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Slaughter
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 09:57 am: | 
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Wondering - contacts v. glasses:
Contacts - prone to minor irritations or trapping dust?
Glasses - a real bummer in a fall where your head gets banged pretty hard - try this: put on your glasses, push on the side of your helmet as HARD as possible while wearing them, then imaging hitting it 10 TIMES that hard - that's why I won't wear sunglasses under my helmet (but I fall at least 2-3 times a year) |
Bonesbuell
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 02:00 pm: |
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LASIK best money I ever spent!!!! |
Lake_bueller
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 03:40 pm: |
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I've been wearing contacts for over 20 years. Last year I tried switching to the disposible but they really irritate my eyes. I'm back to the rigid gas perms. The key is get a good fit. I went to the same guy for the first 15 years. Now I'm going to his protege. It's worth the 2 hour drive for a great fit!!! |
Cataract2
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 04:17 pm: |
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LASIK best money I ever spent!!!!
Not an option for me. Farsighted with astigmatism. I've asked the doctor and was told that lasik wouldn't work or help me enough. Yes, I've asked around on this from others also. So.... I'll just stick with glasses. |
Cwby8383
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 10:36 pm: |
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Yeah, contacts dry out for me late at night, or when the adrenaline is rushing and I forget to blink. That happens more for me in the woods on my dirtbike than on the road, but that may be due to the lack of curves in Southwest Michigan. |
Midknyte
| | Posted on Thursday, July 28, 2005 - 10:26 am: |
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Question to those who know more than I.
My prescription is
Left: -1.5/-.75 (Torric)
Right: -1
This does not "sound" like a strong prescription.
What does it say about my eyes? Thanks... |
Speedy818
| | Posted on Thursday, July 28, 2005 - 11:16 am: |
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Two problems with Lasik -
1) You can't wear contacts for 3 months before having it done. Which means you have to be wearing glasses during that time (big problem for me, I can't really wear glasses - lenses too thick)
2) Lasik causes dry eye problems in something like 60% of all procedures. That's a big issue if you do long rides and don't want to stop every 45 minutes to put drops in.
Lasik gets better and better every year - your eyes aren't going anywhere.
Midknyte - That's not a very strong prescription at all - sounds like you're left eyed (might be left handed too?) - you can function without glasses - probably drive without them too. My prescription is -7.50/-8.00 - I can read anything that isn't touching my nose without lenses in. |
Midknyte
| | Posted on Thursday, July 28, 2005 - 12:00 pm: |
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...That's not a very strong prescription at all - sounds like you're left eyed (might be left handed too?) - you can function without glasses - probably drive without them too...
I've been doing just that (going without). Partly because I now despise my glasses, and that I'm cheap - as to stretch out the usability of my 1 month lenses by not wearing them every day.
To listen to eye doctors, I would not have known. They only every say that my vision is worse than last visit and that my prescription is stronger. Of course, it's understandable that it is not in their interest to send me out the door sans product. I would not know what my prescrition/strength was unless it was printed on my contact lens box - doctors/stores had otherwise been reluctant to tell me... When I went for these contacts, they made it sound like I should feel lucky [that I could get a lens prescription/correction as opposed to glasses].
I seem to have days or times that my vision is really very good (improved?). I don't get headaches or any discomfort anymore going without. I can still read sign-age (billboards, street signs, etc.), anything that I can't, it seems more that it's too far [small] than out of focus [fuzzy].
As a rule though, I don't ride my bike w/o one or the other for the sake of best acuity. I don't think I ought to voluntarily put myself at any disadvantage on it...
Oh, and I'm right handed. Per your reply. I am left eyed though.
Hey - you wanna know which eye all of you are? Make a circle with your thumb and forefinger of one hand and hold it out at arms length. Look thru it and at an object. Now, close one eye, then the other. The one you can still see what you were looking at with is your preferential eye. What's that worth knowing - I dunno... |
Leeaw
| | Posted on Thursday, July 28, 2005 - 12:52 pm: |
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I had Lasik in Dec. 03 and it was trouble-free. My eyes itched for only 6 hours after the procedure and I had dry eyes for a couple of weeks after but not after that. I had to stop wearing contacts for much less than 3 months before the procedure too.
My vision was bad enough to fail a no worse than 20/100 in one eye and 20/200 in the other; now I am 20/15. Not bad for a couple months shy of 40.  |
Midknyte
| | Posted on Thursday, July 28, 2005 - 01:56 pm: |
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God bless Google
A few links that explain a little about prescriptions:
http://www.medem.com/MedLB/article_detaillb.cfm?article_ID=ZZZG178LH4C&sub_cat=2 017
http://world.std.com/~dpbsmith/prescription/prescription.html
http://www.musckids.com/health_library/eye/glasses.htm
Apparently, my perceived improvement in vision is tied up in the phenomenon of blur adaptation (your brain's ability to compensate). See 12,12;journal,190,202;linkingpublicationresults,1:102024,1,http://www.journals.r oyalsoc.ac.uk/app/home/contribution.asp?wasp=8b006ef316d049588d84b1a9a4c9459a&re ferrer=parent&backto=issue,12,12;journal,190,202;linkingpublicationresults,1:102 024,1 that links to pdf study http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/app/home/content.asp?wasp=8b006ef316d049588d8 4b1a9a4c9459a&referrer=contribution&format=2&page=1&pagecount=7
Incidently, wearing or not wearing glasses/correction does not improve or harm ones vision. It is the above [blur adaptation] that one encounters that might lead one to believe in such...
per - http://www.answerbag.com/q_view.php/520, "Typically, right-handers are right-eyed, and vice versa." This article goes on to explain that one should locate your dominant eye over your cue in billiards to improve your shot.
I am right handed, but left eye dominant - a 5% minority. I think that this now explains why my wife beat the crap out of me in darts last week. Will have to go back and tray a change in throwing.
Also, there is an interesting alternative to bifocals for contact lens wearers called monovision - where each eye receives a prescription alternately for distance and reading. http://healing.about.com/cs/conditions/a/myopia.htm |
Tahoe_xbuelligan
| | Posted on Thursday, July 28, 2005 - 04:00 pm: |
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got my new contacts on monday. they feel alLot better that the set i tried 12 or so years ago. CONTACTS ROCK. I CAN SEE I CAN SEE!
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