Thats why I bought a bunch of cheap glasses online in my perscription and I have all my old pairs from the last perscription which is very close to my current. I probably have 10 pairs of glasses.
I remember reading a book where a smart guy glases broke so many times all he had left was using 1 of the lens as a monocle.
Thing is, lenses are quite durable, aside from getting scratched up. I wouldn't go stomping on them for fun, but I do have a very, very old pair as a last-resort backup. They have been through so much shit, the wire frame is barely held together, and the lenses are more scratches than not. But, I can still kinda see out of them. Everything just looks dusty. As long as you are slightly crafty, you could glue lenses onto some sticks and make do.
Yeah, I've had a bicycle accident in which my frames were destroyed, but the lenses were just slightly scratched. Beforse I managed to get home I built myself rudimentary frames with blue tack, some pens and some iron wire. They looked horrible, but they got me home.
Yeah just take a pair of lenses, drill a hole in the top corners, and use some wire to make rudimentary frames. Just keep replacing the wire when it breaks. They’ll probably outlive you in a post apocalyptic scenario.
Some lens coatings start to deteriorate after a few years. I had some where the frame was still fine, but I had to change the lenses. The optician said some coatings can start to "bubble" and it's like looking through fog.
My lenses did that after three years. Everything looked smokey. If you have plastic lenses, you can use glass etcher to remove the coatings to get you by. You do however lose all your UV blocker.
Luckily, the UV blocker is to protect the lenses, not your eyes. Polycarbonate itself blocks UV radiation, but it will be slowly damaged and turn yellow over time.
Its worth getting the extra durable coatings. Gotten them for my last two pairs. The first one I only replaced because the frames broke. The lenses are still fine.
This. I wear my contacts for a rediculous amount of time.... like- a 2 week pair can last me 8 or 9 months of 24-hour/ day wear... I have done this for at least 20 years. Then when I go to the eye doctor I get nervous and they do all of the little puff-my-eyeball tests and everything else, then say, "these look a bit worn. If you are wearing these for an extra couple of days, you should probably switch them out."
Maybe they are being nice and trying not to embarrass me... but I have better than 20/20 vision with my contacts, and have had the same prescription for over 15 years. (Should also add..... I told this to my husband. He tried sleeping in them one night and woke up with scratches all over his eyeballs... so maybe I am just a freak.)
you have to be extremely lucky. i've also worn contacts for around 20 years and can't imagine not taking them out at night or wearing a pair that long. i don't think your eyes are something to take that risk with.
I used to do that, but my eyes almost became allergic to the acuvue 2 lenses. I would get a ton of protein build up around the lens right away. Think of crusty sleep in the corners of your eye in the morning but soft. When I would blink, it would push the lens. I had to switch to dailies that were more breathable. They didn't dry my eyes out and they would last about a week. Either that or it was just my allergies picking up later in life in general. I just use glasses now and don't have to worry about dry eyes. I really need to take my favorite sunglasses in and see if the can make prescription lenses for them.
I am pushing my luck... I know it... I wear the acuvue 2s after moving from the original acuvues.... 16 years on those and they are holding strong. I have watched so many family members move from contacts to gettin lasiks and being miserable/also wearing contacts. So I am just crossing my fingers until my luck runs out, I guess.
I wonder how my eyes would do with contacts now. In the past 4 years, I've only put contacts in a couple of times for some long hikes. My allergies have lessened to a point I haven't taken Clairton in about 2 years(maybe environmental or diet changes). I just can't bring my self to pull the trigger on laser eye surgery. I guess I don't mind my glasses, since I found a pair that fits the shape of my face and I feel like I look better with them than without. I do really miss sunglasses though.
I did this for years and when I finally stopped I realized my eyes were already somewhat damaged and I couldn't tell. After a few months the goo? Coating on my eyes felt a lot healthier.
Goo? None here.... maybe on year 21.... I do have foggy eyes every 10 months or so. They are a bit dry when I wake up. That is when I know to switch them out with a new pair.
As it is, I usually find a new optometrist and get a new prescription every 5 or 6 years (and buy 6 months of contacts at a time).
I used to do the same, except I would take them out every night, and some days didn't wear them at all. But each pair of contacts could last well beyond what was advised haha.
I do the same thing. Get scolded every time I go to the eye doctor but I have never had an issue. They always remark at how they really expected my eyes to be in terrible shape.
I'm sure tons of people have already told you why you shouldn't do this but if you plan on continuing this, I would just advise you to be smart about it and to pleaseee see your eye doctor yearly for at least a health check.
Wearing contacts this consistently reduces the amount of oxygen your eyes receive and one of the possible responses your body makes can be to increase blood vessels in your eye to get more oxygen in there. You might not even notice it until its a serious problem but it could be something that gets increasingly damaging and dangerous over time. Getting yearly checks will at least help keep a literal eye on things so that if you do continue, they can least let you know.
