Mine is still getting progressively worse

I went to the doctor yesterday for my 6-month exam (yes I go every six months), and he bumped it up from -7.25 to -7.50.

I've worn corrective lenses since I was 16, and over the past 10 years my prescription strength has gone from a -1.50 to -7.50. Neither of my parents wear glasses or contacts.

5/17/2008 4:29:10 PM

my ex roomates was like a 4 point something

5/17/2008 4:30:00 PM

20/10 holler

but im a sucker for a girl in rectangle glasses

5/17/2008 4:30:35 PM

are you gonna be blind? I think 7.5 is about the strongest I've known anybody' to wear

5/17/2008 4:30:40 PM

mine is -7.00 in one eye and -7.50 in the other

and i go every 6 months too. feel your pain. he keeps telling me i'll be a good candidate for surgery IF/WHEN my eyes ever stop changing. i think i'll be blind by then. in middle school he said it would slow down in high school, in high school it'd slow down in college, well now i'm out of college and they're still changing everytime

5/17/2008 4:30:54 PM

-1.50 and -1.25

but that's improved somehow over the last 2 years

and rectangular glasses are ftw

5/17/2008 4:31:28 PM

^^damn what does everything look like without glasses? can you see colors?

[Edited on May 17, 2008 at 4:31 PM. Reason : .]

5/17/2008 4:31:29 PM

i can literally see nothing without contacts. my glasses suck and make me dizzy to put on because they're old...a couple of prescriptions behind.

i can see colors i guess. everything is just blury even if i am way up close to it. i can't even squint and see things.

5/17/2008 4:33:06 PM

im -2.5 my mom is in like -12 or some shit

5/17/2008 4:34:37 PM

do yall know the numbers to like 7.5 and shit?


my teacher in highschool was 20/800 in 1 eye and 20/400 in the other

5/17/2008 4:35:31 PM

I'm not a candidate for the surgery mainly because it isn't 100% reliable, and there's not a doctor who will take a chance on someone like me who has one good eye. My doctor won't even write me a prescription for contacts anymore (for my own good, he says), so I'm stuck with wearing glasses forever now.

I can't see shit when I don't have my glasses on, but get down to 20/30 when I wear them.

5/17/2008 4:36:26 PM

get a monocle

5/17/2008 4:37:47 PM

-0.5. I guess it feels different b/c I was always used to my really good eyesight that it bothers me. I have good VSP coverage so I just got some glasses for things like late night driving and watching movies.

5/17/2008 4:38:11 PM

-9.5

5/17/2008 4:38:26 PM

damn this thread is interesting...i always considered people that had warts, had to wear glasses, were allergic to anything, etc to be inferior

5/17/2008 4:39:42 PM

-4.25,-4.75

My prescription finally stabilized around there a couple of years ago. My doc said that most people's eyes stop changing by the time they're 25 or so and hang there until middle age. But I think that having a baby has impacted my vision and I'm going to have to go back to get my prescription tweaked.

5/17/2008 4:41:09 PM

i think you just want someone to tweak it

5/17/2008 4:45:10 PM

5/17/2008 4:46:15 PM

haha glasses people aren't inferior. people with allergies and glasses are usually nerdy. maybe they're inferior if you still need to hit a woman over the head with a club to have sex with her. but i think that joe#s and his phd probably prove that people with eye problems are doing alright

5/17/2008 4:46:17 PM

(and your progressing jd)

5/17/2008 4:47:17 PM

Word.

My husband needs reading glasses and has a severe latex allergy, but he was a Park Scholar and has two degrees.

5/17/2008 4:47:28 PM

^^^ ♥

5/17/2008 4:47:35 PM

i dont consider people that have allergies and wear glasses to be nerdy...i consider people with allergies and that wear glasses to be inferior

5/17/2008 4:48:41 PM

OH GEEZ

5/17/2008 4:50:34 PM

seriously...i know its wrong to think this but why cant we just kill all the inferior people and clean out the gene pool

5/17/2008 4:51:13 PM

Mines like a -6 and my husband's are -11s

5/17/2008 4:52:09 PM

^^ hmmm, didn't Hitler try that?

