Glasses, contacts, or laser?

[mrtristan]

My eyes started to go bad when I hit puberty and I've been through glasses, gas permeable (hard contacts), and currently with 1 week disposable soft lenses.

I've been thinking about getting laser surgery. I don't mind contacts. In fact, I just started playing around with different colored lenses. However, nothing beats your real vision. I can't see clearly more than a foot in front of my face, without glasses or contacts. I would really love to have my natural vision back.

[freak_in_cage_10k]

If its just for reading or computer than get glasses. I wear contacts but my eyes get really sore when using the computer too long. Wearing my glasses instead is much more comfortable. I can't believe anyone here would suggest laser corrective surgery just for reading or computer work. That's like using a bazooka to open a door.

its not possible to correct ppl who need reading glasses with lazer eye surgery. needing reading glasses means that the lens in your eye has lost flexibility and therefore cant focus light sufficiently for near work. its a progressive problem eg it looses flexibility more with age, so if you had lazer surgery to correct for this error in your eye when you were 50, by the time you were 55 your lens would have become even less flexibile and you would need glasses again! so, unless you want lazer surgery every 2-5 years for near work, you have to get glasses or contacts. lazer surgery is only suitable for short sighted or long sighted ppl!

gmatov- if you wear glasses which are SLIGHTLY too strong for you, then yes, your lens may degrade slightly faster as its not being used so much, but the main reason your optician didn;t give you much stronger glasses to beginw ith is because, the stronger your glasses are, the smaller the range in which things are clear with your glasses!

[tgpo]

I would have to get glasses. I can't stand even seein gpeople put contacts in. And the thought of laser freaks me out. I can handle everything but the eyes.

[gmatov]

Freak,

You missed my point, I think. I'm 59 years old, I understand presbyopia, and it started on me at about 42. My arms just continuously got shorter, till a reading prescription was the only solution.

I wear bi-focals, preferably no correction in the upper lens, as my vision was 20-15 before I had to get my cheaters.

Problem I stated above is, he added a 1/4 diopter, saying I would need it before my next vision check in 2 years. I maintain that the overcorrection is actually causing faster deterioration.

To the youngsters above, some of whom are no longer youngsters, but didn't get corrective lenses till 18 or whatever, I can't imagine what you went through till you did. Not being able to see properly has caused countless kids to be dropped back in school because they could not read their assignments or see the blackboard, and, for the really young child, you don't KNOW that the world is not supposed to look like it would through a piece of polyethylene plastic, all blurred.

The guy who has to get to 3" from his screen before he can read it has to get some correction. In this day and age, it's a god-damned sin to let this occur.

As to the lineless bi-focals, the "Transitions", I got one pair through the mill I work for. I am an Overhead Crane Repairman, they're 120 feet long, and with those lenses, they looked like they were sagging 6 feet in the middle. The rails they run on, 1/4 mile long, looked the same, as though they were running uphill at each end of the bay.

Thank you, I will admit to being old enough to need bi-focals to see properly.

Anyone ever heard of the "See Clearly" method of vision correction?

I have read that the Chinese use an exercise, rotaring their fingers around their eye socket to relax or strengthen their ocular muscles.

Probably put 9 million eye related people out of work if there is anything to it.

Cheers'\,

George