So I finally got some glasses.
 

I had an astigmatism, 20/50 in the left and 20/40 in the right. Got my glasses today.

Should I expect to be kind of freaked out when I wear them for a while? almost like I'm dizzy. And I can tell that my eyes are working hard.

Yeah that'll happen for a while. It takes a bit to start "tracking" with them on. Do they work well with the coboy hat?

The day I received my glasses I well remember thinking "Wow!! The trees have leaves now!!" Eye glasses have easily been the most useful investments of my life and (beyond fogging and being rather expensive) have never caused me issue. YMMV.

Oh yeah. I'm quickly approaching Full-On Douche-Nozzle status.

Are your glasses something like this?

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welcome to the club. now did you get insurance? buy 12 pairs for when ya sit on them,leave them in bars,g/friends nightstand?



pretty soon you will be leaving them in strategic places all over yer house.



yep we were just talking bout dis............... getting old sucks.



next its viagra and thats the official "WELCOME WAGON TO THEM THAR GOLDEN YEARS!"

20/40 and 20/50?

I don't think you'll end up wearing the glasses much.

Hey Four Eyes now we know why U have been hitting on those barkers....

Glasses are so declassa for a rock star unles your an old fk like Bono...

LMFAO! too damn funny!

Yes. Especially when you look in the mirror & wonder who is that bespectacled old f*k starring back at you.

Ian

You're a SICK JUAN!

I did it mostly because I was squinting looking at the computer and my face was starting to hurt.

jeremy i think one of the best eye glass tests would be to stare at the "chest thread" today.


this will show you how effective your new glasses are.


the value added bonus is now by wearing glasses, NOTHING CAN POKE YOU IN THE EYES ANYMORE!


your eyes are the most important organ your body has. for without eyes you cant see what the other organs are doing and sometimes that can get kind of SCAREY!



always wear safety glasses around pointy objects!

Naw I don't believe it...he probably hooked up with a Tranny by mistake and the horror of not being able to tell the difference finally convinced him sumthin in tha tpicture needed changing....

ya mean GOGAR went "DANNY BONADUCE" on us????????????? and yes "danny and the tranny" happened right here in lil old phx. documented.


now how the hell can a guy get a TV/RADIO show when that gets out in the press?

Din't seem to hurt Eddie Murphy when he picked up his new ahhh friend...

That's it....time to retire.

They didn't hurt John Lennon.

Mark Chapman hates guys who wear glasses.

My grandmas 80, doesn't need glasses.
Drinks right out of the bottle!
Ba, da,bum,bump.
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that was meant to be "leave them on girlfriends nightstands".



anyway i cant wait to see the NEW YOU wearing your new glasses and the KAWBOY HAT!


play that funky music whiteboy! get yer FUNK ON!



i choose the UBER STYLISH FASHIONABLE CHIC glasses from the wayyyy cooll elite north snobbsdale paris designer..............TAR-GETT pronounced TARRRR- CHEE(target). dirt cheap, my daily drill of putting them on before coffee doing my puter work, getting into truck, slipping sunglasses over regular glasses(clip ons) is the easiest i could find. no pesky sun, just pull off clip ons. go to grocery store and place clip ons on and stare at all the FOXES. works for me.


wait until ya break them..................then yer gonna have FITS! ask me how i know.

psycho killer on the loose...

I left my prescription suns in a rental car in Miami. Since then, clip-ons have been my constant. Cheap. Easily replaceable. They do the job. A definite fail on the rock star image but I am too old to care.

Ian

im a TARGET ROCKSTAR WITH MINE!



wait til ya drop them off yer nose. oh the joy of owning glasses. bean der done'd dat a few 1000 times now.

It's been hurting us for some time now.

Ba domp CHHHHHSHHHSHHH!!!!!!.

Targa 911S FTW!!!

Go to walymart and find some clip ons for $10. you can wear them as sunglasses and see better too. You will be amazed at the scratches the clip ons will get and you replace them for $10 instead of the $XXX glasses. They carry about 10 shapes and sizes for best fit and tint color. Not at the Optometrist ($XX), but in the sunglass area.

Did you see Yoko in her prime...:eek:

Thanks folks I'll be here all week. Please tip your servers.

I like them rapist glasses:

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Definition: Astigmatism occurs when incident light rays do not converge at a single focal point. Total refractive astigmatism can be divided into corneal (or keratometric) astigmatism, lenticular astigmatism, and retinal astigmatism. Most astigmatism is corneal in origin. Cornea = clear front part of the eye.

ASTIGMATISM
Full correction may not be needed for individuals with regular astigmatism. Adults with astigmatism may not accept full cylindrical correction in their first pair of eyeglasses or in subsequent eyeglasses if their astigmatism has been only partially corrected. In general, substantial changes in axis or power are not well tolerated.
(above from American Academy of Ophthalmology)
If your astigmatism is oriented in the vertical or horizontal meridians you will likely adapt reasonably soon (between a week and a month) and well. At an oblique axis (say 135 or 45 degrees) adaptation seems to take longer and may require a return visit to change to partial correction for better comfort.
Good luck

I have a (fairly) mild case of astigmatism also, particularly in one eye. My brain can make the adjustment but sometimes it gets tired and visual acuity suffers, so I wear glasses. When putting the glasses on for the first time, it looks like horizontal surfaces are very much slanted. Freaks people out when I invite them to look through my glasses. But.....after a few days your brain will adjust and the horizontal-tilting effect went away. Horizontal surfaces now look level to me, whether my glasses are on or off. The brain is an interesting thing. Psychologists once made and wore, 24/7, glasses that turned everything upside down. After a few days, their brains made the adjustment.