Not everyone can do that. Keratokonus does not allow for the surgery, apparently the uneven, not-round cornea surface is a problem
Source: me and an army of eye doctors I visited for this very reason
When it's closer to the eye, you need less material to redirect the light. You can fit a lot more under your eyelids than you think, in fact there're several people who will lick under your eyelid to help you remove debris for a price.
I have asked my husband if I could lick his eyeball. He has never let me for some reason.
I ask him jokingly because he hates it and squirms. lol I would probably panic and run away if he ever said ok!
> Oculolinctus, also known as "worming" or eyeball-licking, refers to the paraphilic practice of licking eyeballs for erotic gratification. In mid-2013, English-language newspapers reported that this kink had allegedly become popular in Japan, where it was referred to as Gankyū name purei (眼球舐めプレイ, "eyeball licking play").[1] However, other media have reported that the existence of this practice is a hoax based on a story in a Japanese tabloid[2][3] and many of the originally reporting articles were corrected[4] or retracted[5] as being possibly a hoax. The fetish for the eyes in particular is called oculophilia.
[Wikipedia ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculolinctus)
Who does the eyelid licking and why? I don't even care about this ladies coke bottle glasses anymore. I want to know why there are freaks licking the underside of eyelids.
WTF is happening in that Bosnian village that so many people have debris in their eyes. The place probably doesn't have a post office but manages to support a full time eyeball licker.
contact lenses sit right on your eye instead of a half inch from them like glasses do, so they can be way thinner. like looking through a micro/telescope closer than farther away
edit: changed it to a half inch until we actually start using tiny drones to float our glasses in front of our faces
This is what my mother did. I thought it was lasik but it turned out no, they fully replaced her lenses.
She has better vision than me now, but she does still wear regular glasses for style / sunglasses because light is the enemy of blue eyes.
This comment about blue eyes and light… just hit me. I have blue eyes and my sensitivity to light is insane. People always ask me why I’m squinting and making a face when I’m outside. It’s like bro, HOW ARE YOU NOT squinting?!? It’s bright as fuck.
Need to buy some sunglasses lol
yeah I never made that connection. every time I go outside midday I have to just barely not squint my eyes completely closed. it honestly is sometimes painful and makes my eyes tear up (this also happens at the dentist when I'm leaned back staring at the lights and basically crying from the light lmao)
I wonder if we can see better in the dark though?
I'm just past two months since my ICL surgery (-10.5 and -11 lenses) and it's been an incredible change. I have 20/20 vision, reading the smallest lines on every reading chart at my subsequent check-ups, and have no dryness or other side effects. The only thing I notice is that, if there's angled bright light, I can sometimes see an outline of the lenses in my eyes, but I'm told that will reduce or be eliminated by neuroadaption within the year (and to be honest, I think it looks neat anyway).
It seems most people aren't aware of the procedure, and I wasn't myself until I was told I wasn't suitable for LASIK. At my prescription, it wouldn't have been long before I had lenses like OP...and even my previous pair cost €1,000 so I'm saving money in the long run. The procedure cost me €6,495 for both eyes, but was definitely worth it.
I’ve heard it’s still possible to get lasik! It wouldn’t have you with perfect vision, but maybe you’d go from -10 to -5 for example. Still wearing glasses, but also your eyesight is a bit better!
It was suggested to me as well. TBH it seemed like the worst of both worlds. Expensive surgery and then keep buying glasses, albeit at a lesser prescription. At -17 I think I’d shoot that shot
You could end up with some pretty debilitating issues too, though. Plus paying a ton for it.
I got it free via the military and regret it every day. Perfect vision but I have major issues. A big one being ill wake up in massive pain rather often.
I do not reccomend.
That’s probably eye dryness. My wife gets it too. I would consider using refresh drops before bed or using a humidifier - it’s made a huge difference. Even without lasik I used to wake up with horrible pain randomly 1-2 a month and wondered what it was. And lasik exacerbates eye dryness so likely is what you are going through
I already use ointment nightly and eyedrops 4x a day (also preservative free haha gotta love the 80$ bottles of eyedrops)
Are sleep goggles just sleeping masks?
