OT: What this group needs is large doses of ativan

Don't know your time frame, but my Mom's set was lenses set in the mask so each eye was properly corrected.

Cheryl

Alas I no longer dive (well not unless it is in tropical waters) and gave up my trusty dory lol

Tis a pity....

Arrrgh lad ! (I did keep the rum though!)

Good for you.....

ce"

For me it was never about the look of spectacles but about the visual acuity. I just don't see as well with my glasses as I do with my contacts. I have no idea why that is so, but it has been so almost since I first started wearing them.

Elizabeth

I too, feel the same way about my contacts. I think it's because with glasses, I have absolutely no peripheral vision, and instead have to move my head physically to see off to the side. That works just fine, but makes things such as driving through four way stops tricky. Plus, no matter how fantastically cute and fun the frames always look in the store, they look like crap once my lenses are inside -- even with all the bells and whistles add ons (anti-glare, etc.). My doctor has talked to me in the past about implantable contacts, but at the time they were still experimental. Not sure what their status is at the moment. Lasik would still leave me wearing glasses (or contacts) full time. I guess that's what I get for having -11 eyes!

Jinx

Ah - that I can answer - it is because the contacts help reform the eye itself - only the tiniest bit - but enough for some. And for most their peripheral is better.

I knew I could see better - but my eyes seem to treat the contacts like an eyelash - an irritant to be flushed away - even after months.

I found it scary backing the car with bifocals on, in fact glasses just did not cut it for me driving.

Cataract surgery involves implanting lens and I have great success with mine. My cataracts were minimal and once I found that when you reached a certain level of sight, they sent you for surgery, well guess, I failed my next eye test lol In fact she said to me "Sheena if you can't read this line I am taking your car keys away and you will have to get a cab home" So she did send me on to the surgeon, telling him, that for me it seemed a necessary 'life style' thing! IMO it is a miracle surgery.

Since it consists of an implanted lens, I would think doing it for other reasons would still be all good.

The last pair of glasses I had were small and had those decorative arms, I really found it dangerous to drive with them because they obscured my peripheral vision.

I have known other people who had the same difficulty, hard or soft lenses. Bad luck.

It's why I stopped wearing contacts. The constant irritation, plus the virus that caused cysts to form in my lid did me in and I had to go back to glasses.

Lucille