contact lenses

Get a room. Your upsetting the milk in my coffee.

[quote=dizzyblonde;1681262][quote]=rthoms;1681255]. It also depends if you have an astigmatism. In this case you will need a toric lens which incorporates a cylinder value as well. On higher wear freq lenses this stops around -2.25, but there are lenses (typically made to order) that go to +/-20.00 with a cyl of about -5.00.

Yes I an astigmatism in one eye, and yes I had the toric lenses, but the dodgy eye didn't like them after a while. I'm as blind as a bat in that eye, lets just say a fly in the good eye riding a bike is always errrr interesting with either specs or lenses....especially lenses

I know that feeling. Contacts can take a bit to get used to. Even now I feel them all the time - just learnt to ignore it.

Originally Posted by keithd

do you want me to flirt with you?

yes please

I used monthly disposables for about 8 years? Then a couple of years ago I switched to dailies.

The benefit of lenses over glasses is huge - no more fogging, no more screws/lenses falling out of the glasses (ok maybe that's just me), no more accidentally bending them out of shape, you can see what you're doing in the shower, etc.

The benefit of dailies over monthlies is similarly big - no more time wasted cleaning them after each day, no more worries about breaking one after a day (Doh! Another month's lenses down the drain! Etc). My dailies are also a lot thinner (more comfortable and appear to let more moisture around or something, as they don't dry the eye so easily).

I'd definitely be giving them a go - it might be difficult to get it in the eye at first but soon enough it'll be natural, and take you as long as it takes you to put a pair of glasses on (well, almost ).

Tried it myself once, with a free specsavers offer and hated every moment - I think I was like that men behaving badly episode......never again.

how long does it take before you can put them in easy

Originally Posted by hovis

how long does it take before you can put them in easy

depends i guess. first time i put one in on my own took about 20 minutes!!

now, about 1 second!

oh and dont do what i;ve done 2 or 3 times try to take them out when you've already taken them out!! drunk and pulling on an eyeball aint clever

Originally Posted by keithd

depends i guess. first time i put one in on my own took about 20 minutes!!

now, about 1 second!

oh and dont do what i;ve done 2 or 3 times try to take them out when you've already taken them out!! drunk and pulling on an eyeball aint clever

haha

see......... i simply dont have the patciants to stand there farting about for 20mins

Originally Posted by hovis

haha

see......... i simply dont have the patciants to stand there farting about for 20mins

but thats just til you get used to. you may be ok and get them in immediately. but may take a bit of faffing. either way i say go for it. dunno til you try

Originally Posted by keithd

depends i guess. first time i put one in on my own took about 20 minutes!!

now, about 1 second!

oh and dont do what i;ve done 2 or 3 times try to take them out when you've already taken them out!! drunk and pulling on an eyeball aint clever

done that i ended up scratching my cornea - very painful