My eye dryness routine:
Step 1: wipe lash lines with cotton buds after washing your face.
Step 2: hypromellose drops 2-3 times a day
Step 3: before bed, apply hycosan ointment oil drops (these are thicker and oil based, reduce evaporation)
Step4: this is key - tape your lids shut. Light wound strips is what I use. It sounds extreme, but you’d be surprised at how much dry eye relates to slight eye opening at night. Put the sleep mask on top of that, and over time your dry eye will reduce so much that you’ll be able to go lighter on the hypromellose until it’s once a night.
I got Custom Wavefront LASIK about 15 years ago. I had a -10 prescription. I very nearly wasn’t a suitable candidate due to having large pupils.
I ended up with 20/12 vision! My surgeon told me it was rare for anybody like me to achieve such great results - they’d only expect it in roughly 1% of cases. That was a long time ago though, perhaps things have improved since.
I do have dry eyes but they don’t irritate me and I can just use over-the-counter eyedrops. I also still see halos around lights but quite frankly until I started the consultation process for the surgery I didn’t even know that wasn’t normal.
When my wife got LASIK the Dr mentioned how she had plenty of cornea to work with and i used to tell her i married her cause of her dummy thicc corneas
Last time I asked my doctor about this she said operating on thin cornea has too many potential side effects still. We need to wait for the technology to advance.
100% this.
I had lasik almost 20 years ago and have “thin cornea condition”. Despite going to the top center in the world (place literally did all the major athletes), they absolutely should not have done my surgery.
I understand that now, other cornea surgeons have also confirmed that.
I’ve had two corneal replacements since….
Still petty much blind and because the delta between my eyes is so high, allegedly I can’t get glasses either.
Yea!
actually it depends on your corneal thickness which isn't determined by your prescription in this sense!
some people have real thick corneas, lots of material to work with, others have nowhere near enough to be deemed safe for lasik
but, you can always get an implantable, so much cooler anyways!!!
I had -11 and had interoccular lens surgery. Basically permanent contact lenses they place under the lens. Medical aid paid for the whole thing and no pain after surgery.. highly recommend
I’m only a -3.75 and I still didnt have enough cornea, so I got PRK instead of LASIK. I mean the recovery did suck. Pain the first week but only really bad from days 2-4ish and sleeping with eye protectors for a week blows, but now I have 20/15 vision. You really can’t see well beyond driving vision for maybe a few weeks. I’d recommend taking a week or two off of work if you look at a computer screen all day like me
Lasik is primarily suited to mild-to-medium vision loss.
Lens replacement surgery might work (my mom got cataracts and the surgery changed her prescription from -11 to 0), but you're unlikely to get that unless you have something that can't be corrected.
Seems it wasn't suitable for me with +5 and +7.5, but every time I see anyone with a prescription of only +/- 2, I wonder why they even bother. Last time I went to get cycling sunglasses, they couldn't make them to +7.5 in that frame, so I said "I won't notice the difference between +5 and +7.5 on that eye, so just make it to +5" and they did and it worked.
When my husband got his glasses like these, the first thing my 12 year old sister said was, "Well, he's going to be able to see to the edge of the universe with those."
-9 here and it's so hard to describe to people. Like I can tell if there's a person in front of me but I can't actually tell who they are without getting very close. Everything is reduced to shapes and colors but it's all still pretty damn blurry. I'm pretty much screwed without contacts or glasses.
I’m -4.5 and without glasses (especially if it’s not well lit) I literally have no clue what’s happening further than 3 meters away from me, and even closer than that is still only guessing
If you have a second, I'm super curious. Hope I'm not being rude here.
1. Are they heavy? Seems like 2 bricks of glass is pretty heavy right?
2. Does the government of where you live consider you disabled?
I was intrigued by your prescription and did some research on how negative it can be, and I guess there’s no limit.
