Another random comment: I just love that his contacts apparently only fit because of ptosis from using weed.
I wear my glasses to bed, while sleeping. Avoids this issue entirely. Highly recommend. It's not uncomfortable and they don't fall off.
I also wear them during sports (including gymnastics when I was younger) & during sex. It's not really that big of a deal if you are really used to wearing them. I've been wearing glasses since before I could talk.
I'm guessing a lot of people just don't get used to them.
How? Um, just lay down without taking them off? Idk what else to say?
My theory is that being nearsighted, I can see my glasses - every smudge or speck of dirt is immediately visible to me because it's not too far from my focal distance. For farsighted people, the glasses on their face are so far out of focus that those things simply disappear.
If I lay down with my glasses and they rub against my face or the pillow, I know they're going to get smudged and I'll suffer eyestrain until I find a lens cloth and carefully clean them. Any nick in the lens will drive me crazy until I can get it replaced. As such, I am very protective of them - any time I lay down I'm fold them closed and lay them face-up on the headboard so they won't need more than quickly brushing off a few specks of dust. I also buy very thin, light frames because I can see them pretty clearly in my peripheral vision.
The people I've known who are farsighted (including my husband), are oblivious to anything on the glass. He'll just roll around in bed with them, and maybe once a week ask me to clean them for him. We have to get him heavier frames because the lightweight ones would be a mangled mess in a month.
So yeah, I'm guessing you have the latter experience... Sturdy frames and you aren't too bothered by some smudges when you get up.
Temples*
Dunno, that all sounds more like great ways to break eyeglasses.
I wear my glasses to bed, while sleeping.
However, I totally agree that eye surgery is probably the best option since then you don't have the downsides of either contacts or glasses. The only reason I'm hesitant to do it is because my prescription isn't that strong and I've heard it can mess with your close up vision later in life. But for someone with severe issues, fixing the myopia and then just using reading glasses as needed is definitely a huge QoL improvement.
I think it's funny how many people really don't want to just wear glasses.
Yes, this sentence. Right here. This is why you can't get why many people really don't want to just wear glasses.
It's actually a European thing. Luxottica, an Italian company, has largely monopolized glasses worldwide.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/anaswanson/2014/09/10/meet-the-...
from wikipedia: Luxottica retails its products through stores that it owns, predominantly LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Target Optical, and Glasses.com. It also owns EyeMed, one of the largest vision health insurance providers. In addition to licensing prescription and non-prescription sunglasses frames for many luxury and designer brands including Chanel, Prada, Giorgio Armani, Burberry, Versace, Dolce and Gabbana, Michael Kors, Coach, Miu Miu and Tory Burch,[8] the Italian conglomerate further outright owns and manufactures Ray-Ban, Persol, Oliver Peoples, and Oakley...In March 2018, the European Commission unconditionally approved the merger of Essilor and Luxottica.[14] On 1 October 2018, the new holding company EssilorLuxottica was born, resulting in combined market capitalization of approximately $70 billion.[15] The merger with Essilor additionally gave Luxottica control of Foster Grant and Costa Del Mar, sunglasses brands acquired by Essilor prior to the merger
Now, I'm not an expert on European regulation, but I do get a lot of good information from Europeans here on HN, and I'd guess that the EC approved the merger because the company respects the GDPR
I have no idea why they're so expensive at most vendors. It shouldn't be cheaper for me to order glasses without insurance. That said, the cost breakdown I saw from Zenni definitely showed that the major cost was for the lenses and given that they seem to be the cheapest vendor, I suspect they're actually telling the truth. Lenses seem to be pretty complex as well to manufacture, even for simple prescriptions.
Tried Zenni about 12 years ago. Best lenses ever by far. Also the best style for me—$30/pair. My kid’s glasses are $9/pair but would be $7 without custom engraving.
Astigmatism correction in contact lenses sacrifices some image quality (sharpness is reduced), but it might still be better than glasses depending on how much correction is needed.
It's possible to combine spherical contact lenses with cylindrical glasses, which might give the best overall image quality depending on the exact correction needed.
Related to this, different glasses lens materials cause different levels of chromatic aberration, measured by Abbe number. The cheapest (PADC, e.g. CR-39) is one of the best you can get.
I wore only contacts from December 1992 to maybe a few years ago, when presbyopia made things impossible, and I have been lamenting - truly lamenting - the state of things with glasses.
I procured some Natural Vue lenses for multifocal vision last month, as I had previously tried them with decent results, but the outcome is not good at all. My near vision is rubbish.
I wish I could wear contacts again, my QoL has taken such a massive hit. I’m -10 in specs with astigmatism.
We've also now got two FDA-approved medicines for presbyopia, with at least two more pending applications.
https://www.orasis-pharma.com/
https://ir.lenz-tx.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/18/...
> I can get away without wearing them
There's a fallacy of some sort here but I do not know enough rhetoric to determine which one.
In many situations they're not practical. Sports and sex to name a few.
For sex I kinda like the blurred vision though.
Glasses always create a distance between your face and the world.
I think this also extends to sex. With glasses, you can just take them off once you're ready and then afterwards you can just go to bed right afterwards if you want to. With contacts, you need to make sure you take them out before going to sleep.
(Like 120 degrees vs 170, or something along the lines of that.)
I paid for college working in the glasses business. Glasses are just not comfortable to wear all day. You can have them adjusted up the wazoo, but after a few hours, they're just annoying. Then the lenses are easily smudged. Or they're easy to bump. The reasons are long.
Meanwhile you just get a pair of glasses that are built for comfort but don't look particularly good and they'll sit on your face comfortably all day. I honestly don't even think about it. I tried but cannot remember the last time I have.
Three or four times a year I end up laying down in bed, roll over, and realize I forgot to take my glasses off. Either I'm super odd or it's possible to get glasses and not have these problems.
Oh yeah, and when the nosepads are brand new and sticky. Otherwise I've never had a problem.
I'm at -3 or thereabouts with a cylindrical on both eyes, if that matters.
Eventually I did LASIK because of an eye infection scare though, figured it was better to take the risk once and fix your eyesight, than go about life constantly at risk of getting blind.
But it was never a _go back to glasses_ situation, I couldn’t even imagine my life without being able to do all the activities I enjoyed doing.
LASIK was soo cool and transformative that I recommend it to anyone now, and honestly the operation itself was a fun adventure in and off itself - even blogged about it at the time https://medium.com/@ivankerin/a-humble-mans-account-of-the-l...
1. she is limited by the kind of frames she can wear because of weight. 2. her face look way different with or without glasses, like she is behind a magnifier so she doesn't like it.
Nowadays I don't wear a contact in my better eye, so that I can focus to read, just one in the worse eye for distance vision.