Contact Lenses

Gall1987

Gall1987

Gall1987

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Hi

Right, well I'm finally going for an eye test because I'm fed up of not being able to see the board properly at College!

I'm after some advice on prices for contact lenses and what the difference is between daily/monthly lenses etc.

I was supposed to wear glasses when I was younger but never did. My eye sight isn't that bad, I passed my driving test without wearing any glasses and I never ususlly struggle apart from when I'm at College or even at football and can't see players names!

Can anybody give me any advice the difference between the different types of lenses. I'd like to have a bit of an idea before I go in and they start trying to sell me the most expensive ones!

Cheers :)
 
Firstly, see an optician.

Secondly,
Dailies - Worn once and then thrown away. Typically softer and thinner as they can be less robust.
monthlies - Wear them every day, remove them and clean them at night, and then put back in in the morning. Do this 30 times.
Continuous wear - Wear for 30 days. Throw away.
Yearly do as monthlies for 365 days.

Tbh, Dailies are the most comfy. They are also the most expensive. I wear Specsavers Elite dailies. The most expensive (£25 / month) , but every other lens irritates my eyes.

You need to have a pair of glasses in case of infections, and in case they are uncomfy / you lose one. And initially you need to get used to wearing lenses, so it might be a couple of hours one day, 1 more the next etc. I forget how it goes.

Best thing I ever did tbh.
 
Start with daily disposables (the most expensive) and see how you get on. You may find that cause they are new to you they may protein up quickly and feel sticky and uncomfortable on the eye.

After wearing contacts for several years now I find i can use monthly disposables for a couple of months and they still feel fresh.
I used to have permanent ones but i always lost one before anywhere near their time was up and the cleaner and protein remover on top probably made them more expensive in the long run than dailys.
 
I started on dailies, progressed to monthlies (because of how regularly I wore mine) and then heard a rumour that monthlies + dailies are 'virtually' the same.

Ever since (about 2 years now) I have been wearing dailies as monthlies and just chuck them out when they are getting annoying. I put them in solution every night and just wear them again the next day. Neither I nor my sister and friend who do this, have had any problems doing this.

Saved myself so much money this way (which was handy for a student).

However, I am not an optician and neither am I telling you to do what I did... just giving you my opinion :)

GL and hope you enjoy wearing them as much as I do.
 
I found that dailies were a real pain, I never got on with them. I would always end up putting one of the lenses in backwards which is annoying as you have to re-insert it. I also found that they wouldn't last all day, towards the evening my eyes began to hurt. These were the £22 dailies from SpecSavers.

I now wear SpecSavers monthlies which are £10 a month (second cheapest option) and I have no problems with them. No trouble of putting them in backwards as once you have it correct the container keeps them in the right position. They also last me a whole day without any problems.
 
Well I have an appointment for next week so I'll see how it goes. I'm not keen on glasses themselves, never have been but I need to do something as it's becoming annoying having to ask people "what does that say", all the time!

How much am I looking at roughly for each type? I'm a student now, so times are harder than when I worked full-time! :)
 
I use two weekly ones from Boots, they cost around £27 a month, usually I wear them for around 16 - 18 hours a day weekdays, and then wear my glasses on weekends (Unless I am going out)

I find it works well for me :)

Though looking up, I may be getting ripped off :P
 
I have a mixture of 2 weeklies and dailys and glasses. Depends how often I am going to wear my lenses. I know at some points I will wear them 4 or 5 days out of a week and therefore choose 2 weeklies, but for some I will only wear them for 1 day in a week, and therefore choose dailies.
 
I pay £10 a month via direct debit to SpecSavers for my monthlies. They post a 3-month supply at a time and give you free check-ups and a discount on glasses. They do a cheaper package but I tried the lenses and they were not comfortable at all for me. I wear mine every day because I'm genetically short sighted so I'd be pretty much blind without them.
 
I just got contact lenses yesterday - bit fiddly to put in to say the least, took me a while this morning!

Been given 2 different types, focus daily and acuvue moist to try out - can I order these online for cheaper?

I've been told £21 a month for the acuvue moist ones (dailies)
 
PhillyDee said:
Tbh, Dailies are the most comfy.
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I found the continus ones to be far more comfy after a day or two of wear.

Daily +monthlies always used to irritate my eyes, and constantly taking them out/putting them back in used to make it worse.

they cost me about £18 a month
 
Ironic Namesake said:
I just got contact lenses yesterday - bit fiddly to put in to say the least, took me a while this morning!
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Give it time and it becomes effortless to put them in.

I think a lot of people give up on contacts because it's hard to put them in when you start - which is a shame.
 
RobH said:
I pay £10 a month via direct debit to SpecSavers for my monthlies. They post a 3-month supply at a time and give you free check-ups and a discount on glasses. They do a cheaper package but I tried the lenses and they were not comfortable at all for me. I wear mine every day because I'm genetically short sighted so I'd be pretty much blind without them.
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I have this package too, but i have very dry eyes so i dont tend to have my contacts in for many hours a day, always have my glasses as back up. :cool:
 
"I found that dailies were a real pain, I never got on with them. I would always end up putting one of the lenses in backwards"

Dead easy to check the correct side lenses should be, just gently squeeze the lens together using a pincer type movement with your thumb and finger next to the thumb. If the sides of the lenses touch you have the correct side, if the sides concave you have the wrong side.

I moved to dailies 4 years ago. Well worth it as before I used monthlies and the cleaning was a pain.
 
I have just had my contact lense consiltation earlier today and have gone with the monthly disposable ones going to cost roughly £10 a month which is a bargin I think and cleaning them wont really bother me, if you wash your hands before putting them in and when you take them out they shouldn't get grubby. Im so made up with them though can't remember when I could see this well and clearly probably before I developed a sight problem :D
 
I've been using dailies (boots own brand, £23 pcm) for best part of 12 years now. I've never had any problems at all, and in that time I've never had to resort to weaing glasses due to irritation etc, in fact I don't even own glasses anymore. I know you 'should' but having not worn them I could never justify paying for a new pair.

I've not really had issues with loosing lenses or had them become irritating towards the end of the day. In fact I've gone for nearly 48 hours with the same pair of lenses on several occasions, and only towards the end did they start to become and annoyance, as much due to tiredness as anything else.

I've never used monthly or any other type of lenses so can't offer any comparison, but for simplicity dailes are fantastic imho.
 
I went the other way, I started with monthlys which were great but I found that my eyes dried to quick due to office environment so switched to dailys and stopped wearing them at work. Also the fact that I really could not be arsed to clean them relentlessly may have been a factor too. Thought better to swallow extra cost and be safe with disposables
 
D1ngd0ng said:
I went the other way, I started with monthlys which were great but I found that my eyes dried to quick due to office environment so switched to dailys and stopped wearing them at work. Also the fact that I really could not be arsed to clean them relentlessly may have been a factor too. Thought better to swallow extra cost and be safe with disposables
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+1 I also switched because there was a rumour of a problem with the cleaning solution used for most monthlies and that it could damage your eyes. Don't know how much truth there ever was in that.

Anyway, dailies are very easy to whack in and whack out. I have two pairs of glasses as a backup although I usually wear them all weekend unless I'm out.
 
Moved away from dailies as monthlys were a lot cheaper.

Wearing the Air Optix (best ;)) and pay Specsavers £50 for 6months worth. As you can see from other posts mentioning daily prices the monthlys are far cheaper.

But I do have a pack of dailes to use as spares incase I lose a monthly. Especially annoying when putting one in and you accidentally blow or drop it. Sometimes they just disappear and you'll never find it again. haha.
 
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