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  • 30 of 30 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    RuthHolohan

    5 Stars Wearing glasses - the right 'frame' of mind. 23/07/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages These days glasses look sexy

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Er... well I suppose you might lose them if you are the forgetful type

    Eyes are very important. If you didn't have eyes you wouldn't be able to see. And if you couldn't see your whole life would change. I'm terrified of losing my sight and I'm painfully aware of what would happen if I couldn't see. Imagine what you couldn't do if you were blind. How scary it would be to cross a road or ride on the tube and how you'd lose your independence. My first advice to you is to donate money to charities that support the blind and partially sighted. However, that’s not what I wanted to write about. But whats this about? I wanted to write about wearing glasses. Now it ... more
  • 33 of 33 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 9 KarenUK

    Member since 08/07/2000

    Reviews written: 1125

    5 Stars Don't Risk Your Eyesight For Vanity 19/03/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages glasses enable you to have perfect eyesight

    Disadvantages Disadvantages wearing glasses can be annoying at times

    I was first told to wear glasses when I was eight years old, as I was short-sighted and had problems seeing the board in the classroom. However, kids wearing glasses was quite rare at the time and I really didn't want to, so I would take them to school, but only use them infrequently. When I was sixteen, I left my secondary school where I had been for five years, and went to another school to take my A-levels. I decided to have a complete change, used my whole name for once (Karen-Louise) and wore my glasses all the time. It was a new start, we were older, more teenagers were wearing them and ... more
  • 27 of 27 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Pelenya

    5 Stars Nothing is More Precious Than Eyesight 23/09/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Help to save sight and general health of our eyes

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    I am a secretary in an eye center. We have four eye care professionals in our office: one opthalmologist, one optometrist, and two opticians. ****************************************​*** ******************************* A quick lesson about the difference in these professionals: ~~~An opthalmologist is actually a medical doctor who has more years of education and training in eye diseases, eye care, general surgery of the eye, etc. Opthalmologists are generally the eye care professional of choice for problems such as glaucoma, cataracts, and other serious and long-lasting eye problems. Often an ... more
  • 7 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    lec299

    5 Stars A contact lens to completely change your life 29/12/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages No hassle, keep cost down, perfect sight all night and day.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Have to pay for an original sight test.

    I have recently discovered a new contact lens that has completely changed my life for the better. I want to share this with ciao members in the hope that a few more people may discover the benefits. Anybody who is short sighted will know how keeping your eye-sight can be expensive, timely and, quite frankly, a pain in the neck. I am short sighted in only one of my eyes, which makes my sight extremely imbalanced. If I don't continually corect the vision through a contact lens my right eye is in danger of being weakened. Contact lens have thus become a huge part of my life. But I have always ... more
  • 40 of 40 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    KathrynE

    3 Stars Sex Appeal Is Important 25/07/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages see op

    Disadvantages Disadvantages see op

    It is said "the eyes are the window to the soul" but many of us find that although we have beautiful eyes, they don't work very well. Who likes wearing glasses? Certainly not me but although my vanity has driven me to extreme measures to avoid spectacles I still find them very sexy. I like my men to wear glasses and I often think they make women look sexy too. This opinion is my advice on optical care. As you can see I certainly have a lot of different experiences! ~~~ Failing Eyesight ~~~ I first realised I needed glasses at about 11 years old. Mine was the usual story, I couldn't read the ... more
  • 3 of 3 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    lawrensons

    5 Stars Harder than soft 07/09/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages durability

    Disadvantages Disadvantages painful to start

    I started wearing hard lenses 9 years ago when I discovered that my corneas were pointed and would eventually split open. To control the serverity of the point the hospital made me wer hard lenses to push back the point into a normal curve shape. I remeber the very first time I wore them - did it hurt or what? I couldn't open my eyes for a day! It was like I had glass in my eye - I yeah I did! I have had some problems with hard lenses - you really can't wear them for a long time - especailly if you are using a VDU. However, now that I have been wearing them for a while and after numerous ... more
  • 29 of 30 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    jeannie

    5 Stars Look after your eyes 15/01/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages you can see

    Disadvantages Disadvantages you cant see properly

    I have worn glasses since I was 4yrs old I was born with a squint. I can laugh about it now, but then, it was not funny. To explain my,left eye is healthy but has not focused since I was born ( a long time ago). What they tried to do was correct it by operation. That did work but, when I take my glasses of you can still see the squint just. I used to have to go around with, "big" plaster over one eye then the other. That did not work. I used to ware the most awful glasses you have ever seen. Pink round rimmed, made of wire, yuk, and the legs kept coming of. Only one eye works as I said before ... more
  • 7 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    mandyco

    5 Stars Do You Need Glasses 17/03/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great Value Glasses

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    Did you know that when you reach the age of 40, that your eyesight will lose the ability to change shape as easily as they did when you were younger? Do not be alarmed, this is a perfectly natural condition its called presbyopia, it's this condition that makes small print more difficult to focus on, thus making it hard to read small print. A company called Readi-Read has come up with a simple solution. They sell self-selection-reading glasses to a number of outlets including Lloyds pharmacy. The company issue a simple leaflet, which is used to find out the strength of glasses, needed. All you ... more
  • 15 of 17 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    danradders

    5 Stars For Wearers and Non-Wearers--- 16/02/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages can keep your eyes healthy, be in fashion!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages If not looked after properly, eyes can deteriorate

    I am going to try and make this opinion as helpful as I can to both users and non-users of optical wear, so, I hope it is! I have been wearing glasses for about seven years now, and it is only recently I have been wearing contact lenses, but I feel that I know enough to give you some sound advice on both. Firstly. Do you need glasses? Well, you are meant to have an eye test every now and again, two years I believe, so, although these can be quite expensive, about ten pounds, be aware that they can easily save your eyesight. These tests last about ten minutes (hence them being expensive) and ... more
  • 24 of 24 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    ruth_abdel

    3 Stars Contact Lenses and Wrinkles 10/10/2001
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages it can be sad looking at life through a window (glasses)

    Disadvantages Disadvantages wrinkles!!!!

    This may seem a conceited observation, but I have noticed that contact lenses give me wrinkles around my eyes. I have been wearing contact lenses for several years now. The most recent ones that I was using were soft lenses that were replaced every 3 months. I started to notice about 2 years ago (at the age of 26) that my eyes were getting wrinkles, which I guess is quite normal at my age, but they seemed to be quite deep and started to concern me. My mother, who is in her early fifties has realy good skin, but terrible bags and wrinkles around her eyes. I thought maybe it was heriditary, but ... more
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