[Edited on May 17, 2008 at 4:54 PM. Reason : blonde hair / blue eyes are ideal, right?]

5/17/2008 4:52:10 PM

i don't know many intelligent people who don't wear glasses or have some kind of allergy. if we killed off the 'inferior,' we'd have some serious stupid left over.

5/17/2008 4:54:01 PM

^^yes but that was one particular group...by killing the inferior people no one would have to worry about about diseases and stuff as much...it would make the earth better as a whole....only smart people would remain and everyone would be at peace and shit....i hardly say that compares to hitler....the good of the many outweigh the good of the few

there are good people of ALL races...we just get out the really bad ones...everyone else makes out ok...

[Edited on May 17, 2008 at 4:55 PM. Reason : .]

5/17/2008 4:54:07 PM

maybe we should clean out the gene pool except for DNLs genetic material. a world full of DNLS = human perfection?

5/17/2008 4:54:59 PM

look just cause i have good polock genes is no reason to get all antagonizing


i'm just saying we could keep the best genes and get rid of the people holding us down

5/17/2008 4:55:41 PM

says the stupid one...

5/17/2008 4:55:46 PM

Quote :

"polock"

that explains everything i wanted to know about DnL

5/17/2008 4:56:19 PM

Quote :

"my teacher in highschool was 20/800 in 1 eye and 20/400 in the other"

so, he was blind?

5/17/2008 4:57:43 PM

^^ yeah emce told me that and i fucking fell on the floor with laugher...

suddenly the world made sense... Now i understand the jokes!!

[Edited on May 17, 2008 at 4:58 PM. Reason : carrot]

5/17/2008 4:57:58 PM

Quote :

"polock"

maybe Hitler was onto something!

5/17/2008 4:58:03 PM

for example

say we get rid of all handicap people


dont have to worry about ada requirements anymore, dont have to worry about handicap spots...dont have to devote the money to a small part of the population that drags the productivity of others down... i mean come on how is this not the "real" solution

5/17/2008 4:58:21 PM

well sign me up. i'm always down for some good old fashioned genocide

5/17/2008 4:58:24 PM

-2.5, hasn't changed in the last 6 years.

5/17/2008 4:58:24 PM

dnl would you exterminate me due to my disability, even if i wasn't born this way? i mean, i can pass it on to my kids, right?

5/17/2008 4:59:34 PM

Quote :

"I call bullshit unless he was a goddamn hawk, or an owl"

uh oh...did i flip the numbers the wrong way? thats the only way i can see you not being able to understand what i said....


ok i'll spell it out for you

he had to be 20 feet away from something to see something others could see at 800 feet away

5/17/2008 4:59:46 PM

nah parapalegics are ok...they got like fake legs and whatnot to make them fairly normal

[Edited on May 17, 2008 at 5:01 PM. Reason : ok anyways...back to glasses strength stuff....just felt like ranting sorry]

5/17/2008 5:01:10 PM

nope, I flipped it

I still call bullshit. There's no way to measure that amount of blindness

5/17/2008 5:02:19 PM

ahhhh on that note i'm going to nap. its been real, its been fun, but it ain't been real fun. but before i nap i gotta go log this thread away in my "stupidest things i've ever heard" lisa frank trapper keeper.

5/17/2008 5:03:07 PM

haha people that say that real fun thing are so lame

[Edited on May 17, 2008 at 5:03 PM. Reason : god we should let dnl have a genocide]

[Edited on May 17, 2008 at 5:04 PM. Reason : ^you just had to leave on a shitty note]

5/17/2008 5:03:29 PM

-5.25 in both

5/17/2008 5:18:01 PM

Left: -1.5
Right: -.5

but i'm certified as a "one-eyed driver" so no restrictions on my license and i only have to take the right side of the eye exam

5/17/2008 5:26:21 PM

left: -5.0
right:-4.5

5/17/2008 5:36:38 PM

My left is -8.0 and my right is -7.5. Been that way for the past ... 8 years or so.

5/17/2008 9:58:19 PM

poor tartsquid

5/17/2008 10:02:53 PM