they're specially made to be more permeable, but not everyone can wear them, you have to have a few checkups after you first try them.
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they're specially made to be more permeable, but not everyone can wear them, you have to have a few checkups after you first try them.
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How often do you need to clean them?
ya can't loose them if you never take them out
Yes but I'm the sort of person to put them in for say 2 weeks...take them out to clean them....and then think "oh **** where did I put them" - tis the reasons I don't use them. Bung the dailies away at the end of the day and give your eyes time to breathe. All good
You don't have to at all, but most people (and me) do it every so often (i do mine once a week when i remember), just to be sure. Plus with contacts you should leave them out and wear your glasses for a day every once in a while.
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You're supposed to wear them for 28 days and then have a day off. Although it either more then one day or not at all for me. I'm just so sporadic.
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I clean mine every week or so. You just know when it's time
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Do you find when you wake up in the morning you have a lot more gunk around your eye/eye lashes?
The stuff that used to be just sleep in the coner of your eye never goes hard, and you have the gunk there insted
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Do you find when you wake up in the morning you have a lot more gunk around your eye/eye lashes?
The stuff that used to be just sleep in the coner of your eye never goes hard, and you have the gunk there insted
Yeah, but I find the more you clean the lenses the less this happens.
What I hate is if your eyes don't decide to water in the morning and you open them. I've never had sandpaper in my eyelids, but I could probably hazard a guess at what it feels like.
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The most healthy lenses you can get are high DK Rigid Gas Permeable. They allow more oxygen through than even the extended wear soft lenses. They are very rarely dispensed to new customers now, as people aren't prepared to spend the time getting used to them. Unlike soft lenses you need to get used to them over a number of weeks. Also, unlike soft lenses, they aren't suitable for occasional wear. They are also the best lenses for correcting astigmatism.
yeah it's kind of weird looking in the mirror before wiping it, looks like I've sneezed on my eyes >.<
What I hate is if your eyes don't decide to water in the morning and you open them. I've never had sandpaper in my eyelids, but I could probably hazard a guess at what it feels like.
Burnsy
Sounds nasty mine haven't done that yet, but something got on my lens last week, and irritated my eye lid, went n for a check up and the inside of my eye lid is red and "lumpy" according to him. Got a new lens free, now it feels fine but the inside of the lid feels cold
I wear dailies and love them
Phate, how much do you pay for your focus dailies?
As said before, what opticians was it? I cant see why you cant have them. Dailys or monthlys.
I use Dailys for when I go out to pub or riding the bike etc. Prefer to wear glasses all the time though for general use and for work.
I go to Conlon's. Been using them for years and had no problems what so ever with them. Cant recommend them enough to anyone around here.
6 months or so ago I bought a new pair of glasses. £224 all in, inc £40 insurance. 3 days later, lost them in the pub whilst watching the champions league final As they were insured and I lost them myself, I got 50% off my replacement pair, so that was another £92 paid.
By this point, I got talking to one of the women there and ended up on a few dates with her, so it was worth going back for the 2nd pair
Anyway, week or so after I got my new replacement pair, Im talking to the manager of the bar and he only found my 'lost' glasses and gave them back to me! The lenses were slighty scratched. So I go to see my 'lady friend', we work out a deal, that they arrived at the store stratched, return them and get a new pair again. So Ive ended up with 2 pairs, the same for £316 One pair for general use and one pair for work.
I pay £44 every 6 months for 30 pairs of dailys. They are worth it.
I use Dailys for when I go out to pub or riding the bike etc. Prefer to wear glasses all the time though for general use and for work.
I go to Conlon's. Been using them for years and had no problems what so ever with them. Cant recommend them enough to anyone around here.
6 months or so ago I bought a new pair of glasses. £224 all in, inc £40 insurance. 3 days later, lost them in the pub whilst watching the champions league final
As they were insured and I lost them myself, I got 50% off my replacement pair, so that was another £92 paid. By this point, I got talking to one of the women there and ended up on a few dates with her, so it was worth going back for the 2nd pair
Anyway, week or so after I got my new replacement pair, Im talking to the manager of the bar and he only found my 'lost' glasses and gave them back to me! The lenses were slighty scratched. So I go to see my 'lady friend', we work out a deal, that they arrived at the store stratched, return them and get a new pair again. So Ive ended up with 2 pairs, the same for £316
One pair for general use and one pair for work.I pay £44 every 6 months for 30 pairs of dailys. They are worth it.
i wear the continuous wear lenses from specsavers and not had any problem with them since they must have improved them while back
as when i started to wear lenses i had the monthly take out at night ones, then went on the sleep in lenses but every so often i would wake up and one eye would be really red. so i went back to the monthly take out lenses
now i'm back on the continuous wear lenses as the optician woman i saw said they had improved them and not had any issues yet this time around
if you go to see an optician and you can wear them then i would say give them ago
as when i started to wear lenses i had the monthly take out at night ones, then went on the sleep in lenses but every so often i would wake up and one eye would be really red. so i went back to the monthly take out lenses
now i'm back on the continuous wear lenses as the optician woman i saw said they had improved them and not had any issues yet this time around
if you go to see an optician and you can wear them then i would say give them ago
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I think I pay about £34 at my local opticians, could be wrong.
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These are what I have been wearing since 17. Can't put soft lenses in my eyes as they are ultra sensitive and I can't hold my eye open.
The only reason I can think why you weren't offered lenses is although they said you need glasses your prescription may not be strong enough for the need for contact lenses.
My friend wore dailies and one morning could see 'a scratch' on her eye and could barely open it. She went to Moorfields and was told that she had an ULCER on her eye... and not on the white, but the iris (coloured part).
She was given eye drops to put in ever hour the first day, including at nighttime where she had to set an alarm to put them in.
She has been told she cannot wear contacts again.
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its bs she can't wear them again(well most likely, tell her to go back to opticians and have them checked again with a month gone and they'll probo say its fine). Cornea's heal great, only damaging when the infection gets below the cornea. I had the same thing, went to Western eye hospital i think instead though, hourly drops for a few days, then tapered off for a week. Ulcer on the eye from infection getting into a scratch. Was probably fine to wear contacts again in 2-3 weeks they said, went for a contact lense fitting again yesterday and wore some monthlies for several hours, all was fine. Though I just fell asleep in my chair for a couple hours with them in and they were dry getting them out.
Its retarded, been wearing contacts for years now, for the last 4 or so basically no glasses at all not even 2 hours use total. Going back to glasses for a couple weeks is so bizarre, apparently due to their design everything looks smaller, plus the out of focus area's of peripheral vision, felt constantly dizzy/headachey till i got my contacts again.
Seriously considering laser sugery now.
AS for extended wear, its supposed to be a fairly small percentage of people that are recommended to wear them for the full month and there are risks associated with wearing any contacts for an extended period, those included.
To the OP, certainly ask a different opticians, or ask the one who told you for specifics on why you can't have them. It could be as simple as the powers to weak, you need a weaker contact lense strength than you need for glasses due to the difference in distance to the eye. so a -1 or -0.50 glasses perscription would essentially be nothing on a contact lense and make the cost almost pointless. Or a very weirdly shaped eye simply doesn't suit a contact lense and would do damage.
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I have recently started wearing daily contact lenses, and my eyes are -1.00, just looking on the manufacturers website they start at -0.25
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Of course it depends on the person, one of my friends friends apparently had the same thing happen and she is back on contacts... am sure she will be fine
When I got my new lenses fitted I was told I have better than 20/20 vision with them in.
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