Are you a bad sighted person?

[Lace Neil Singer]

Dunno how else to put this. XD Anyhoo, are you? I am terribly short sighted, and also too bone idle to wear contacts, so I wear glasses which I have the lenses thinned down so I don't look like I'm wearing glasses made out of the bottoms of milk bottles. If I won the lottery, I'd buy laser surgery.

[Greenday]

Not only am I near-sighted, I also have astingmatism. It sucks. But oddly enough, I'm getting better vision with my contacts than with my current glasses.

[Crazyredhead]

I'm very short sighted, I cannot see distances past the end of my nose. I wear contacts, but I have a pair of glasses. Right now I have a corneal abrasion, so I cannot wear my contacts. After this, I don't know if I ever will put them back in. My contacts are able to be slept in. They are labled extended wear. If I don't wear my contacts or glasses, I am basically blind, I can barely even see the top letter on the eye chart. I loved my contacts, cause I hated to wake up not being able to see.

[Fera Festiva]

Short sighted, astigmatism, spend all day staring at a computer. Bump into stuff all the time. :D

[Jaden]

I am pretty darn short sighted. I wear glasses cuz I just look really weird without glasses ;)

[Becks]

I am pretty darn short sighted. I wear glasses cuz I just look really weird without glasses ;)


Same here.

It's always great fun to have coworkers try on my glasses. :devil: They just can't believe it.

[Jpurple]

Oh yeah... so short-sighted I'm ineligible for laser surgery- they could improve my vision, but I'd STILL have to wear glasses! Cornea replacement is my next option- if I make it to 40 without having to have at least my left eye done, I'll be very surprised.

[PuckishOne]

I couldn't really cast a vote in the poll because...well, because I'm weirdly-sighted, actually. :D My left eye is legally blind but it's also uncorrectable, due to some issue with the development of my optic nerve. My right eye is much better (with a dash of astigmatism thrown in for flavor!) so I wear a single contact lens in my right eye - when I'm not wearing my much-loved glasses, that is!

[draftermatt]

I'm slightly short sighted and have astigmatism in my right eye. But I don't need glasses or the like (yet). Driving at night in the rain is starting to become a problem for me where it wasn't before.

My wife is very near-sighted. Hopefully we can get her the surgery in the next few years.

[protege]

I'm nearsighted. I have to wear glasses in order to drive. I drove without them once...and that was, well, interesting...not to mention dangerous! (I don't do that ever--I'd damaged my frames and that was the only way to get to the eyeglass place. Trust me, I'd never do that again unless I had to. It's not that I'm blind, but I'm nearsighted enough that without my glasses, my depth perception gets screwed up. In other words, I can't tell how close/far I am to other vehicles, nor can I tell if my car will fit into certain parking spaces.

But, even with glasses, certain things are difficult to see. Things such as that goofy font my borough uses on the older side of town, are difficult. It's a good thing I'ved lived in the borough 30 years and know where things are, otherwise I'd be constantly getting lost :p

[Rapscallion]

Shortsighted. Fairly serious degree, for that matter - about minus six and a half dioptras, if that means anything to anyone.

However, now I'm approaching middle age, I've found that the last pair of glasses I bought were weaker. I assume that my eyes are starting to go longsighted, as often happens with people as they age. I'm guessing that I will be able to do without glasses when I'm in the nursing home...

Rapscallion

[Cia]

I'm very near sighted, anything farther than 6 inches away is fuzzy, plus I have astigmatism in both eyes. I love wearing contacts again. The new ones out nowdays are a big improvment over what I had in the late 80's. Since they don't make bifocals in toric lenses yet I get to wear reading glasses w/ my contacts, an oxymoron if there ever was one. If it wasn't for the thinned down lenses in my glasses I would have lenses at least a half inch thick.

I'd think more seriously about radial keritonomy if my insurance company would actually pay for part of it.

My SIL has weird eyes - one eye is far sighted and the other eye is near sighted. Anybody else like that?

