Ch-Ch-Changes! (Turn and face the strange...)

[happydalek]

I got contact lenses!  I'm wearing 'em right now!

I never had an interest in getting contacts for regular, everyday wear because I have astigmatism in both eyes and for years they simply didn't make a contact lens that could correct it (mostly--my optometrist says I'll always see better in glasses).  Plus, I love wearing glasses.  I've had brainy

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[alto2]

Oh, the transition to contacts is so wild! I remember being in awe of the fact that I could see without something sitting on my face. The other thing you may notice is that things look bigger. I noticed it in reverse a few years ago when I had to wear my glasses for about a week. I was looking at DVDs while I was shopping and thought, "Are they making the boxes smaller? Why do they look so small??" Then I saw a pint of Ben and Jerry's, and thought, "Dammit! They raised the price and made the container smaller! Those bastards!" Since this was on the same night, I grew suspicious, and sure enough, when I lifted my glasses and looked at the B&J without them, it was miraculously larger! Still messes with my head when I'm out in my glasses, even though I know that's all it is.

I hope the Pill works out for you. I have been on it since 1995, when I had a cyst that made life a living hell, and it has literally saved my life (or at least my sanity).

[happydalek]

Things look bigger?! For realz? Hah, I'll have to watch out for that one!

Thanks, I hope so too. I'm still not totally comfortable with the idea of artificially regulating my stuff, but on the other hand, there's no need to put up with my stuff not properly regulating itself if I don't have to. (Also, I'm really REALLY not keen on having kids anytime soon EVER, so it only makes sense that I should take responsibility to avoiding that. Like a girl scout: always prepared!)

[alto2]

Yeah, I hear you on not wanting to mess with hormones. Wasn't my first choice, either. The alternative, though, was worse--first, 15 years ago, it was the cyst, which left me in such agony that if someone had walked up to me with a gun I might have begged him to put a bullet through my head, and then last year, cauterizing the uterus--which just sounds like such a party, dontchathink? And that's before you get to the "you'll never be able to have kids" part, which, even though I'd never really decided if I wanted any, gave me mighty pause indeed.

So, yeah...sometimes the hormones are preferable to the alternative.

And yeah, I think there's something about having lenses right on your eyes vs. half an inch from your face that makes the sizes of things distort. I only noticed it with fairly small things like the ones I mentioned, but it did make me laugh.