i have both. when i was working in the factory, i rarely wore my contacts because i couldn't wear them at work, i wore my prescription safety glasses. well, after getting laid off, i went back to my contacts pretty much full time. i took them out today cuz they were bothering me, letting em soak in some cleaner. put on my glasses, i'm like, holy crap, i can't f%$king see!!! serioiusly, this bites. how is it possible for me to see just fine with my contacts and yet feel blind in my glasses? (don't worry, i'm calling the eye doc on monday to set up an appointment, it's been almost 3 years) 

probably you have different prescriptions from your glasses and contacts

I don't think so. i got them both at the same time.  I'll find out for sure this week.   

Yeah, I'm totally a contact person! Don't even know where my glasses are hmmm! I wear the night and day lenses that way I just change them out monthly. Nice not having to take them out!

Mary

i have astigmatism, so that may be my problem. my contacts have to be set up a bit differently than my glasses. i put my contacts back in, and things were "normal" again. lol. making an eye appointment still though. 

Yeah, me too! I got weird eyes. Guess it fits in with the rest of me. I know back in 2000 they still hadn't had lenses for astigmatism so my contact script was different than my glasses!

Mary

Dija clean the glasses?   

Oddly enough, everything looks slightly smaller with my glasses on.  I don't get that distortion with my contacts.  Other than that, they're comparable.

I've never had contacts, and I've picked enough junk out of the front of my glasses (including the glass ones) to not want them much, anyway.

Wearing contacts long-term can cause changes in your eye shape, at least temporarily - so you might see more of a difference swapping in the middle of the day than putting on one or the other after a night without contacts in.  My cousin-in-law in the trade rails against leaving contacts in overnight, "extended-wear" or not.

Your glasses may also be simply misadjusted - not lined up properly with your eyes.

Quote from: jserio on July 26, 2009, 09:56:59 PM
i have astigmatism, so that may be my problem. my contacts have to be set up a bit differently than my glasses. i put my contacts back in, and things were "normal" again. lol. making an eye appointment still though. 

From what I understnd, this is true.  I've not used contacts in years. I have started buying the best possible titanium frames I can find though. Now, ill even buy TWO pair with each new prescription. One for play, one for reserve. Nothing like a pristine, clean pair when you need them.

I'm the same way.  I buy a pair of glasses every other year jsut as a back up in case something happens to my contacts.  While I know it's not "wise" to keep my contacts in 24/7, I do and I"ve never had an infection in 11+ years.  I take them out and clean them once a week, but they go right back in!  I also see differently w/ my glasses vs. my contacts.  I once heard that's because the contact covers your whole eye, whereas glasses don't, and you can see out the edges adn that's waht "tricks" your brain to think that you're seeing things in a distorted manner.  Not to mention, my glasses give me headaches for 3 days straight when I start wearing them until my eyes adjust.  Just follow up w/ your normal (yearly) check ups and you'll be fine regardless of whatever route you choose to see! 

Generally the glasses are a bit stronger than the contacts. and in many cases if you have a weak astigmatism the doctor will prescribe spherical contacts for simplicity sake, yet assign it for your glasses to clear everything up. but as for the 2 pairs of glasses i cant stress enough the importance of a back up pair, thats why we sell  4 pair of glasses with plastic single vision lenses and frames for 100 bucks.

well, i'm playing the hunting game as far as getting into an eye doctor. the doc i was seeing, i can't see now. got laid off in january and couldn't afford the COBRA coverage to continue my insurance. being laid off, wife and 3 kids, we qualified for medicaid but not many places accept it because they've made some changes to the system here in Ohio the last few years. (or some i'm told. i'm sure it's just some  ) i ended up letting my contacts soak for about 6 hours to get nice and clean and put them back in. crazy the difference. now i get to play the phone call game to find someone i can see. 

I was in the same boat as you when I lost my health insurance.  A friend of mine told me to try out WalMart.  It's like $50 for an exam, and each box of contacts range from $30-80.  I get 2 boxes and it lasts me a year.  Pretty reasonable prices for those of us w/ no insurance!

Question for you regular glasses wearers; I work on a computer all day and sometimes I get headaches. I have glasses that were issued to me from the Army and I started using them and the headaches went away and I can focus much better on the screen. My question is can anyone recommend a place where I can get these lenses put in better looking frames vs these RPG's (Rape Provention Glasses) they are in now? The perscription is still dead on so I really don't want to purchase lenses and frames just the frames.

Robert

so, the difference between glasses and contacts. they are actually different prescriptions because they have to be. glasses are made so that they focus the light from an average distance from your eyes, because you wear glasses an inch or so away from your eyes. Contacts are immediately above your eyes so they focus light at a more extreme angle. so, seeing out of contacts is much much more natural and easier for the eyes to focus with. because of this difference, the depth of field changes, quite a bit depending on the intensity of your prescription. when you switch from contacts to glasses or vice versa you may find that it's hard to focus for this very reason. i prefer my contacts a thousand times over my glasses.

If you can afford it get laser surgery. I had it done 10 years ago, some of the best money I ever spent and eye sight is still perfect today.

well, i have my eye appointment on the 19th of this month. wow, that's next week. anyways. i'm no eye doctor but i have figured out part of my problem. my left eye has always been the "weaker" eye. and well, now, for some reason, it is significantly worse. probably explains my headaches and bad mood lately too. man, can't wait to see the doctor.

I just wish they could fix my eyes.  I have a rare form of cataract in both my eyes and due to the location of the cataract being so close to the gel part of the eye my eye specialist says he is unwilling to operate as there is only a 50% chance I will see again (each eye).  To give an example on a sunny day I need to ride with a dark tint visor and the darkest legal sunglass tint just to be able to see and cut through the glare.  Light is PAINFUL to my eyes in any form and even when I do see it is like looking through a dirty wind screen.

I wish I could ware glasses or contacts............I hope eye surgery takes a tech jump in the next 5 years or I will probably end up blind doing away with my riding, working, driving, watching the kids grow up etc.  I am sh!t scared of losiing my eye site and do not know what I am going to do if/when it happens.

I envy all of you with good eyes.  It is not till you KNOW you are going blind that you give a crap about your eyes.

sorry to hear that buddy. i agree though that vision is something we generally take for granted. hearing is in the same category. medical science still can't tell my why i need hearing aids to hear, but i do. my brain works normal, my ear drums are fine. my lil bones in my ears are normal. numerous cat scans, mri scans etc, still no answer.  it is strange though how much we(humans) take for granted.

I'd definitely love to get the surgery some day, but I think I'm gonna let technology perfect(99.9%) it before I let someone point a lazer in my eye. The fact that i still see so many eye doctors wearing eye glasses makes me weary, althought I guess they can't advertise for someone elses profession huh? You know that stuff is gonna get so technical that eventually they're just going to be fixing every newborns eyes before they even leave the hospital.

JB848: As far as transferring those lenses, I think just about anyone will transfer lenses to a new frame. I don't know how they do it with the new shapes, but I would just ask around, I think anyone will.

I've had glasses since I was in 1st grade. I had the steve urkel version up through about 6th, then I went to skinnier frames. I'd really like to get a nice durable pair of plastic glasses that I don't have to worry about breaking, but they're so trendy now that I haven't been able to bring myself buy a pair. I have a doctors appointment next week for the first time in years, so I'll see how it goes. I would love to not wear glasses for when I'm working on things around the house, and you have to deal with them fogging, or sweat getting on them. I do appriciate them for random things like bicycle rides, or being able to ride a motorcycle with the visor up when I'm going under 25mph, stuff like that.