Does anyone wear very strong eyeglasses on here?

[jetcoasterfan]

I have my -6 left eye and -5 diopter right eye pair which I wear. I have pretty bad myopia. I would be glad to have any pair of strong glasses that any of you guys do not need. I collect them. I have always loved very strong eyeglasses all my life.

[76561198188152325]

Is that you in the avatar? Wow, those do look pretty thick. I'm actually the only one in my family that doesnt wear glasses. Wife and two kids do.

That's nice that you've embraced your myopia rather than scorned it.

[jetcoasterfan]

Yes. These glasses they are -22 diopters.

[Ananoriel]

My left eye is -11 and my right eye is -10.5 I really hate wearing my glasses, because the glass in it is so thick and I don't have a big face. Luckily I can wear contacts until my eyes are at -14. So I still have time to look decent.

I get pretty used to having a bad eyesight. It doesn't bother me, I can even read when I don't wear my glasses or contacts. I only have to keep the book a few centimetres from my eyes.

[jetcoasterfan]

You have a pic of your glasses? I would love to see them. I have a -10 diopter pair of glasses and I can see nicely in them.

[Ananoriel]

Oh sure, these are the. http://i.imgur.com/AFT7iqs.jpg I can see well through it, but I feel terrible wearing them. I am always afraid that people will give nasty comments on my glasses.

[76561198188152325]

May I ask (i'm interested because between my wife and my kids, we've been to like 5 eye appts within the past month or so), at a diopter level of -11, etc, what is the 20/xxx range?

[Azza ☠]

It's only a few thousand per eye to get lasik eye surgery... you know?

[Ananoriel]

Which only makes you go from -11 to -5 ish, and it gets back to the regular sight in a few years. So that isn't really worth it yet.

[Azza ☠]

Publicado originalmente por Ananoriel:

Which only makes you go from -11 to -5 ish, and it gets back to the regular sight in a few years. So that isn't really worth it yet.

Myopia is short-sightedness. For most people, they are born with eyes larger than normal, or one eye is slightly flatter than the other due to sleeping on it for years as a child. So long the eyes aren't continuously degrading and stable for a couple of years at least... Lasik tends to even both eyes out, correcting this issue. You end up with 20/20 vision, which in comparison is much better and your eyes will degrade as normal wheither you had it done or not.

The real fact is glasses actually degrades the eyes quicker, by making them more lazy.

[Ananoriel]

Oooh Lasik, I thought you meant laser. I am sorry, was reading too fast. I had to look lasik up and I think you are right. It sounds a bit scary, but if it works it would be a solution for many people.

[jetcoasterfan]

Ananoriel if you do not want to wear your glasses you can mail them to me if you want and I will wear them. I was wearing my pair of -8 diopter glasses today while at bowling.

[Dendrobates Tinctorius]

Do you sniff them first or do you just look through them?

[jetcoasterfan]

I wear them. I have worn my myodisc glasses when out and about.

[Ananoriel]

Publicado originalmente por jetcoasterfan:

Ananoriel if you do not want to wear your glasses you can mail them to me if you want and I will wear them. I was wearing my pair of -8 diopter glasses today while at bowling.

But I use them in the mornings haha.

[jetcoasterfan]

Ananoriel You have any old pairs that you do not need?