I'm so nearsighted that for a while the Army was telling me that I wasn't qualified for combat arms. (They decided that wasn't true, I'm happy to say.) I wore glasses from first grade until I was a freshman in college, then contacts progressing from hard to gas permeable to soft to disposable now. I'm in glasses for a couple of days now due to the allergens making my eyes red and irritated. They can be absorbed in the contacts, it seems, and that means changing out whether it's time or not. I don't wear my glasses much except when I can't wear my contacts.
I've been in reading glasses since about age 50, and I'm actually excited that I have what appears to be cataracts beginning in both eyes. Why, you ask? Well, since they're messing with your lenses for cataract surgery anyhow, it's very easy to correct your vision in the process. Woohoo!! (Might as well make the best of it, you know.)
Yeah, yeah, I know. TMI.