[Strange Magic]

I am near sighted very badly...Past the end of my arm folks kind of take on a humaniod blob shape if I don't have my glasses on. I just started a killer job that will pick this up on my insurance I believe. As soon a spossible I'm gonna get the laser fixit job done...

[Drakstern]

Near sighted, feel weird without my glasses on.

People keep telling me to get contacts, but I'm afraid I'd put an eye out if I did...

[digilight]

Near sighted but not too bad yet. When I quit drinking a couple of years ago and tried to read the stuff on the TV I found that it still looked blury like I was drunk. And to think all those years I thought it was just from being a little too toasted. It does get worse when I'm tired though.

[LostMyMind]

:lol: I'm nearly perfect vision but still blind (RP, retina pigmentation)

[PuckishOne]

My SIL has weird eyes - one eye is far sighted and the other eye is near sighted. Anybody else like that?

*raises hand*

Yep. :)

[TruthHurts]

I'm near sighted without my glasses I can see about five feet ahead of me before things get blurry. Tried contacts once but I am such a clutz I lost an average of one lens per month. I am thinking of trying disposables soon.

[thegiraffe]

I'm nearsighted, and I have depth-perception problems too, Protege. I also have bad peripherals, even with contacts. In HS, I wore glasses. I was in JROTC on the drill team. For those of you who aren't American, JROTC is essentially a Junior military in high schools. Not so much the combat end, but more of the marching, military history, military values, responsibility part. The drill team was the performance aspect of it - we would march in competition and all, it was fun. Anyhow, we had to do what's called dressing right, or be immediately next to the person next to you, not in front or behind them, but right next to them. The key was that you had to look straight forward and use your peripherals out of the corner of your eye to see if you were 'dressed'. I couldn't do that for the life of me. I couldn't see anything behind 1 foot ahead of me that was next to me (if that makes sense). They swore that I was just being lazy, but I told them that because I had glasses on the front of my eye, the part of my retina that detected light and images from the sides of my eyes weren't being used. I COULDN'T get light and images there because the light was being concentrated on where the glasses were. But..I have bad peripherals to begin with. It's annoying sometimes.

I also have this interesting thing called nystagmus. Essentially, if I turn my head far enough to either side, my eyes will literally wiggle. It's due to my vertigo (benign positional vertigo), and it's pretty crazy. Also, when a 'dizzy spell' hits, my eyes will do that. It's not really connected to my visual perception, but it is to my visual system and how it interacts with my balance and vestibular system...but I'm getting physiological, so I'm gonna stop :)

And Raps - the -6.5 dioptras is the prescription that's on the lens (well, for us contact lens wearers, it's on the box). My left eye is -3.25 and my right eye is -2.25. It's just enough to be annoying and cause problems when I try to see things more than a few feet away.

[thegiraffe]

My SIL has weird eyes - one eye is far sighted and the other eye is near sighted. Anybody else like that?

One of my best friends has that, but both eyes are so severe that she's legally blind in each eye. Creates some interesting results. She also has full-blown full-time nystagmus (defined in my post ^^ ), though the pathology of hers is different than mine. She has poor balance due to her poor visual system and the fact that she can breathe out of her ears (different story...), but it's not due to vertigo.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Am I bad-sighted?

Who said that? Who are you? Come closer!

:D

[Ringtail Z28]

In HS, I wore glasses. I was in JROTC on the drill team. For those of you who aren't American, JROTC is essentially a Junior military in high schools.

Heh, I was going to join the ROTC in High School but couldn't because I refused to cut my hair, which was way over my shoulders. :D

My eyes are pretty weird. My right eye has severe astigmatism while my left is almost normal, which means I had very odd looking glasses, one huge lense and one very thin one, until I got a job a blew a buttload of money on glasses that didn't suck as much, I still hate them though. My eyes are also extremely sensitive to bright lights, especially sunlight which unbearable, bit of a problem when living in San Diego. So I am always wearing a hat and sunglasses, and frequently let my hair flop over my eyes. I'm probably going to go for that laser surgery when I can afford it.

