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Not good to sleep with your glasses on!!! Not good!!! Not good, at all!!!!!

~~~~~~~~~~~~, to you.

~~~~~~~~~~ i do when im awake anyway

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I do - all the time. Varifocals, tinted.
Right Keith now you've been nosey, do you wear specs???
Jill
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Yes I do, since the age of 4, very short sited -18. From the age of 7 I wore contact lenses as they couldn't make the glasses strong enough. Problem is that glasses the stronger they get also make objects appear slightly smaller, contacts don't. I wore lenses for 34 years and never had a problem, no infection nothing. I was using hard and then gas permeable. You have to be careful with them, but I never went to bed in them, they would be all mucky after a few hours anyway.

Then a couple of years ago I had a double cataract operation, cataracts were starting because of my severe short site, both eyes done at the same time. I then needed reading glasses and driving glasses. Unfortunately severe short site is responsible for weak retinas and I was warned that there was an increased risk of a detachment, which happened earlier this year. Permanent damage to the left eye, but the right has been successfully treated. Only one more op to remove some scarring off the right eye is needed now, hopefully.

Rosalind

Me:-)) for reading and my computer.

Yep, i have worn glasses for about
19/20 yrs now ,but the last 4yrs have had
bifocals
Hazelx

I wear glasses too, in fact I have 2 different pairs, one for the computer and one for watching telly and reading. Can't see the computer with my telly ones and vice versa! My optician has tried to persuade me to try bi-focals or vari-focals, but prefer to stick to the 2 pairs.

A quick word of warning about contact lenses. My daughter has worn glasses since she was 4 years old. Used contact lens from 16 for about 7 years, then had a really bad ulcer on her eye, which the hospital blamed on the lenses. 16 months later the sight has not returned properly in her eye (it wasn't good to start with) and she has been offered a cornea transplant. She has decided against the transplant because it could take 2 years to "take" properly and then may not alter her eyesight that much anyway. She was always very careful with her lenses, but had been known to sleep in them occasionally. Please be warned!!

My glasses don't improve my hearing, but I still take them off when I answer the door and the phone!

Yes Colin, but I did it when I was on my own, after sitting down on my glasses they were in for repair, I saw what I thought was cobweb in corner of ceiling so got my binocs out, yes it was a cobweb.

Hi Gwyn, I can also hear better with my specs on but my hubby laughs at me and said it's not possible, thanks for proving me right.

Caz xx

Glasses for me since age 45 so not done too badly. Realised I needed them one night when I was in alone and couldnt read the cooking instructions on the frozen fish...I ended up propping the packet up on the radiator and using binoculars from the other side of the room...it worked but I felt a right plonker!

me too, since i was 12, very short sighted, now need bi focals...iris

Only sunglasses when its sunny which aint often lol

I wear them, -I'm shortsighted.

They help me to 'hear' better too. In day to day conversation indoors, I'll put them on if someone is talking to me.(I haven't got perfect hearing)
My daughters think this is crazy but when we mentioned this to the optician recently she said I'm not alone.

Anybody else find this?

Gwyn

I do for distance stuff, can't see a thing close up with them on though so they spend half the day on top of my head.

Tina x

I had glasses from 9, I was soooo short sighted! I got contacts at 30, and needed them all the time. At 65 I had cataract op om both eyes, and now my sight is good, other than needing reading glasses for small print or very close work.

I can heartily recommend the cataract ops

Anne

I do. Just got new ones and cost me £110 :(

I tried the varifocal contacts once...............never again, put them in and felt drunk *shudders at the memory*

Now I wake up, put my specs on and there they stay....................until bedtime.

*looks at dents in the side of my poor nose*

xx

Only one in my family who doesn't wear them.

After two days of vision being WORSE after putting lenses in, I finally twigged that I had somehow mixed up my lenses. Right lens in left eye and vice versa - stoopid girl.

Me - I do

All tinted - with having photochromic eyes i have to - lights hurt my eyes and they don't adapt from light to dark and vice versa very well

lol - sign of getting old I guess !!!!!