<p>I got introduced to contacts when I entered a study for contact lenses.</p>
<p>Well, I love the contacts, but not for the looks:</p>
<p>1.) There is a noticable decrease in distortion between glasses and contacts if your vision is bad enough.</p>
<p>2.) Contact lenses provide clarity for periheperal vision, whereas glasses do not.</p>
<p>3.) If you’re fitted correctly and everything’s going well, you won’t be able to feel the contacts in your eyes. Meanwhile, glasses always have a certain weight, as least in places where there is gravity.</p>
<p>I tend to ride my bike along, and contact lenses do make a noticable difference in terms of safety. I’d highly recommend them.</p>
<p>Haha… I never even thought about the object-moving-toward-eye phenomenon. When I put them in, I’m almost always looking at the mirror and NOT at the finger moving towards the eye. When I have no mirror, I’m looking into the distance.</p>
<p>i had a period in hs where i wore colored contacts (crazy,right?) but after about 5-6 month, my eyes got seriously bloodshot. switched back to glasses. I have contacts now, but i’ve only worn them a few times because they make my eyes get bone dry, yet they are weirdly very comfortable at the same time.</p>
<p>I have a VERY strong prescription, and an astigmatism, so my contacts have to be weighted which made them very difficult for me to get used to. If they irritated my eyes AT ALL they’d dry out, and then the lenses couldn’t spin anymore as they need to in order for the astigmatism correction to work. Every time I blinked my vision blurred. This last time I tried them I’d been wearing them two months and I still had to put drops in every half hour.</p>
<p>It took me about 7 or 8 times wearing them before I could put them in and out no trouble. The first few times it literally took 20 minutes both ends. I think the trick is to look at the mirror, not at your finger/the contact. Oh, and if you’re a girl, put on make-up AFTER, otherwise it will go everywhere if your eyes tear up.</p>
<p>Second those that tell you to look at the mirror. After a week, it definitely gets easy to just pop them in. It sounds like a lot of people wear soft contact lenses. I wear the rigid gas permeable (RGP) ones/the “hard” ones. I prefer it over glasses especially when I’m at the dojo.</p>
<p>I will go without contacts for as long as possible. I don’t care for my glasses, but I only use them when I need to. Contacts are worn for long periods of time…I don’t like that. I think that as your eyes get more and more dependent on glasses or contacts as a crutch, the worse they become.</p>
<p>My doctors intended from when I was 8 years old that I should get corrective surgery when I turn 18, as my vision has been getting worse and worse every year my whole life. But I passed out of candidacy before I was old enough to have the surgery. Now my only potential option is lens replacement surgery, which doesn’t sound like fun.</p>
<p>"I will go without contacts for as long as possible. I don’t care for my glasses, but I only use them when I need to. Contacts are worn for long periods of time…I don’t like that. I think that as your eyes get more and more dependent on glasses or contacts as a crutch, the worse they become. "</p>
<p>Or your eyes get worse and worse due to the strain caused by you refusing to wear your glasses when you’re supposed to.</p>
<p>^ Yeah, exactly. Eyesight is also genetic so for some people it’s inevitably going to worsen. Personally I was already wearing glasses constantly before I switched to contact lenses. I’ve never had a problem with them; they’re comfortable, give me perfect vision and I don’t need a mirror, they pop right in. Everyone’s eyes are different so naturally some people are going to prefer glasses over contacts and vice versa.</p>
<p>I’m definitely going for LASIK in a couple years…I’m kind of scared of the procedure though. But I think it’s worth it!</p>
<p>From what I hear about LASIK, one eye is used for far vision and one for near vision, and I don’t like that at all! Also, the fact that the cornea doesn’t ever heal just WEIRDS me OUT. You can’t rub your eyes hard or you might accidentally lift the cornea flaps!! EW! NO THANKS.</p>
<p>If you take care of your eyes with good nutrition and sun protection, etc. can counter the effects of genetics…at least delay them getting worse. And I know of a few people who found that their eyesight improved when they stopped wearing their glasses as much.</p>