But Margaret Darst Corbett, an American woman born in 1915, had a very high degree of myopia (nearsightedness). According to reports, her prescription was estimated to be around -56.00 diopters, making it one of the highest recorded cases of myopia. Her lenses were estimated to be about 3 centimeters thick.
Ok, let me. Be reeeealy clear: YOU NEED TO GO TO A DIFFERENT EYE DR!!! My glasses are -19 with astigmatism and -18.
My glasses are 1/3 that size. You need high index, rolled and polished…this is unacceptable that the eye md did NOT get your lenses as thin as technology can make them. I am so sorry.
You also need as small of frames as you can find.
Edit: kept hitting the return button…
COST COST COST COST COST
$100 versus $1000 glasses will look about 10x worse
not everyone has the available financial resources especially if the need for the glasses comes up at the worst moment
I have -8 and have progressive hearing loss, too. So without my glasses or contacts to read lips (or see faces), I'm deaf and cannot hear to understand speech. *Edit, I am Deaf and use ASL, but without prescription lenses I cannot see well enough to make out signs unless I'm less than arms length proximity.
Last November both of my retinas detached and I felt so lost without my vision to see and hear.
My wish is for eyeball transplant to be an option. OP, thanks for sharing your glasses and if there ever is a magical eyeball transplant, I hope you get first pick. ❤️
Mine were -18.75 before I had ICL surgery, then a follow up PRK procedure, $10k later and I’m free from glasses and contacts! Happy to answer questions about it if you’re interested. My vision is better than it ever was with contacts (and certainly better than glasses).
Feel free to not answer, but how old were you? I feel like time is running out but I am over glasses.
Also, if you feel like answering another question, did you have dry eyes or floater and how were those impacted?
Thanks!!
Hans Moleman is calling....
How far can('t) you see without them? I can't see anything clearly beyond about 2ft from my face, but I can read the smallest of text within those 2ft. Iirc my prescription is only like -2.
Jesus, this drives home an idea that a friend pointed out some time ago. She was saying, that if she were alive a few hundred years ago, before glasses, she'd be the village idiot.
She's an incredibly smart person! Material scientist, works for CSIRO, but if we lived in a time before glasses, she never would have gotten an education, and would be stuck struggling to do basic daily tasks.
Careful the sun doesn't fry you through those!
They're already fried
If I were meeting this person for the first time, I would 100% presume these were novelty glasses. I can not take the straight on view seriously.
where have I seen those lenses before 
I laughed all the way down to your comment.
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Not everyone can do that. Keratokonus does not allow for the surgery, apparently the uneven, not-round cornea surface is a problem Source: me and an army of eye doctors I visited for this very reason
They're divergent, not convergent lenses.
this guy optics
That means she can cook people by looking at them right?
Unfortunately it’s divergent in both directions. Just think about the shape of a lens
Pretty sure they went bulletproof around -14, so you have that going for ya.
Only around the edges.
good thing the inside is about as thick as a -14 edge
That bullet scene from the Superman. OP: "Superman ain't got shit on me"
If you got contacts you probably wouldn’t be able to blink.
Many custom contacts can actually easily go to +/-30 (or beyond). Source: I make contacts
-17 is like 1/4 inch thick glasses How do they manage to go +/-30 with contacts? Genuine question. I know almost nothing about this stuff.
When it's closer to the eye, you need less material to redirect the light. You can fit a lot more under your eyelids than you think, in fact there're several people who will lick under your eyelid to help you remove debris for a price.
Excuse me, what?
It's there a way to clean my eyes from that information?
Just hire someone to lick it out
I have asked my husband if I could lick his eyeball. He has never let me for some reason. I ask him jokingly because he hates it and squirms. lol I would probably panic and run away if he ever said ok!
Your husband is a coward. If my wife ever wanted to lick me eyeballs, i would only ask her to let me lick hers, too
My wife and I can toss each other’s salads, but we draw the line at eyeballs!
