When did you get glasses?

[Summerstorm]

Well, turns out it wasn't normal that i couldn't read the chalkboard in school... i got glasses when i was 6 and a half...

Have to always wear them due to pretty bad eyesight, tried contact lenses... but my damn eyes are INCREDIBLE sensitive. Can't even get them in, sigh.

 

[Ophiuchus]

Started wearing glasses when I was seven, been wearing 'em ever since. I have no interest in laser eye correction or contacts, in fact I just got new frames a couple of weeks ago. I've been four-eyed for more than 20 years now, I just look weird without glasses at this point.

 

[DanielDeFig]

I got glasses at the age of 9-10.

I had contacts for a few years, but now that I have to pay for my own stuff I only use contacts when I do things where glasses are impractical/impossible (Diving, for example). Also, I have astigmatism, a certain degree of which there have been no "daily" versions of contact lenses, until very recently (which reminds me, I need to go buy a box). And if I only use contacts on very rare occasions, it seems stupid to use bi-weekly/monthly ones (also, they get dirty when left in liquid longer than they are supposed to).

 

[Azaradel]

I got mine when I was eight, but if it wasn't for the fact that retarded people were apparently in charge of examining my sight, I would've gotten them when I was around five. It's like they refused to believe that I could possibly need glasses.

"No, no, she doesn't need glasses. She'll grow out of it."

Nooo, surely, the girl whos entire family wears glasses couldn't possibly have poor eye sight. No way.

Well, I suppose not my entire family...my younger sister seems to have escaped the curse somehow.

 

[steeple]

ten years ago (second grade)...

today, without glasses I'm a little less then blind...

 

[StBishop]

I got mine when I was around 13, my eyesight is really crap now. I was thinking of getting lazer eye surgery, but it's really expensive, (they say £300 per eye, but apparently thats the simplest procedure, but it's more likely to be closer to £1000 per eye) And I don't have that kind of money yet. I don't mind glasses though. You only notice them when they break.

$6000.00 in Aus for both eyes.

I don't have them as I can see something 300 metres away as easily as a book in my hands.

I will get them when my eyes reach a point where not having them is damaging in some way. It will be at the start of an odd year (2011, 2013, 2057 etc.) because in Australia you get free eye checks every 2 years with medicare and mine fall on odd years.

 

[tso0001]

I got mine at 16. My eye sight isn't too bad, I only use them when I'm at school and when I drive. So it's been a good 3years since I have them, good thing is my eye sight hasn't deteriorated since

 

[StBishop]

First diagnosed with shitty eyes: 13. Got glasses.

Laser eye surgery: 19. Threw away glasses.

Go to doctor to find out that I have photo-phobia and night blindness: 23. Get more glasses.

My eyes = Worst eyes ever.

Wow! Photophobia and night blindness. Holy shit. Unlucky man. I have photophobia but I have excellent vision in the dark which makes up for it. I just wear sunglasses in the day time and I'm golden.

 

[luclin92]

i got mine for about ten year ago, i think

 

[Broady Brio]

2 years ago.

Mildly short-sighted.

 

[thylasos]

I must've been... seven or eight, I suppose. I was a big fan of glasses that made me look like a miniature John Major in those days.

My eyesight has gotten better and worse at various points over the past fourteen years since that day, leading to me not wearing glasses for almost two years, though I probably should've been. I'm short-sighted, supposedly exacerbated by reading in the dark. Thankfully, though, my choice of glasses has only become more aesthetically pleasing.

 

[Dragonclaw]

I've worn glasses pretty much all my life, has LASIK about 4 years ago, but then I hit my late 30's and your eyes change...could have done surgery again, but why waste the money and need to do it every few years...back to glasses as of this week...

 

[LostTimeLady]

I got glasses when I was 4 and a half maybe 5 (I was in Reception that is to say, or to non-UK bods, I was in the very first year in Primary School).
So yeah, that's basically 15 years of eye correction for me although I have had contact lenses for a while which I love cos, well, sometimes it's nice to disapear and I'm paranoid enough to feel 'marked out' when I'm wearing my glasses, probably cos it might have been a trigger for why I was bullied for so many flipping years. Basically when I look in the mirror without my glasses I see me, with them I see glasses first and the little dork I used to be second. Not good for my self image.
The problem recently is I've had to change from soft to hard contact lenses and it's been such hell getting used to the damn things I end up wearing my glasses much more than I used to. And I can't go back to soft lenses as I can't get the right percription so they'd just give me spilling headaches all the time.
*sigh* All good things come to an end it seems...

