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i wear glasses full time because my eyes get too dry with contacts. I only wear contacts when i'm going out, so once or twice a month. i want to get lasik! my optometrist told me not to because my eyes are not THAT bad..... but it would improve my quality of life so much!

Contacts make my eyes ache, it makes me sleepy and I just want to close them. I also prefer the look of glasses. Sometimes I wish I had contacts for occasional use but I'm so inept at putting them in.

@mrs. wagon: I had dry eye issues, and spent my post college years full time in glasses til I got LASIK 4.5 years ago. Best decision I ever made. Wall me if you want to chat more about it.

@LindsayInNY: There are some I can wear, but unfortunately none of them are the brands or types that tend to be comfortable. For example, I can't wear Acuvue lenses because they don't make them for prescriptions as strong as mine. I think the fact that I have very severe astigmatism has a pretty big effect on it too.

@mrs. wagon: yes! I was going to offer that info. I went to tlc in Waltham and was really happy with my experience. I did my follow up with my regular eye doctor. Tlc has the lifetime gaurantee. I was going to get a second opinion but liked tlc so much I didn't. I have a couple if other friends who went there too.

I'm happy to answer any specific questions about then!

Eta: womp... Just read page 2 and your update.

@mrs. wagon: have you talked to your eye doctor about your dry eye issue and complications with lasik? I only ask because my best friend had lasik and they didn't consult on her dry eye issue. It made it worse so she ended up having to get plugs put in her eyes. I don't want to scare you, just thought if bring it up. It's one of the reasons I don't know if I'll do it!!

To answer your question, I wear glasses because, like @jetsa, I'm lazy.

@mrs. wagon: I think beg was the other one I was going to look at :). And yeah I had my evaluations done in nov to put the flex money in for January. We went to Costa Rica that March and it was so amazing to see comfortably on the beach!! As far as the adjustments, like I said I do need glasses now for driving or reading PowerPoint presentation type things, so they would do the surgery for free. But minor adjustments like that are harder to get exactly right, per my eye doctor, and the glasses for those times are such a minor inconvenience that it's not worth the risk of surgery, however tiny. Just my two cents on the lifetime guarantee thing.

@mrs. wagon: if you have VSP eye insurance the cover a pair f glasses or sunglasses every year as long as your order them through a new doctor, rx or not. I got coach sunglasses for almost nothing, without a prescription. Another nice little perk.

I just prefer the way glasses look on myself. I've been wearing them since I was 12.

Have you considered PRK? When I informally talked to a friend of a friend who was a glasses wearing LASIK surgeon, he said he would do PRK on himself. I thought that was rather interesting.

I always wanted to wear glasses, and when I found out I had become nearsighted and had a moderate amount of astigmatism, when I was 15, and needed to wear glasses, it was actually a good day for me! I could not wait to get them and have always enjoyed, wearing glasses. I also think I look better in glasses.

I did try contacts at the urging of my sister, and I blew away my eye doctor when I put them in and took them out without any problem on the first try. He was so stunned he made me do it two more times and after I did it, without problems; he told me in all his years in practice he had never had a patient do what I just did and was sure I had worn contacts before! However, I soon realized they weren't for me and I actually missed wearing my glasses, so I ditched the lenses and have worn glasses ever since.

I also have no interest in any vision correction surgery because for me it's not worth it and I love wearing glasses!

@mrs. wagon: so did you get the lasik?! Lol. Super old thread!

I only wear glasses part time for eye strain issues so glasses are a fun (necessary) accessory for me but DH had lasik before his deployment and looooves it. I forget he wore glasses for the first few years of our relationship!

@mrs. wagon: I am so jealous. I want to have LASIK so bad and am not a candidate due to my retinas not being strong enough. My prescription is -11 and I would do anything to see without contacts/glasses!

@Kimberlybee: just thought I'd let you know what they had me do to improve my dry eyes for Lasik

So constant contact use and sitting at a computer or reading papers all day made my eyes super dry. It's crazy how much dry eyes affect your vision! At the doc office they out all these refreshing drops in my eye and I could read the letters that I couldn't see just a few minutes before bc my eyes were dry.

So anyway, they made me use prescription eye drops (i think it called Restasis). And I had to take a few vitamins - I think fish oil and some other one. And I did eyelid wipes twice a day (basically exfoliates your eyelids). I did that for a few months and they would test my tear production. It improved enough that the doc felt comfortable going forward with lasik. Once I had it done and after the first few days my eyes felt totally normal and I've had ZERO dry eye issues. I never feel the need to use drops or anything. I think just the fact of not wearing contacts improved my dry eye issues