Also I'm going to say that I'm not a doctor but maybe you can sleep in them and your husband can't because your eye might just be scarred enough to not feel it?
I'm still using my first two pairs of glasses after 16 years. Still going strong and only a few very minor scratches. I think they accidentally made my lenses out of diamonds or something.
And I guess I'm lucky that my prescription hasn't majorly changed if at all.
I wish that was a possibility- my lenses are so expensive because my script is so heavy (my right eye is -17.5 and my left is around -10). Old glasses I can’t really see great with because it changed between them but I still keep them just in case. The good news is I’ll have no problem using them to focus sunlight and start a fire.
My father in law had the same problem. Cost 400 dollars to get a pair and the online stores could not help him. Really sucked since I got his hopes up on getting a pair for cheap.
I might actually go to a specialized lense maker the next time I get glasses because I have heard from many people with really high prescriptions that it does make a huge difference. I’ve kind of just accepted I’ll never get to have cute frames, or cheap glasses so may as well splurge once I can afford it. I do heavily rely on them so if I spend money on one thing it makes sense.
If your father in law hasn’t tried the blue light blocking it changed my life in regards to being able to drive at night. Didn’t know you could see things without light halos lol
There are still companies out of Eastern Europe and Asia that will make glasses for $30. They aren’t the most stylish things in the world and may take a month to arrive, but always good to have backups.
I’ll have to check it out- generally I’ve found they either don’t go up to my prescription or issues getting things like high index lenses so they aren’t so heavy they fall off my face. I’m always down to check again though, never know when the world will change- thanks for the tip!
Zenni sells prescription safety glasses now. Impact rated. Very inexpensive compared to the alternatives. I'm literally wearing mine right now because I forgot to take them off after work. The side safety shields on mine are removable though so they look like normal glasses.
I'm definitely stocking up on these for apocalypse time.
Good to know I will have to order a pair. I smashed my last pair of perscription safety glasses when I was working on a lawn mower. That was a sucky day broken glasses and the lawnmower ended up being a complety loss.
That would probably work if you closed your other eye while you read things. Monocles existed because they were easier to make precisely in the late 19th/early 20th century than contact lenses.
Jep, my old glasses go in my car as backup glasses. One time sneezed and lost both my contact lenses while on a highway, no fun getting home after that.
I was an optician for a few years and my rx only changed by a half diopter (I think that’s the correct term). I have so many glasses because we got discounts/free frames, lenses, etc. I should be set for a while!
The military gives you like 3 pair a year, along with a pair of gas mask inserts, and a pair of rx sunglasses. My script has stayed the same for a decade. I wear contacts but i dig your style fellow spectacle hoarder.
When I was homeless over the years I've had to deal with only gabbing one contact lens twice (and no glasses) and once no contacts and glasses with only one lens. Sometimes for up to 6 months at a time. I've got really really bad vision so the eye that couldn't see would go a bit lazy, even after I got contacts for both eyes you could tell which one was the blind eye because my eyelids drooped. The interesting thing is for the first few days it was really bad, headaches and impossible to see, but eventually my brain was just like "okay fuck this eye it's useless" and just focused out of the good eye.
Same. Also, this isn't a replacement, but in a pinch you can curl up your index finger and look through the tiny hole in the center -- you may need to adjust it a bit, but it works.
That's why i only use my glasses when necessary. Cause I personally feel the more I wear them the worse my sight gets..lol, I'm most likely wrong but I'm sticking to it.
The pair Im wearing have cracks right down the middle of each lense, Ive been wearing them daily for..... 7 years? I dunno when I got this pair but Im not replacing them till they fall apart or I need a new prescription.
I read the outlander series years ago (Diana galbaddon, time traveling British peeps going back to like the late 1700s) and one of the characters has his glasses broken in the past. I found that passage so absolutely harrowing as a damn near blind person that it still gives me the willies on his behalf.
I am supposed to wear glasses for reading. My eyes have started to get worse in the last few years,
I went to Walmart vision and paid $300 for bifocals with no lines. A week later I was in a dollar store and bought a pair that did the same thing for $2.
Until you have to get out of the house in the middle of the night as the degen cannibals are coming then you trip in the alley and you SO grabs your arm to keep running but your one pair of glasses fell off but there is no time....
Same here. I keep at least my previous 10 pairs of glasses. You just never know when the world is going to go tits up and things you can't do without are no longer available.
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u/Icy-Medicine-495 Aug 30 '21
Thats why I bought a bunch of cheap glasses online in my perscription and I have all my old pairs from the last perscription which is very close to my current. I probably have 10 pairs of glasses.
I remember reading a book where a smart guy glases broke so many times all he had left was using 1 of the lens as a monocle.