so Im going blind...

[ICEE]

The time has come for ICEE to go the way of his forefathers. The way that leads right up to the optometrist and asks for contacts. *sigh* the world around me gets fuzzier every week. :( Is it hard to put contacts in?

[Mass]

Depends on who you are and whether they are soft contacts or hard contacts.

Personally, I have no trouble putting them in the second I wake up or putting them back in, or touching my eye in general.

[DrunkenSamus]

Get moist contacts so they won't bother you at all. Or if you've seen the commercial with the two hot blond twins.

[ICEE]

I kinda have a phobia of eyes though, I cant touch my eyes... *sigh*

[Con]

laser eye surgery?

[itszutak]

Glasses? >_>

[ICEE]

I dont have enough http://www.biblehelp.org/images/stacks%20of%20money.jpg to get lasers shot into my eyes

[Kalub]

Im blind, or going blind, too. I'm in denial though...

[ICEE]

doesn't really sound like it :confused2:

[Kornman00]

Glasses? >_>
.

how old are you? once you finish your major puberty stage your eye's growth should stop. I have -5.52 or something like that, but they haven't changed in almost 2 years and they used to get worse every year.

or you could just be like atty and wait your entire life to grow into it...

[LlamaMaster]

Get over your phobia. I rarely see a person that looks good in glasses. (that may just be me though) The last time I checked I had 20/20ish vision, so I can't really tell you what their like. All I can say is they will look better.

[ICEE]

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how old are you? once you finish your major puberty stage your eye's growth should stop. I have -5.52 or something like that, but they haven't changed in almost 2 years and they used to get worse every year.

or you could just be like atty and wait your entire life to grow into it...

I'm nearly 17 now. My mom lost her sight around the age of 12, my dad did around 22. I guess this is close enough to balanced out. :(

[m13120]

Get over your phobia. I rarely see a person that looks good is glasses. (that may just be me though) The last time I checked I had 20/20ish vision, so I can't really tell you what their like. All I can say is they will look better.

I don't understand? :eng101:

[Snowy]

Contacts aren't hard to put in, besides maybe the first few times. Just try not to eat anything spicey (ala buffalo wings) then take your contacts out. If you like to stay up late on the computer, you'll probably want to take them out about ~7 as they make your vision a bit fuzzy when it gets dark and you look at a bright screen.

[DrunkenSamus]

The spiciness of the food will turn your contacts into jalapenoes?

[ICEE]

I think its so you dont get spicy stuff from your fingers on your eyes.

[n00b1n8R]

Glasses? >_>
^

[ICEE]

If I get glasses ill look like a ginger version of my dad, and I cannot allow that to happen.

[n00b1n8R]

glass's can look badass. besides, if you don't want contacts, I don't see an alternative :/

[Cortexian]

Fuck, my parents are going to PAY for my laser eye surgery. Just because glasses suck, and the Canadian Forces don't accept people to be CF-18 pilots if they don't have 20/20 vision. Corrected or otherwise.

[Hotrod]

Yeah, don't be afraid of contacts, they probably aren't that bad, I wouldn't know because I have 20/15 vision, which is better than 20/20 (or so my optometrist says). My mom has contacts though, and my dad needs glasses to read, so it's kind of weird that I have perfect vision... Look at it this way, would you rather cower and be blind, or face your fear, and be able to see?

[Warsaw]

I have contacts. They aren't that bad, but if you're accustomed to glasses, having plastic in your eyes might take time to get used to. It might burn for a second when you put them in, and after about 6 hours, they start getting all gunked up (so you either need to take them out or use re-wetting drops on them). If you put them in backwards, you'll know it. Look at the edges just to make sure though; if they look like they are bent outwards, invert the lens to correct the issue.

[Zeph]

I'm nearly 17 now. My mom lost her sight around the age of 12, my dad did around 22. I guess this is close enough to balanced out. :(

Natural selection will be the downfall of man-kind. Instead of people with disabilities being killed, dying, etc from them, we make them survivable and pass it on to our children.

Anyways, something happened to my eye at the beginning of this past semester. It caused a slight astigmatism and it drove me crazy. I was seeing double out of one eye. I cant imagine having to touch my eyes to put contacts in. I'd wear glasses.

[ExAm]

I was seeing quadruple out of both of my eyes until I got a new prescription. I've got contacts now, and I plan to get some backup glasses too. Contacts are extremely easy once you get used to them. I can get them in in a couple of minutes now, as opposed to when I first got them.

Ironclad, did your parents actually go completely blind, or is their vision just so blurry they can't correct it?

Freelancer, Laser surgery can only correct for near or farsightedness, not both. You won't be able to see well up close if you get your eyes corrected to see further. You'll need reading glasses or something of the like. I'd consider this before going for it.

[Bodzilla]

hey man, why dont you turn a disadvantage into an advantage and get some Outrageous awesome contacts :)

it's what i'd do.
blue, green and red eyes ftw :D

[Emmzee]

Are your parents actually blind or legally blind?

There's a huge difference.

[ICEE]

hey man, why dont you turn a disadvantage into an advantage and get some Outrageous awesome contacts :)

it's what i'd do.
blue, green and red eyes ftw :D

heheh gray

[Warsaw]

Silver mirrored, UV glowing blue, inverted eyes, shark teeth, all-black sclera lenses...standard colors are for sissies.

I myself am actively petitioning my parents to forgo the standard lenses I normally get for a pair of silver ones, since I need a colored lens by prescription now anyways.

