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I had to have my lenses removed from both eyes when I was a child (in the 70s). The problem in my case was that they were dislocated.

Since the surgery, I wore very thick glasses to correct it. I switched to contacts in the early 80s (contact lens tech was barely viable by then) augmented with reading glasses.

Today I wear contacts to get to 20/20 or 20/30, and reading glasses for computer work or reading. My correction is around +8.25 or so for each eye.

This is very exciting news and I hope kids don't have to go through the pain of wearing super thick glasses growing up.

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Congenital cataracts run in my family and, as luck would have it, I inherited the condition from my Dad. I had both my lenses removed when I was an infant in the mid/late 80's. I wore both contacts and glasses until I was 5, when I was switched to just contacts with monovision. My correction is a bit higher, around +13, to get me about 20/35.

Luckily my daughter didn't inherit the condition, but it was a major concern throughout my wife's pregnancy. It's good to know it may not be an issue if we ever decide to have another.

This is indeed very exciting.

That's interesting. My problem is that I suffer from a connective tissue disorder. And, as it happens, it was the connective tissue between the lens and eye that gave out.

oh man. I have a connective tissue disorder that messes with my joints pretty bad but I had _no idea_ this was a concern!

They won't - high index materials have made coke bottle lenses a thing of the past.

At a price, though: high-index plastic has much higher dispersion than the lower-index materials. This causes a greater "prism effect" near the edges of the lens, which interacts very badly with the new RGB-backlight monitors [0].

[0] http://scottlburson2.blogspot.com/2016/01/lcd-backlights-and...

Maybe that is why I see yellow all the time on the edges.

Yeah, I have a pair of those for when I'm not wearing contacts and the chromatic aberration drives me nuts.

I had a bit of that when I got my next-most-recent pair of glasses. It took less than a week before I stopped noticing it entirely. I don't think my current pair have the problem, but I'm not sure I could tell any more.

I never got Coke bottle lenses. Those are for people who have no peripheral vision. The Coke bottle design is supposed to bring the peripheral into the area the patient can perceive.

What drive me nuts about my glasses is that it effective took my peripheral vision away, making me seem way more clumsy and uncoordinated than I would otherwise have been.

How is it that you have no lenses, yet my correction is still higher! (around +10.25).

I'm not an optometrist but I imagine your lenses are working against you so you need to compensate extra. Also: your eyeball shape is working against you.

Not all focusing happens in the lens. The eyeball fluid does malt of the work actually.

How does one see without lenses?

It's equally blurry at all distances. Small or distant things are much harder to resolve.

Wow, don't know much about it but my dad got new eyeball lenses, blows my mind.

Intraocular lenses can be surgically implanted to correct the vision I think.

Yes!

But when I had my eyes fixed the tech left too much scarring for me to benefit from that procedure. I do ask about it periodically just in case the situation changes.

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