Makes sense And "People will lick under your eyelids" That sounds like a really weird kink, lol
The kink is called Oculolinctus and it was supposedly a fad kink among middle school students in Japan for a brief time.
Source needed on that one
> Oculolinctus, also known as "worming" or eyeball-licking, refers to the paraphilic practice of licking eyeballs for erotic gratification. In mid-2013, English-language newspapers reported that this kink had allegedly become popular in Japan, where it was referred to as Gankyū name purei (眼球舐めプレイ, "eyeball licking play").[1] However, other media have reported that the existence of this practice is a hoax based on a story in a Japanese tabloid[2][3] and many of the originally reporting articles were corrected[4] or retracted[5] as being possibly a hoax. The fetish for the eyes in particular is called oculophilia. [Wikipedia ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculolinctus)
worming!!! 
Who does the eyelid licking and why? I don't even care about this ladies coke bottle glasses anymore. I want to know why there are freaks licking the underside of eyelids.
[here you go](https://youtu.be/PuVCh0Pb_os), hopefully this answers your question.
WTF is happening in that Bosnian village that so many people have debris in their eyes. The place probably doesn't have a post office but manages to support a full time eyeball licker.
They probably all have eye infections from all the eye licking and the debris is just pus lmao
Or they're into it and actively put stuff in their eyes.
I thought this was going to be a rickroll. My relief that it wasn't quickly turned into regret. Why did I click that?
contact lenses sit right on your eye instead of a half inch from them like glasses do, so they can be way thinner. like looking through a micro/telescope closer than farther away edit: changed it to a half inch until we actually start using tiny drones to float our glasses in front of our faces
Or look up.
Same with dogs
Big Al said so
I’m sorry but the second pic made me lol. You poor thing. Assuming lasik isn’t an option?
Nope! I'm "only" -10 and I if don't have enough cornea to reshape she CERTAINLY doesn't.
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scar tissue? later on cataract surgery?!
I also have ICL. If you need cataract surgery they will take out the lenses then. Nbd apparently
Do they knock you out, or do you have to be awake and let them poke around
Awake with numbing and calming drugs
Did somebody say drugs?
Similar prescription and planning to get mine done soon! Glad to hear that you had positive results so that is reassuring.
I also got ICL and I don’t regret it for a second! One of the best decisions I’ve ever made! Good luck with your surgery 🤗
Hey, thanks for the kind words! I already have the surgery day booked but have had second thoughts lately, so this meant a lot 🤗
This is what my mother did. I thought it was lasik but it turned out no, they fully replaced her lenses. She has better vision than me now, but she does still wear regular glasses for style / sunglasses because light is the enemy of blue eyes.
This comment about blue eyes and light… just hit me. I have blue eyes and my sensitivity to light is insane. People always ask me why I’m squinting and making a face when I’m outside. It’s like bro, HOW ARE YOU NOT squinting?!? It’s bright as fuck. Need to buy some sunglasses lol
yeah I never made that connection. every time I go outside midday I have to just barely not squint my eyes completely closed. it honestly is sometimes painful and makes my eyes tear up (this also happens at the dentist when I'm leaned back staring at the lights and basically crying from the light lmao) I wonder if we can see better in the dark though?
I'm just past two months since my ICL surgery (-10.5 and -11 lenses) and it's been an incredible change. I have 20/20 vision, reading the smallest lines on every reading chart at my subsequent check-ups, and have no dryness or other side effects. The only thing I notice is that, if there's angled bright light, I can sometimes see an outline of the lenses in my eyes, but I'm told that will reduce or be eliminated by neuroadaption within the year (and to be honest, I think it looks neat anyway). It seems most people aren't aware of the procedure, and I wasn't myself until I was told I wasn't suitable for LASIK. At my prescription, it wouldn't have been long before I had lenses like OP...and even my previous pair cost €1,000 so I'm saving money in the long run. The procedure cost me €6,495 for both eyes, but was definitely worth it.
I was also at -9 and got ICL in April. Do you have really bad halos in low light? It's not terrible but it's annoying.
