Total of 188 votes

I have 20/20 vision or better.		34.6
I'm wearing contact lenses.		14.9
I'm wearing glasses.		38.8
I've had laser corrective surgery.		2.7
Todd and Mushu gave me an unfair advantage.		9.0

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-- Optimus(Prime)

first

woo

-- Optimus(Prime)

Hearing

My eyesight is perfect, which is pretty unusual in my family. My problem is my hearing. Ear infections as a child left me with both eardrums damaged. Additionally loud music over the years has left me with tinnitus.


-- QBJohnnywas

since i got no eyes i have to say very good

-- Angel of Death

Had Lasix and love it!!!

-- QBRanger

always had 20/20 vision :)

-- Brakke Bres

i wear both contacts and glasses

there is a Lasix eye surgery office open here in my town but i havent heard of anyone going or life after the surgery

-- Unappreciated Misnomer

lol

Contacts for me only. No glasses, they give me headaches.

Good luck with the surgery :S

-- Wasp

Contacts

my eyes are so bad that i almost can't wear contacts...
that's okay though because I'm looking into getting ilasix

-- AdminTal Destra

Really?

More people wear glasses than contacts? Seriously? Since I started wearing contacts about 16 years ago, I haven't been able to understand why anyone would prefer glasses.

-- Demigod

I had a physical a few months back for soccer and i had 20/15 vision :p

-- Newlin

Generation Gap...

Most of my if not all of my family wears glasses. at least on both sides of my fam. I get away without wearing any scott free, and the benefit of having sensitive hearing, could hear background music from another area of the house when we`re watching a movie with high volume, distracts me -_-

-- KittehShinobu

I can't imagine people voluntarily putting things in their eyes...
so I'm no not letting them point lasers at them.

-- AdminQBnovice

g'luck shade

hope all goes well on the 16th :)

-- chaosal

I wear Glasses when i am at home, but not outside the house as I hate the current style of my glasses.

-- Soul Eater

astigmatism

my near-sightedness isn't all that severe, but i have a pretty bad astigmatism. i tried contacts for a few years, but they didn't correct the astigmatism and allowed it to get much worse...so glasses for me.

i considered lasix, but found i would still need reading glasses and decided it was cheaper and easier just to have my glasses. they never really bother me.

-- Admindudemus

TOdd and mushu so unfair!

-- ScY

I've got better Eyesight than anyone I know. I also spend most of my time staring at a computer screen (Or 5... Dual Screen with a laptop in front while playing DS XD). Or reading in badly illuminated areas. Dad hates me for it, as his eyesight deteriorated to a pretty bad stage before he was my age, and he took better care of his eyes than I've ever bothered.

-- Daz

I just fell short of 20/20 not too long ago, darn computer monitor had been going bad, it got all blurry and messed up my vision... =(

-- smallpau1 - Go Blues

20/20 for me

-- DoS

None of the above

If I recall correctly, I have 20/30 in one eye and 20/40 in the other, or something. I didn't ever bother getting glasses. I can squint at stuff and it's like laser-focus in.

-- Colonel Custard

Big Consideration

I am really nearsighted and have considered lasik a few times, but this Optometriist that works for Kaiser Permanente said something that sticks with me and sways me away from it. It's relatively new procedure with no statistics for the progressive years, thus an uncertainty of what could or couldn't happen down the road. When I asked him for his advice on it he told me to look at him and other Optometrists / Opthalmologists who have poor vision and you will notice that most of them choose glasses or contacts (he wore glasses). But as each year passes by, I am still eager to try it. Let us know your experience with it :) (that was 5 years ago)

-- kevlar

None of the above!

I have, I believe, 20/20 or near it in one eye, and a little bit worse in the other. Doesn't cause me any trouble, though. When it does, I'll probably end up getting glasses!

-- Tyriel

parents both got lazer eye surgery and their eyes were horrible. I have bad eyes too, but I wear contacts untill I stop growing, then i plan to get surgery too

-- Bull3t F4c3

-ve 5 on both eyes .. :(

-- Fatil1ty

My eyes hate lenses

I never asked my optometrist to quantify my myopy. So all I know is that it's pretty bad. I can function without glasses, but not well. Needless to say, I can absolutely not drive without them :P My vision is stable though, and is not worsening, which is cool. I wear glasses, because I could never get lenses anywhere near my eyes. Oh, and my glasses turn brown when under the sun. Very useful when you work outside.

-- Eurynome Bartleby

I'm wearing contact lenses, forged by mushu, given to me by Todd.

-- j'bob

I was -6.5 in both eyes.

Now I have 20/15 vision after Lasix. Nuff said.

-- QBRanger

I actually wear glasses, but then I only have 6/20 (lol), so Todd and Mushu give me unfair advantage. =>Q.E.D.

-- Wizard'sFirstRule

Specs are sexy

Double for monocles.

-- QBBast

Glasses for me ...

As an optometrist who checks the maths of a laser refractive surgeon who publishes in the field, I would have to partially agree with kevlar's comment.

Lasik is still a relatively new treatment (ca. 10 years old for most surgeries) and we don't know what the long-term problems will be. However, most patients who have reasonable pre-correction prescriptions end up very happy after the procedure.

