Eyeglass Question

Yes, I just got a pair yesterday that I ordered online. They were under the petite/child category, and they fit me just fine. I have a narrow oval face and regular size glasses are always big on me, so I decided to give the "child" frames a go and I'm so glad I did. Just make sure where you go has a petite/child selection since you can't order online. I got mine on zennioptical.com.

I have done kids frames before! I am second guessing my latest frame choice, but stuck with them for now (currently redoing the lenses, hopefully they are better!) My daughter has a pretty strong rx, +5.50 or something like that. She has to have the specialty $$$ lenses or they would be too thick (they curve out towards her eyes... convex?), plus it gives her more of a field of vision rather than a quarter size area in the middle. The sport glasses we ordered her almost didn’t work with her lense needs, there were a couple phone calls back and forth to get it squared away.

Just learned about Ortho-K at my appt today - going to research it... essentially retainers for your eye balls to wear at night so you don’t need glasses during the day!

springlering62 wrote: »

In the same vein as the makeup thread I just started .... For years I let myself go, and that included appearance and dress, and it’s time to change.

The last time I got glasses, over two years ago, I was 90 pounds heavier. My face is so thin now that my glasses cover half of it and stick way out on either side of my head. They look cartoonish.

I have an unusually strong prescription so these were small frames to begin with, so they wouldn’t be so thick on the edges.

This is totally off the wall. Has anyone tried children’s frames? I don’t even know if kids frames could support my prescription? I don’t even know if you can get an eye exam during all this. I guess I’ll have to investigate.

What was different about your eyeglasses pre versus post weight loss that would be helpful to know?

My lenses are crazy expensive because of the prescription and I can’t use the online fabricators, so when I get a pair, I have to keep them, love em or hate em.

I wear childrens glasses because my face is too slim for most adult glasses. Been wearing BBig for 20 years or so, the larger childrens size, 48-18. Currently model 215. Like I say a very slim face thus it's nearly impossible to get my eyes in the middle of most glasses, and I can only wear acetate due to very touchy nerves where pads of non-acetate glasses rest. And if you also happen to have a face shape where the arms should sit in the middle, and not the top of the frame then you're pretty much doomed.

Diatonic12 wrote: »

@annaleverentz My sisters were discussing that you don't hear much about contact lenses anymore. Why is that. Are they going by the way of the dodo, too much bother for premium daily contacts. People out here don't like them because there's too much wind and dirt/dust blowing around almost every day. What's your opinion about them.

Personally I don’t hear a lot about contacts because pretty much every second person I meet wear them (I tend to find out eventually). In my area most people use contacts at least some of the time.

I use monthly contacts, which are the only ones that work with my rather extreme prescription. Less waste, cheaper and actually not very fussy at all. Certainly worth it for the ability to enjoy all the activities I want.

Glasses are relatively fragile (I do rock climbing and play padel), slip around (I like doing inversions in yoga), lacks peripheral vision (dangerous when I’m biking, and certainly not something I’d be comfortable with if driving), are a pain when it rains/snows (frequently) and are very expensive. I recently got new glasses and the cost including middle-of-the-road frames and the required thinning of lenses equates about 6 years worth of contact lenses + solution. And with contacts I can alter the prescription every 6 months if I needed to.

I have a really high prescription and was worried I couldn't go to a cheaper online source but I just got a pair from Zenni and they're great. They can do the high index so they're not super thick. I'm hooked. Even with the high index and major prescription I still paid less than $100 and my last pair from my optometrist was over $700.

Diatonic12 wrote: »

@annaleverentz My sisters were discussing that you don't hear much about contact lenses anymore. Why is that. Are they going by the way of the dodo, too much bother for premium daily contacts. People out here don't like them because there's too much wind and dirt/dust blowing around almost every day. What's your opinion about them.

@springlering62 You look good in anything, everything.

I would LOVE to wear contacts...but since having LASIK done 20 years ago, I can't anymore. I used to wear contacts all the time. Then I had LASIK done. It was awesome for 10 years...then my vision started to go again. Now no matter what kind I try, they just don't sit correctly flat on my eyeball (scarring maybe?) and so my vision is not nice and clear.