i have needed corrective lenses for about 26 yrs. about 16? yrs ago, i started wearing contacts, it took a while to get used to putting them into my eye but now i can do it without a mirror. i'm having some problems with my eyes lately, but hopefully i can get into a dr soon and figure out why, because glasses are a pain once you are used to contacts. no clear peripheral vision, slide, get junk on them ALL the time, hurts about 800 times worse when a kid bumps your face, some day i'm gonna have that surgery. but w/my contacts, while i can actually see a tiny bit better waaaaaaay far off w/glasses, my vision is better overall-i can see stuff to the sides of me, w/glasses i can't. i even wore contacts when i was training horses. about once every couple months i'd have to go rinse a lense b/c of something getting on/under one (which hurts like almighty blazes, btw) but 99% of the time i had no problems with it. when i rode in glasses, i was constantly pushing them back up, or if i got tossed they would fly as i bounced off the ground.....or they'd get so dusty i couldn't see thru them anyway....i will need something for reading in a couple yrs....i'll go w/just reading glasses when that time comes.