Who wears glasses...?

[InnocentCrook]

I'm shocked by how many people find glasses easier to deal with than contacts. Contacts only take me a total of a minute and a half to deal with each day...couldn't be easier. I don't even really have problems with them when I go camping.

I'd constantly be fiddling around with glasses if I wore them on the course.

Couldn't agree more.

I put off getting contacts for a long time. It took a little getting used to, but I couldn't be happier now. I'm to the point that I'll put a fresh pair in before backpacking or camping for a weekend and just sleep in them every night so I don't have to mess with dirty hands in my eyes. A couple drops in the morning to help re-wet them and I'm good to go.

 

[jongoff09]

I wear glasses all the time. I'll play any sport in them because my vision is pretty bad. I wore contacts for a while, but I got two eye infections within a year for unknown reasons (stumped the doctors that I went to) so I stopped wearing them. I loved contacts when I wasn't having problems, but the infections got old quick.

 

[cmcolomb]

^This. Glasses are such a pain in the ass. Once you get used to contacts they are a breeze. The newer disposables are such an improvement over the ones I had 15ish years ago.

I would think more about Lasik if contacts weren't so damn easy.

never take your eyes for granted - some people's eyes don't fair well with contacts

 

[Paulie]

I wear those flex frames. The kind that you cant twist into a pretzel, well, almost, and they spring right back into shape. My first frames lasted me easy 10 years. Before that, I had to get new frames about every year because they were warped or I had broken them all together. These flex frames are near indestructible. They're also thin and light. The price has come way down too. These new frames were a third of what my first pair cost.

For lenses, I've gone with the finest poly I could afford. They're lighter and thinner than the cheaper plastics or actual glass and are more durable. Worth the money. A few times, the scratch resist and anti-glare stuff didn't last like it should, or maybe I got something on them that ate it off, but for the most part, it holds for over a year. This is my first pair of auto tint lenses and I love them. Not too dark and they transition pretty quick. It's UV that triggers them, so windshield glass and helmet visors that block UV will cut down on how dark they get. A minor draw back but not enough to make me go back to clip ons.

I tighten up the screws to make my frames fit better when they get loose. Eye glass stores can bend any bendable frames, even flex frames, to make them fit better too. You can do it at home, but they have those eye glass pliers and the little face vice and seem to know how to do it just right. I got my old flex frames tweaked maybe twice in 10 years. They really do hold up.

If glasses are flying off or slipping a lot, get the ear pieces bent down or have the arms or whole frame bent to be kind of triangle shaped, with the arms pointing in toward each other. Brain straps work too; those little strap deals that slide over the ear pieces and you cinch it down on the back of your head. I like the soft cloth ones best.

 

[Paulie]

Invest in a good hat, flex fit or equivalent.
Wear it correctly, the bill goes in the front to keep the rain off your lenses. Also reduces sun glare.
Go with the Transision lenses for added sun protection.

Preach it! The sweat band in them also soaks up sweat.

Fogging is a pain. If mine fog going from inside to outside or the other way, I find wiping them off and holding them away from my face for a minute goes a long way to stop them from fogging right back up. If the issue is wearing a balaclava, I just try to position it so my breath is blown away from my lenses. That anti-fog goop is hit or miss. Mostly miss. I don't know what it was called, but I used to have this little tiny jar of pale green paste that you wiped on, let it sit a minute and wiped off. Worked best of them all.

 

[drickanderson]

On a separate note, my cousin was so airheaded she put both her contacts in the same eye, and then wondered why she couldn't see.

What's worse is trying to take them out while you're drunk, and spending 5 minutes pulling on eyeball skin before you realize that you already got that one.

 

[mashnut]

I'm shocked by how many people find glasses easier to deal with than contacts. Contacts only take me a total of a minute and a half to deal with each day...couldn't be easier. I don't even really have problems with them when I go camping.

I'd constantly be fiddling around with glasses if I wore them on the course.

I agree, I wore glasses for 6 years and contacts for 6 years, and contacts were a huge improvement in how much time and hassle I spent on them. Not having to deal with either is amazing though, easily worth the expense (less than I would have spent on a lifetime of contacts) and the single day of recovery from the LASIK.

 

[jongoff09]

...the single day of recovery from the LASIK.

I am glad you were satisfied with the surgery. I had a high school teacher that had several problems with her first surgery and had to have it done again several months later and she still didn't have good vision. I think she eventually had to go back to glasses.

My eyes are so sensitive that I don't know about going through LASIK. If I had any problems at all then I would suffer from migraines related to my vision (a problem I sometimes had while I couldn't wear contacts for any reason). Plus, my prescription hasn't been stable for more than 6 months ever so right now I wouldn't be considered for the surgery. I will just stick with glasses and not have any worries.

