Contact Lenses-c/d?

There are loads of styles of glasses available. I've never worn contact lenses, just that whole thing of putting your fingers near your eyes freaks me out, plus I wouldn't look right with contacts.

I think you should go back and complain about the contact lenses. Are they from a different optician? Do they have enough % of water in them to suit you?

I was a bit squeamish about contact lenses but vanity won over. It's so weird, on the few occasions that I forget to take them out at night, waking up the next morning, and knowing something's weird, before realising that YOU CAN SEE!!!!! and then you move your eyes and it's all sticky, bleugh.

Working with VDUs is a dream with (anti-glare coated) glasses, compared with contacts.

I did toy with the idea of contacts but then couldn't be doing with the hassle.

But yes, I am a lazy man.

It definitely makes summer easier, you can wear normal sunglasses, it's fantastic!

i think i like them!

-- Vicky (missvick...) (webmail), January 13th, 2003 5:25 PM. (link)

Yes to the second part of that. To the first part, I didn;t know that.

In my case, i remember both my mum and dad coming back from the opticians on every occassion in their thirties with vastly different prescriptions for their lenses, but my prescription has barely changed at all. In fact last time I went she told me that one eye's prescription was too strong and pulled it back a bit.

Archel, don't be scared! it's really easy, in a couple of weeks it'll become part of your morning and evening routine, and after a couple of months you'll wonder what all the fuss was about. My sister got contacts for vanity reasons for her wedding, and she is now a regular wearer. She uses disposables - very good if you're not sure you're going to be a regular wearer.

I am one of these "touching your eyes? EW SQUICK!" people too.

I got my lens stuck around the back of my eye the weekend before last. It really bluddy hurt - I had to go into M&S to pretend to try on bras, just to get a nice big mirror to get close to. I only succeeded in making the red veins redder and sticky outier. In the end, I slept with it still in and somehow it worked its way back round the front overnight. My eye was dead gunky.

on the vanity side of things, ive worn glasses since i was 10 years old and as an awkward teenager [is there any other kind?] it was hard enough not feeling like i was as skinny or pretty as my classmates. contacts were a big confidence booster then, they still are now. even though i have a pretty badass pair of frames, i still feel schlubby whenever they're on. plus, i hate all the nose grease that accumulates from wear. lastly, i love sunglasses!

i just switched from regular lenses to disposable [acuvue 2, i think] and im in hog heaven. im kind of lazy when it comes to taking my contacts out and stuff, disposables are much easier for me to deal with.

also, in the 10+ years of lenswearing, i've never had any problems with getting a contact stuck *anywhere*. this past november, though, i did accidentally flush one of my down a sink at during a rock show. it was awesome!

Indeed. I got sick of hearing my mother complain about her old contacts (even though she now has disposables and likes those) that I'm not moved to veer away from glasses. Apparently, they prescribed the wrong type of contacts because the eye doctor thought she had a stigmatism in one of her eyes.

The pollen here's insane year-round (allergy festival 365 days a year!) and my eyes are always watering, so that wouldn't help either.

AGH FUCK I ASKED FOR ALL PURPOSE SOFT CONTACT LENS SOLUTION I GOT 'CLEANING SOLUTION' INSTEAD NOW I'VE JUST STUFFED A LOAD OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE INTO MY EYE AAARGH FFS OWW BLOODSHOT LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE

HYDROGEN FUCKING PEROXIDE

^^^ momus wannabe

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has your eye gone blonde yet?

I could not survive without my contact lenses glasses because I am vain.

fixed.

Similar thing happened when my Georgetown roommate brought a girl back. (I wasn't there obv. but he told me about it later.) As I understand it after they had finished the deed she had some lens issues so my roommate said she could borrow some of my solution which she put directly into her eye. She didn't realise it was the peroxide stuff. It was, I imagine, a rather unfortunate end to the night.

Has anyone here had issues with daily disposable lenses? I've been on a cycle of trying out different sample lenses over the past month (which I've had a variety of issues with), but the dailies were the worst. They, like, fused to my eyeball. I had to literally peel them off (after numerous failed attempts to take them out like any other lens), and they left my eyes feeling raw and wrong afterwards. I'm wearing a pair of two-week disposables now (which I've already used and which are technically past date) just to get me through until my optometrist appointment, and my right eye is stinging slightly but they're still more comfortable than the dailies.

In short: give me recommendations! Keeping in mind that I apparently have excessively dry eyes.

fork out for monthlies dude, either that or go gas-permeable

Oddly, I experienced the opposite - I had monthly disposables a few years ago that would make my eyes feel all nasty, so I stopped getting them and stuck with glasses. Then recently I got some daily disposables for occasional wear e.g. gigs I suspect may get a bit messy, after losing my glasses a few too many times. The daily ones are absolutely fine! Oh well, sorry.

Apparently my eyes are slightly abnormal pH which means they react badly to the saline solution they keep the lenses in. I don't know which way they are different, I quite like the idea of having TEARS OF ACID though.

The ones that have worked the best thus far were two-week disposables used in conjunction with the hardcore cleaning solution. I apparently accumuluate a lot of residue, in addition to the dryness. And the dryness has been an issue with all of the lenses I've tried, the going theory being that tear duct surgery incurred as a baby has turned my ducts into tear siphons or something. SUCK. So it's drops all day long, unless I can find a viable alternative.

