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Glasses at age 8 or so. Contacts at age 18. Lasik surgery at 40. I had one eye under corrected to put off the need for reading glasses. Perhaps it did, but I wish I had gone with the total correction for both. Now 16 years later, my vision is still 20/20 for most things, but I need reading glasses for extended reading and prefer a weaker reading version for laptop use. My astigmatism has returned, so now I have glasses to correct only that for driving (if I don't wear them I see double sets of headlights at night). Yeah, getting old is not much fun.

Hubby, one son, and our adopted daughter all wear glasses. Other son wears contacts.

BTW - You can get Lasik at age 21 or so after your eyes have stopped changing.
 
I have glasses too but only wear them to watch tv and drive. (I have a script in my sunglasses) hubby has glasses - multi-focals and all three children are also near sighted. The benefit is that all reading and computer work is done without specs for me.
 
I got glasses in 5th grade and in 8th I got contacts. By my second child I just couldn't wear the contacts anymore. Which was 27 years ago. I tried a few more times through the years with the advancement of contacts and they just haven't worked for me. My hubby got his first pair of glasses when he was in his early 40's all my children need/wear glasses except for my oldest son. He is a State Trooper so he had the lasik surgery and loves his new freedom!
 
Yes I wear glasses. I have since I was about 10.
Right now I'm L: -3 and R: -5. :spin As of yesterday, because I JUST got new glasses. The jump from -4,75 to -5 was a bit hard to handle. I'm practically blind now...

I've tried contact lenses in my teens, and it worked all fine for a bit until I got my first eye inflammation. Then it kept on returning, I even did a trial with super expensive and super thin ones, but it felt like I still didn't get enough oxygen. It's a weird feeling, but I definitely notice the level of humidity through my eyes through a point that I kept having trouble in my parents super isolated Swedish build house with warm air heating. Whether I am wearing contacts or not, I can feel it. Anyway, I stopped and switched to glasses only.

I have considered lasering, but I am way too scared to do that anytime soon. So I stick with glasses. I've actually just bought myself new ones which I picked up yesterday and will scrap soon! :)
 
Got glasses in 10th grade. Got contacts summer between Freshman and Sophomore year of college.
I go in spurts. I wear my glasses a lot. And then I wear my contacts a lot. Usually I make the switch when I run out and then it takes me a while to go buy more.

@QuiltyMom I buy them at Costco.
 
Hubby is legally blind without glasses. He wears glasses and contacts. Mostly wears glasses, but uses contacts when he runs or goes to the gym. Sometimes he will wear them to work and/or out.

I didn't get glasses until I was in my 30's. I tried contacts but they weren't for me. Plus I worked for a retina specialist who railed against contacts. LOL So I'm a glasses wearer 24/7.

Olivia got glasses in high school. She got contacts a couple of years ago, and mostly wears contacts.

Daniel got glasses in 4th grade and that's all he wears.
 
No glasses for anyone here! At my daughter's (6) last doc visit she was slightly off on the eye chart test. They mentioned going to a pediatric optometrist...just to double check...but I haven't done that yet. She seems like she does okay. I've never noticed any issues....
 
I started wearing glasses at the ripe old age of 3. Seriously. I was born blind and would run into things. Lol! I wore glasses until 8th grade when I could FINALLY get contacts. That was the youngest my eye doctor would allow them. It was amazing! I wore those until I was 30ish when I had lasik done and that was the single best thing I ever spent money on. I LOVE not wearing anything and being able to see! :)
 
I didn't need glasses until my mid 40s when my arms were no longer long enough to read without them. DH has really bad eyesight in one eye and the other is fine. Our oldest dd has very poor eyesight which we luckily discovered when she was 2 so she wears glasses and hard contacts (she prefers the soft ones but they were causing problems). Our younger dd started needing glasses in middle school and wears contacts or glasses now.
I've thought of getting laser eye surgery but haven' t done much research into it yet
 
carrie1977 said:
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.
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I remember exactly getting glasses. We were driving home in Oregon, and I looked up and commented on the trees at the top of the mountain! My mom said What? I replied "There are trees on the top of the mountain. I thought it was just a darker dirt on the top".

QuiltyMom said:
've been in contacts and/or glasses since I was eight years old.
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Me too! I get mine at Costco.

BevG said:
You can get Lasik at age 21 or so after your eyes have stopped changing.
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I want Lasik. I was ready for it because my eyes hadn't changed in a dozen years. Then, 2 years ago, they got .50 better is each eye! I went from -8.00 in contacts to -7.50. So now I want to wait and make sure they are done. They were the same today.

I got glasses at 8, contacts at 14 (I saved all my money working to buy them). And I wear contacts 95% of the time. Especially if I'm driving, I have better peripheral vision with my contacts.
 
carrie1977 said:
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.
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I'm going to hijack this thread to holler at Carrie!! What do you mean, "Bad mamma moment for sure" - how on earth could you possibly know that your boy was having trouble seeing in class until he TOLD you? Mothers ARE surely miracle workers, but the last time I checked no matter how hard we try we still aren't able to get inside of our children to know what's going on with them. Don't be so hard on yourself Carrie, really I'm sure you're a very good mamma! And I promise you, that you'll have plenty of reasons to feel guilty when he's older and blames you for EVERYthing that's wrong in his life. No need to rush it along. :assslap

Oh....and I just wear reading glasses.:agree
 
Squirrely said:
I'm going to hijack this thread to holler at Carrie!! What do you mean, "Bad mamma moment for sure" - how on earth could you possibly know that your boy was having trouble seeing in class until he TOLD you? Mothers ARE surely miracle workers, but the last time I checked no matter how hard we try we still aren't able to get inside of our children to know what's going on with them. Don't be so hard on yourself Carrie, really I'm sure you're a very good mamma! And I promise you, that you'll have plenty of reasons to feel guilty when he's older and blames you for EVERYthing that's wrong in his life. No need to rush it along. :assslap

Oh....and I just wear reading glasses.:agree
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Thank you for that. And, deep down, I know you are right. Thank you for reminding me that I couldn't have known. Your post means more than you could know. :heartslub
 
None for me but my mom and dad have to wear them when reading. My niece does wear glasses. She had what was called a "lazy eye" when she was I want to say around 6 or 7... and she has worn glasses since to help try to correct it.
 
I've worn glasses since early elementary school. I always sat up front but didn't realize I had trouble seeing. We were playing that alphabet game with license plates on a road trip and my parents about choked when they realized how close I had to be to see the letters! I remember distinctly that first look at trees when I realized they weren't just green blurs!

Glasses until senior year in high school, then hard contacts. Once soft lenses would handle astigmatism I wore those until my late 20's ish. Then I ended up getting an allergic reaction to the lens solution (probably the beginning of all of my now prolific allergies) and had to go back to glasses. I had lasik (BEST DECISION!) in my early 30's with them a little undercorrected to prolong my need for readers. I went with nothing at all until 45 ish when I started wearing glasses to drive. Now, it's the progressive lenses so I can see up close to read and far away to drive. I wear them all the time now. Some days I'm sick of them but I know contacts really wouldn't be an option anymore.
 
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