[Seanette]

I'm at -8 in my right eye, -7.75 in my left, which also has a bit of astigmatism to keep things even more entertaining than severe near-sightedness does. I have poor depth perception even *with* my glasses (I can pass DMV vision requirements, but am a timid driver, especially in heavy traffic), and have just about forgotten clear peripheral (been a long time since I tried contacts and found they didn't really work out for me). I've had people express surprise about the thickness of my glasses lenses, to which I tell them "just think what normal lenses would be like, instead of these nice rather pricy high-index that are about half the thickness" :devil: . Optometrists *refuse* to do my prescription in glass, on the grounds of weight.

[stormtreader]

Am I bad-sighted?

Who said that? Who are you? Come closer!

:D

Lol! That was nearly a :spew:
Im -4.25 right, -3.25 left and i loooove my contacts! :D Once youve had 'tact, you never go back!

[zeoquean]

I'm nearsighted, and I have astigmatism as well. The thing is, my astigmatism is so bad that my eye doctor (I can't remember the name of those guys) said that I can't wear contacts (I used to..but they were those hard ones...and those are so uncomfortable) and that laser surgery won't work on me anyway. (My dad had the laser surgery done, and he hates the way his eyes are now)...

It doesn't matter to me...I love my glasses anyway. (I have to wear them full time)

[RecoveringKinkoid]

farsighted. I wear bifocals.

[MadMike]

I think I might be slightly farsighted, but I'm not sure. Back when I was still with the ex, she'd sometimes try to show me something like a newspaper clipping, but she'd practically shove it right in my face, and I had to push it back at least a foot before I could read it. She said she could read things that close up with a problem, and couldn't understand that I could not.

But then, I know for a fact that her eyes were bad. When I took her to get glasses the one time, they did an eye test and it came back 20/200 in the one eye, and 20/400 in the other.

[Bella_Vixen]

Nearsighted...with astigmatism. Plus I just found out last week that I REALLY should get my corneas scanned (family history of macular degeneration AND my eldest sister has 2 kinds of glaucoma). http://www.freesmileys.org/emo/scared004.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org)

But the good news is, apparently my prescription didn't change in the last 3 ½ years.

[Seanette]

My DH, who otherwise has excellent vision, has started using reading glasses within the last few years (he'll be 44 in a few weeks).

My night vision is also poor. Any other nearsighted people with that problem, or is that an unrelated "bonus" gift of optical genetics?

Without my glasses, my reaction to being asked to read an eye chart at the standard distance is "what chart?" I honestly can't see anything more than a whitish blur in the appropriate direction. Still, I'm better off than my mother. She'd be asking, "The chart on the wall? What wall?"

[Bob Blaylock]

My DH, who otherwise has excellent vision, has started using reading glasses within the last few years (he'll be 44 in a few weeks).

Out past a few feet, my vision (per a recent eye test in connection with my current job) is considerably better than 20/20. But—as often happens when one gets about this age—I'm losing my ability to easily focus in on close objects.

[Barefootgirl]

I'm guessing that I will be able to do without glasses when I'm in the nursing home...

You'll be too senile to read then.

I am also very short-sighted, have astigmatism and cataracts (lucky me). Three of my grandparents and both my parents had congenital cataracts, and both my parents have had surgery on both eyes. My cataracts haven't developed much in the past 10-15 years, but I expect i will have to have surgery on them eventually.

[Becks]

My SIL has weird eyes - one eye is far sighted and the other eye is near sighted. Anybody else like that?


My future father-in-law is like that. He never mentions it when he gets his eyes checked. He wants to make sure that the optometrists are doing their jobs.

[NightWolf]

My eyes are horrible.

Last time I got my license renewed they didn't even want to re-issue them to me cause my eyesight was too poor. :o

I can't see much beyond 3-4 feet in front of me. (Text wise that is)