Something I’ve always wondered - glasses are common but in psych wards so few wear glasses.
Last week in psych ward I was the only one out of nine ladies wearing specs.
Is there some link between sz and not being short sighted or is the two commonly coexisting?
Who here is short sighted and sz/sza? Or is it uncommon?
If so then why? I have both conditions.
I need glasses but often don’t wear them. Everything is blurry whether I wear them or not because my eyes have a condition I don’t know the name of. It’s less blurry with glasses but not enough improvement for me to really care.
I have nearsightedness. I have for a very long time. I rarely wear glasses for it though. I am beginning to develop problems with close up vision with age as well. I also believe I may be getting beginnings of cataract in right eye as vision is a bit blurry and see “halos/rings” around light sources in that eye. I have eye exam tuesday and will probably get bifocals.
I’m nearsighted and also have astigmatism.
It took me a long while to admit I needed glasses. I kept complaining subtitles on the TV were too blurry and gritty, and that the writing on roadsigns was too damn small.
Then I got glasses and realised the problem was me all along 
Because of the astigmatism, I’m very wobbly without glasses. It affects my depth perception, which also leads to headaches, dizziness and nausea.
I’m nearsighted. I wear contacts during the day and glasses late at night and early in the morning.
I am both nearsighted and schizoaffective
I have a hard time seeing far away
I wear glasses in public
I have astigmatism and nearsightedness. Also, a couple of years ago I had to get bifocals cuz I couldn’t read even with my glasses on. I spent some more money and got the progressive lenses so I don’t have that little line on the glass. I also got transitions lenses so they turn into sunglasses when I’m outside.
I’m nearsighted. I also have astigmatism. So I wear glasses.
My eye sight isn’t bad, I can see almost everything except for text at a distance. But I still wear my glasses because I like clearer vision:)
E: I also have schizoaffective
Ha, I’ve certainly been accused of being short-sighted before, lol. I’m working on it.
I’m nearsighted and got my first glasses in third grade. I wore glasses all through my school days. Now wearing glasses is kind of cool with all these fancy frames, but when I was growing up it was a definite disadvantage.
When I was growing up in the 1960’s and 1970’s you always had the token fat kid in your class, and you also had the token couple people who wore glasses. If you wore glasses you were supposed to be a geek or a nerd. But I kind of went against that stereotype, I was pretty cool for a kid who wore glasses, I hung around with the coolest kids in class, I was alright at sports and got in a few fights.
Outside of school I had cool friends and did everything they did. I always hated wearing glasses though. The worst part was when you were playing around with your friends and someone knocked your glasses off so they fell to the ground. Always slightly embarrassing. So when I got LASIK done in 1999 it was a godsend. I loved it and I don’t wear glasses to this day except sometimes to read.
I am short sighted but dont wear glasses because I cannot afford a new one after my last one broke.
I have both of these as well! I’ve worn glasses since I was about 12 or 13 probably a 12 since about a year later I was diagnosed with Graves disease a thyroid disorder
Slightly nearsighted and astigmatism. I also wear bifocals now.
Slight short sightedness for me, means I wear glasses daily.
I tried contact lenses but they were too irritating for my eyes
Without my glasses i see 260 resolution
I’m near sighted
I’m extremely short sighted with an astigmatism…
I’ve been very nearsighted since I was an infant. I wore glasses when I was a year old.
Also, I was born with crossed eyes (strabismus), which is a sign of sz. At age three I had corrective surgery.
I’m older now, so I now wear trifocals (with the lines).
I am nearsighted in right eye since I was young, plus a cataract now (think caused by meds)… and I have an astigmatism … I wear glasses. Sza
I have astigmatism i wear glasses.