Basically title; how long did it take you to get used to them?

For bonus info for me, how old were you when you started wearing them? How bad are your eyes?

I finally had to give in and get them. My eyes aren’t that bad (I think) but I’m almost 40. I’ve had them made a few times in the past because I have had a prescription all this time (since my mid 20s) but I never wore them. It was more work than my eyes were doing…… probably. Felt that way anyway…

But I can’t avoid it now and I got an additional pink tint added to maybe help with headaches (not directly related to my eyes, I’ve had the headaches most of my life; they run in the family, yay!)… and one eye has a stronger prescription than the other and it’s insanely nauseating. It’s my dominant eye no less. And maybe I shouldn’t have done all the vision changes at once.

How long am I gunna deal with this? I can’t just stop wearing them after a few days this time, because off is worse for reading and I know it and I notice it.

Edit: this is day one of wearing these. It sucks but it’s not like this is ongoing. This is new to me in that it’s physically uncomfortable, but my eyes are legit bad and I’ve known it and I think the prescription might be a bit off but they have been telling me for years if I just wear the damned things my eyes will relax and my prescription will probably change. I do not like the visual changes. They make me sick because I have neurological problems that both cause headaches and intense motion sickness. Like I can’t swing on swings without getting violently ill. -end edit

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    4 days ago

    My eyes have always been horrible, since I was in first or second grade. I was a voracious reader, always the best in the class, and far ahead of my age group. At the same time that I was devouring reading material, I remember having splitting headaches for some reason, but they stopped when I got glasses.

    I wore glasses every minute of my waking life until I was about 30, and my girlfriend, now my wife, convinced me to get contacts, and I’ve worn them for decades.

    Now I’m old, and just recently went to the eye doc to get a cataract taken care of, and he told me that my entire bad eyesight can be chalked up to the fact that my eyes are much bigger than normal, and that causes nearsightedness in people with normal sized skulls. He said I have the eyeballs of a 7 foot 2 inch man!

    It figures, I got one thing on my body that enormous, and it’s my eyeballs.