<p>I have mild astigmatism in one eye. I can still wear regular, one-day contacts in that eye for now, but my doctor said that before long, I will have to get special contacts that are more expensive, so I will wear them for seven days.</p>
<p>I started wearing contacts back in the dark ages, when I was 10. I started out with hard contacts, then semi-permeable, then soft. It was so long ago that when I was in high school, instead of using bottled, sterile saline solution, I dropped a salt tablet in a container of distilled water and shook it up. Terribly unhygenic - some people developed eye infections and went blind.</p>
<p>My eyes are ridiculously sensitive, and I HATED contacts until I got the one-day Acuvues. Now I honestly don’t notice them. They are very thin and floppy - once you figure out how to put them in your eye, they’re great. </p>
<p>My eyes have gotten progressively worse since I was 6 years old (I’m 49 now). My contacts are 8.0 and 8.5, pretty strong!</p>
<p>I’m -9.5. I was supposed to get corrective surgery when I turned 18 if my vision didn’t start leveling off, and it didn’t, but I apparently passed out of candidacy for lasik before I turned 18 and would now have to get lens replacement surgery. I’m ignoring all this because I love my glasses but I hope I don’t go blind! At 22 my vision is /slowly/ starting to level off now.</p>
<p>That’s intense. I have to sleep and shower with my glasses on because otherwise I can’t find them again. >.< But I don’t even feel them on my face so it doesn’t bother me. It’s already to the point that my lenses are so thick I can’t use wire frames anymore because they won’t hold them, and it’s getting a lot harder to correct my vision. I don’t envy your roommate!</p>
<p>I’m -7 in one eye, -7.5 with astigmatism in the other. I’m happy with contacts (Acuvue Oasys); I’ve got the two week ones, though for one eye I’ve got the Acuvue just for astigmatism. I find them extraordinarily comfortable. Of course, I’ve also known people who had trouble getting the contacts in/ out of their eyes, which clearly presents a problem…</p>
<p>Johnson: imo, your argument consists of little more than anecdotal evidence and unrelated comments. I think I have expressed my point of view already here and don’t feel like continuing to hijack OP’s thread.</p>
<p>Yeah as long as you get to class early you can always sit in the front. If you really don’t want to wear glasses then you don’t have to. I’d suggest you just get contacts though.</p>
<p>^^ Not always. I’ve had several forum hall classes with assigned seating to make taking roll easier on the professor/TA/whoever. You might also have a larger classroom like the one I was in this summer. I was up front, but off to one side of the room. Without my glasses I couldn’t read a thing the teacher wrote on the other half of the whiteboard.</p>
<p>^I strongly believe the OP needs to correct his vision, but if he has documentation of a vision problem it should not be difficult at all for the school’s disabilities office to make arrangements for him to have an assigned and reserved seat at the front-- I just can’t imagine wanting to do that over getting glasses.</p>
<p>Pretty much that. No one in college cares if you wear glasses. We have a western cultural thing where people with glasses are perceived as being smarter. Plus, the right pair of glasses can make a person look dead sexy, IMO. </p>
<p>I don’t wear glasses constantly, but I need them for driving and to see the board in school. Why can’t you just put them in your backpack and take them out as needed? Check out zennioptical.com – you can get a pair of glasses for 9 dollars. This makes them pretty much disposable – I have a pair shoved everywhere I might need them (my car, my backpack, my purse), they are very good quality glasses for the price.</p>