Glasses or Contacts

Both.

Contacts for sports, going out, etc.
Glasses for chilling and watching TV, computer, etc.

 

Glasses, because I've never tried contacts. I need some minor prescription on my eyes, but I haven't used glasses in a long time. The thought of anything going into my eyes or around my eyes scares me more than a photo of Mehmet Okhur.

FAIL. Choose one, mister POSSIBLEs.

 

I hate wearing glasses, but I don't think I'm responsible of wearing contacts. Glasses will have to do for now till I reach 18 :/

 

If you get some good rims glasses can enhance your look. I would go with glasses and use goggles if your going out for sports. Goggles are awesome!

 

Where do you get your goggles? Do they ever fog up on you? Do you ever find them uncomfortable? Do they look ridiculous?

I hate contacts and have considered getting goggles.

 

Contacts are a hassle because they're more expensive, get lost in your eye, etc., but if I'm going somewhere nice, getting a haircut, or am planning on sweating, I wear them. Any other instance I'm using glasses.

 

Contacts. I would always lose or break my glasses. Granted, I haven't owned a pair since the age of 11, but I haven't really had any reason to go back to glasses.

 

I wore contact lens from the time I was 14 until I had cataract surgery, which left me with 20-20 vision, uncorrected (I know a superb eye surgeon in Austin). Sure, there were a few times where work required me to wear glasses for a few months, glasses that looked like coke bottles, since I had 20-400 vision, and once when I had to stop wearing contacts for 3 months for medical reasons, but aside from that, I wore contacts for decades. I hated glasses.

 

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True dat. There are moments where you will probably need contacts. For example: I almost lost a pair of frames while riding a rollercoaster (only my cat-like reflexes saved the day). Fortunately, I had a pair of contacts in the car.

But at the end of the day, when I'm sitting on the couch trying to relax with some TV, dry contacts are zero fun. Frames are comfy, and can be quite flattering. Get both. You won't regret it.

 

I wore glasses in middle school and was playing basketball too so my Mom asked the optometrist for prescription "sport glasses"! I remember them fogging up but they were comfortable. I looked hilarious but that is because I didn't get to choose my particular pair. Everyone still loved them at school. I would get a lot of questions during practice and after games.

Any optometrist like Lenscrafters can convert you prescription into a set of goggles. I didn't pick my particular style but I'm sure now they have catalogs. Or you can buy them at a sporting goods store and take them to your optometrist and they will switch out the lenses.

I don't know if my vision was corrected in that time span I stopped wearing glasses/goggles my 8th grade year and haven't worn them since.

 

Mainly contacts...but hard contacts...really don't understand why the majority of contacts are soft these days.

Glasses sometimes.

 

Are they "gas permeable?" I was an early adopter of contacts and wore glass ones at first and hard plastic later, for years. The three months I didn't wear contacts that I mentioned in my previous post was due to beginning to wear contacts as a teenager, and wearing hard contacts while doing it. What that does is deform your cornea. Why? Because as a teenager, your eyes are still changing. The hard contacts prevent that, instead forcing the shape of your eyes to conform to them. By the time I saw an eye doctor who figured that out, much later as an adult, I was forced to stop wearing contacts until my eyes found their "natural shape." That was a pain, I can tell you, because my eyes were so bad that glasses were difficult to wear.

Just be careful to not wear your hard contacts for too long and take a day off from wearing them from time to time. A big reason many wear soft lenses is that they enable you to switch from the lenses to glasses and back easily, even if you have very poor eyesight. If your eyesight just needs a little correction, you can frequently do the same wearing gas permeable lenses.

A lot of info, but all stuff I was told by excellent eye doctors.

 

I HATE glasses there so annoying! Always on your nose and you can't see out of the side of them.

Contacts all the way.

 

Had glasses through elementary and middle school. Annoying as hell, they need to be cleaned often and they just feel weird and restrict you.

Never had contacts though. My eyesight is good enough without glasses now for some reason.

 

Glasses are more clear and consistent. Contacts can go out of focus. Contacts are generally more attractive. Contacts give you a wider field of vision.

If you wear contacts, you need glasses too anyway. You're not supposed to wear contacts 24/7. You have to take them out to allow oxygen to reach the eye. You're only supposed to wear them something like 12-14 hours per day, taking them out when you're sleeping and leaving a few hours to wear glasses so your eyes can "breathe".

 

I see where you got ur style from

 

I wear contacts only, but I really would like glasses. I hate having to go to the bathroom, wash my hands, and doing all that stuff. I can't see my tv, I can't see my monitor on the computer. It's a pain in the ass.