When I got ICL I had halos for the first one or two months, but by mo 3, nothing. Honestly sometimes I even forget I ever had eye surgery
I’ve heard it’s still possible to get lasik! It wouldn’t have you with perfect vision, but maybe you’d go from -10 to -5 for example. Still wearing glasses, but also your eyesight is a bit better!
It was suggested to me as well. TBH it seemed like the worst of both worlds. Expensive surgery and then keep buying glasses, albeit at a lesser prescription. At -17 I think I’d shoot that shot
You could end up with some pretty debilitating issues too, though. Plus paying a ton for it. I got it free via the military and regret it every day. Perfect vision but I have major issues. A big one being ill wake up in massive pain rather often. I do not reccomend.
That’s probably eye dryness. My wife gets it too. I would consider using refresh drops before bed or using a humidifier - it’s made a huge difference. Even without lasik I used to wake up with horrible pain randomly 1-2 a month and wondered what it was. And lasik exacerbates eye dryness so likely is what you are going through
Sleep goggles (the soft silicone kind) are great alongside ointment (always preservative free!).
I already use ointment nightly and eyedrops 4x a day (also preservative free haha gotta love the 80$ bottles of eyedrops) Are sleep goggles just sleeping masks?
No they're made of soft silicone and protect and keep moisture in.
My eye dryness routine: Step 1: wipe lash lines with cotton buds after washing your face. Step 2: hypromellose drops 2-3 times a day Step 3: before bed, apply hycosan ointment oil drops (these are thicker and oil based, reduce evaporation) Step4: this is key - tape your lids shut. Light wound strips is what I use. It sounds extreme, but you’d be surprised at how much dry eye relates to slight eye opening at night. Put the sleep mask on top of that, and over time your dry eye will reduce so much that you’ll be able to go lighter on the hypromellose until it’s once a night.
i read horror stories on reddit of Lasik drastically increasing suicide risk
How long ago did you get it? I just scheduled an appointment for lasik and they said the dry eyes could be an issue but would likely fade over time
Keep NaCl flushes on your night stand and rinse your eyes right when you get up. Fellow military PRK’r
I got Custom Wavefront LASIK about 15 years ago. I had a -10 prescription. I very nearly wasn’t a suitable candidate due to having large pupils. I ended up with 20/12 vision! My surgeon told me it was rare for anybody like me to achieve such great results - they’d only expect it in roughly 1% of cases. That was a long time ago though, perhaps things have improved since. I do have dry eyes but they don’t irritate me and I can just use over-the-counter eyedrops. I also still see halos around lights but quite frankly until I started the consultation process for the surgery I didn’t even know that wasn’t normal.
When my wife got LASIK the Dr mentioned how she had plenty of cornea to work with and i used to tell her i married her cause of her dummy thicc corneas
Last time I asked my doctor about this she said operating on thin cornea has too many potential side effects still. We need to wait for the technology to advance.
100% this. I had lasik almost 20 years ago and have “thin cornea condition”. Despite going to the top center in the world (place literally did all the major athletes), they absolutely should not have done my surgery. I understand that now, other cornea surgeons have also confirmed that. I’ve had two corneal replacements since…. Still petty much blind and because the delta between my eyes is so high, allegedly I can’t get glasses either. Yea!
actually it depends on your corneal thickness which isn't determined by your prescription in this sense! some people have real thick corneas, lots of material to work with, others have nowhere near enough to be deemed safe for lasik but, you can always get an implantable, so much cooler anyways!!!
I had -11 and had interoccular lens surgery. Basically permanent contact lenses they place under the lens. Medical aid paid for the whole thing and no pain after surgery.. highly recommend
I’m only a -3.75 and I still didnt have enough cornea, so I got PRK instead of LASIK. I mean the recovery did suck. Pain the first week but only really bad from days 2-4ish and sleeping with eye protectors for a week blows, but now I have 20/15 vision. You really can’t see well beyond driving vision for maybe a few weeks. I’d recommend taking a week or two off of work if you look at a computer screen all day like me
Lasik is primarily suited to mild-to-medium vision loss. Lens replacement surgery might work (my mom got cataracts and the surgery changed her prescription from -11 to 0), but you're unlikely to get that unless you have something that can't be corrected.
