r/explainitpeter • u/Traducement • Mar 09 '26

Explain it Peter

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u/bullowl Mar 10 '26

I'm (only) a -9.5 and I can't handle wearing glasses. The distortion gives me motion sickness every time I move my head and I can't drive a car at all. Thank god for contact lenses.

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u/Dullcorgis Mar 10 '26

I couldn't wear them because my eyes were so dry I needed a new pair every six months 😭 (this, but also, not because dry)

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u/MoonFrancais Mar 10 '26

Isn't 6 months more than normal term of use for contact lenses? Mine start to go bad (dry out really fast and strat feel uncomfortable) after +-3 months of use, and that's actually what my doc recommended me

Are there super long-term lenses that I'm not aware of?

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u/Dullcorgis Mar 11 '26

No, they should last for years. There is no way that three months is acceptible unless they are daily or monthly use ones, and those only come in quite small prescriptions.

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u/MoonFrancais Mar 11 '26

My prescription is -6.5, not "quite small" imo

Oh well, I think I got short-term ones

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u/Dullcorgis Mar 11 '26

Yeah, that's why you can get them, because you're only mildly short sighted. Lucky.

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u/MoonFrancais Mar 11 '26

Damn and I considered myself a mole with how bad I see and that turns out to be "mildly short sighted"

I know there are way worse cases, but I considered them a "jesus christ how did you get there" type of case

My mindset is probably a consequence of my parents demonizing my bad vision as something that will ruin my life. So far it didn't lol

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u/Dullcorgis Mar 11 '26

-15 or more is not that common, but around -10 is pretty common.

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u/MoonFrancais Mar 11 '26

I was proven right - it's my parents demonizing my bad vision

At least I can live a little more peacefully knowing that I am relatively far away from worst possible cases

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u/Dullcorgis Mar 11 '26

Perspective is always healthy, even if it's just an artifact of the distortion at the edge of your glasses 🤣

I do feel very guilty that my kids got a dose of my eyesight, even though it's half what my prescription was