Anyone wear contact lenses?

[NancyNGA]

I tried them years ago for about 10 years. Saved up enough money from my first summer job at a drive-in to get them. (I even remember they were $600 ). This was back in the 70's.

When I moved to Georgia they didn't do well with the pollen in the spring, so I gave them up forever. These were the hard ones. I'm sure they are better and cheaper now.

Does anyone here wear them?

 

[fureverywhere]

Same thing here...I was in high school and would go without my glasses...and possibly walk into walls. I finally got contacts and remember practicing and practicing trying to get comfortable with them. Within a year or two it was back to glasses and that was that.

 

[debbie in seattle]

I've been wearing contacts for almost 50 years. In the early days I had the hard contacts and developed severe corneal abrasions from them. Since then, I've worn soft contact lenses with no issues. I make sure I change them out once a month as instructed and clean them. They have so many different kinds nowadays. I stick with what works for me. I'm in the bifocal category as far as glasses go, so my eye doc has rx'd two different strengths to allow me to see better, works great. My glasses are still single vision, too hard to figure out bifocals since I only wear my glasses maybe 2-3 hours a day. I never, ever, go to one of those doc in a box places, I go to a card toting optometrist so I can make sure I don't have any issues. I've never considered laser surgery, only have two eyes and don't want them messed up.

 

[NancyNGA]

... I've never considered laser surgery, only have two eyes and don't want them messed up.

Yes, it sounds too risky to me. So many people complain of dry eyes afterward. There are videos out there of that surgery being performed. Not for me. Cataract surgery involved enough cutting (just a tiny slit).

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

I wore the hard lenses back in the 60's. They always would flip out and when it happened at home my mom would put a stocking on the end of the vacuum to suck it up with out going into the bag. Most times we found it. Then I tried the soft lenses. Now need bifocals and just gave up. I heard the bifocal contacts are hard to get use to.

 

[fureverywhere]

I think it helped being a big fan of Elton John. That is accepting glasses as part of your face. He went through a couple years with contacts and he looked goofy.

 

[debbie in seattle]

I wore the hard lenses back in the 60's. They always would flip out and when it happened at home my mom would put a stocking on the end of the vacuum to suck it up with out going into the bag. Most times we found it. Then I tried the soft lenses. Now need bifocals and just gave up. I heard the bifocal contacts are hard to get use to.

Ruth, I also need biofocals, but wear different strengths of contacts in each eye and works great.

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

Ruth, I also need biofocals, but wear different strengths of contacts in each eye and works great.

Thanks Debbie, I will give them a try the next time I need a change. They use to add a tiny bit of weight to one area to keep the lenses in one place if bifocals were needed or the outer edge of the entire lens was another strength so if the lens spun around it wouldn't matter. people gave up on these types of lenses.That was several years ago though.

 

[Ruthanne]

I started out wearing glasses in the 80s and then contacs some time later. My eyes were so dry in air conditioned places and I had a hard time putting them in every day, too. It was a big hassle to me and glasses were easier. But now there are ones you can keep in for a month? I may look into that. I have bifocals, too.

 

[NancyNGA]

Ruth, I also need biofocals, but wear different strengths of contacts in each eye and works great.

Some people are getting that done with IOLs (Inter Ocular Lenses used in cataract surgery).

It works for some people if their eyesight (nearsightedness) is not too terrible. One eye is set for closer range and the other set for distance. I think the recommendation is not more than 2 units (diopters?) difference between the two lenses. They learn to use just one eye at a time depending on how close they are focusing. Many just can't ever adjust to it.

I read tons about this kind of stuff just before cataract surgery, but have forgotten a lot of it now.

 

[debbie in seattle]

Some people are getting that done with IOLs (Inter Ocular Lenses used in cataract surgery).

It works for some people if their eyesight (nearsightedness) is not too terrible. One eye is set for closer range and the other set for distance. I think the recommendation is not more than 2 units (diopters?) difference between the two lenses. They learn to use just one eye at a time depending on how close they are focusing. Many just can't ever adjust to it.

I read tons about this kind of stuff just before cataract surgery, but have forgotten a lot of it now.

My bro-in-law had this done. He 'claims' all is good, but he's wearing those super dark sunglasses with the side shades too.
I don't think so.