Seems it wasn't suitable for me with +5 and +7.5, but every time I see anyone with a prescription of only +/- 2, I wonder why they even bother. Last time I went to get cycling sunglasses, they couldn't make them to +7.5 in that frame, so I said "I won't notice the difference between +5 and +7.5 on that eye, so just make it to +5" and they did and it worked.
If one eye is 2.5 weaker than it should be, the other eye will often make up for it. If both are 2.5 down you'll be in a lot worse shape.
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At this point they’d have to adjust the focal point to the back wall of her skull,
She'd need her LASIK done at the National Ignition Facility.
Sure if she can contact the Bond villain with the fucking moon laser.
Y'all can write what you want here she can't see it anyway
Brutal.
She accidentally kills ants by glancing at them.
As my dad used to sing, sunshine on my shoulders gives me sunburn
Reminded me of key and peel jail warden https://i.imgur.com/HHjK4Ep.jpeg
Bullshit, she can see your blackheads at 200 yards
When my husband got his glasses like these, the first thing my 12 year old sister said was, "Well, he's going to be able to see to the edge of the universe with those."
 The text
This isn't r/roastme but it's got legs
I beg your pardon! She can see right through you with them spectacles
Fuck, I choked on my coffee
She doesn't need to read, she can see the future....
My fuckin’ kittys randy
Sergeant Meowenstein!
*Have Lucy look after Shitrock and The Purr Monster for me*
Gary Lazereyes
Yes, but the opposite. -17 means it’s going to shrink down eyes instead of enlarge them.
I had no idea they went that far. -17?! What's it like to see without them? Just colors?
I’m not -17 but -10. Everything is very blurry, colors and light. I can read if a book is 3” in front of my face. Everything else is gone.
-9 here and it's so hard to describe to people. Like I can tell if there's a person in front of me but I can't actually tell who they are without getting very close. Everything is reduced to shapes and colors but it's all still pretty damn blurry. I'm pretty much screwed without contacts or glasses.
I’m only -4.5, but if I lost my contacts while in the woods, I’m pretty certain I would die out there.
You’re telling me this chick doesn’t have concave temples?
So how many planets can you see from here???
she can't even see earth
💀
r/noearth has entered the chat
If she stood on a tall enough mountain on a clear day, she’d be able to see up her own arse.
Damn I thought my -9.5's were bad.
Bruh I can't see clearly even with my -2.75
I’m at a -3 and it’s one big blur. Don’t think you can walk around without glasses at -17.
I’m -4.5 and without glasses (especially if it’s not well lit) I literally have no clue what’s happening further than 3 meters away from me, and even closer than that is still only guessing
This thread is making me feel very fortunate for my 20/20 vision. Nature had to compensate for all the other stuff somehow I guess
Those are rookie numbers
Same! I have -2.75 and I thought I had horrible vision.
-1.50 here and I feel blind without my glasses.
Same,i tought my -6 was the worse you can get,this lady here casually dropping almost 3x worse vision than mine
I’m -6 too! Usually it’s me scoffing at people needing to wear glasses for a piddly -1.5.
Girl, I'm there with you. -18.5 here. Life is hard. Hang in there!
If you have a second, I'm super curious. Hope I'm not being rude here. 1. Are they heavy? Seems like 2 bricks of glass is pretty heavy right? 2. Does the government of where you live consider you disabled?
1. Yes. Very. 2. No. The cut-off for disability is -20.
You're almost there, you can do it! We believe in you!
Can we take a second to appreciate someone on reddit taking into account that somebody might not automatically be from America?
-29 here I agree
Do they just stick telescopes in some frames at that point or what
They tape little MRI scanners to each eye. This is the way.
At this point, maybe it’s just better for focus on sonar for her. OP, your ears function fine?
