Anonymous
Post 02/19/2026 17:49     Subject: I don't want to wear glasses any more
Anonymous wrote:Your prescription is too heavy for contacts? What do you mean? I have a very strong Rx and wear dailies. They’re great.


New poster
Who’s your eye dr?
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2026 16:50     Subject: I don't want to wear glasses any more
Anonymous wrote:Have you checked that you can do Lasik successful with the eye issues that you have?

If so, then it's the option that gives you a few years of freedom, since you hate your glasses. Just know that in your 40s, you'll need glasses again as you become presbyopic.


Or not. I made it thru my 40’s ok. I had glasses or contacts since about age 7, couldn’t wear contacts anymore starting about 23, has LASIK age 32, and made it to 50 before needing glasses again for nearsightedness. Still getting by with no reading glasses at 51.
Anonymous
Post 02/18/2026 15:37     Subject: I don't want to wear glasses any more
Question for crowd.
My recent toric lens Rx is
-6.50
-5.5

And the paper says BC 8.6, Diameter 14.5

Do you think I could be a candidate for LASIK?

Even if just to improve from “blinds as a bat”
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2025 22:44     Subject: I don't want to wear glasses any more
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Your prescription is too heavy for contacts? What do you mean? I have a very strong Rx and wear dailies. They’re great.


Same - I have -9 in one eye and a -8.5 with astigmatism in the other, and I have very dry eyes. Dailies have been a life saver.


Dailies are ok but stopped working for me when I turned 40. I had to take them out mid day bc my eyes were so dry. I had been wearing contacts since middle school. Not tolerating contacts happened pretty fast. LASIK was a great decision. I’m the -7.5 posted above.

I also spent a lot of money on the thinnest lens but no matter how thin, you can’t hide the prescription. They’re like magnifying glasses.


I had to stop wearing contacts for 2 years when I was 40, but started again after I found an optometrist that gave me several options to try until we found the perfect fit. I'm now 52 and still wearing them. It's $1000/year but worth it.
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2025 21:13     Subject: I don't want to wear glasses any more
I’ll add that my sister in law who is older, 48, still wears contacts and tolerates them fine. If they still work for you then keep doing what you’re doing.
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2025 21:11     Subject: I don't want to wear glasses any more
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Your prescription is too heavy for contacts? What do you mean? I have a very strong Rx and wear dailies. They’re great.


Same - I have -9 in one eye and a -8.5 with astigmatism in the other, and I have very dry eyes. Dailies have been a life saver.


Dailies are ok but stopped working for me when I turned 40. I had to take them out mid day bc my eyes were so dry. I had been wearing contacts since middle school. Not tolerating contacts happened pretty fast. LASIK was a great decision. I’m the -7.5 posted above.

I also spent a lot of money on the thinnest lens but no matter how thin, you can’t hide the prescription. They’re like magnifying glasses.
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2025 09:16     Subject: I don't want to wear glasses any more
I am 46 and had LASIK last year. So worth it! I have monovision, so disatnce in one and reading/computer in the other. I kinda miss my glasses (I loved them and had fun ones) but not the daily headaches from being +4 in one eye and -5 in the other.