<p>hard contacts really help your eyes. i got them last year and my eyes have stopped getting worse. yay for hard contacts. boo for the pain.</p>
<p>-5.5 in both eyes</p>
<p>I'm about -8.5/-9.0 in both eyes. They get worse every year too. :( I've needed glasses since I was 7 and have been legally blind since I was about 12. My glasses are ridiculously thick! Thank goodness for contact lenses though; I'd be in trouble without them.</p>
<p>Right: -4.00
Left: -7.00
I'm ridiculously uneven... and astigmatic, too! Aren't I lucky.</p>
<p>I'm 6.25 in both eyes... I'm blind if I don't have my contacts or glasses on also. Yay for me more IQ lol. :)</p>
<p>You blind folk are trying to find comfort in 'statistics,' I say you all are still uncapable of what those with perfect vision are. :)</p>
<p>20/20 :p...</p>
<p>There's no need to rub it in... honestly.</p>
<p>I'm blind! j/k Alright I'm leaving. :p</p>
<p>How do you guys know your - value thingy or whatever? I'm near-sighted but never asked my optomistrist (sp?).</p>
<p>btw does wearing your glasses too often make your vision worse?</p>
<p>I'm nearsighted too, no idea about the number. I think I may have made my eyes worse with glasses, because originally I wasn't supposed to wear them all the time, and I did anyway, and they got worse. Not sure if they're related. I think the decline in my eyesight is finally slowing. My right eye is still worse than my left.</p>
<p>I really want contacts but I can't touch my eyes!</p>
<p>I'm nearsighted and also have astigmatism. I was born with my eyes stuck crossed and then they had to do surgery on me to get the eye muscles all fixed! But then astigmatism resulted from that . . . and each eye has its own prescription. My right eye has a really strong prescription, while my left does not. I wish I could wear contacts, but my eyes are near vampiric. I have extreme sensitivity to bright and flashing lights and it's near impossible to touch my eye.</p>
<p>For contacts, both eyes are -3.75. Or somewhere around there. I have an astigmatism in one eye and an unknown thing in the other. It's just some weird growth, but it's totally benign.</p>
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<p>Wait...are you legally blind if you are -8.0 or worse in both eyes? Mine is -8.75/-9.0, does that mean I'm legally blind? I never thought my eyes were that bad until I went to get contacts and the dealer made a big deal about my prescription...this thread is scaring me!</p>
<p>Last time I checked, my prescription was -4.25 and -4.75 (right eye) or somewhere around there. I wear hard contacts though, and the numbers are a little skewed. My eye doctor said that it's a good idea to wear +1.0 reading glasses over contacts when reading or going on the computer... supposed to help prevent the nearsightedness from getting worse. I -really- hope my eyes won't deteriorate any more!</p>
<p>My friend who had almost perfect vision for years and years (and flaunted it) finally got glasses recently. I think it's kind of unavoidable in the world we live in today - tons of studying and lots of computer use.</p>
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<p>Yeah, that's a question I have too. So I'm blind? Eek. =(</p>
<p>I forget exactly what the cutoff is, but I think I've been there for a while now.</p>
<p>I worked with blind/visually impaired kids for a couple weeks, so I learned a couple facts: you are legally blind when your best corrected vision is 20/200 in your better eye. So as long as contacts/glasses can get you to that, you're not legally blind.</p>
<p>yeah, somebodynew, that's what my doctor told me. so, i'm basically legally blind in my right eye.</p>
<p>ALL my grandparents and both of my grandparents are nearsighted (as am I) and my brother has perfect vision. How does that work?!! </p>
<p>SOO insanely jealous of him</p>