Do you need to wear glasses all the time?

BoNNie_wOOf · Jan 17, 2008, 12:14 AM

Ok, this is kinda a secret from my mum, i'm short sighted since for a long time now , and only my dad knows about it since yesterday. I can see things like close up, but stuff like writing on the whiteboard i can't see. (So yeah...i have bad eyes as you can say)

So, having this year to be my last year in High School, I'm planning to get glasses, but i was wondering 'If you start wearing glasses, will you need it to wear it all the time or will your vision goes from bad to worse if you don't wear from times to times? I'm only planning to wear glasses when i needed the most.

I would have gotten glasses ages ago but my mum keeps saying that if i wear glasses i'll look ugly and all. So i'm afraid that if tell my mum she will kill me and she will start complaining that none off her families on her side don't wear glasses at all. However it's surprising that most Asians around my age are wearing glasses, is there actually a reason why for that? (i'm also Asian just so you know)

Right now i'm doing some research, and some people say that you don't need yo wear glasses all the time and some say that you do. So basically right now i have no idea which is right. So anybody, PLEASE HELP!?!?!

Also, how much does a pair of glasses approximately in Australian dollars? (I really don't want to spend much).

Thank you for giving up your time to read this!

KeepItSimpleStupid · Feb 25, 2008, 04:52 PM

The important thing is to go to your optometrist/opthmologist with the near focal length your interested in and where it's located. The optician can also easily modify a near sighted prescription to the new focal length but may be reluctant to do so.

I'm sure flat-top or progressive can be used. My pair is for when I am lying on the bed with the laptop and occasionally glancieng up at TV. These glasses are annoying to drive with.

I had single vision lenses at my bi-focal strenght probably for more than 30 years. Later, I realized that glasses can be made to focus at a particular length.

With the Internet, I was able to find a lot of scarce information and pieced together the essentials of prescribing lenses.

I'm confident that you'll be a lot happier if you get "work specific" glasses.



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