Contact lens vs Glasses?

[Origami Cactus]

Which do you use and why?

 

I need to choose my instrument of vision for the next 4 years, i have worn glasses all my life, thinking of maybe switching it up?

But glasses are much more easily mountable, and they also protect the eyes, probably cheaper too.

 

Don't recommend LASIC, not even thinking about doing it.

[PlayStation 2]

Don't wear either but personally, I generally like the way glasses can look on people. Do you like the way you look with glasses?

Also, glasses are less maintenance than contact lenses... and easier to deal with as forgetting to take off your glasses is far less harmful than forgetting to take off your contact lenses.

[TetraSky]

Glasses. Less maintenance and no risk of forgetting them in your eyes.

[Origami Cactus]

28 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

 Do you like the way you look with glasses?

Don't know, worn them all the time, they are pretty much a part of me now.

The plus with contact lenses would be a much wider FOV thought, and no weight on the nose.

[Guest]

Glasses! Can't wear contact lenses. Tried and abandonned after 3 days.

Eyes too dry and I'm not batting my eyelids enough (working on a screen, so you tend to less batt your eyelids). Had to put artificial tears every 30mn and if I forgot it was scratchy as hell.

 

At least I can say I tried... *shrug*

 

9 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

...no risk of forgetting them in your eyes.

Well... Should I talk about all the times it happened to me (forgetting they were on my nose and looking for them everywhere )?

[Origami Cactus]

1 minute ago, Cora_Lie said:

Glasses! Can't wear contact lenses. Tried and abandonned after 3 days.

Eyes too dry and I'm not batting my eyelids enough (working on a screen, so you tend to less batt your eyelids). Had to put artificial tears every 30mn and if I forgot it was scratchy as hell.

 

At least I can say I tried... *shrug*

 

Well... Should I talk about all the times it happened to me (forgetting they were on my nose and looking for them everywhere )?

Ok because everyone says glasses, to you use self-dimming glasses, or do you have separate normal glasses + sun glasses?

[Guest]

Normal glasses + sun glasses (with vision and polarized lenses).

 

No self dimming glasses for me. I don't want them as I can't stand it when they are dimming because I go in a room with the lights on, then "poof" the self-dimming does its work.

Just don't like that at all...

[Origami Cactus]

3 minutes ago, Cora_Lie said:

Normal glasses + sun glasses (with vision and polarized lenses).

 

No self dimming glasses for me. I don't want them as I can't stand it when they are dimming because I go in a room with the lights on, then "poof" the self-dimming does its work.

Just don't like that at all...

Yeah, i have the same problem, going from outside to indoors, they take quite a bit of time to adjust. they also don't get dark enough for my taste.

I have went from self dimming --> Normal ---> Self dimming, over the span of 8 years and now i am planning to go Normal+ Polarized sun glasses.

 

I have seen some cool Glasses with pop-on solar filters, but these are probably too expensive, also more fragile if you think about it.

[Bananasplit_00]

glasses are sexy imo so def glasses

[Origami Cactus]

4 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

did you know our corneas have no blood vessels, and the only way it gets oxygen is through diffusion via ambient air and tears?

 

yeah that one made me infinitely sure i shouldn't be trusted with contacts. maybe on specific super short term uses, but not on a daily basis

Modern contacts are fine thought, they let air through and everything, so i wouldn't worry about that.

[captain_to_fire]

Eyeglasses all the way, especially with transitions. ?

[yolosnail]

I personally wear glasses because it's a single up front cost, rather than constantly paying for contacts.

Plus, if you wear contacts, you have to have a pair of glasses anyway if something were to happen to the contacts

 

I was told not to bother getting the Transitions lenses, because they don't work through glass, so would be useless in a car which is where you're most likely to benefit from them

[flibberdipper]

Glasses for me. Would rather have to pay more for a single set that lasts a year (even though insurance soaks a lot of that up), and there is no way in hell you're getting me to put something into my eyehole like that. Nuh uh, no way.

[Guest]

There! No more sikrits!!! 

 

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So... lenses with almost all filters available on the market (including blue light), except the sunglasses as they are polarized.

[Levent]

I use glasses, been using them for 13 years now. I tried contact lenses couple of times but getting them in and out is absolutely pain in the ass and when I didnt my eyes gets fried in front of a computer all day. I just glasses with UV coating, works wonders didnt even need sunglasses since I started using glasses.

