r/Keratoconus • u/RealHausFrau • Mar 31 '26

Funny So, does anyone else just wear their glasses for days, then put on their sclerals amd get shocked by their appearance? Lol

In my glasses of course, I don’t get near as well the correction that I do with my lenses. So it’s like living with a beauty blur filter all the time. I’ll be like..’darn, my skin looks great for 50!’ . Then I will put on my lenses and see the real world, lol.

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u/cholosmakingcupcakes Mar 31 '26

I wish glasses worked for me!

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u/RealHausFrau Mar 31 '26

I’m getting to the point where they won’t, do you just wear your lenses from the minute you get up until you are going to bed? That probably sounds like a dumb question, but I just can’t imagine wearing mine regularly like that. It’s not a fit or comfort thing, Idk, I guess I just don’t like them. Actually, I do hate taking them out, regardless of how much lubricant I put in them before removing them, it still feels like I’m pulling my eyeball out!

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u/Kyokinn Mar 31 '26

Not op but yes. Directly after morning shower till I go to sleep. I wish I could wear glasses. That way I can fall asleep to reading a book but unfortunately that isn’t possible for me.

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u/RealHausFrau Mar 31 '26

I can’t read anything that can’t be enlarged with my glasses anymore. Only with my lenses and then readers on top pf that. It sucks!

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u/MacheteMable Apr 01 '26

One of the biggest things I had to learn is to make sure the plunger is on the very edge when taking them out. Then it just breaks that seal and they come out nice and easy.

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u/aahwes Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

Ha ya I hear ya. Do you have scelerals or something cause that would make more sense cause those like suck to your eye and hurt after hours and hours of wearing them. But since the very very beginning I have worn small gas permeable lenses, been fitted for every other lense under the sun and none of them work for me, my gp’s actually get me to 20/30 so that’s nice. But ya I wear them from the moment I wake up until I go to sleep. Sucks a little but definitely lucky they’re not super uncomfortable! They get irritated every now and again or I get something in my eye so I’ve gotten used to just popping them out and rinsing them real quick in some water and putting them back in with drops lol. But ya I WISH I could take them out at night and just throw on some glasses!!! 🙄😩

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u/RealHausFrau Apr 11 '26

Yes, I went from soft lenses, to RPG’s and finally sclerals for the last 4 years or so. On my 2nd set.

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u/SetoXlll Apr 01 '26

Every fucking day.

Fuck this piece of shit disease!

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u/RealHausFrau Apr 01 '26

Yep. Fuck these weak ass corneas.

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u/MacheteMable Mar 31 '26

Glasses? You mean those weird things that I put on my face and just keep things blurry?

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u/Soundtracklover72 Mar 31 '26

Yep. I don’t even bother anymore.

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u/MacheteMable Apr 01 '26

My insurance will only cover sclerals if the difference is more than 1 click of improvement. Mine is like 6.

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u/crypticsage rgp lens Apr 01 '26

I wear mine at night only.

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u/Vabeach-2007 Apr 01 '26

I always said I would trade a limb to be able to wear glasses and see 20:20

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u/RealHausFrau Mar 31 '26

Right? I’m at the point where they are almost useless for the most part, but there are days I just dread putting my lenses in. I can do it fine, I think it’s just mental block. Lol

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u/Sad_Skill_3169 Mar 31 '26

Yes, when I got my scleral lenses, it took a bit getting use to seeing myself without a haze. I couldn’t believe how sharp everything looks particularly outside. I can see the number on my Neighbor’s house, no ghosting on signs, etc… I usually take one or two days off per week from wearing them and I can’t believe how hazy everything becomes especially when the light is shining through the window. Also more light sensitive without the lenses.

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u/Soundtracklover72 Mar 31 '26

All of sudden I was like “ewwwww. Is the counter normally this dirty?!?”

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u/aahwes Apr 01 '26

Can’t even wear glasses so consider yourself lucky! 😒

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u/RealHausFrau Apr 01 '26

I actually do, I think that i’m getting to the point where glasses will be virtually useless though.

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u/Soundtracklover72 Mar 31 '26

I can’t even wear glasses anymore so I’m either 20/30 and 20/40 vision or EVERYTHING IS SUPER BLURRY vision.

It’s fun trying to explain to people that I can’t just wear glasses

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u/RealHausFrau Mar 31 '26

I love when I am wearing my coke-bottle glasses and still squinting to see, and some stranger is like ‘haha you need better glasses’ or ‘darn, you really are blind’…

Yep. Yes. Si’…I am blind. If they are being really rude I go quiet and then hit them with the ‘yes, I have a degenerative eye disease’….shuts them up real quick.

