Did You Wear Glasses As A Child?

[fossyant]

My eyes packed in when I was about 20....

 

[HLaB]

I never had glasses as a kid, it wasn't until college when I was 19, that my eyesight suddenly started to fail, I now couldn't see without them. Coincidentally I used to suffer from bad migraines, blackouts and had a epileptic fit and touch wood since I've wore glasses that hasn't recurred.

 

[potsy]

I started wearing them aged 12/13.Went to contacts from 20-25 then back to glasses,astigmatism meant the monthly disposables varied quite a bit from one month to the next.Would like laser surgery but am too chicken

 

[yoyo]

Our youngest son has worn glasses since he was two - congenital squint and long sight. His prescription was very strong and he needed a patch. Apart from the patch he loved his glasses and, because he had to wear them all the time, only broke one pair in his childhood years. When he first went to school and had to take them off for Games he was sick but he persevered and it was no longer a problem. In rugby he was fine except it took him a while to realise the game had changed direction.. His long sight did improve but he will always need glasses / contacts which he also uses.

 

[Crackle]

Our youngest son has worn glasses since he was two - congenital squint and long sight. His prescription was very strong and he needed a patch. Apart from the patch he loved his glasses and, because he had to wear them all the time, only broke one pair in his childhood years. When he first went to school and had to take them off for Games he was sick but he persevered and it was no longer a problem. In rugby he was fine except it took him a while to realise the game had changed direction.. His long sight did improve but he will always need glasses / contacts which he also uses.

He should play for England Yoyo, he'd be better than the current crop.

 

[yoyo]

John Olver trained him at school... Perhaps he could apply for a place on the team instead of being unemployed when he graduates in June!

 

[Bromptonaut]

Was picked up by an eyetest on entering senior school. Although he could have afforded private frames my Father insisted that (as for himself) the NHS variety were fine and I used these in brown, black or toirteshell until allowed privat "aviators" at 17.

Daughter was identified with the short sight gene around age 8, free frames these days much more appealing but like her mother and me she's stuck with correction for life.

 

[Lady LDN]

I started wearing glasses when I was nine - when my Mum/Dad dropped me off to school, I'd take them off as I hated them - which probably didn't do my eyes any good!

I do contacts from time to time (especially in the summer so I can buy the sunglasses that I want to wear!) I love wearing glasses - another fashion accessory really...

 

[dav1d]

I had perfect vision until in Oldham, a local thug banged my head against a brick wall, it mentions some sort of haemorage in my medical records, and my vision became worse in my left eye, followed later by my right eye. So I wore glasses, but they were very thick and people at my last school Eccles called them jam jars. I now wear contacts most of the time.

 

[Night Train]

I had those horrible round NHS ones with the springy 'wrap around your ear' type arms and got teased a lot.

My current glasses are a bit better but I need to get new ones soon and some contacts for the stage.

 

[Spinney]

Since about six - thankfully my parents paid a bit so I didn't have to wear the free NHS round ones with wrap around ear pieces.

A warning about laser surgery if you are short sighted (well, just something to bear in mind before deciding...)

I am shortsighted. Now I am nearly 50 I am also getting age-related long-sightedness (presbyopia, I think the technical term is - i.e. my arms are getting too short!). However because I am short-sighted I can still read without my glasses. If I had had laser surgery this would no longer be the case.

I suppose whether you think that is important depends on whether or not you like reading in the bath!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Thanks for all the replies and the good advice ...

He's had them for over a week now and hasn't broken them either although he's managed to scratch a lens - he's been really good about wearing them, thought a two year old would make much more fuss.

He looks great in them - really cute, although if anyone says to him how nice they look he instantly takes them off!

 

[Dene]

I have been wearing glasses since I was 2 years old, because people got used to me wearing them I did not get picked on at school even though other children that had to start part way through school did.

 

[tyred]

I have been wearing glasses since I was 2 years old, because people got used to me wearing them I did not get picked on at school even though other children that had to start part way through school did.

Something I've often wondered. How do they decide what perscription to use for a 2 yo? With someone older, they ask you to read letters but for someone too young to read or not able to read, how do they do it?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Something I've often wondered. How do they decide what perscription to use for a 2 yo? With someone older, they ask you to read letters but for someone too young to read or not able to read, how do they do it?

My lad went to the specialist eye doc at the hospital. They put drops in that widen the pupils and then look in with some fancy gizmo that tells them what they need to know.

Edit: Just remembered, he was actually asleep at the time too!!