Vision: a bit blurry

[juliet]

I've worn glasses since I was 7. Contact lenses off & on since I was 12. If you'd asked me a couple of weeks ago, I would have sworn blind that although if I look, I can see the blurry edge around the glasses (as compared to contacts, which have no edges), I'm entirely unaware of it most of the time.

Then I got prescription sunglasses, a fortnight ago (I lost my regular glasses so needed a new pair, & the sunglasses were on offer). And the first time I put them on was weird as hell - because I've never before worn sunglasses that had an edge round the vision. I wouldn't have predicted that I'd notice it - because I wouldn't have said that I notice it with glasses - but I really did. Most Peculiar.

It feels less odd now, but I still keep trying to look over/under them when the light changes a bit, & it still doesn't work. And now I'm more aware of the edge around the regular glasses, too.

[pokes at eyes with sticks]

Every so often I think again about the whole laser surgery thing. Still coming down as 'no' though (er, even if I had the thousands of quid required).

ION: thank you very much to everyone who made kind comments yesterday about Rowan.

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[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

My friend Bev had laser surgery done, and is paying for it over 3 years or so. I would love to, but am too scared. I know it's practically problem-free, but what would I do if I lost my eyesight? I couldn't read, and I don't think I could face life without being able to read....

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

[pokes at eyes with sticks]

Er this probably won't help ;)

[abi]

Interesting. I am always aware of the edge - perhaps because I've only been wearing glasses since I was 17 or 18, so default/normal for me is that edge Not Being There. I much prefer contact lenses because they give me my peripheral vision back (but then I also have sensitive eyes according to my optician and am thus not allowed to wear lenses every day lest they damage my delicate tissues, sulk).

The thing that scares me most about laser eye surgery is not the cost so much as the fact that THEY DO IT WHILE YOU ARE AWAKE.

[juliet]

My peripheral vision is actually pretty good even with the blurriness. I think probably because in fact peripheral vision is better at seeing movement than anything else, & movement shows up through the blur.

I prefer contacts for some things, but if I'm spending all day looking at a computer screen (which I am most days), my eyes get dry & achey & tired if I wear contacts. I think that I don't blink enough when I'm concentrating.

The thing that scares me most about laser eye surgery is not either of those things, but is WHAT IF IT GOES WRONG & I WIND UP UNABLE TO SEE. (Either in the sense of the actual surgery screwing up, or in the sense of X years down the line.) Arrrrgh.

[hatmandu.livejournal.com]

Having worn glasses since I was 6, like Juliet I'm not really aware of the boundary (though when I moved from naff large lenses to trendy small ones yonks ago I did lose a lot of peripheral vision, not to mention the sneaky ability to see behind me in reflections!). I'm too squeamish to try contacts let alone eye surgery - but, y'know, I like wearing glasses, and I'm sure people would realise sooner what a bimbo I am if I didn't...

[angelmine.livejournal.com]

Hello you!

So sorry to hear about Rowan, had missed your post yesterday but she was a lovely little thing :-(

*hugs*

Will email you re: dinner shortly!

[htfb.livejournal.com]

If you are short-sighted enough then there isn't any field-of-view lost around the edge of your glasses, since images are shrunk by the lens, and what you see outside the rim is duplicated inside---so you learn to ignore even thick rims. Not that I have them, these days, but I used to when I was 5. Yay for NHS specs.

Contact lenses, though: eurgh. Sticking things in my eyes? Laser eye-scratching? Yow. I like to keep my vision safely the other side of a nice protective pair of goggles, thanks. Especially when bloody flies keep flying into me on the bike: what is this, summer?