' Wrote:If your eyes hurt, they don't fit. Your eyes should feel relieved when you put them on, and your head should hurt when you don't have them, not the other way around.
But on the other hand, why do you ask these sorts of things here? Talk to your friends, family, whatever, not us.
Actually this doesn't need to be true, I am wearing glasses for several years now, I started when I was 12, 13 years old, and now being 20.
I am not short sight or long sight, my right eye is having problems with one muscle which keeps pulling my eye to the left without matching it with left eye, glasses are controling that muscle to keep it straight.
I can spend days, even weeks without them, and only felt some small...hmm, how to call it, my eyes burned for day or two. It was same when I started to wear them again.
I am wearing them now around 7,8 years, and when I took them off for longer period, around 2 weeks (reasons: broke them, as was waiting new ones ordered) finally when I got them, I felt minor pain again and needed day or two to get use to it.
So, no matter are you wearing them for few years, or you just got them, your eyes need to get use to them.
I am leaving glasses at home when going out, mostly cause I feel more comfortable without them, even after wearing them for 7,8 years.
My vision is absolutely horrible. The only times I don't wear my glasses is when I'm sleeping, showering, or swimming. Sometimes I accidentally shower with them on, too. I once lost my glasses, and that was a horrible time. Could hardly see a thing. Tough out the headaches; they'll pass.
You will get used to them eventually, im not saying this from experience, but lot of people I know have to use them. Including my little brother, a lot of them said it only took a week or two to get used to them.
I can't understand how a man, claiming to be optician, could say that prolonged use of glasses, if you can see without them quite moderate, does not harm eyes.
No no no. If you live without glasses just fine, never use them for long periods. The fact is - your eyes is controled by muscles. And it's same as biceps - if you don't use them, they become weaker until they can't do a sh*t at all. So if you want to have moderate vision use glasses chosen by qualified specialist but only when you need them.
This is not aimed to those that glasses are needed to be worn at all times.
As you can note when you check out my profile, I wear glasses.
I have since I was 5 years old. I have one of those really fun conditions in that I do not have binocular vision, like most people do. I see with one eye or the other, never both at the same time. The minor detail that I'm VERY near-sighted in my left eye (20/600) and not in my right (20/30 now, used to be 20/20) probably has something to do with that. (Just to make it more fun, I'm also back in bifocals now, too. I had them from when I was about 8 until I was 14, then went to single view lens for a long time, and now in the last 5 years or so, I've had to go back to them again.)
I also had a condition similar to Tommeh, with a lazy eye. They ended up doing corrective surgery on me for that when I was 14 - otherwise I was REALLY looking the wrong way. My ophthalmologist waited that long so that it wouldn't over-correct the other way afterward.
It does take a couple of days to get used to them. And while I can see without them when I'm reading, for example, it gives me a headache if I totally go without them for more than a couple of hours.
Regarding lens - yes, if you have plastic lenses, you shouldn't use anything else on them but the cloth microfiber tissue. Doesn't mean that you will, though. Glass lenses - while heavier, can be quite durable as well. Of course, at the same time, you're also going to probably need new ones every two years anyway.
And Arthur, the man makes his living doing that. Sure, your eyes have muscles. But the point is if you can see without them, then cool - don't wear 'em. If you need 'em for reading or driving, then wear 'em then. Your eyes are always adjusting anyway, and even if you completely quit wearing them, it doesn't take that long for your eyes to readjust to whatever level they're capable of. That's the key thing, of course - a lot of times your eyes just can't go back again to what they were. (My wife is a perfect example of that. She never realized how badly she was seeing things until she got her first pair of glasses. Now she doesn't wear them a lot of the time, but she REALLY notices the difference when she does.)
(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.