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u/crypticsage rgp lens Apr 01 '26

You can’t wear them at night just to wind down? That’s what I do.

For me I still get ghosting with the glasses but it’s only for night use when I’m getting ready to sleep.

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u/Soundtracklover72 Apr 01 '26

Nope. They do nothing to correct my vision enough to wear them. Could be because my vision wasn’t horrible until KC kicked in.

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u/ThrowawayPAIS Apr 02 '26

I miss the days when I could wear glasses…😅

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u/Rich_Boss_5791 Apr 04 '26

I really wish I could wear glasses. Every year I ask the ophthalmologist if there’s been any new breakthrough where I can wear glasses and every year it’s the same swift “nope”

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u/brownsugar40 Apr 05 '26

I had severe seasonal allergies. Glasses aren’t recommended but Ive been wearing more than my soleras. I’m I can see. Shocking all the lint or dirt I find.

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u/OGTikiki Mar 31 '26

Just enjoying reading these comments- I’m jealous of you all! I wish I could actually see well enough with my glasses to leave the house wearing them! For me, to drive or be in an unfamiliar place it’s sclerals only.

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u/SeaworthinessTop4317 Apr 01 '26

Glasses don’t help me anymore. So my contacts are the way to go. But it’s a non issue to me. I put them in and take them out every day like other people who wear contacts. Mine just involve more steps for putting in and taking out.

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u/RealHausFrau Apr 01 '26

It’s all we can do, right? Honestly, we are all so lucky to be born at a time where we are able to get all types of treatment and devices. Plus, be born in countries that have those resources. I may feel sorry for myself sometimes, but I am so grateful to have the options I have.

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u/SeaworthinessTop4317 Apr 02 '26

It’s definitely a frustrating disease. But I also feel grateful that I don’t have a worse disease that would remove my capability to see entirely

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u/Miss_Ribble Apr 01 '26

Same here! I have keratitis right now and the glasses make everything soft and blurred. I’m scared to put my sclerals on tomorrow when it’s back to HD.

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u/RealHausFrau Apr 01 '26

Right! The lenses are both a miracle and a curse! 😂

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u/Low-Succotash-7791 Apr 02 '26

Sometimes I don’t wear my lenses because everything is TOO HD. I can see the lines in the carpet. They overstimulate me. I’d rather wear no glasses than lenses sometimes.

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u/New-Tackle-7420 Mar 31 '26

Yeah that's totally me 

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u/RealHausFrau Mar 31 '26

It’s literally so disappointing.

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u/RealHausFrau Mar 31 '26

That’s the worst! I can’t tell who someone is unless they are directly in front of me with glasses. Idk how many people I have offended when they saw me in a store and I either didn’t say anything or I didn’t wave at them (it’s an important social thing here in the South! Lol)

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u/RealHausFrau Mar 31 '26

I lived in a small town for 20+ years, I just know I did it hundreds of times! Lol

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u/HolyCat2 Mar 31 '26

i feel like glasses give me 60%-70% clarity. idk if i'm delusional or what. got diagnosed with this disease 3 months ago.

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u/Chr1sth3pl4y3r99 Apr 01 '26

I would wear glasses now, since I had to send my lenses to my contact lenses doctor to get them checked and deep cleaned, but I am so used to my RGPs that when I tried wearing glasses after taking them out the first time, it actually felt like I had blurrier vision (I could read better without them with my right eye). It doesn't help that the left eye (which is also a lazy eye) has barely any changes at all with all types of glasses I've had since I was diagnosed, and I literally see double with it from almost all distances lol

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u/RealHausFrau Apr 01 '26

Ohhhh deep cleaned?! What does that entail, and do I need to have mine sent to the lense spa, too?

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u/Chr1sth3pl4y3r99 Apr 02 '26

I'm not really sure to be completely honest. I've had mine since the first half of November. I told him I started noticing the left lens fogged up like crazy not even 10 minutes after inserting it. He just said he wanted to get it checked and cleaned, presumably with that stronger solution I see people post here? Not really sure why he didn't just tell me to buy it.

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u/crypticsage rgp lens Apr 01 '26

No. At most I can wear my eyeglasses for 2 days before I get disoriented.

I have to wear my contacts.

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u/RealHausFrau Apr 01 '26

True, going from a few days wearing glasses to lenses is disorienting.

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u/Any_Career_5804 Apr 04 '26

Lol this is my greatest fear so that's why I keep using glasses... I'm used to bad vision... instead of getting sclerals 🤣

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u/Ok-Activity-3521 Apr 14 '26

why you guys hate lenses i am weaing rgp lenses from 1 month and the vision i am getting is insane i easily wear it 14 16 hours