At what age did you start using...

[RitaZ.]

prescription lenses/glasses?

I started about 2 years ago at 36 years old, it was a minor prescription only needed for reading. I went for a check-up (optometrist) last week and there has been a change in my distance vision. My doctor thinks that I will probably need bifocals in two years. The doctor says that he has teenage patients that use bifocals. I guess it's not as uncommon as I thought.

I love my new glasses, everything looks clearer and sharper.

How about you?

 

[HauntedMansionGeek]

I've been blind as a bat since I was in 1st grade, but only recently have I actually NEEDED bifocals.

I envy those who make it through childhood without having to fiddle with eyewear.

 

[moinab]

First pair of glasses at age 13 (but I really could have used them at least a year earlier.)

Bifocals at age 15.

 

[browneyes]

I've been wearing them for almost 23 years now. I was 11 when I first started having to wear them.

 

[FOJMO]

I started wearing eyeglasses in 4th grade and contact lenses in 12th grade (hard and now soft, disposable).

Blind as a bat!

 

[WeirdEyes]

I'm blind as a bat also...LOL! I started wearing glasses at age 13 and contacts at age 16. I'll be 39 next week and I don't need bi-focals...yet! I hope I don't need them for a LONG time.

 

[helenabear]

I think I was 10 years old when I first started wearing glasses. A few years later I switched to contacts... wish that I didn't have to deal with any of that though.

 

[CEDmom]

I was 28 when I got glasses. I'm nearsighted and need them mainly for driving. It was amazing the first time I put them on could see things clearly again in the distance.

 

[tkd lisa]

Got glasses at 10, when Mom found out I couldn't see the numbers on the speed limit signs! Switched to hard contacts at 16 (bad astigmatism, so no soft contacts for me). Switched back to glasses full time at about 25. I just turned 39 and think I probably need to look into bi-focals. This getting old stuff STINKS!

 

[Pop Daddy]

I fluncked my eye exam when I turned 16 to get driver licesnes, I since had corrective surgery

 

[RitaZ.]

I guess I was lucky when I was a kid. My friend's DS needed glasses when he was in 1st grade and I remember all the "broken and lost glasses" stories.

This getting old stuff STINKS!

That's what I told my doctor, he says it gets worse.

 

[grinningghost]

9th grade I got glasses. At 22, I got soft contacts. Now, due to a rare eye disease, I wear rigid gas permeable contacts because they're the only thing (besides a corneal transplant) that can correct my HORRIBLE vision.

Personally, I like the rigid lenses better than the soft ones anyway - but man, were they torture to get used to in the beginning.

 

[Chattyaholic]

I was in 4th grade when I got glasses, and had to get bi-focals (lineless though, I'm a wee bit vain I guess) about 2-3 years ago. I have been too chicken to try contacts, both my grown children wear them and have occasional problems I would rather do without. I've thought about the laser surgery, and know 3 people personally who've had it done and it worked great on them, but I just can't stand the idea of being AWAKE. Now if they could put me out, fine, I'd have it in a heartbeat!!

 

[Pooh67_68]

I started wearing glasses in the 10th grade. I'm 36 and will need bi-focals in a few years. My whole family(and I do mean everyone, parents, sister, anuts, uncles, cousins) wears glasses, so its a family thing.

 

[cinmell]

I started wearing glasses at age 15 for driving and reading.

 

[smileybrat]

Got glasses in 5th grade but didn't start wearing them regularly til 6th grade. Got contacts the end of 9th grade. I like them much better than glasses but would love to see clearly without them. I'm "blind as a bat" otherwise. I'm very near-sighted.

 

[crazelion]

I have worn glasses since 1 st grade. I am legally blind without my glasses.

 

[jennyl772003]

I started wearing glasses when I was 6, first pair of bifocles at 12. Switched to contacts in middle school, and now my astigmatism is so bad I had to get rigid gas permeable contacts. My son is leagally blind (even with glasses) and started wearing glasses at 4. Poor kid...

 

[DoeWDW]

I've got you all beat! I was born with cataracts and had very thick bifocal glasses by the time I was 1 and a half years old. I'm 39 now and still wearing my glasses, although they aren't as thick anymore.

I was always told my cataracts were not genetic - but then I had DD who inherited them. She had cataract surgeries at 5 and 6 weeks old and got extended wear contact lenses at 7 weeks old. She's 14 now and still wears contacts and has 20/30 vision with them (when they're clean! ).

 

[Blondie]

I didn't start wearing/needing glasses until I was about 19 y.o. and it was only for driving.

Within a few years, I needed them all the time, and that was when I graduated to contacts.

Now I mostly wear glasses though.