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My eleven year old just got contacts and is learning the ins and outs of them. She's doing pretty good with them and is so happy that she won't have to worry about her glasses getting broken when soccer season starts up again. All three of my kids now have contacts and glasses for backup. My son got contacts in 2nd grade. My other daughter got glasses in 5th and contacts in 6th and my baby got glasses in 4th grade and contacts in 5th. My husband used to wear glasses and had contacts as a teenager. He had the thick coke bottom-bottle looking glasses. He was so blind that he couldn't even see the BIG E on the eye charts when we got married. He had lasik done several years ago and has loved the freedom it has given him. I've always had good vision until about a year ago, and then I've noticed that I have to hold things farther away to read them. My arm isn't long enough some days... hehe I had to get a pair of readers for closeup work. I guess I'm getting old... lol

How about you? Do you or any family members wear glasses or contacts?
 
I don't wear contacts or glasses. I have really good eyesight (knock on wood). Most of my siblings and parents have glasses or contacts so I consider myself extremely lucky.

My husband is pretty blind. He is supposed to wear glasses. Cole broke his when he was a toddler and Matt hasn't replaced them.

Cole just got glasses at the end of November. He is 9. He was having trouble seeing in class and mentioned it casually to me one day. I was surprised that his vision was so bad. He is loving being able to see now. I felt so bad when he was so excited to see the leaves on the trees so clearly when we left with his glasses. Bad mamma moment for sure.

Mattie has not needed anything for vision so far. She is 13.
 
My husband has had glasses since he was a kid... always glasses, never contacts. My daughter was told she needed reading glasses once, but I suspect that was a pushy doctor wanting to make a glasses sale as no other eye doctor we've gone to since has recommended them for her. My son has had reading glasses since 5th grade I think... just for reading though. I never needed glasses until a couple of years ago, and then just for reading. I got one good pair at the eye doctor and got the bulk package of readers from Amazon that my friend recommended. They were super cheap and now I'm able to stash them wherever I need them (my purse, my night stand, laptop bag, etc.) versus always having to hunt for a pair because I've carried the one pair off. I think I may need to go to the eye doctor again though, just to check things out as I find myself relying on the readers more and more.
 
Not to hijack the thread, but where do people get their contacts? I'm looking for an inexpensive source because I only need 6 months worth at a time.

I've been in contacts and/or glasses since I was eight years old. Now I wear glasses more just because I really don't want to put anything in my eyes at 4:30 a.m.

The funny thing is that after I reached menopause my eyesight started to get better. Every year I need new lenses. I just found a bunch of old eyeglasses that I want to donate to the Lion's Club, and they are so strong that I can't see a thing through them. I am nearsighted, so I don't wear glasses or contacts if I'm going to be doing a lot of computer work (scrapping!) or anything else. I also have eyes that were terrible to fit with contacts. It took 3 years of trial and error to find something I could see out of after two hours. My doctor says it doesn't make sense - they're two different brands and two different types, but it works! Now I need to order more.
 
Me - none as of yet, kids - none as of yet, and no one has complained, nor has the regular doctor said anything. Hubby has contacts and glasses when needed. Though for the life of me, I cannot remember at the moment if he is far sighted or near sighted!
@QuiltyMom Jan... he uses 1-800-contacts.
 
All :) Glasses for me since 4th grade..(hmmm 9 years old... now it has been 47 years) anyway, I used the extended wear soft contacts so in case I fell asleep I wouldn't have to worry, as I did have an issue with daily wear and it got folded over and stuck in my eye, so I went to extended but really didn't sleep with them in very often as I have extremely dry eyes. I had worn contacts beginning when I was around 20... then I guess I stopped wearing them in my mid 30's. About 8 years ago I decided to get contacts again. They were now the extended wear throw-a-ways... I put them in and I was good to go, and then I went to read and found I could not read anything without the over the counter readers and I couldn't put my make up on with the contacts in... I had to get a magnifying mirror... omg.. what a procession..

I needed to carry more stuff with me wearing contacts (ie reading glasses and sun glasses etc. plus drops) that it was cumbersome and a pill to go out somewhere and have to put on my readers to read. Without glasses/contacts I can read without reading glasses. The distance lenses make it now necssary for reading glasses, so I said forget this.

I went back to my no line bifocals, and figure when my cataracts are full blown (I have beginnings in both eyes) I will get the corrective lenses then.

Until then, I take my glasses off when I take photos :)

My hubby tried contacts for a little while, likes glasses better. My brother had the lasiks surgery for nearsighted-ness 17 years ago. He now wears a mild RX and needs reading glasses. My Dad wore contacts for a short time... had tri focals and then when he had cataract surgery went for the corrective lenses and just used over the counter readers.

Glasses hands down for our family!
 
Glasses. I've worn them since high school. I try contacts every few years but my eyes are too dry for them.
 
I am really near sighted and I've worn contacts since 8th grade. Currently, I wear 2 week soft contacts. My doctor has prescribed more and more "monovision" as I've gotten older -- one eye for reading, one for seeing distance. I think this may be the last year of that as they are now so different it drives me crazy sometimes.
 
