<p>I’m going to college in a month and I have pretty bad eyesight.</p>
<p>Are glasses necessary? I know it depends on the classroom but I reckon if I really needed to I could just sit at the front, or listen to the professor.</p>
<p>I don’t like to wear them, because they irritate my nose, so that’s only a last resort.</p>
<p>nobody can tell you whether you will be able to take notes without glasses or not. That’s for yourself to decide. Well if you function in your everyday life without glasses your eyesight can’t be as bad as you say. also, did you consider just getting them for class?</p>
<p>I suffered in elementary school because I couldn’t see the board and couldn’t take notes and do board assignments. But then my teacher made me get glasses and it made everything better but everyone laughed at me.</p>
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<p>It’s not easy.</p>
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<p>Yeah… my eye doctor said I’d have to keep it on constantly though.</p>
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<p>I think I look stupid with glasses on, and it’s irritating to have it on all the time, so…</p>
<p>The other option isn’t that hard to guess really. use contacts.</p>
<p>Also, if you neglect wearing glasses if you have been told to wear some (esp for long distance vision trouble) then it’s going to adversely affect you (your eyesight gets worse quicker)</p>
<p>^That’s absolutely right. If you won’t get glasses, get contacts, but wear SOMETHING. Your eyesight is not something to screw around with. You’re straining your eyes! There are also several different types of nose pads, and plastic frames without nose pads at all-- a properly adjusted pair of glasses should not irritate your nose.</p>
<p>I got made fun of for just about everything under the sun when I was in elementary school, but oddly enough never my glasses! I’ve been wearing them since pre-school.</p>
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<p>Contact lenses irritate me even worse. I don’t think I could live with them.</p>
<p>I’ve also heard that you get worse while keeping glasses on, I don’t know really.</p>
<p>I was just wondering if I could compensate by listening and taking notes and sitting near the board or something.</p>
<p>You WILL make your eyesight worse if you don’t. Its not a big deal, if it irritates you get them reajusted again.</p>
<p>I’ve been wearing them for 16 years, and if i hadn’t, i’m sure as hell my eyesight would be worse then it already is.</p>
<p>I have no idea why you started this thread when all you seem to do is find something about all the options that you don’t like. Point is you need the damn glasses so wear them…I hope to GOD you wear glasses when driving if your eyes are bad enough to have a doctor TELL you that you need to wear them all the time. If they are properly fitted then they shouldn’t irritate you at all and I don’t know anyone that has had issues wearing contacts.</p>
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Who told you that? The neighborhood tantrik?
You’re gonna get worse either way. you’ll just get worse like three times faster without wearing them. (meaning you’ll get blind-er quicker </p>
<p>My number did increase although I wear glasses. However, your eyesight IS going to deteriorate until you reach about 18 or so(it’s a medical fact), after which is it supposed to stabilize. My number hasn’t changed for past 4 yrs or so, and I’m not even 18!</p>
<p>PS: if you’re that desperate, get LASIK done. There are so many options available these days.</p>
<p>PPS: If your number isn’t much…say -0.25 or -.05, then do eye exercise regularly, and you’ll probably be rid of them in a year (maybe even less). This doesn’t help much for bigger numbers though. For bigger numbers it just helps in adding toward stabilizing the number, and prevents it from increasing as fast as it would have otherwise.</p>
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<p>I asked if they were necessary for taking notes. No one answered my question directly.</p>
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<p>Yeah, since finding something too irritating to wear makes you immature, right?</p>
<p>I’m supposed to wear glasses/one contact (one of my eyes is fine, the other is legally blind) but I don’t and I’m okay. Obviously no one knows your eyes so no one can really tell you what to do, but I’ve been fine and I always sit in the back of lectures. Occasionally I can’t see a word on the board so I ask someone what it is. No problem. Glasses are annoying.</p>
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<p>There are plenty of frame styles to choose from - there ought to be at least one that you like the looks of and that fits you well.</p>
<p>Also, lots of people wear glasses - what’s so embarrassing?</p>