 

[TheWCG]

I lost my shoes and glasses at a baskin robins once.

 

[bazillion]

I've worn specs since I was six. A couple of years ago went to graduated bifocals, which totally suck, but now have returned to conventional bifocals. It'll probably take a few weeks to groove back in (right now my upshots are completely ridiculous) but I'm looking forward to improvement in my scores once I'm dialed in again.

The main thing I noticed with the graduated ones was that peripheral vision is totally distorted, which means that if you want to track something, you have to move your head so that you're looking directly at it all the time. Major hassle that they dno't really tell you about up front and you only recognize once you start doing things like walking around, not to mention keeping track of where you want your disc to go.

Anyway, that's my rant. Thanx for listening.

 

[Dthunderchicken]

I'm 54 and about six years ago went from not wearing glassed right into trifocals. In the past I've always enjoyed better than average vision. I could read street signs and license plates from over a block away. (Probably why I WAS such a good shot. Trifocals and rifles don't work well together.)

As for wearing glasses while playing, my work pair has spring loaded arms and I have the ear pieces curved to where the glasses don't slide down my nose when I sweat. My glasses stay on just fine while playing even in the summer.

 

[Sean40474]

Transistions for Disc Golf are the way to go. I wear them all the time. No tint in the woods. Full tint in the open field.

I suggest staying away from polorized lenses, they can skew your depth perception.

I wear these too, but they don't work well enough for me when it comes to glare; especially when playing in snow.

 

[Dthunderchicken]

I wear these too, but they don't work well enough for me when it comes to glare; especially when playing in snow.

Don't yours stay dark in the cold? I hate mine on a cold cloudy day. (Or in a cold dark building.) I've tried two different manufacturers and haven't been happy with either.

 

[DeadEye]

I can get away with not wearing glasses most of the time, but driving at night and playing disc golf have proven almost impossible without them. Putting is the worst, since I can't pick out a link in the chain I want to go for, so I usually just focus on my drives if I forget them.

Only real problem I have with glasses on the course is when I'm going through woods/brush to get a disc and I have sticks trying to take them off. Other than that, I've only dropped my glasses once(lens came out, used a knife to screw the glasses tighter) and only had them fling off of my face once during a drive.

 

[Sean40474]

Don't yours stay dark in the cold? I hate mine on a cold cloudy day. (Or in a cold dark building.) I've tried two different manufacturers and haven't been happy with either.

They cold doesn't affect mine whether they stay dark or not; maybe mine are different. I'd rather wear sunglasses when there is snow on the ground, especially when driving. Most windshields have a UV protection built in them, so that is why your transition lenses don't activate. As a result, you're not protected from glare, that is where sunglasses come in. Honestly, I'm fine with having both even though it is more expensive.

Some opticians will recommend or state that it isn't necessary to have both as transitions will protect you. Usually, sunglasses have a darker pigment and I prefer that overall depending on application. It might be that my eyes are more sensitive, but I still prefer sunglasses if I'm outside and can help it.

 

[woodcutter]

I wear glasses all the time,no prob. Except on HOT humid days and it rains, they get a little steemy.
I guess I could use an anti fogger.

 

[Dthunderchicken]

They cold doesn't affect mine whether they stay dark or not; maybe mine are different. I'd rather wear sunglasses when there is snow on the ground, especially when driving. Most windshields have a UV protection built in them, so that is why your transition lenses don't activate. As a result, you're not protected from glare, that is where sunglasses come in. Honestly, I'm fine with having both even though it is more expensive.

Some opticians will recommend or state that it isn't necessary to have both as transitions will protect you. Usually, sunglasses have a darker pigment and I prefer that overall depending on application. It might be that my eyes are more sensitive, but I still prefer sunglasses if I'm outside and can help it.

Thanks. We're going to a new vision service provider next year. I'll ask about it again.

 

[shanepotter270]

glasses

they stay on just fine for me.....:|

 

[John Rock]

Preach it! The sweat band in them also soaks up sweat.

Fogging is a pain. If mine fog going from inside to outside or the other way, I find wiping them off and holding them away from my face for a minute goes a long way to stop them from fogging right back up. If the issue is wearing a balaclava, I just try to position it so my breath is blown away from my lenses. That anti-fog goop is hit or miss. Mostly miss. I don't know what it was called, but I used to have this little tiny jar of pale green paste that you wiped on, let it sit a minute and wiped off. Worked best of them all.[/QUOTE]

I used to use something similar called "Cat Crap". Then I discovered it's just dish soap. Now I use whatever soap is next to the sink.

 

[Skunk]

I'm supposed to wear glasses, especially at night. But they were too much of a pain in the ass to keep track of and away from damage so I put them away and just don't use them anymore. Besides, I really only used them at night for driving and I know the signs enough to not have to read them.