11 years of VDU abuse...

[Desmo]

As others have said, they do suit you. Was they your choice or did you get help?

Originally Posted by Del Lardo

They look good though real men wear contacts

NO! Real men try and pull out contact lenses with stanley knives and pliers only to find there is no contact lens there. That's what REAL MEN™ do!

[Feek]

Originally Posted by |Show|

yeah i wasn't sure if it did or not, but the optician said that considering i'm 22 theres no other explanation as to why i'd be short sighted already.

What a fool! So he's saying that the only reason young people get short sighted is through looking at screens? Crap.

[Roberta]

They look damn cool!

[Justsomebloke]

REAL MEN™ wear glasses, Gayers who worry about there looks like women wear contacts
Nice bins Dude, I've worn glasses for around 5 years & don't feel right without them on. Even though I don't need to use them all the time I like them & feel odd without them.
The dizzyness lasts around a week depending on the person, I had around 2 days of weirdness & have not looked back since.
I'm due another visit as my eyes have downgraded over the last 2 years but I can't decide what shop has got the best bins yet.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Feek

What a fool! So he's saying that the only reason young people get short sighted is through looking at screens? Crap.

It isn't crap if you don't do some eye exercises. If you look at a VDU (or anything else that requires close-up study - e.g. needlework) all day without a break *and nothing else* then this is entirely possible.

VDU use doesn't cause the problems - poor eye health does.

Either that or it's just a pre-existing condition, which is the more likely answer.

[Joe 90]

Originally Posted by Desmo

Was they your choice or did you get help?

the help consisted of the woman in vision express gettin this 'box' thing which i ended up putting 5 pairs in... some that my mum liked n some that i'd picked out... i'd pretty much already decided on these frames when i came to narrow them down so it didn't take very long for me to decide \o/

Originally Posted by Mark

It isn't crap if you don't do some eye exercises. If you look at a VDU (or anything else that requires close-up study - e.g. needlework) all day without a break *and nothing else* then this is entirely possible.

VDU use doesn't cause the problems - poor eye health does.

Either that or it's just a pre-existing condition, which is the more likely answer.

yeah, i perhaps should of believed all the warnings and stuff that you get at work and with computer games to take a 15minute break every hour

[Feek]

Originally Posted by |Show|

yeah i wasn't sure if it did or not, but the optician said that considering i'm 22 theres no other explanation as to why i'd be short sighted already.

Originally Posted by Mark

It isn't crap if you don't do some eye exercises. If you look at a VDU (or anything else that requires close-up study - e.g. needlework) all day without a break *and nothing else* then this is entirely possible.

VDU use doesn't cause the problems - poor eye health does.

Either that or it's just a pre-existing condition, which is the more likely answer.

Sorry Mark, but what was said *is* crap. If Show's optician is saying that the only reason his eyes could have deteriorated by the age of 22 is because he spends his time looking at VDUs then he (the optician) is a fool because he's discounting the very many other possible causes.

[Joe 90]

aye, well he was quick to come to his conclusion when i said that I thought it must be because of that (its what my mums been saying for years)

wonder what else it could be :/
he said its almost certainly not genetic at my age and theres nowt medically wrong with my eyes :/

[Mark]

Get a 2nd opinion.

[Desmo]

Originally Posted by |Show|

he said its almost certainly not genetic at my age and theres nowt medically wrong with my eyes :/

I think this is what Feek is aiming at, and I have to agree. What has age got to do with anything? You see four year old kids with glasses and not spent four years looking at a screen. Some people's eyes just get worse no matter what they do. It is a genetic thing and it's not age related. Unless of course your eyes look different depending on if it's genetic degradation or self caused.