Do you wear glasses?

[Zatnikitelman]

Yes, this started (as many things do) as crazy discussion on the IRC; simple question: do you wear glasses?
NOTE: poll results will be public

 

[Brycesv1]

Contacts count as glasses right?

 

[Arrowstar]

Are we attempting to ascertain whether or not the average Orbinaut is nerdier in appearance than his/her non-Orbinaut brethren?

 

[Andy44]

I wear glasses, Mr. Anderson.

Sunglasses. At night. In the rain.

 

[Urwumpe]

At night, when it gets dark, when you can't see anything because of the light conditions, after sunset in the dark you will see strange figures, which are curiously also wearing sunglasses and sit on orange flower patterned pillows and are smoking........ but that is top secret.

 

[Linguofreak]

Yes, this started (as many things do) as crazy discussion on the IRC; simple question: do you wear glasses?
NOTE: poll results will be public

Yes. Thick ones. Without them, I have to bring something to within a hand-length (not arm length!) of my face to see it clearly. With them, I can see fine (at least, as long as I'm keeping them clean, which is not a guarantee).

 

[Jarvitä]

No. I've got perfect vision in my left eye, but I can't even make out capital font texts from 10 cm away with my right eye, and it's not aligned with the left one. No depth perception for me.

I've tried glasses and lenses in the past, nothing worked, a more precise eyeball examination revealed it to be in perfect condition, so the doctors concluded the problem is with the optical nerve.

 

[jedidia]

I'm one of the lucky bastards that has no problems with his eyes whatsoever.

 

[willy88]

No. I've got perfect vision in my left eye, but I can't even make out capital font texts from 10 cm away with my right eye, and it's not aligned with the left one. No depth perception for me.

I've tried glasses and lenses in the past, nothing worked, a more precise eyeball examination revealed it to be in perfect condition, so the doctors concluded the problem is with the optical nerve.

Eep, is that correctable at all? Kind of makes me glad to have crappy (yet fixable) eyes.

 

[n122vu]

No. I've got perfect vision in my left eye, but I can't even make out capital font texts from 10 cm away with my right eye, and it's not aligned with the left one. No depth perception for me.

I've tried glasses and lenses in the past, nothing worked, a more precise eyeball examination revealed it to be in perfect condition, so the doctors concluded the problem is with the optical nerve.

I suffer from the same condition in my right eye, though my eyes are aligned for the most part. Dr. tells me that if I had left the patch on when I was 4 then I might have near perfect vision today But now I see in mostly 2 dimensions, with peripheral vision to a degree in my right eye. Dr. tells me I MUST wear glasses as opposed to contacts to protect my good eye. I do have some depth perception, but not enough to fly Apache for the Army back when I was 18. Navy told me they would have performed corrective surgery had it not been for my asthma

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Eep, is that correctable at all? Kind of makes me glad to have crappy (yet fixable) eyes.

According to my Dr, if correctable at all, they can only work with it until you are about 8 years old. After that the eye/brain connection and coordination is completed developing for the most part.

 

[Linguofreak]

No. I've got perfect vision in my left eye, but I can't even make out capital font texts from 10 cm away with my right eye, and it's not aligned with the left one. No depth perception for me.

I've tried glasses and lenses in the past, nothing worked, a more precise eyeball examination revealed it to be in perfect condition, so the doctors concluded the problem is with the optical nerve.

If the misalignment came first (do you recall?), then to me it doesn't sound like the optic nerve (then again, I'm not a doctor). When the eyes are misaligned in childhood, the brain will tend to suppress the input from the offending eye, resulting in the vision in that eye becoming much poorer. My eyes went out-of-alignment when I was younger, and so a went through a fair amount of treatment and eventually a surgery on the muscles of the affected eye to keep it from going that far. Fortunately I wasn't too young when it started (the younger you are when it starts, the quicker your brain adapts by suppressing that eye) and was treated fairly quickly, so I don't have any problems from that now.

The alignment problem can be corrected by certain types of therapy, and surgery. The degradation problem, if it happens, can be treated by certain other types of therapy, but it is best if these occur in childhood.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strabismus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblyopia

 

[PhantomCruiser]

I'm right there with Linguofreak. I started wearing them in 3rd grade, on the way home I asked mom what those things on the trees were. Her response was "Leaves". She kind of felt bad, because she thinks that she should have realized I needed glasses long before then.
Can't see anything in focus unless it's RIGHT in front of me. Now my kid (brat that she is) has better than 20/20. Just not fair, but I'm happy that she doesn't have to wear the things...

 

[Brycesv1]

my eyes are terrible. without glasses or contacts my maximum effective range is about 7cm

 

[Saturn V]

Yes, on my front set of eyes, I do. The eyes in the back of my head (the ones I use for watching what the kids are up to) are still pretty good...much to their dismay .

 

[Jarvitä]

If the misalignment came first (do you recall?), then to me it doesn't sound like the optic nerve (then again, I'm not a doctor). When the eyes are misaligned in childhood, the brain will tend to suppress the input from the offending eye, resulting in the vision in that eye becoming much poorer.

I've been this way for as far back as I can remember. I've never studied the condition in detail until a few years ago, and my childhood doctor just kept prescribing me thicker and thicker glasses.

 

[SiberianTiger]

I do not, but I feel if I keep staring at forums in the night, I will have to.

 

[ThatGuy]

No glasses, I have great vision.

I do not, but I feel if I keep staring at forums in the night, I will have to.

I know what you mean. I'm the same way.

 

[Linguofreak]

I've been this way for as far back as I can remember. I've never studied the condition in detail until a few years ago, and my childhood doctor just kept prescribing me thicker and thicker glasses.

In that case I'd bet that you're dealing with exactly what I described. If your childhood doctor had known what he was doing, you might well still have vision in that eye. There's still a chance that you could recover something if you underwent treatment, but apparently it's pretty much impossible to fully reverse past age 10 or so (best done by age 5), and progressively difficult to correct even partially as you get older.

 

[Brycesv1]

my doctor hit me with stronger prescriptions every year as well after 5 years old. your saying if i just left it alone my eyes might have been better than they are now?

 

[Krys]

My vision is something like this:

http://galleryv2.gdwnet.com/main.php/v/Krys_Artwork/double+vision+example.png.html