There are a couple of warnings I would give to people considering laser vision correction:
1. If you have high astigmatism, you need to be treated by a surgeon who has a LOT of experience treating astigmatism, since inexperienced surgeons tend to either overcorrect astigmatism or not consider the trade-off between refractive and corneal astigmatism, with the result being far poorer vision than expected.
2. The cornea should be sliced with a blade (a microkeratome) and NOT ablated with a laser (see, for example, http://lasik-truth.com/lasik-laser-eye-surgery/all-laser-blade-free-method-vs-microkeratome-method/ for one promotion of this method). I say this because the femtosecond laser ablation of the cornea is REALLY new (2 or 3 years old) and we REALLY don't know what the side-effects of this are. For example, does this affect long-term healing and/or adaptation and/or flap stability? Plus, the ablation of the cornea using femtosecond laser is FAR slower than the microkeratome and causes a huge amount of corneal heating, with related negative side effects.

Demigod, as for why I wear glasses and not contact lenses, I just can't be bothered with the contacts, nor can I justify the cost of the contacts. I like my glasses and wear them partly as part of my identity / fashion statement.

-- blackshadowshade

Lasik/x

Warlord Shadowshade... Good info... But what if my future holds bifocals/trifocals, anyway? Heck, my dad has bifocals, and still has trouble with distance and nearness... My eyes are just destined to go to Hell, I think. I wear glasses since the farm (growing up) doesn't play well with contact lenses, but it would be nice to know once laser surgery gets cheaper and more statistics are in...

-- QBsutekh137

Ah yes, presbyopia ...

Sut, the whole problem of reading glasses / bifocals / multifocals is generally one that is only marginally relevant, when you consider that most people getting Lasik done are under 30. However, it's certainly an issue for people like me with prescriptions around -2, who would be most comfortable reading without glasses after the age of 40.

-- blackshadowshade

Eyes

As far as I am aware, you cannot have better then 20/20 vision, since that is the highest. Unless you're a bird or something. :P
But I do have 20/20 vision, and I am very thankful I do not have to have glasses or contacts, as they seem to be a big hassle at times.

-- BlackHawk

I just want a pair of specs I can't break!
My current pair have been held together with a paperclip for at least two years... I'd but new ones, but then they'd get broken! If it wasn't for how crooked mine can get I'd never replace them. Pair before this got punched into oblivion at a lagwagon show...

-- AdminQBnovice

Have 20/200 vision

but I don't wear any corrective lenses.
Had to go with D) option. :)

-- Froy

None of the above

There's no "I'm blind as a bat and still refuse to wear *coughcan'taffordcough* glasses or lenses" option.

I'm incredibly nearsighted. If you're not standing closer than eight feet in front of me, I don't know who you are. But I don't wear anything to correct my vision. I hope to one day afford laser surgery.

-- Lord Bob

Response to Blackhawk

Blackhawk, it IS indeed possible to have better than 20/20 vision. Indeed, the average 'normal' person has roughly 20/16 vision.

BTW, if you're interested in what 20/20 means, it means that the "20 foot" letters can be read at 20 feet. What's a "20 foot" letter? It's a letter where the fine detail subtends 1 minute of arc at 20 feet. Thus, a "20 foot" E, which has three horizontal bars and two spaces in between, subtends 5 minutes of arc at 20 feet.

Thus, 20/16 is being able to read a "16 foot" letter at 20 feet, i.e. if it were an E, it would be a letter that was so small that it only subtends 5 minutes of arc at 16 feet.

BTW, countries that use the metric system use metres instead, so 20/20 (in feet) is thus equivalent to 6/6 (in metres).

-- blackshadowshade

Novice, specs you'd have a real tough time breaking:

Either the magnetic glasses in CSI:NY:
http://www.eyewearclics.ca/

or perhaps frames made out of CFX titanium (flex memory titanium), for example:
http://www.2020mag.com/ViewContent/tabid/136/content_id/904/Default.aspx

-- blackshadowshade

any chance of them getting rid of the 'floaties' in my left eye?
(technically right has a few too, but the left is dominant)

-- Lochnivar

... floaters ...

Loch, in short, no.

In one lecture, we heard the story of a sailor who had been driven crazy by the fact that he could almost always see his floaters (and naturally, that had something to do with the fact that he had the bright sky as his most common backdrop when he was working). He went to all the leading specialists in Australia and each of them told him the same thing: that the floaters weren't dangerous but that they couldn't be removed. That wasn't enough for him, and he continued going to specialist after specialist to seek another opinion.

As far as my lecturer knew, he was still searching.

-- blackshadowshade

I'm on my way now, wish me luck!

-- AdminShade

Good luck!

All the best!

-- blackshadowshade

20/22 now but improving

I think I now have like 90% of my eyesight (as opposed to 10% before)

It is improving slowly but I will take quite some rest, don't expect me to be in chat soon or long ;)

-- AdminShade

I hate stupid polls!

-- Admiralkiller

pretty sure i have like 20/10000 vision. Much like Lord Bob I'm outrageously nearsighted, but I do wear glasses.

-- BadFish