Back in the days before soft contacts, a comedian (George Carlin, maybe? Robert Klein?) once said, “People who wear contact lenses are the calmest people in the world. I mean, the first thing they do when they wake up every morning is stick a piece of glass in their eye. What’s going to bother you after that?”
Ever since I saw “The Man who Fell To Earth”, wearing contacts seemed to a bit dangerous. Actually, as anyone works in a chemical plant is informed, wearing contacts in a possible chemical environment is dangerous because the contacts can trap chemicals between the lense and the eye.
I refused to try contacts until I was 15, when my eye doctor pointed out that the weight of my (extremely thick) glasses were deforming my nose. I’ve still got a lump there.
I wore them for 42 years, I’m getting my second cataract surgery in January. I loved my contacts, they allowed me to do many things I otherwise wouldn’t have had to visual acuity for…but I won’t miss them.
These days I suppose they have lasik surgery much more widely available, but I never qualified due to how extreme my myopia was. Yes, if you REALLY, REALLY needed lasik, they wouldn’t allow it.
I wore contacts during college and a little after. (I think of the early years of that lens on my fingertip and willing it onto my eyeball: “Touch, dammit!”) When I worked as a process engineer, though, my eye doctor noticed mild irritation under one lid, and with concerns of workplace dust and dirt I didn’t renew the prescription for them. Later I found out that wearing them can cause the lower lids to temporarily sag a little, and I was still vain enough to not want that.
katina.cooper almost 6 years ago
And every once in a while, you fall asleep with them still on your eyes.
Fiona D Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Truth.
Tigressy almost 6 years ago
They’re a b*tch in dusty environment (witnessed a friend).
saxie5 almost 6 years ago
Have heard too many horror stories about contact lenses!
splinterexpert almost 6 years ago
14 years. Then lasik in 05. Starting to need glasses for distance now, but I’ll never miss contacts.
christineracine77 almost 6 years ago
I’ve had glasses longer than I can remember. I’m WAY too squeamish about my eyes to even think about getting contacts.
R.U. Kidding almost 6 years ago
Back in the days before soft contacts, a comedian (George Carlin, maybe? Robert Klein?) once said, “People who wear contact lenses are the calmest people in the world. I mean, the first thing they do when they wake up every morning is stick a piece of glass in their eye. What’s going to bother you after that?”
Comic Minister Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Understood! You look better with the glasses on.
Pirate Mike creator almost 6 years ago
I have never worn contact lenses. I need my glasses. Lenses, man, don’t know. I don’t like sticking things in my eyes. And I’m not doing Lasik either.
Mary Ellen almost 6 years ago
I’m too lazy to wear contacts.
banjinshiju almost 6 years ago
Ever since I saw “The Man who Fell To Earth”, wearing contacts seemed to a bit dangerous. Actually, as anyone works in a chemical plant is informed, wearing contacts in a possible chemical environment is dangerous because the contacts can trap chemicals between the lense and the eye.
sew-so almost 6 years ago
I refused to try contacts until I was 15, when my eye doctor pointed out that the weight of my (extremely thick) glasses were deforming my nose. I’ve still got a lump there.
I wore them for 42 years, I’m getting my second cataract surgery in January. I loved my contacts, they allowed me to do many things I otherwise wouldn’t have had to visual acuity for…but I won’t miss them.
These days I suppose they have lasik surgery much more widely available, but I never qualified due to how extreme my myopia was. Yes, if you REALLY, REALLY needed lasik, they wouldn’t allow it.
lohaces almost 6 years ago
I wore contacts during college and a little after. (I think of the early years of that lens on my fingertip and willing it onto my eyeball: “Touch, dammit!”) When I worked as a process engineer, though, my eye doctor noticed mild irritation under one lid, and with concerns of workplace dust and dirt I didn’t renew the prescription for them. Later I found out that wearing them can cause the lower lids to temporarily sag a little, and I was still vain enough to not want that.