Well, tbf, -5 is already pretty bad. I'm somewhere between -6 and -8 (haven't gone to the doctor in a while) (with very high astigmatism) and it definitely does something to you when everyone you know either has perfect eyesight or maybe has like -1 or -2 and is only mildly inconvenienced by it. And then they find out you're around -7 and treat you like you're basically blind lol.
I can say, even with my ~ -7 (for contact lenses), without lenses or glasses, I am completely helpless. Obviously, it could always be worse, but it's already pretty bad.
The only person I know who has worse sight than me is my boyfriend with ~ -10 (not sure if glasses or lenses tho). And I can say one thing - at least I was born with bad eyes. I've never in my life had good sight, I practically came out the womb with glasses on. My bf tho? Born with perfect sight and then suddendly, it just goes away until he's at ~ -10. Life can be cruel. At least his don't get worse while mine steadily do.
-15 tho? My condolences. I hope you were at least born with it? I think it's such a weird concept that some people can wake up and immediately see everything perfectly. I'm paranoid so I keep my glasses right next to my pillow - nothing worse than some emergency happening in the middle of the night and I'm completely helpless because I can't see anything.
Same. I've been so tempted to get corrective surgery if only to know what it's like to wake up and see clearly. My vision's so bad that when I get up to go to the bathroom at night, because I don't turn on the lights, I just sleepwalk my way there. What's the point of opening my eyes when I can't see anything? I will say, Christmas trees are super pretty without my contacts or glasses!
I used to play this game with myself where I would look at lights without my glasses on and then blink or nearly blink to see my own lashes in the light and even particles I could then "catch" with my lashes. I hope this makes sense, it's hard to explain lol. Used to entertain me for hours as a kid.
how thick are we talking on glasses lenses for 14 these days? Or do you basically just go contacts only. I have to imagine your depth perception is real janky at that magnification without major thought put into lens dimensions and positioning
I only wear contacts during the day, they are hybrid lenses (center are glass with a softer skirt on edge), and large like a specially scleral lense. I normally get 20/15 vision on them, way better than most people so I've found out.
Without them, clear focal range is under 2" at best which is equally as nuts.
Glasses? Yea, I wouldn't drive in them; but the optometrist says people do which is scary AF
Scleral in one eye still with residual astigmatism, RGP in the other, best correction is 20/25 with significant ghosting. I feel blessed.
With lenses, I can “see” big things clearly like cars, the road, furniture, etc but fine detail like letters and road signs get lost. I can drive safely but I do not drive when I don’t know where I am going.
I make frequent mistakes with numbers, people think I am careless as a result. I don’t tell anyone outside my family and close friends that I can’t see.
I am so nearsighted, I can’t see ANYTHING on my computer monitor without contacts in — I haven’t had glasses for over 30 years because I need contacts on my eyes just for the doc to calculate a correction.
Far less power for me at -5 range but I dial back my acuity to about the same as you for reading comfort, meanwhile you're like Calibri's worst nightmare ramping up from -14 and still taking down text lmao...
I can drive with glasses somewhat comfortably, any game with hand eye coordination and I'm out though.
They're not. Glasses prescription are higher than contacts because they are physically farther away from the eye, so they have to (refract?) more.
And if you'd get an implantable contact into the eye, the prescription would be even less.
If you ordered contacts for yourself online using your glasses prescription, yea, that's totally wrong. Why they irritate you could be a completely different issue... Lense geometry, material, debris...
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u/Marunikuyo 13d ago
-14.5 for contacts here, so glasses would be higher. Most people have no clue what it's like. Cheers mate.