glasses for driving, I could deal with that.

[DainBramaged]

61. Only one eye works now, no chance

[LeftCoast]

62. Me. Wore them for years.

Over time they just became more and more uncomfortable. Finally I was only able to tolerate wearing them for 4-5 hours and I just stopped. Been wearing glasses for nearly ten years now. I'm saving my pennies and going for Lasik some day soon though.

[AlCzervik]

65. i tried but since i have an astigmatism in both eyes my contacts were HUGH, SERIES!

so after about a year i gave up and went back to glasses, i think of them as an accessory and i feel wierd without them on.

[dropkickpa]

66. Not me

I've needed glasses since I was 11. Wore glasses until I was 16, switched to contacts which I LOVED, but had to switch back to glasses when my astigmatism got too bad for regular soft lenses to correct (would have had to switch to hard lenses). Wore glasses until 4 years ago and gave the new toric lenses a try. FANTASTIC!!

I HATE wearing glasses, they fuck up my peripheral vision, I can't work on a microscope, I was ALWAYS cleaning some sort of stuff off of them, glares made me crazy, and I couldn't drive in them due to the no peripheral vision thing (also, my depth perception was always "off" in glasses and without, but is fine with contacts). Frankly, I'm a disaster, I am very hard on the things I own and I just could not afford to keep replacing glasses. Glasses made my skin break out, no matter how often I scrubbed the damn things.

My optometrist is great, his wife and kids have to wear toric lenses, so I always get the best recommendation on which is the most comfortable. I switched from him for one year and the doc I saw was a putz, the contacts he put me in were horrible, very uncomfortable, soI switched back to my old guy.

I'll get Lasik eventually, just don't have the funds to do it right now.

[Dora]

67. I wore them for twenty years, and I just returned to glasses.

I look much smarter and way sexier now.

[Coyote_Bandit]

69. I have a lazy eye and contacts make me look

slightly cross-eyed. No thanks.

Laser surgery isn't an option to improve my vision since the real problem is how my brain processes images rather than how the eye is structured to perceive those images. I could have cosmetic surgery to lessen the cross-eyed effect but it would not improve my vision and it would have little cosmetic effect since that cross-eyed thing is really only apparent if I wear contacts.

I'll be wearing glasses forever. Guess that's ok since they do serve to protect my eyes at least a bit. I'm a bit squeamsih about things in and around my eyes anyway. No sure I could actually do contacts.....

[Shell Beau]

70. I am thankful that I have decent eyes because I could never

wear contacts! I can barely put on eye makeup!

[LeftyMom]

71. uh, I feel a little ill at the very thought of poking myself in the eye

Luckily, I can see pretty well. I can't hear for shit, but my vision is fine.

[LynneSin]

72. I wear them for special occasions

My vision is good enough that I can drive without glasses during the day for routine trips. (I dont' have prescription sunglasses) and at work I hate wearing my glasses at the computer.

But if I'm going out for the evening or planning on driving long distances - I usually tuck those suckers in my eyes.

[displacedtexan]

73. My eyes simply would not stop watering with contacts.

The eye doctor called me a baby.

Like I could control the eye watering and just chose not to.

[sakabatou]

74. Me

[bikebloke]

75. Sticking with specs

Contacts are too much trouble with solutions and drops. I'd rather just reach for my specs in the morning. I'm not too concerned how I look - for years I recycled the same old frames. For time, I was a bit squeamish about poking my eye. Plus I had a friend call me to say she was drunk and fell asleep without taking out her contacts. She couldn't find one and thought it was stuck back behind her lid.

And as I roll around on my bike, specs keep the bugs out of my eyes.

[sniffa]

77. no one chooses the contact lifestyle

[Pierre.Suave]

78. I chose

glasses.

I tried contacts and could not get used to them, glasses irritate my eyes much less. Plus, I got a really cool looking pair of glasses.

[Lady Freedom]

79. ME! I hate anything on my eyes! I can't even stand eyeliner!n/t

[Q3JR4]

80. I thought about it,

but then I decided that I wasn't really interested in paying for boxes of contact lenses, I didn't want to put things on and take things off of my eyes, and that I liked the fact that I could completely change my appearence by changing my eyeglasses.

So I decided against contact lenses at this point in time. Maybe someday, but I'm not holding my breath.

Q3JR4.

[grace0418]

81. Me. I like my glasses. Plus I found contacts to be a pain in the ass.

There are a few times when glasses are a pain, but contacts are a pain all the time. At least for me.

[Samurai_Writer]

83. Glasses only here

Every time I try to wear contacts, my eyes tear up something awful. It looks like I'm constantly crying. I've tried wearing them when i was in high school, and just tried again recently. No go. I'll keep my glasses.