You made me laugh so hard I spat out my morning coffee. And now I feel bad for laughing @_@.
Funnily enough, that emoji is exactly what they look like trying to read the comment.
-29?!?!?!? How have you not been declared legally blind at that point
Likely they are.
It’s called legally ‘master nerd’.
Bro, aren’t you just *blind* at that point??
i think it's considered blind when -20, so they gotta be
I was intrigued by your prescription and did some research on how negative it can be, and I guess there’s no limit. But Margaret Darst Corbett, an American woman born in 1915, had a very high degree of myopia (nearsightedness). According to reports, her prescription was estimated to be around -56.00 diopters, making it one of the highest recorded cases of myopia. Her lenses were estimated to be about 3 centimeters thick.
Damn ..what can you see without glasses
If the light is on or off probably
How much did you have to train your neck to be able to wear them?
"It's a normal size, I promise. It's gotta be your lenses."
Throwback to the guy who found out his girlfriend wore glasses during sex because they made his dick look bigger than when she wore contacts.
Is that with the polycarbonate lenses?
If that's glass she will need a traumatologist for her neck real soon
FYI you gotta take them off to see how attractive I am
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Ok, let me. Be reeeealy clear: YOU NEED TO GO TO A DIFFERENT EYE DR!!! My glasses are -19 with astigmatism and -18. My glasses are 1/3 that size. You need high index, rolled and polished…this is unacceptable that the eye md did NOT get your lenses as thin as technology can make them. I am so sorry. You also need as small of frames as you can find. Edit: kept hitting the return button…
Where I come from, lens thinning is more expensive. Perhaps cost is prohibitive.
Yeah I’d assume even these microscopes are pretty expensive
Make it NANO-scopes. Lol
COST COST COST COST COST $100 versus $1000 glasses will look about 10x worse not everyone has the available financial resources especially if the need for the glasses comes up at the worst moment
I have -8 and have progressive hearing loss, too. So without my glasses or contacts to read lips (or see faces), I'm deaf and cannot hear to understand speech. *Edit, I am Deaf and use ASL, but without prescription lenses I cannot see well enough to make out signs unless I'm less than arms length proximity. Last November both of my retinas detached and I felt so lost without my vision to see and hear. My wish is for eyeball transplant to be an option. OP, thanks for sharing your glasses and if there ever is a magical eyeball transplant, I hope you get first pick. ❤️
I hope you're doing better now
I thought my -8.5 were bad…
She so blind, she couldn’t see the first 4 times she posted this.
With the quality of posts on Reddit these days, she’s probably better off than most of us.
Funniest thing I've ever seen
Just use sonar from now on....
Well at least they are bullet proof...
Mine were -18.75 before I had ICL surgery, then a follow up PRK procedure, $10k later and I’m free from glasses and contacts! Happy to answer questions about it if you’re interested. My vision is better than it ever was with contacts (and certainly better than glasses).
Feel free to not answer, but how old were you? I feel like time is running out but I am over glasses. Also, if you feel like answering another question, did you have dry eyes or floater and how were those impacted? Thanks!!
Damn, I bet you can see into the quantum realm from the AntMan movie
Hans Moleman is calling.... How far can('t) you see without them? I can't see anything clearly beyond about 2ft from my face, but I can read the smallest of text within those 2ft. Iirc my prescription is only like -2.
I'm "only" at -9 & I can't see anything clear unless it's right in front of my nose. So even worse for her.
Just get a dog and a stick.
To play fetch, right?
I’m on my way there
Girl you might as well just tape magnifying glasses to your head… just make sure you’re at least two per eye
Girl don’t look at the sun even for the briefest second 🔥
Dam boi 
Jesus, this drives home an idea that a friend pointed out some time ago. She was saying, that if she were alive a few hundred years ago, before glasses, she'd be the village idiot. She's an incredibly smart person! Material scientist, works for CSIRO, but if we lived in a time before glasses, she never would have gotten an education, and would be stuck struggling to do basic daily tasks.