<p>I suppose I’ll tell my parents about the contact lens stuff and try them out when I go to Boston. If it’s too irritating though, I won’t bother.</p>
<p>Do I have to schedule an appointment with a doctor? Can I just go into the shop or something and ask to get my eyes examined? Sorry, I’m not familiar with this stuff…</p>
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<p>Um, I’m not trying to be mean or anything, but I’m just curious: how do you type?</p>
<p>Even though this thread changed to a contact lens thread…I’ll answer some original questions.</p>
<p>2 people said your eyesight gets worse if you don’t wear your glasses. BULL*****. You can google…no one says this is true. I don’t wear my glasses except for classes</p>
<p>I do need my glasses for reading boards. I don’t even require glasses to drive, and I can tell when my prescription needs to be updated because a minor change makes a difference in how well I can read. Professors love to use terrible lighting and write on a board in the same size you would on a piece of paper. </p>
<p>You say you don’t want to wear them because they irritate your nose. My guess is that you’ve just never bothered wearing glasses that are properly fitted. You can change where they sit on your nose, how high they are, how big/small the pads are, where the pads rest, etc etc. Contacts are also a good option but I couldn’t stand them. They dried out insanely fast and constantly shifted every time I blinked.</p>
<p>My other eye is 20/20. I can see acceptably well for the most part. I wore glasses all the time in high school but it got kind of old so I ditched them. I’ve been just fine.</p>
<p>My D had trouble with contacts until she started to add wetting solution several times a day- really helped! Dry eyes make the whole thing very painful, I understand.</p>
<p>I simply cannot function without any form of visual aid.</p>
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<p>If my hands are open I can manage fine-- I type over a hundred words a minute with 100% accuracy. It’s when they have to be closed, or partially closed, then I have an extremely difficult time-- like holding a pen. I type everything except my signature. Nobody can tell or anything, unless they attempt to read my handwriting. :P</p>
<p>You’ll probably need an appointment. You can ask the optometrist yourself whether or not straining your eyes damages your vision, since apparently that is such a point of contention. I trust the three ophthalmologists I’ve seen in my life over anyone else.</p>
<p>Sorry to hear about your condition.</p>
<p>I’ll see an optometrist when I go to college and see if I can find a brand I like.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help everyone, other than the immature replies.</p>
<p>It does depend a lot on your professor. I’ve had one who never used any sort of visual presentation (and talked so fast that I could barely keep up, even typing) while others rely on the blackboard.</p>
<p>Would contacts be an option for you?</p>
<p>I just checked my contact brand. It’s Acuvue Oasis. Honestly, I never even notice they’re there. I’m not sure if they’ll work well for everyone, though; it could be a matter of finding what brand works for you. And I think you’ll need to set up an appointment with an eye doctor. I do see those places in Wal-mart and in the mall that have glasses, but I’m not sure how they work. I assume you show them your prescription (which must be verified by a doctor) to order glasses.</p>
<p>I’ll tell you this.</p>
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<li>I think you should wear glasses.</li>
<li>It’s your education and people are mostly mature in college so it is unlikely they’ll laugh at you.</li>
<li>Your sight, your grades, your life.</li>
<li><p>Grades or Being laughed at? </p></li>
<li><p>Glasses. :)</p></li>
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<p>Besides, hardly anyone knows you in college. The chances of bumping to your old classmates from back then are small… New people, new school, new life, new chances.</p>
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What have you been smoking? That is NOT a “medical fact.”</p>
<p>There are countless individuals whose eyesight gets better in their teenage years, particularly people who are farsighted.
My perscription has been steadily dropping since I was 15 (it was actually really horrid when I was 5 - made my vision much better). And it continues to get slightly better every year (I’m 21 now).</p>
<p>(Just thought I’d throw this out there; regarding the ot, if the doc says ‘wear glasses!’ the op really ought to, or get over his issue with contacts. It’s terrible to strain your eyes)</p>
<p>My eyes aren’t terrible, but I’m nearsighted so seeing anything that isn’t right in front of my face is a struggle. I took one class where the teacher put pages after pages of tiny handwritten notes up on an overhead, and I went home with a headache almost every time.</p>
<p>I finally got glasses last summer and I don’t know how I ever managed without them. I can see everything on overheads or whiteboards from anywhere in the classroom now. No headaches, no eye strain. I love them.</p>
<p>Edit: If you’re worried about wearing glasses in college because people will laugh at you, trust me, they won’t. Literally no one cares.</p>
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<p>I actually have those same ones (if you mean Acuvue Oasys). Got them a few months ago, and have had no problems. It took me four trips to the optometrist to finally let me use them (each trip consisted of 30 minutes of trying to get contacts in and out), but I finally got them in/out within about 20 minutes the fourth time. Over the next two weeks as I was putting them in and taking them out every day, that time gradually went down, and now it takes maybe a minute each time. </p>
<p>I haven’t forgotten to take them out at night yet (when I close my eyes I faintly feel something beneath my eyelids), but otherwise I don’t feel them at all during the day; sometimes I even have to touch them to make sure I actually have them in… Anyway yeah contacts sound like they’re for you, unless you happen to be part of a presumably very small percentage of the population that just can’t put them in.</p>
<p>Oh and supposedly these contacts have a 12 hour limit before you’re supposed to put them in solution, but I haven’t had any problems with keeping them on for up to about 18-20 hours.</p>
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Please do your research before posting.
