Contact Lenses

Originally Posted by appollo1

it was specsavers i was at!!

I found it difficult to read a menu when I went for something to eat. It just didn't look right.

I will keep trying aand hopefully get on better on Tuesday.

mine are exactly the same

how much are they?

[appollo1]

i believe if i can finally put them in myself and go for them they will be £15 a month for the monthly ones. I have to have those as my eyes are rugby ball shaped seemingly!!

I where everyday 30's. You put them in... wear for 30 days even through the night, then replace, its great, been wearing them years now. I couldn't live without them now as my eye sight is really bad.

Originally Posted by appollo1

i believe if i can finally put them in myself and go for them they will be £15 a month for the monthly ones. I have to have those as my eyes are rugby ball shaped seemingly!!

You have an Astigmatism and you need toric lenses. Ask about the £18 a month lenses which are also toric but are more breathable. I've had the £15 a month ones for a few years, and I'm trialling the £18 ones at the moment and I still struggle a bit 'cos I have Blepharitis but they are a lot better. Bikers are more prone to these kind of infections because your eyes and face are exposed to the same dusty oily crap that makes the your visor and your bike dirty.

Try washing your hands and touching your eye with your finger a few times. If you get used to that and realise that it's actually no big deal, you'll have no bother with putting your lenses in.

I'm sure they'll feel awful at first, but stick with it for a few weeks and you'll hate wearing your glasses 'cos the freedom of not having something on your face, but being able to see.

The other thing I'm considering at the moment is that if I'm paying £220 odd a year, plus another £100 quid every other year for glasses, in 5 or 6 years a laser operation has paid for itself. I don't have a couple of grand spare just now, but when I do I'm going to enquire about it.

PS: Contact lenses spin in your eye, toric ones need to be the right way up and are weighted such that they always come to rest with the bottom at the bottom, your prescription won't be right unless they are the right way up. So don't worry if you can't see straight away when you put them in, they just need to turn. If they get dry and your vision goes blurry in one eye, it's just the contact lense stuck upside down 'cos it's dry. If you are having dry eye problems look in the contact lenses section in the supermarket and buy a wee bottle of "refresh contacts" eye drops (wee green bottle which I'm sure you've seen me using on ride-outs - everyone wonders what the hell I'm doing)

Originally Posted by hovis

i have worn them all day on the bike and they were graet, i kept trying to take my glasses off b4 my lid lol

the only bad theing is the pc screen is a bit blury

Sounds like you are the same as me, i.e. the correction that you need is part-way between two correction factors.

I'm short-sighted and the optician gave me a choice between:
1. really good (20:20) long vision with slightly blurry reading close to
2. not quite perfect long vision but better reading

I went for the former, bought a bigger screen for my PC and read holding book/map/whatever at arms length. Small price to pay for the benefits of wearing contact lenses IMHO, but others might not feel the same.

It's no different with glasses, except that I lift my glasses when reading.

i wear daily disposable like everyone has said takes some getting used to i use my glasses for work as work on a computer all day and my eyes have changed shpae at the moment being pregnant so cant always get them in properly but other than that i have had no problems. got mine from Tesco

Originally Posted by hovis

i have worn them all day on the bike and they were graet, i kept trying to take my glasses off b4 my lid lol

I'm the opposite, usually have contacts in on the bike, when I do wear glasses I keep trying to take the lid off before the glasses.

Its not really that bad deling with them in your eye. I have worn a single contact lens in my right eye since i had a retinal detachment repaired int he left one and they put me a lens in for good measure. It is no problem and I have to wear a gas permeable - semi-rigid one which most people don;t like.

The other half has just started wearing sft ones and she is so squeamish about eyes that you would not believe and she has no problems either.

Give it a whirl - you will be surprised how much brighter the world is!

[northwind]

Obviously poking things in your eyes is insane and horrible, but it's also worth it... I love mine, don't use them much as I basically can't be bothered but for cycling, riding, any sort of sports in fact, they're fantastic. It's almost like being a normal person. Only thing is, I sometimes find that they dry up on the bike, but the flipside is never having to worry about steamed up glasses etc. So in bad weather it's fantastic.

lets us know how you get on - i'm thinking of changing fed up knocking off my specs playing badminton