[DrunkenSamus]

heheh gray

You want to give the impression that you can see, not that you can be like Helen Keller.

[Mass]

I'd get colored lenses, but my girlfriend would probably kill me.

[Kalub]

Yea, I told my optomi-- (Fuck, I need my firefox speller) -- that I wanted colored lenses, and he shook is head and walked away. :|


Now I cant be cool :(


I will have to stick to my natural grey-ish-blue eyes.

[n00b1n8R]

coloured lenses make you look like a tool tbh :/

[Bodzilla]

u have natural Grey-blue eyes, and u want to get coloured contacts?

WHY!?!
blue eyes are fucking awesome.

[ICEE]

I really like my eyes. I get compliments for them sometimes, which is kind of odd...

[Warsaw]

Lucky you. I have brown eyes...lamest of lame.

[Bastinka]

My eyesight got worse once I started mass playing video games for around 6 years, and still doing it. I notice a difference, but I can still see perfectly fine... just not as good as I used to.

Is it really true that carrots improve your eyesight?

EDIT:

u have natural Grey-blue eyes, and u want to get coloured contacts?

WHY!?!
blue eyes are fucking awesome.
Hah, I have natural grey-blue eyes.

[Hotrod]

Is it really true that carrots improve your eyesight?

I think they have something in them that helps your eyes.

I have natural blue-grey eyes.

[Bodzilla]

watch myth busters. theres no benefit of eating carrots for your eyes.

also silentwind donate them to me.
now >: (

[Bastinka]

They fit me better :]

[ExAm]

u have natural Grey-blue eyes, and u want to get coloured contacts?

WHY!?!
blue eyes are fucking awesome.And next I'll be you're gonna say that blond hair is awesome too. Frigging nazi. :v

*quickly puts on hat and shades*

[Bodzilla]

And next I'll be you're gonna say that blond hair is awesome too. Frigging nazi. :v

*quickly puts on hat and shades*
am cry babe am cry :smith:

i was gunna say black hair :)

[DaneO'Roo]

Natural selection will be the downfall of man-kind. Instead of people with disabilities being killed, dying, etc from them, we make them survivable and pass it on to our children.

QFT.

-Dane

[ICEE]

that sucks. Ive been pretty blessed too, not needing glasses or braces. I just hope nothing happens to my teeth too. lol

[Mass]

On the carrot thing, carrots have a vitamin in them that is essential for nightvision, aka whatever part of your eye you use in the dark that is more sensitive and sees in black and white. I think the vitamin is like K or something, but I don't know.

How long you can wear your contacts totally depends on what you do and who you are, I have no problem wearing them 18 hours straight with no unpleasentness or rewetting.

[legionaire45]

I have green eyes and 20/15 vision.

I can see through your monitor and straight into your soul.

[Kornman00]

Are your parents actually blind or legally blind?

There's a huge difference.
From the lack of response I would guess his parents are just in the need for glasses.

And zeph wins with that statement he stated http://sa.tweek.us/emots/images/emot-yarr.gif

[DrunkenSamus]

Which one has the astigmatism?*Blond and girly voices*

[Warsaw]

Well, I can't wear glasses (the spacing between my eye and the lens has to be as low as possible), so I am stuck with contacts. Glasses would give me a headache at best, and make me literally blind in one eye at worst.

[Bodzilla]

O____o woah.

good luck with them :)

also on a side note, does anyone have any idea how a person can become Short sighted in one eye AND long sighted in the other.
My dad is, how could this be possible?

[n00b1n8R]

that's like asking how can one leg be longer then the other. it happens, the body isn't symmetrical.

[Bodzilla]

no but his eyes whernt born like that.

how i Doubt that he went around looking at things from afar with one eye open and looking at things close with the other.

so :S

[n00b1n8R]

it's just genetics.

I wasn't 6'4" when I was bourn but I am now. and more to the point, things grow at different rates in different ways, even within the same body.

[Warsaw]

I am nearsighted in my left eye (slightly) but far sighted in my right eye (20/200). Left eye's situation is because of the computer screen being too bright and me sitting too close for too long :downs:.

[ExAm]

I am nearsighted in my left eye (slightly) but far sighted in my right eye (20/200). Left eye's situation is because of the computer screen being too bright and me sitting too close for too long :downs:.The trick is to, every few minutes, glance off out a window or across the room for a couple of seconds. That alleviates the strain on the eyes enough to prevent damage. Now if only I knew that when I started using computers.

[n00b1n8R]

Thanks for the tip. :)

[4RT1LL3RY]

On the carrot thing, carrots have a vitamin in them that is essential for nightvision, aka whatever part of your eye you use in the dark that is more sensitive and sees in black and white. I think the vitamin is like K or something, but I don't know.

How long you can wear your contacts totally depends on what you do and who you are, I have no problem wearing them 18 hours straight with no unpleasentness or rewetting.

Carrots are good for your eyes because they contain Beta-carotene, which is a precursor to Vitamin A, which gets turned into retinol, I should have to explain what retinol is do I.

I have contacts love them, way better then glasses, perhipheral vision ftw. My visions not extreme bad, its just bad though. My perscription is -4.00 and -3.75. They didn't start going bad till 6th grade, i relised I had to squint to read the board.
But I have to get my eyes reaxamined before I can get any more contacts because it has been a year since my last exam. I have 1 extra left eye contact and my current ones I have been saving so I can wear them at school.

[Warsaw]

My prescription is +4.50 in the right eye and -0.50 in the left eye.