First of all, OP is near-sighted. Obvious from the fact that OP needs glasses to see the board.
So your experience of your number decreasing doesn’t even come into consideration here. Nobody’s even talking about hypermetropia here.
Also, yes it is a medical fact that the number changes until you reach 18 or sometimes even a couple of yrs later.
When you grow, the eyeball grows, and the retina moves further back in relation to the cornea and lens. So in general cases a minus number (ie for a myopic eye) may increase with time. There is no medically accepted method by which this increasing of the number (in the negative) can be prevented.</p>
<p>However, the eye number is genetically determined, and after a certain age stops increasing, and “stabilizes”. It doesn’t “improve”. That only happens for hypermetropia cases.</p>
<p>And this is also why teenagers are recommended to not get LASIC surgery done until they’re 18, or at least until their number has been stable for a year.</p>
<p>Also, one last thing regarding why OP should wear glasses: While it’s true that eyes do steadily get worse while wearing glasses and contacts, this is due to the actual defect in your eye lense curving more over time like I explained above. Trying to focus without optical held will only speed up the process since you’ll be using your eye muscles more…putting more strain on them, tiring them quicker.
If you are okay with the contacts suggested above, then hooray for you! :)</p>
<p>Perfectpixie is right, your inner eyeball thingy stops stretching or something after about 18-22. OP - you WILL need the ability to see long distances in college. In any school actually. You can sit at the front, but you’ll need to get to class early. There’s also those situations when there are typos on the exam and the professeur writes the corrections on the board. If you can’t see that, you’re screwed. Just get the generic black thick rimmed emo hipster fob glasses that everyone else has and you’ll blend right in. 8D</p>
<p>OP, as the others have suggested, try contacts. There are a lot of brands out there, and some will work while others won’t. I use Acuvue Oasys as someone else mentioned in the thread. When your optometrist (or whoever) is teaching you how to put contacts in and take them out, make sure you learn how to tell if the lens is inside out or the right way. If you put them in inside out, you can still see fine, but your eyes will get irritated real fast.</p>
<p>Also, maybe try one-day contacts? You said you might forget to take them out before you go to bed. If you have one-day contacts, you could saving cash in the long run because you can just throw them away even if you accidentally sleep in them, instead of having to throw ones away that you’re supposed to use for two weeks and have to buy more sooner. (as I’ve learned the hard way).</p>
<p>I have to put the contact lenses in a solution?</p>
<p>If you’re not using one-day contacts, yes. The contacts will dry out and become unusable (or just hurt as **** if you do try to use them). They’ll most likely give you contact containers to put the solution and your contacts in.</p>
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<p>I dunno if I can get one day contacts. I have different eyes. I think I have astigmatism in one eye and myopia in the other.</p>
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The op is indeed probably near-sighted, but you are wrong again. Tons of people with hyperopia can’t see near or far anyway. My vision is terrible - can’t see worth jack without contacts.</p>
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Okay. We’ll take my sister. Nearsighted. Vision got better as she got older. So you’re the one who needs to do the research.</p>
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I never disagreed with that. I disagreed with your incorrect statement that it’s impossible for your vision to improve in your teenage years. Improving is still a change - just not the deterioration that you seem to think HAS to happen.</p>
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Already pointed out how you’re not right, but I’ll add to it. When you talk about the retina moving, you’re talking about axial myopia (or hyperopia, but we’ll stick to nearsightedness). There’s more than one cause of myopia though, ie curvature myopia that is caused by refraction issues in the cornea. So yeah, it can improve over time. The rx number does not have to get worse.
[And yes, blah blah blah, it usually does get worse for those with myopia. But stop with the “always”]</p>
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My doc won’t even consider patients until they’re 25, but he’s on the conservative end of that spectrum… he has a completely valid point though, as you’ve mentioned.</p>
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