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Do you wear contacts, glasses, or nothing?
kurandoinu:
Got 2 new pairs of glasses on the way. Annoyingly 90% of the glasses on the market right now don't suit me. I can only wear full frames if they're a lighter colour like pink or purple, black ones look horrible. Which leaves me with the few choices of frames with the bottoms missing (no idea what their names are)
Manjus:
"I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Watch you weave
Then breathe your story lines
And I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Keep track of the visions in my eyes"
TwistTheSky:
Glasses. No way am I gonna be sticking foreign objects up against my eyeballs. Contact lense are a vast international conspiracy to mind control the population. The contact lenses have subliminal visual images in them.
sdedalus83:
--- Quote from: JoonasTo on January 16, 2011, 10:04:08 PM ---@Sdedalus:
Do you have negative lenses? Using negative lenses deteriorates ones vision the more you use them. It's a shitty deal. Either you use negative lenses and see something but your vision deteriorates all the time, you don't use anything and don't see anything or you use plus lenses have even worse vision but it might get better if you're lucky. I've got a friend who has had glasses for ages and he's been cursing because of that. If he had been given plus lenses as a kid he might not actually need glasses right now. Instead he's blind as a bat without them.
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For most people, vision problems are related to minimum and maximum focus distance. Myopia requires a negative diopter correction through the use of a concave lens. Hyperopia requires a positive diopter correction through the use of a convex lens. Both of these are developmental issues caused by the distance between the cornea and retina being too long or too short for a full range of focus.
Due to the demands of daily life and the way optics work, myopia has a much more profound effect on functional vision, so it's far more likely to be treated with corrective lenses and it's much easier to acceptably correct.
Since a person with even moderately severe hyperopia can still focus clearly on anything beyond a couple of feet, reading glasses are usually all that will ever be necessary(and when you consider how little most people read, it's probably safe to say that the majority of hyperopics will never need any corrective lenses to live normally). For someone with moderately severe myopia, like myself, a couple of feet is the furthest one can clearly focus and corrective lenses are needed for everything.
So even if the myth about negative lenses causing ocular deterioration were true, I'd still gladly subject myself to it in order to live a normal life.
JoonasTo:
--- Quote from: sdedalus83 on January 22, 2011, 06:40:41 PM ---
--- Quote from: JoonasTo on January 16, 2011, 10:04:08 PM ---@Sdedalus:
Do you have negative lenses? Using negative lenses deteriorates ones vision the more you use them. It's a shitty deal. Either you use negative lenses and see something but your vision deteriorates all the time, you don't use anything and don't see anything or you use plus lenses have even worse vision but it might get better if you're lucky. I've got a friend who has had glasses for ages and he's been cursing because of that. If he had been given plus lenses as a kid he might not actually need glasses right now. Instead he's blind as a bat without them.
--- End quote ---
For most people, vision problems are related to minimum and maximum focus distance. Myopia requires a negative diopter correction through the use of a concave lens. Hyperopia requires a positive diopter correction through the use of a convex lens. Both of these are developmental issues caused by the distance between the cornea and retina being too long or too short for a full range of focus.
Due to the demands of daily life and the way optics work, myopia has a much more profound effect on functional vision, so it's far more likely to be treated with corrective lenses and it's much easier to acceptably correct.
Since a person with even moderately severe hyperopia can still focus clearly on anything beyond a couple of feet, reading glasses are usually all that will ever be necessary(and when you consider how little most people read, it's probably safe to say that the majority of hyperopics will never need any corrective lenses to live normally). For someone with moderately severe myopia, like myself, a couple of feet is the furthest one can clearly focus and corrective lenses are needed for everything.
So even if the myth about negative lenses causing ocular deterioration were true, I'd still gladly subject myself to it in order to live a normal life.
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That's pretty much the deal. Not a shit you can do about it now. But for people who got the lenses as kids, using positive lenses might have repaired their vision given a few years.
Oh yeah, I also have a friend who got glasses in sixth form. He got positive lenses for his myopia. He doesn't need glasses anymore.
So either he was just weird or it's not a complete myth. Can't say, don't know statistics.
I've got myopia and negative lenses myself but I doubt I'd get any help from positive ones being over 20 and having astigmatism.
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