For those who wear prescription eyeglasses...

[Rex B]

Count me as part of the disposal contacts 24/7 crowd. I've been wearing those cheap Accuvue contacts for at least 15 years. I change them when the eyes get a little itchy, never less than a month - but I really don't keep track at all. Then I forget I have them in. Swim, shower, sleep, do dirty work, no problem.
But since presbyopia set in, I carry reading glasses around everywhere. The only sights that work for me are scopes (love those red dots!) and peep sights. My home and self-defense guns are open sights, but I think I can see those well enough for a SD situation. And at night, I'd be point-shooting unless I spring for Trijicons.
One thing I do is similar to what someone else posted above. I get the lense for my non-dominant eye in a power about a point below full correction. This gives me a bit of near vision in that eye, while retaining distance vision with the dominant eye. Works just fine for most uses, including most shooting. Right now I'm out of those and having to use full correction in both eyes, and I sure do hate that ;) Try it, it's cheap and easy.
I'd consider Lasik, but for now the contacts are working fine. If the Crystal Lens thing gets cheap enough I'd sure consider that. Last I heard it was around $5K/eye.

[Will938]

Fortunately (or unfortunately) my vision is bad enough that I instantly know I'm unable to see anything so I put on my glasses. I was late to work one day because my CAT removed my glasses from the night stand and carried them off, I was on my hands and knees for 30 minutes trying to find them.

I'm considering PRK later in life, but as for now, my glasses sit in the same place every night.

[kw5kw]

Back in 1993 I had RK, with the knife, and have passed all driver's license visual exams without glasses since. The problem is that fixing my distance vision left me with impaired near vision, requiring me to wear glasses anyway, just not as bad as the ones I used to wear. I also had a pretty significant astigmatism.

I had AK/RK back in '96 and have passed every vision test so far, but, in the past year I've started wearing a light perscription because I noticed that my astigmatism was creeping back, especially noticeable at night and headlights, tail lights, traffic signals etc.

Lasik is not an option now due to the RK scars, but I understand that some of the newest technologies can compensate for RK scars and correct astigmatism too, so that's on the one of these days list.
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I have a tendency to wear them all the time, even if I don't really need them for distance, just because they are easier to find that way, and I keep them in the same place on the night stand and they are always the first thing that gets picked up when I go to investigate a bump in the night.

My gun resides on the next shelf down on the night stand and it's second - body covering is optional depending on the "urgency" of the bump.

I also have a tenency to wear my "new glasses" all the time, for they weight pratcially nothing--not like wearing two coke bottle's on your face like I used to have (20/600), now I'm corrected to 20/50 and 20/60 some 10 years + after the surgery... remember, everyone's eyes change over time and just because you had perfect vision then, doesn't mean that you'll have perfect vision now. After the surgery I was actually 20/10 in one and 20/15 in the other, R or L I don't remember which was which.

I'd do the surgery again, if faced with the decision if nothing else just to get rid of coke bottle glasses and into some lighter ones.

When I was wearing my coke bottles, I could not read my clock at night, I could not read my speedometer either. If I did anything, I wore my glasses--the one exception was water skiing. Contacts were never an option for me.

just my comments,
Russ

[stevie_d_64]

I would chime in to state that if you can get into the doctor and have one of those "screenings" for the LASIK procedure I would highly recommend it...Most are free, and when I had the procedure done it was still something that was a bit pricey, but easily financed...Mine cost about $2800 if I recall correctly...And it was worth it...

I have seen recent ads where the cost per eye has come down to about $399 per eye...

As for me, it kept me out of glasses for at least 6 years...And untill recently, as expected, my vision has deteriorated somewhat...And I am contemplating a corrective procedure again to make an adjustment...And if the prices are coming down like they are...After I do some research, I will not hesitate to get it done again...It won't be as dramatic an improvement, but I knew that when I could see 20/20 the next morning like I did the first time...I was extremely happy with it...

If anyone in the Houston area, or anyone who would consider coming to Houston to get this done wants the doctor who worked on my eyes, feel free to contact me and I will let you know...He still practices in the same place...

Obviously I recommend him...And the procedure...