I still wear contacts, and I'm still vain.

Had mine three years now and I love them. The monthlies have always worked for me so I haven't had a reason to try anything else, but I had to go through a few pairs of them before I found ones that felt comfortable. I'd say just keep trying out different lenses.

Most surprising benefit of getting contacts: being able to cut onions without tearing up. I always do the onion chopping in our house now.

I can't put contacts in.

Who here has gotten Lasik and how affordable is it these days?

I've been wearing glasses for 23 years and never tried contacts...

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-- Just got offed, Monday, 1 October 2007 10:22 (8 months ago) Bookmark Link

I'm strongly considering getting contacts soon. I've worn glasses since I was 8 (now almost 25) and I'm kind of feeling it's time. Plus I play football once a week during spring and summer and wearing glasses for that sucks. I have an astigmatism btw - would that be a problem?

I've started wearing (daily disposable) lenses again now and then after years of being 100% speccy - two months' worth has lasted since Christmas.

I do now and then think about getting lasered but really I'm too attached to the idea of being able to wear cool glasses sometimes to throw away that opportunity*.

*plain glass specs are for wankers obv

I'm strongly considering getting contacts soon. I've worn glasses since I was 8 (now almost 25) and I'm kind of feeling it's time.

That's me, Chris: nothing but glasses for the past 20 years, until my last pair spontaneously snapped in half and I decided to try something new. And now I can walk in the rain and maybe even buy sunglasses. It's exciting. Or will be, once I find a pair that works.

I'm going to request monthlies, based on the positive reviews here. The dailies were way too thin, and even the bi-weeklies have been a bit fragiile (random tears and chips in the lenses, which I'm sure can't be good). I think monthlies combined with the harsh cleanser might work.

I has an astigmatism, and I can wear contact lenses. xpost to Chris

classic.

I've had little to no issues and switched from the soft lenses that last a year to the bi-weekly ones a long time back. Outside of having to use eye drops when I was in the desert and having to wait until my eyes re-moisten to remove them if I accidentally fall asleep in them, no problems.

The daily disposable ones appeal to me - no worries about cleaning them, basically. They might work out more expensive mind you.

Yeah, apparently I'm the only person in the world for whom dailies are a horrifying nightmare.

I have an astigmatism btw - would that be a problem?

-- Chris in Belfast, Wednesday, June 4, 2008 6:21 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

havent you seen the ad with the hot blonde co-ed twins? one has astigmatism and used to be ugly because she wore glasses but now she wears contacts instead and you just cant tell which twin is cuter!

Contact lenses make it real hard to play guitar hero or rock band. They keep on fogging up cuz you can't blink to play those games.

contacts fog up????

I am weird and wear the gas permeable variety. The thing is, lotsa folks wear eyeglasses and look amazing, but I think that, for other people, they obscure some of the best parts of their features, and the rest of us are cheated out on the full extent of said persons' beauty.

I am blinking away contact "fog" as I write.

Bump because, further to posts upthread, I just got contacts!

Went for the daily disposables to see how I go with them. My astigmatism is bad enough that I couldn't get lenses quite strong enough to fully correct it, but the optician said it'd be close enough to not matter. And my vision seems pretty good, though not glasses perfect.

Eyes are a bit itchy, but I've only had them in an hour.

you'll get use to them. do you need to wear them all the time? i use daily disposables for sports and going out, and they're great.

i really need to figure out somewhere to get my contacts other than doctor's vision works -- been going there for years, but the bastards won't sell me new contacts if my prescription's out of date and i can afford contacts but i haven't been able to afford an eye exam in forever so i've had the same contacts for a year and at this point they just make my eyes bloodshot red after 2 hours and i can't really wear them anymore.

go in and ask for your prescription according to your last eye test (they have to give this to you). you can use the prescription to buy lenses online on any number of sites.

(eh, that's for daily disposables, i'm assuming the principle is the same if you have monthlies etc but probably not on reflection)

I just bought glasses to back up my contact lenses. I love c.l., but during allergy season, they are impossible. It has taken me nearly 3 weeks to get used to the glasses -- getting used to having something on your face for hours, headaches, visual wonkiness, etc.

Maybe you should consider back up glasses, shipple? To hold you over during those contact lens "dry seasons". I totally understand your pain, I go get an examination every other year instead of annually because of the costs and I even have insurance.

i have glasses, which i'm wearing more and more these days. i just don't like wearing my glasses all the time.

you'll get use to them. do you need to wear them all the time? i use daily disposables for sports and going out, and they're great.

― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 June 2009 14:14 (1 hour ago)

That's exactly what I got them for. Have my glasses on again which was a bit of a relief tbh, but I'm sure I'll get used to them. I'll go for a few hours tomorrow.

I buy my contact lenses online now and save ££££££££££ by doing so.

I hate wearing glasses. I feel like they draw attention to my face, which is not a thing I tend to want to do, but chances are they probably don't to anyone who isn't me.

"I've always wanted those square half-frames, like a fifties FBI agent, but you can't really get them. Aaaaargh."

haha

You know when you think your eyesight is failing, everything getting progressively blurred?

Then one day you try switching yr contacts around, and everything is clearer?

That's a good day.

Ha - been there, done that!