The vision/ glasses thread

[BurtReynolds]

Boy, these progressive lenses are a huge scam am I right? Holy shit I feel ripped off.

[BurtReynolds]

I'm having some old eye related troubles lately that's leading me to a severe depression.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[wease]

1.5 OTC readers for me

[Monkey_Driven]

-1.75 in both eyes. Just bad enough to need contacts/glasses for driving and seeing detail in the distance.

[Ello Sailor]

I'm having some old eye related troubles lately that's leading me to a severe depression.

Sorry to hear that, Burt.

What are prog. lenses? Do they change time signatures regularly? Have unique pronouns?

[knee tunes]

Like mood rings, they change colors when you're pissed or embarrassed or gassy

[spike]

Vision is still 20/20, but I use cheaters sometimes. Mainly to read the phone.

[bart]

Got PRK surgery five years ago and still have close to 20/20.

[blueviper]

I wear contacts the majority of the day. I use 1.50x readers.

Last year I tried the multi-focal contact lenses, that supposedly allow you to see both far and up close, reducing or eliminating the need for readers.

It was amazing to be able to see up close without readers, but then when you went past 5ft or so, it looked slightly off, like in a dream, where it appeared to be in focus but not quite. I decided not to order them and went back to my normal lenses and will just deal with readers.

[Peeps]

i got my glasses at 40. tried using contacts but like rachel on friends or andy on the office i could not put something in my eye no matter how hard i tried

[wease]

I can’t put eye drops in my own eyes. I close the eye before the drop gets in there every time.

[Ello Sailor]

Jesus christ.

[wease]

He could probably put drops in my eyes.

[BurtReynolds]

Look at all you fancy pants supermen with no need of glasses.

I'm having some old eye related troubles lately that's leading me to a severe depression.

Sorry to hear that, Burt.

What are prog. lenses? Do they change time signatures regularly? Have unique pronouns?

They are the stupidest invention ever conceived, attempting to solve three problems at once, and giving you no peripheral vision as a bonus. Basically everything is blurry.

[dad]

Look at all you fancy pants supermen with no need of glasses.

I'm having some old eye related troubles lately that's leading me to a severe depression.

Sorry to hear that, Burt.

What are prog. lenses? Do they change time signatures regularly? Have unique pronouns?

They are the stupidest invention ever conceived, attempting to solve three problems at once, and giving you no peripheral vision as a bonus. Basically everything is blurry.

Sorry, Burt. I have progressives as well and it is a pain in the ass at times with the blurriness.

No peripheral tho? Are you wearing steam punk goggles?

[BurtReynolds]

Look at all you fancy pants supermen with no need of glasses.

I'm having some old eye related troubles lately that's leading me to a severe depression.

Sorry to hear that, Burt.

What are prog. lenses? Do they change time signatures regularly? Have unique pronouns?

They are the stupidest invention ever conceived, attempting to solve three problems at once, and giving you no peripheral vision as a bonus. Basically everything is blurry.

Sorry, Burt. I have progressives as well and it is a pain in the ass at times with the blurriness.

No peripheral tho? Are you wearing steam punk goggles?

I shelled out for the midlevel distortion on the sides. Should I have gotten the premium version with minimal distortion on the sides?

[bart]

I tried progressive lenses once at the eye doctor’s office and they immediately gave me a headache

[BurtReynolds]

I should have tried them first, but it took them 4 weeks to arrive.

[dad]

Look at all you fancy pants supermen with no need of glasses.

I'm having some old eye related troubles lately that's leading me to a severe depression.

Sorry to hear that, Burt.

What are prog. lenses? Do they change time signatures regularly? Have unique pronouns?

They are the stupidest invention ever conceived, attempting to solve three problems at once, and giving you no peripheral vision as a bonus. Basically everything is blurry.

Sorry, Burt. I have progressives as well and it is a pain in the ass at times with the blurriness.

No peripheral tho? Are you wearing steam punk goggles?

I shelled out for the midlevel distortion on the sides. Should I have gotten the premium version with minimal distortion on the sides?

I don't know your situation. I only get the progressives with blue light protection and scratch resistance, which, to be honest, is kind of bullshit.