do you wear glasses?

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Originally Posted by Amy05

Yup, i have to wear glasses, but they are called prism glasses, they look the same, but they help my eyes focus, because they dont work together correctly.

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my youngest got glasses last year and they have prisms in them as well. amazing how thin they can make glasses now and still put these inside them.

she's doing soooo great with her glasses. no more headaches (except the ones she gives me) :rofl:

I had pretty much NO vision without glasses. I wanted lasik, but they wouldn't do it in the states for some odd reason. I went to Canada and had it done for half the price and went through absolutely NO problems and now I have 20/15 in my right eye and 20/20 in my left eye for about five years now. I love it! Never would have imagined what it was like to see without looking through magnifying glasses to do so. I would have paid ten times that amount to see like this. Dr. Andrew Taylor of Lasik MD in Niagara. World-known and is #1 in his field. That guy is my hero!

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Originally Posted by recycling goddess

my youngest got glasses last year and they have prisms in them as well. amazing how thin they can make glasses now and still put these inside them.

she's doing soooo great with her glasses. no more headaches (except the ones she gives me) :rofl:

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lol. well thats good. for the longest time they had no idea what was wrong with me. I would get headaches, migranes, and it even turned into me throwing up. It was pretty bad. I had gone to drs, and they said nothing was wrong, and when i went to the eye dr. for a ruitine thing, she explained what was going on. No more headaches or falling asleep while i'm reading! wahoo!

I wear glasses 24/7 since I was 13 years old...I would sleep with them if I could..lol...I want lasik BAD, but its still like 5K...I'd rather spend 5K on BPs......

lol, if i could sleep with my contacts in i would do it every night. sure would beat running into the dresser and the wall every morning...

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Originally Posted by monk90222

I wear glasses 24/7 since I was 13 years old...I would sleep with them if I could..lol...I want lasik BAD, but its still like 5K...I'd rather spend 5K on BPs......

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I spent three days in Canada. 1,300 for the lasik and the meds and the "goggles" you need for a week. 200 for the hotel for two nights. That was it. 1500 total and not blind. It was worth it.

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mark,

how long did you try them for? it took me a couple of weeks to get used to the changes in the lenses but now i love em. mind you... i've only had them for a month :P

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I did have them for about a month and never got used to them. When I traded in for some traditional bi-focals, they were almost perfect right away, except for that little mid-range part that I eventually got the computer glasses for. I've got a friend at work who also has the progressive lenes and he loves them. different strokes for different folks I guess.

On the Lasik surgery, my wife had a kidney infection that hospitalized her for a couple of months back when she was in the 2nd grade, it affected her eyes somehow and she had to wear these big thick coke bottle glasses all the way through school. She was legelly blind without them. She got contacts in college but had occasional trouble with them too because her eyes weren't getting enough oxygen?? (something like that) Finally she had lasik surgery about 8 or 9 years ago. Her eyes have been pretty much perfect ever since and she regards lasik as an absolute miracle.

Mark

i have two friends who got it done (they live in the us) and they are thrilled! they said it's soooooo worth the money.

I wear contacts all the time, even when I sleep. I hate glasses, they make me motion sick.

If I want to get my drivers license, I need to get some glasses