<p>For “taking notes” - do you mean from the board or from a book? For the former, yes, glasses will make a difference. For the latter - it depends.</p>
<p>Just wear glasses. Find the right pair and then get them fitted, and if they’re still uncomfortable, just get used to them. </p>
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<p>Contacts aren’t for everyone. Apparently my eyeballs are abnormally flat; I almost had to get custom contacts (which would have been more expensive), but after about four different pairs of trial contacts I decided to just wear glasses, since contacts were just too irritating (I know there’s an adjustment period, but it just wasn’t worth it to me all that irritation and dryness (despite eyedrops, I once blinked a contact out of my eye because it was so dry) when I could just wear glasses).</p>
<p>If contacts irritate you, you may just not have found the right ones for you. My old brand would irritate me like crazy, but my new ones are absolutely perfect. I never even notice they’re there. I’m on my phone right now, but when I get home I’ll check my brand for you. It’s worth a shot.</p>
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<p>Legally blind? That’s screwed up. </p>
<p>How fine is the other eye though?</p>
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<p>Contact lenses sound good actually, other than irritating my eyes. If there’s a good brand I might go for it.</p>
<p>By the way do I have to take them off every night?</p>
<p>Some brands (such as mine) claim that you can sleep with them, but DO NOT. An occasional night or two is fine, but I used to always sleep with mine, and I ended up with microscopic cysts on my eyes do to the lack of oxygen. I stopped sleeping with them and the cysts luckily went away. Also, they tend to wear out extremely fast when you sleep with them in. So the short answer is no, don’t sleep with them unless you’re in a pinch (ie. out of solution for the night)</p>
<p>^ Damn. I tend to forget a lot.</p>
<p>I also have problems keeping my eye open and putting stuff in, even when using eye drops. I don’t know if I’d be able to do it every morning. Is it easy or hard?</p>
<p>When I first was trying to put contacts in, I literally could not. It took me like 4 trips to the eye doctor before I figured it out (I actually first did it with a pair of my mom’s contacts, and I spent like two hours in front of the mirror.) But after a couple times it was super easy for me. Putting them in and taking them out doesn’t bother me whatsoever anymore.</p>
<p>Some contacts you must take off to sleep, some are designed to be slept in-- it is critically important not to sleep in the ones that are not designed for it. Once you get used to them you won’t be able to feel them and you’ll be able to put them in and take them out in a flash without difficulty-- really, I managed with them when I was ten years old, and I have a disability that leaves me with virtually no fine motor control. If you can zip your own pants you are coordinated enough to get used to putting in contacts. 
You absolutely get used to opening your eyes and sticking things in, and there are tricks to make it easier-- I’d hold my lid open, look up and away from the contact, and stick the contact on the bottom of my eye under the iris where it felt less sensitive-- blink and the contact moves itself into place properly. I also think they are a lot better now than they were a few years ago, when I was younger they were much more difficult than now to tell whether they were inside out, which is part of what makes them irritating for many people (figuratively and literally-- putting them in inside out is really uncomfortable). I find them much more comfortable now either way, though I ended up opting for glasses after all just because I like them.</p>
<p>You really should try and get used to something, it’s difficult to know just how much you’re suffering from impaired vision until you see what it looks like corrected. To this day I remember walking out of the optometrists office with my first pair of glasses when I was three years old, because REALLY being able to see felt like being in another world. I get another little taste of that every time my prescription changes and I get new lenses, I won’t have even realized how blurry my vision had gotten because I’d adjusted to it until I got my new glasses and suddenly I can see that things don’t look the way I thought they did! Everyone should be able to see properly, and besides-- straining your eyes makes your vision WORSE and can cause awful headaches. You just don’t want to put yourself through that, technology has come way too far-- there are SO many options to make vision correction comfortable and stylish! Make this a priority and find something that works for you, really, you’ll be so much happier for it.</p>