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I was wondering if anyone can share experiences with little kids and glasses?
All I can remember about my glasses was that they constantly broke. All the time.
Also, my glasses were very thick and I wanted to get contacts. However my mother had trouble (like screaming, fighting ect.) with me and contacts when I was very young. Finally, I went on “glasses-strike”. I stopped wearing my glasses. For a year. Seeing that she had no choice, my mother took me to the doctor, and got me CONTACT LENSES!!!!
The first time I put the lenses into my eyes, it was amazing!! I was able to see clearly! I was able to read!! It was a whole new world!!!!
The doctor and interns taught how to put in and take out my lenses, and now I’m enjoying them!
I got my first pair of glasses at five. They looked funny and I didn’t like them much.
My younger brother, who was blessed with perfect vision, was envious of my glasses and cried, until the optician gave him a massive pair of glasses, w/o lenses.
My sole consolation was he looked funnier than I did.
Positive or negative?
My brother (3.5) wears glasses, or is supposed to wear glasses. He’s not so good about it. He’s going through a “break it” stage, so his glasses certainly got the brunt of it. But he won’t wear it unless he’s bribed to (at home, because in school they make him keep it on).
But then it will also depend on the kid. My mother once asked someone how her kid kept her glasses on when she was little, and she said apparently, she had a high enough prescription that after a while (I think she got them before she was one) she realized that she can actually see better with them, so she started wearing them.
My older brother on the other hand – his prescription was rising too quickly, so the eye doctor gave him lenses. (Back then before disposables.) He wore them for a while, then lost them at the mikva one erev shabbos. He’s been back to glasses ever since (like 10 years).
My brother was cross-eyed (he had surgery), and he has a positive prescription (he’s far-sighted), but I don’t know if they ever applied that term to it.
I have had glasses since I was a baby. I remember wearing straps to hold my glasses in place… (they were really nerdy)
Children’s glasses now have earpieces that wrap all the way around the ears. Some also have a cushion behind the nose piece so that if the child were to fall, the glasses would not break by the nose piece. They last a really long time.
mybat: I was extremely far-sighted as a child and I did develop pretty bad wandering eyes as a result… I had surgery to correct them when I was really young and now they are perfectly straight B’H!
Mybat I’m assuming you were responding to anonsecret, but far sighted is when you see better far (so you can’t see well from close).
My brother also had the surgery – like when he was almost 2.5, but it was for cross-eye, not wandering.
Yes. That is what far-sighted is.
I was 5 when I had the surgery… but I have other immediate family members that have had it a lot earlier… I probably would have had it at the age of 3 if I would have found the surgeon earlier… (We tried a patch and glasses first… and then decided to operate…)
But I’m not sure we are talking about the same condition because I had surgery on both eyes… so it wasn’t a typical case of a lazy eye… And mine did not 100 percent correct itself after I put on glasses. The surgery corrected it. I still do not have perfect depth perception (I cannot thread a needle and I consistently fail those eye tests with that fly whose wings pop up with the 3D glasses…)
I went (and still go) to a really great pediatric eye specialist in Manhattan. He only sees children and adults who he operated on as children.
I know someone with twin brothers. Both at a young age (3rd or 4th grade) were told to wear glasses. One was careful about wearing them and the other wasn’t. Today, the first one has a high prescription and the second one is still wearing the same prescription. They are in their 40’s.
(Disclaimer: this is not for everyone)
kapusta: That is not just a disclaimer! That is a HUGE disclaimer! YOu shouldn’t encourage anyone to not wear glasses… It can cause a lot more harm than benefit. And not all twins… even if they are biologically identical have the same prescription. There are many other factors aside from genetics that affect traits in a person. The birth process. The nutrients each received in the womb… Their genes may be the same… but any defect, mutation, or environmental factor may not be…
mybat, I had a very severely wandering left eye when I was a youngster. In elementary school, I wore an occluder, a patch on the inside of my glasses, to block my use of the steadier eye.
I was supposed to have an operation to correct it, but my mother got a second opinion from another opthalmologist and he said to wait, since there wasit may correct itself as I grew into adulthood.
Indeed, he was right, and an operation was avoided. Once I became an adult, most of the problem went away. Now, when I am very tired, or look at myself in mirrors, my left eye will wander outward, but that’s merely a mild annoyance and a fascinating trick to show others, and not a problem.
Da, I must put in a good word for contactr lenses. I am extremely nearsighted and my glasses were unsightly and difficult.
At the age of sixteen, I got contact lenses, in the days before soft contact lenses. It was a miracle, put those little discs in your eyes, and you can see perfectly! I have been wearing hard lenses nonstop (actually, I take them out at night) and without problems, for almost forty years now, and still regard them as a miracle.
Glasses and contact lenses are quite amazing. I think if the only historical mitigations for nearsightedness had been laser surgery and lens transplants, then someone invented glasses, which have almost no side-effects, the inventor would be awarded the Nobel Prize.
Mybat: Where are you from? (I assume you are not from the US if you are ‘finding a specialist in the states’) If you need any recommendations in the NY area… I’d be glad to help!
how old is your son?
Why not ask feivel; he’s an ophthalmologist.
cherrybim: because feivel does not give fee consultations!
(neither does mdlevine! ok that was a real old CR joke!)
im here
im sorry, for me to attempt to answer a question like that, without detailed information and a report of the examination, would likely do more harm than good.
a second opinion is always a good idea
To Feivel,
She wasn’t looking for a medical opinion, she was looking for a definition.
To Mybat,
It’s a good idea in your case to get a second opinion based on a physical exam, because of the possibility of surgery. Sometimes you need surgery in these types of cases, sometimes you don’t. You can go to Wills eye hospital in Phila.,Pa. They have pretty good pediatric specialtists. Look up contact info online.
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