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[sovereigna]

I started wearing glasses when I was four. Yep, FOUR.

And I had pretty shocking vision from day one. I get to blame my dad for this, his vision is pretty much exactly the same as mine-- the whole -10 with astigmatism same. This meant that my glasses always tended to be much more expensive than most glasses. (my last pair I bought about 5 years

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[sparkofcreation]

Lord, I'm glad I live here. My right eye is -10 for glasses and left -8.5, both with astigmatism, and I normally pay between $400-500 (US) for glasses.

As far as I'm concerned, the greatest invention ever is that super-thin glass. When I was nine I wanted wire-rimmed glasses (had been wearing glasses since just-barely-five) and my eye doctor told me that not only could I not get them, I would never be able to get them because my vision was so bad that my glasses would always be way too thick. I've had wire-rimmed glasses for about ten years now, thanks to that 75%-thinner glass substitute they have now. Someday I may even get the rimless kind. (And I know that plastic frames are back in style now, but I just can't get over the trauma.)

But yeah, I always scratched my "scratch-proof" ones too. Though not intentionally.

[sparkofcreation]

Oh, and the glasses were because they'd been patching my good eye for a year and a half and it wasn't doing any good. So I'm going on twenty-five years of being diagnosed with deplorable vision.

[sovereigna]

Yeah, I have a terrible astigmatism in both eyes too. My last pair of glasses were thinner, but certainly not 75% thinner- no way.

And the only reason I'm without glasses now is cause of the ICL I had surgically implanted in my right eye last year.. for $4,000 -- there's no way I could have afforded both, even if my left eye was in good enough health :S

It's really not an easy thing to grow up with and have to deal with each day..

[sparkofcreation]

So you just have the one eye you see out of? I mean, I sort of do too since my left eye isn't fully correctable, but I can't imagine only having one contact lens in. It's very noticeable if I forget one. Or do you wear a regular contact in that eye?

If my vision stabilizes I'd think about Lasik (nearly everyone out here has had it), but the odds of getting 20/20 vision aren't great (especially given how bad my vision is currently) and I can't see the appeal of ending up with worse vision than I have with my contacts.

BTW the edge of my (75% thinner) glasses is 3/8". I don't even want to imagine the full-glass ones!