As we go blind....

[AdoreroDio]

For those who have glasses how often, if ever, do you lose them?

I wear glasses and have only lost them once (during this summer)......in another country....on the last day I was there with no time to search for them. lol, my luck is impeccable.

[Walter]

I've gone the usual route with age: nearshighted as a child, right from earliest grades in school; bifocals in middle age; farsighted now. Pretty soon I'll be able to read the newspaper on the moon. But the upside is that now I don't need prescriptions; I can buy the cheapy reading glasses in the pharmacy (2 diopters).

[SleepyWitch]

I'm shortsighted and have been shortsighted since I was small. the other day my doctor told me kids normally start off farsighted, but I was shortsighted right from the start. I started off with around -1 and -2 dioptres and it's now stabilized at -6.25 (right eye) and -7.75 (left one) dioptres
i tried contacts but they were itchy and kept falling out of my eyes. the problem is I've got astigmatism, as well, so I need tailor-made contacts, I can't just buy the cheap monthly ones at the supermarket

if it's any consolation to my fellow blind bats: my doctor says as long as you can see 100% WITH glasses, there's nothing wrong with your eyesight. he says I've got 100% vision, provided I wear the right kind of glasses there's no reason to worry as long as glasses do the trick.
I guess that's Deconstruction theory applied to optics

[Granny5]

For those who have glasses how often, if ever, do you lose them?

I wear glasses and have only lost them once (during this summer)......in another country....on the last day I was there with no time to search for them. lol, my luck is impeccable.

I lose my glasses a lot, fall asleep with them on. I woke up one morning and was laying on them and they were broken. Poppy had to go get some new frames and have my lens put into them.

[BibliophileTRJ]

I've worn glasses since the age of 16 when I failed the vision test that was required before I could get my driver's license. Up until then I had no idea that I had vision problems. I'll never forget the day I got my first glasses.... I walked around AMAZED by all the things that I could see..... individual leaves on the TOPS of the trees, people on the beach as we came into port.... all sorts of details that I had never imagined.

I don't use the transition lenses because if it's a bright day and I'm on the bridge but not in direct sunlight they don't darken and I wind up squinting all day long. So I have 2 pairs of prescription glasses - 1 regular set & 1 set of sunglasses. Also I have to buy the very expensive Flexon frames because, as everyone here knows, I'm terribly clumsy and tend to break things (and, like Granny5, I tend to fall asleep wearing them), but the Flexons are virtually indestructible.

I lost my regular glasses a few weekends ago while getting arrested at an anti-war rally in D.C.; so I've been wearing my shades day and night for 3 weeks now while I wait for the replacements that I ordered off of the internet to arrive.
I lose one or the other pair of glasses nearly every other year..... it's a vicious but predictable cycle.... like earthquakes.

[BlueSkyGB]

Use to think that since I was colorblind that I might not need glasses....
then I needed them for reading....the needed them for all the time...

Now wear no-line bifocals with anti-glare....
and yes I tend to misplace them.......

[Themis]

i tried contacts but they were itchy and kept falling out of my eyes. the problem is I've got astigmatism, as well, so I need tailor-made contacts, I can't just buy the cheap monthly ones at the supermarket

You can't? That's strange. I've also got astigmatism and I can wear them; I only need bigger once than normal because of my big brown eyes.

[Niamh]

I've been wearing glasses since i was four or five. Most of my family wear glasses. In fact i think only one of my sisters dont wear them but may need to get them. Both of my parents wear glasses. Its a family thing.

[Bakiryu]

For those who have glasses how often, if ever, do you lose them?

I lose them everyday, since I sometimes take them off to read and Bam! They disappear. My glasses are the most mistreated glasses in history. they have been:

stepped on, fallen on the sea, fallen on the dirt, gotten under the bed, gotten entangled in my hair, got stolen by the cat.

Everything that can happen to glasses, happen to mine,

[manolia]

I am short sighted but i wear contact lenses since i was 15. Contact lenses is for me one of the best inventions ever , because i couldn't stand my glasses (i've been wearing glasses since i was 9 years old ). So, i wear my lenses every day all day and i only switch to glasses late at night when i lay in bed to read

[Weisinheimer]

i tried contacts but they were itchy and kept falling out of my eyes. the problem is I've got astigmatism, as well, so I need tailor-made contacts, I can't just buy the cheap monthly ones at the supermarket

Same here, I couldn't have the normal contacts because of astigmatism. Maybe now I could though, it was several years ago that I tried (like 10 years).

[symphony]

Been myopic for years now (and I'm 17 ). I hate, HATE, wearing glasses. Just hate the idea of having to see the world through these spherical liaises. It's probably my fault that it got so worse though... (havent told my dad about my blurry visions when i was younger, i knew the docs will suggest glasses, and i hated them...).
My worst nightmare once was- someday i'll go completely blind. But now i know it'll be better for me, 'cuz i wont have to wear these damned glasses anyway!!

[BibliophileTRJ]

lose them everyday, since I sometimes take them off to read and Bam! They disappear. My glasses are the most mistreated glasses in history. they have been:

stepped on, fallen on the sea, fallen on the dirt, gotten under the bed, gotten entangled in my hair, got stolen by the cat.

Everything that can happen to glasses, happen to mine,

LOL - you sound like me!! I've run my glasses over with my car (thankfully they were not on my face at the time). I had a pair of glasses stolen off of my face by an elephant and then he proceeded stepped on them. Had them go through the washer & dryer with my clothes. Ran them through the dishwasher (cleanest they've ever been). Found them in the refrigerator/freezer more than once.

One time I lost them for so long that I went out and bought a new pair.
Two days after getting the new ones, a friend of mine asked me "Why is there a pair of glasses in the bottom of your fish tank?" To this day I have no idea how they got in there!!

[Shalot]

LOL - you sound like me!! I've run my glasses over with my car (thankfully they were not on my face at the time). I had a pair of glasses stolen off of my face by an elephant and then he proceeded stepped on them. Had them go through the washer & dryer with my clothes. Ran them through the dishwasher (cleanest they've ever been). Found them in the refrigerator/freezer more than once.

One time I lost them for so long that I went out and bought a new pair.
Two days after getting the new ones, a friend of mine asked me "Why is there a pair of glasses in the bottom of your fish tank?" To this day I have no idea how they got in there!!

well maybe if you didn't smoke so much pot you wouldn't have so much trouble remembering where you put your glasses or how they got into he fish tank...

[AdoreroDio]

Wow...My glasses seem royally treated compared to most. Though I have broken a pair once, but only once. I don't want contacts, I actually enjoy glasses. I remember when I first got glasses. before the day i found out I needed them I didn't even realize I needed them . The when I got my glasses I was amazed at what I saw! All the detail amazed me and I never had known before what I was missing out on.