I got glasses as a young child. 8 or 9 maybe... I tried contacts in the 5th grade or so, but I had an undiagnosed astigmatism, so they just flew out, and because I had one super bad eye and one pretty ok eye, my eyes were used to not working together, and I never noticed when I lost that contact... It was a huge ordeal, so I ended up with just glasses for a long time after that...

I always had a coke bottle on one side (the right) and a paper thin lens on the other side... These days, though, the right is pretty chill how it is and the left is working hard to catch up. But, at least now my glasses aren't tilted on my face! I do have back up contacts for pictures and roller coasters. I usually just buy a box of daily wear that would last a month if I wore them every day and it will last a year easily because I don't wear them incredibly often.

My daughter wears glasses, but so far my son doesn't seem to need them! I tried to get my daughter in contacts but she can't touch her eye, so that was a no go!

Huggles!!
~Sarah~
 
Glasses for me since 2007 (on again off again, depending on the eye doctor!)

I probably won't get contacts, because I'm not active in anything where my glasses get in the way, for now.

My husband has a "lazy eye" that glasses will not help. So far, our kids do not need glasses. They are still young, though.
 
I wore glasses from 3rd grade through 8th grade. I nearly kissed the doc when he told me that I didn't have to wear them in high school. I'm sure that I need them now. It's on my to do list for this year. I'm a little nervous that they will find out I have something wrong with my eyes(s) as I have a completely irrational fear of having my eye(s) operated on. I'm not sure why that freaks me out more than any other type of surgery but it does for some reason.

My husband has superbad eyesight. He wore contacts when we were dating but now he's old and exclusively wears glasses. :giggle

Neither kid has them so far. I'm sure they will. Every grownup on both sides of the family wears or needs to wear glasses so it's just a matter of time.
 
I wore glasses from about 5th grade til junior year of hs. Then I got hard contacts and love love loved them until my early 40s when I needed reading glasses. I managed for years with only one contact in and my eyes and brain easily adjusted. By 60s, I switched to no line glasses and then it was cataract surgery - one eye which got me back to the state I was in with only one contact, except I did not need a contact since on eye was adjusted for distance. Those were the best years! No glasses, no nothing.

Then I had cataract surgery on the other eye, and made the decision to get the bifocal type lens in that eye. I really regret that lens but...I now need glasses for reading, driving and computer work. pfffft! Otherwise, I can see fine to do most of the rest of my life actions.
 
My husband had the lasix surgery years ago, & always wore glasses/contacts since he was a young teen. My son just got his first pair of glasses at 16. Both my daughter and I have the good eye sight in the family ... but once I hit 40 my eyes have started to go. I'm starting to notice I don't see as well with little things in the distance as well, I cannot read tiny print at all now without readers, and even the computer screen can be hard to see at times. But I was blessed with good eye sight for a good 40 years so I am not complaining! :)
 
No glasses for me, DH, or 2 out of 3 kids. I did have a dr. tell me when I was a teenager that I needed them. I never really wore them and went to another dr. a year later who said there was absolutely no reason I needed them. DH and I both do have dollar store readers that we only use for like really small medicine bottles and such. DS #1 has had glasses since he was about 12. He is also color blind. He never could do contacts.
 
I've worn glasses and contact since elementary school, hubby wears glasses (he can't even hold his eyes open to get contacts in LOL), both sets of parents and grandparents also wear/wore glasses...I'm it's just a matter of when the girls will need glasses.

Glasses now are so cool though!! I don't mind wearing glasses full time and contacts when we go out.
 
worn glasses since I was about 2 full time so it's just normal for me and i'd be blind or close to it without them.
 
I had perfect vision as a kid and haven't had any eye issues in adulthood, though I haven't had an eye exam in many years. I think my distance vision might have diminished because it seems like I have to be nearer road signs before I can read them easily compared to a decade ago.

My husband never wore glasses but needs them now to read things. It took him about a year to go get an exam though and it became a joke because he'd always have to push away whatever book or phone screen someone put in front of him to share.

It was kind of my oldest daughter's vision complaints that encouraged my husband to go get his eyes examined too. The whole family got eye exams a couple years ago (except me). My younger two kids have fine vision, but my oldest has trouble seeing things far away. She was happy to get glasses; in fact before she got them she used to wear sunglasses frames with the lenses punched out just for style. :)

In my family of origin, my dad didn't need glasses until he was middle age. My mom started wearing glasses when she was 14. So I guess I got my dad's vision but carried genes for my mom's vision and gave them to my daughter. My older sister never wore glasses and my younger brother started wearing them in high school. My mom said she tried contacts but she could never stop blinking enough to get them in!
 
All of us, at one point. I've had glasses since 6th grade. I failed the eye test in school in 5th grade, but my parents didn't believe it and waited a whole year. My husband got glasses at 19, just after we met. Both daughters were in 4th or 5th grade when they both needed glasses. They both got contacts when they went to middle school. I finally got contacts a few years after they did and so did my husband. He eventually got Lasik surgery when he was 30ish. I should have, but I chickened out. Now I rarely wear my contacts. I put them in before I go to the gym in the morning. Then I take them out after my shower and before I drive home. Husband's eyes are still perfect, almost 17 years post-op. Lucky him!
 
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