Help, I have to start wearing glasses!

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Speaking as someone with long hair and glasses... I tuck the arms under the hair when my hair is loose... but over the hair when it is tied back.
I spend a goodly portion of every day adjusting my hair to beside my glasses so none of it tufts out. It CAN get annoying, but it would be worse without the glasses. They do help keep hair out of the way.

Sometimes the pinching on the bridge of the nose can start to hurt, especially if the nose has got bruised for any reason.

BUT the one thing to watch out for.... is the glasses getting dirty.
If you're anything like me, you'll end up spending half your time trying futilely to clean the lenses of every little blemish, stain and speck of dust. This will become your life. Get used to it.



Don't be heavy-handed with glasses. Seriously. Just don't. They break quite easily. And funnily enough, it isn't the lenses you have to watch out for so much as the arms. They tend to bend and twist out of shape quite easily, and you can't really get them back.

As for not losing them.... keep them on your face during the day and in a carry case by your bed at night. Don't ever just put them down somewhere unless it is a VERY short thing... and make sure the positioning is secure if so.




Despite all that... it is totally worth it.
Glasses are awesome.
Which is to say they look awesome.
People without glasses just... well... look silly.

I have this problem with sunglasses and those crappy 3-D glasses you get at the cinema. I also can't seem to physically ignore glasses (or hats, for that matter. Things on my head, I guess).

Thing is, I've reached that age where my vision is starting to deteriorate a bit, and I should at least get some reading glasses. But I don't want to, because I'm worried they'll bother me and make me miserable, so I keep procrastinating about it...

I never tried contact lenses and don't want to. I have trouble with things that you have to get it in your eye, like when they do the wind-puffing test at the eye doctor.

Glasses work for me, but it is true your peripheral vision will still be blurry; nevertheless, I can still notice movement in my peripheral vision and I am sensitive to such movement.

I have to wear them even if I read, because otherwise I'd often have to put what I'm reading right up to my face.

Strangely, despite this, I never received an endorsement or requirement for corrective lenses on my driver's license.

Also, when I was a kid, I actually wanted to wear glasses, then by age 9 or so they found out I actually needed them.

I got them tightened last week, they now stay on my face and I hardly notice they're there. My only issue now is that on hot days (which so far has been everyday) it causes a bit of irritation wear the glasses touch my nose but I'm alright with that.

Now my latest problem is being able to play games on my computer whilst wearing the glasses as my headset makes the glasses dig into my head.

Well, I had my hair cut last week so it's almost bald around the back and sides. So hair isn't a problem now. I spend a large amount of time cleaning the glasses. One little smudge and it has me getting out the cleaning solution and cloth.

The glasses I chose have these hinges on the arms so that if you happen to pull them outwards they won't break off unless you really give it a big pull (I've had a meltdown whilst wearing them and actually tried to snap them... I failed ) so they are very tough. I've dropped them quite a lot and have sat on them and I don't know if it's just been pure luck or what but so far... They haven't broke.

I'm definitely going to be sticking to Tommy Hilfiger when I buy my new pair in a few months time.

I've seen my former girlfriend put in her contacts or blink to keep them fitted. Seriously, who wants to put some magic film on their eyes?? I'd get more sensory issues from the contacts!

I wear glasses and have no problem with them. Though I don't know that my sensory problems are as bad as yours, give them a try. It took me a while to get use to putting them on everyday but now I feel naked without them.

I'd never wear contacts, I am afraid of them.

You actually might not need glasses. It apparently is possible to reverse nearsightedness at least to some extent. The worse it gets, the harder it will be, so it would be best to try it now if at all. For starters, try the UltimEyes app (Google it.) Go to a behavioral optometrist if you can.

I never had any sensory issues when it comes to wearing glasses. I'm sure you'll get the hang of it as you continue to wear them.

I wish there was a cure to nearsightedness, Unfortunately the we only still have the same 3 options, glasses, contact lenses or Laser eye surgery. None of those correct the real problem being that the eye is too long, only adjusting how the incoming image is focused on the retina.

I think the possible cure was suppost to be wearing plus glasses or contacts to stimulate some eye muscles to release and if that is your only problem and caught early enough then maybe it would work. however once your eye elongates your nearsighted for life unless you get your minus prescription cut into your cornea with a laser.

If it has just recently developed, maybe the eyeball hasn't elongated yet. Or maybe the shape can change back. Or maybe nearsightedness has less to do with the eyeball's shape than is generally believed. Google "Antonia Orfield" "Seeing Space". Note that Orfield was an optometrist and this was published in a journal, so it's not just some random person claiming to have achieved this.

I'm meant to wear glasses for when I play computer games as I struggle with small text sometimes. My first pair were ok, but I found I still struggled to read text. My next pair had a slightly different prescription but ended up feeling about twice as heavy.

The optician said they shouldn't feel much different than the first pair. So now they stay in the case, and I just squint at the TV!