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It has come to this: Halfway through life, I must don glasses.
Please give me your best, least obvious or highest benefit-cost-ratio tips and advice for the newly bespectacled.
Edit: Context: Apparently I'm nearsighted and have Astigmatism. I already got a first pair of glasses; plastic lenses in a very simple frame. Not the sturdiest (I wanted it to be fairly light), but not exactly wireframe either. Cost me around 250€. My parents regularly shell out 1000€-2500€ for glasses, so this seemed an acceptable price. No extra features though.
Have you considered contact lenses? If you're not sensitive to them or creeped out by putting them in or out, your eyes just feel naturally like they can see better in every direction. I forgot my vision sucks, until I take them out at night before bed, whereas I'm pretty much always aware that I'm looking through glasses.
Additionally, you can just add sunglasses without getting a prescription specifically for them.
They're surprisingly robust. I can get water in my eyes while showering and even in the pool and not lose them. I primarily got them so that I could look through a rifle scope without my glasses making it more complicated and fell in love with them for primary use.
I use daily disposables. After practice I can put them in and take them out in about 30 seconds.
I have. I was told they're unsuitable for those who enjoy seasonal allergies in two seasons out of four. But given your very positive opinion, I should probably reconsider. So far, I do find glasses fairly annoying.
Unsuitable just because of allergies...? Hm. That sounds a bit nonsensical to me, but then I don't have any severe allergies. Aren't there allergy medicines you could use to keep your eyes from itching too much? Rubbing your eyes won't usually destroy the lenses, btw.
Try contact lenses. Once you get used to putting them in and taking them out, I can't imagine anyone going back to wearing glasses.
I also recommend the daily disposables, if you don't mind a somewhat higher cost.
I wish.
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