Edit: In case anyone's interested I'm long sighted that's worse in my right eye, and a bad astigmatism that's worse in my left.

 

[TheAceTheOne]

I got glasses in Pre-school. I'm near sighted, and I'm seriously pushing to get some contacts.

 

[ScoopMeister]

I was about five or six or seven or eight or... Or something. I've recently started wearing contact lenses.

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

Got mine about... 28 years ago, because I was bumping into anything and everything due to a lack of perspective (no 3D for me), and I've had them on ever since, all the time. I never tried contacts because the very thought of putting something solid in contact with my eyes terrifies me. I hate putting water (or eye drops) in them, so solid things are out of the question.

 

[Slash Dementia]

I got my glasses about 2 years ago, then I stepped on them on accident...Got another pair last year.

 

[riverand]

Got them when was eight (I'm 34 now). Just went to the eye doctor today and found out I need a second pair. That's right, not four eyes, SIX EYES!

DON't BE SILLY: I will NOT be wearing both pairs at the same time, it's just that I need one for regular day to day/ distance stuff and the new pair for reading.

The good news? If these work, it will be the first time in over two years that I will be able to read print on paper without pain and suffering! I can have BOOKS back B)

Wish me luck! I love my iPad and everything, but I miss books, comic books, reading the mail, food label, newspapers, magazines and all other stupid stuff that we read every day and take for granted!

Why don't you go for a pair of varifocals. A lot of new designs are discrete enough to not make you look like an old crony... *shrug*

OT: As soon as my first eye-exam was done (about 4). Both eyes got worse over time (25 now), but when I hit 18, my left eye started to improve. Typically get a new pair of glasses every two to two and a half years. I'm currently wearing my spare pair at the moment, 'cos my latest specs don't transition properly.

It kinda runs in the family, anyway. My entire extended family (white guys... oh no, white guys included, my sister's boyfriend excepted) needs to wear glasses and even if they don't, they wear contacts.

Thanks for thinking of me!!

We talked about it (me + doctor) and because of these fancy prisms they have to put into the glasses, it would cost thousands++ for one pair (my glasses are ALREADY crazy expensive!), plus they might not blend well. I agreed to two pairs. I'm just so excited to be SO close to reading again!!

My eyes always changed every year, contacts helped. Everything was under control. Don't worry about ending up with my craziness some day - it's a rare neurological disorder (intracranial hypertension) that caused a ton of fluid to enter my optic nerve and damage them. Before that I was just a happy go lucky contact lens wearer who sometimes wore her glasses to kick back and geek out!!

 

[Scizophrenic Llama]

When I was around 13-14, and I was stubborn about wearing them. Then I realized how damn blind I am. I don't think I'd be able to properly function in a day without them now. I'm nearsighted as hell. I literally couldn't read this post with ease without my glasses as I type it.

One of the bad traits I've adopted from my grandmother. Although gaming hasn't helped it at all either.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Thanks for thinking of me!!

We talked about it (me + doctor) and because of these fancy prisms they have to put into the glasses, it would cost thousands++ for one pair (my glasses are ALREADY crazy expensive!), plus they might not blend well. I agreed to two pairs. I'm just so excited to be SO close to reading again!!

My eyes always changed every year, contacts helped. Everything was under control. Don't worry about ending up with my craziness some day - it's a rare neurological disorder (intracranial hypertension) that caused a ton of fluid to enter my optic nerve and damage them. Before that I was just a happy go lucky contact lens wearer who sometimes wore her glasses to kick back and geek out!!

... you're welcome! ^_^

Still, the first thing I thought of just then, was that you could absolutely nerd out, chop the lenses apart, stick them back together again... only making one massive pair... right, this is starting to sound silly now... apologies!

And I'm sorry to hear about your condition... hope it doesn't get any worse. (Fingers crossed for myself as well, actually, seeing as how my right eye has been steadily deteriorating for most of my life.)