If your eyesight is same as before try lenses out, if that doesnt work go back to glasses.

[Origami Cactus]

9 minutes ago, Cora_Lie said:

There! No more sikrits!!! 

 

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So... lenses with almost all filters available on the market (including blue light), except the sunglasses as they are polarized.

nice!

[Origami Cactus]

30 minutes ago, captain_to_fire said:

Eyeglasses all the way, especially with transitions. ?

Works fine for you?

Do you sometimes wish that you had separate Sunglasses and normal glasses, or does the benefit of having sunglasses readily available weigh over the negatives of it being annoying sometimes, and not getting dark enough sometimes?

[captain_to_fire]

1 minute ago, Origami Cactus said:

Works fine for you?

Do you sometimes wish that you had separate Sunglasses and normal glasses, or does the benefit of having sunglasses readily available weigh over the negatives of it being annoying sometimes, and not getting dark enough sometimes?

I live in a country where it’s always sunny so I gotta say $80 for my glasses with transitions is one of the best things I’ve ever bought. You can still wear sunglasses but for me with prescription glasses, I’d rather wear my glasses that darkens rather than wearing sunglasses. 

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Not paid by anyone to recommend this but it’s just my positive personal experience with the said product 

 

[Origami Cactus]

2 minutes ago, captain_to_fire said:

I live in a country where it’s always sunny so I gotta say $80 for my glasses with transitions is one of the best things I’ve ever bought. You can still wear sunglasses but for me with prescription glasses, I’d rather wear my glasses that darkens rather than wearing sunglasses. 

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Not paid by anyone to recommend this but it’s just my positive personal experience with the said product 

 

 

Yeah that has been my last 2 setups, self-dimming lenses on my prescription glasses.

 

But i am just thinking of maybe getting prescription sunglasses? Then i could also get a polarizing filter etc.

 

But the self dimming works fine, but if you go from direct sunlight into a cave, then the glasses take about 5min to dim down to normal, so you can't see for that amount of time, making me take off the glasses sometimes.

 

But generally it has been very positive, so i'll probably go with them this time around too, having to carry around a second pair of glasses would be annoying.

[Guest]

 

7 minutes ago, Origami Cactus said:

...so i'll probably go with them this time around too, having to carry around a second pair of glasses would be annoying.

As long as it works for you, that's all that really counts ^o^

[kaiju_wars]

I use both.

 

I spend my insurance towards the glasses as they cost more, and I pay out of pocket for the contacts

 

[soldier_ph]

I'm wearing Glasses for over 6 years now and never had a Problem, so def Glasses. They're way cheaper and you look sexy in them, imo.

[peger]

Definitely glasses. They look sexy (matter of preference) and add +10 to geekiness :D.

[Ergroilnin]

I personally hardly use either glasses nor contact lens.

 

I have about -1 and -0.75 vision (well, probably worse now, last time I had my sight checked was like 8 years ago...) and I got so used to that so I do not even care (though putting them on in everyday life feels like going from 360p to full HD video, everything is so much more sharp that it actually gives me a headache in like 15 minutes).

 

I did not even have to use glasses when I still had my car, I had no problems seeing anything day or night. Only thing I do have problem with is reading text at "long" distance but as I said, I am so used to that, that I do not care.

 

However in work (I am working with forklifts (not sure if that is the right word, I actually google translated that word)) if I know I have to put up or down something higher than around 3 meters, I do put on the glasses just for extra safety, even though I am perfectly capable of doing so even without them. I tried contact lens like once, but I have idk how to properly call it... I guess sort of a phobia or smth and I absolutely hate touching my eyeballs, I cannot even properly apply any eye drops without it almost "killing me", same thing with opening my eyes under water, does not matter if it is a fresh, chlorinated or salt water, just nope, so glasses all the way for me.

 

And while I said and truly meant what I just wrote, I would really enjoy having perfect eyesight again and go through laser operation of my eyes, but I am so much afraid of doing so (both because of my sort of phobia and because I know it CAN go wrong) that I would have to get near blind to truly consider going that route.

 

And for the last part, while I do not really care how I personally look in glasses, I find them extremely sexy, so glasses all the way!

Edited August 19, 2019 by Ergroilnin
Adding stuff I forgot to write the first time

[Flying Sausages]

Glasses

 

Contact lens is scary as hell. I don't want to touch my fucking eyes man. What if the contact lens got stuck in your eyes? How do you take it out?