Contact Lenses - Who wears them?

Daily disposables @ £35 a month for my knackered eyes. This is from Specsavers. I wear them for roughly nine hours a day/ 5 or 6 days a week. Never been a major problem with them either.

I've been wearing contacts for a good 15 years now and I can't go out in public with my specs on anymore. :o I've often thought about corrective surgery, but then I realise that I really don't want anyone firing fricking laser beams in my eye. :D
 
I am in a very similar boat to yourself, going for a lens fitting tomorrow with Specsavers. I also have an astigmatism and have been told that daily lenses will cost me £40 a month.

Will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow, as I struggled to get the eye drops in my eyes when I had the lens test.
 
Lunatic Dreyfus said:
Daily disposables @ £35 a month for my knackered eyes. This is from Specsavers. I wear them for roughly nine hours a day/ 5 or 6 days a week. Never been a major problem with them either.

I've been wearing contacts for a good 15 years now and I can't go out in public with my specs on anymore. :o I've often thought about corrective surgery, but then I realise that I really don't want anyone firing fricking laser beams in my eye. :D
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dean_e_boy said:
I am in a very similar boat to yourself, going for a lens fitting tomorrow with Specsavers. I also have an astigmatism and have been told that daily lenses will cost me £40 a month.

Will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow, as I struggled to get the eye drops in my eyes when I had the lens test.
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This and this ^^

I have been wearing lenses for the last 12 years now :eek:

I pay just shy of £40 per month with a local Opticians (who all my family go to and i have been having eye tests, glasses and contact lenses all my life from) for daily disposables - 1-Day Acuvue Moist. This includes my check up appointments every 6 months and the lenses delivered to my door every 3 months.

I will be having a look at the web links though to see if I can get a cheaper deal

I have really really bad eye sight... -11.5 in my left eye and -10.5 in my right eye so laser eye surgery would be out (they can only do up to -8 at the moment?) so i wear my lenses every day for about 10 hours...I wont be seen DEAD in my glasses...they are HUGE!!!

I am surprised tho at people saying they don't go to get your eyes tested regularly...you should do guys

You only get one set of eyes, when they are gone, they are gone

Edit: Just checked the 2 web links above (http://www.getlenses.co.uk/ and http://www.contactlens.co.uk). Only contactlens.co.uk had my powers available and they want to charge me £48+ for the equivalent of a months supply or £122 for 3 months supply and that's without the £17.00 check up included...I think I'm going to stick with my opticians :)
 
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I wear them, Kerasoft by UltraVision.

I have to have them because I have a rare eye disorder called Keratoconus.

I'm just glad that the NHS pay for my lenses due to that disorder.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
I use lensway.

Anyone got experiences using PureVision 2 HD over normal PureVisions?
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Yes i went from the normal to the hd2, I was a little skeptical at first thinking they are just putting "HD" on the end to make them seen better. But thought i would try them for 6 months, and for me they are better and give a sharper image as they are thinner.
 
trixilux said:
WOW :eek:

My sister is -12 and -13...cant beat -27 tho!
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-12 is pretty bad too, even -7. Without my lens, you'll basically looking through a frosted glass window. You can still detect colour, like if a red van drives past, your field of vision will briefly look like the Japan flag etc. Price I pay btw is £47.50 for a hard lens that lasts about 3 years. Quite cheap as it's subsidised.
 
Well after the awful service from Vision Express, I went to Specsavers and they were miles more professional and quite a bit cheaper.

I've got some monthly silicone hydrogel lenses on order; should have them Wednesday. I'm quite excited!

These cost £18/month for my prescription
 
I've given contacts a try in the past, normally I don't mind touching my eyes, but I had a serious issue trying to get my contacts out, I found pinching them worked best but I simply couldn't be bothered with the hassle so ditched them.
 
I pay £23 per month for 2 weekly disposables (Acuvue Oasis).

This is a sort of "care package" in my local opticians. If I lose or break my contacts they give me replacements free of charge.

I also buy daily disposables for the weekend which they give to me at cost.
 
I've got an astigmatism (or rugby ball shaped retina) in one eye too dude, and I get monthly disposables for both eyes from specsavers on their direct debit lens thing for about £18 a month.

I've been wearing them for years and I can't reccomend them enough, fantastic lil things :)

Can be taken in and out everyday if you want but I find leaving them in all month and taking them out once is far easier. They're soft and comfortable enough to sleep/swim/party in etc. without causing me any issues.
 
Vegeta said:
£17.50 a month over 10 years is £2,100. Most of that £17.50 will be just paying for the lenses. And that's assuming you stick with them. They'd probably charge you over £3,000 for laser eye surgery. It'll cost them near nothing.
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They keep mailing me offers for £399 per eye. So assuming I get both eyes done, that's just under 4 year's worth of lenses. That's not very long-term thinking.

Lucky for them, I'm extremely squeamish about my eyes. Even getting to the point where I can put contacts in was a huge uphill struggle. The idea of them slicing off the front of my cornea and putting great big ****-off clamps on my eyes is too much for me to bear thinking about. :p

schumi84 said:
Woah, I feel like I have 20-20 vision compared to these :p.

-3.25 and -3 iirc
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I can beat that. -2 and -2.25. I'm still blind as a bat without my glasses or contacts though. Anything more than about a foot away from my face is blurry.
 
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when i wear mine i use the daysoft ones as linked previously in this thread so comfortable compared to the ones i was given by specsavers
 
Dailies here.

I used to wear monthlys but I found them uncomfortable and really itchy when looking at screens or monitors and considering that there isn't much getting away from that at work, I always used to wear my glasses on workdays.

I have dailies now, and wear them as and when I want to, on weekends etc, nights out, and its a LOT cheaper, I may go through about 10-15 pairs per month, and I've got 2 packs of 48 pairs in a drawer somewhere.

Horses for courses really, but dailies suit my lifestyle the best. Shame I'm such a wimp on the laser surgery front, but then again, there's no gaurantee how long the laser surgery will last.
 
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