Contact Lenses

[Fresh]

I use daily disposables everyday. I get ripped off because I'm with a local optician so it equates to £1 per pair of dailys. Aftercare is great though.

I can't have monthlys, basically my tear ducts are shit and dont produce enough tears and the quality of tear is poor too due to poor oil production by my eye lids.

When I put my contacts in first thing, I have great vision, much better than my glasses, but after about 8 hours use they start to dry and go a bit blurry. Its to do with tiredness vs blink rate. This will also be noticeable sitting infront of a computer, as when you are concentrating on something, your blink rate decreases. This means less of the tears get to the lens and the lens dries, making the lens uncomfortable. Another common problem is that people with lenses forget how to blink properly and only blink half way instead of shutting the eyelid properly, this also leads to a dried lenses and obviously discomfort.

You can teach yourself to blink correctly but can look like a bit of a freak doing so - my sisters terrible for that.

Also, I know plenty of people using contacts and the majority of people using monthly lenses whether you leave them in or take them out have had a problem somewhere along the lines with infection. Its usually their own fault for not being any good at cleaning them... but with dailys, you eliminate the problem.

Anyway - theres a couple of issues you might want to talk to the optician about. Especially what you will be using them for... [I doubt they will recommend contacts over glasses for computer work]

[Over Carl]

Found a seriously cheap daily disposable supplier www.daysoft.com Looking at the wiki article, they seem legit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daysoft

Just got my first pack today and they feel fine, although only time will really tell.

[CallmeGoose]

I've been ordering from day soft for years. Would never use specs avers or the like again

Would recommend


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[supraman54]

unfortunately they don't do Toric lenses so if you have astigmatism its a non starter..

[beaconboy]

i have also used Daysoft for years for my contact lenses , A fantastic company that does dirt cheap glasses too !

[gaz188]

I can also recommend Daysoft. Used them for over a year and not had any problems.
Personally i am too shit scared to have laser treatment.

[Larrylakes]

I used to wear glasses and then went straight to the contacts that you wear day and night for 30 days. They are brilliant I pay about £220 for 12 pairs. But I often get at least 6 weeks out of them.

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[pratman]

unfortunately they don't do Toric lenses so if you have astigmatism its a non starter..

yep exactly i think you can get 2 weekly ones but i have the 4 weekly ones which i always forget to change and they seem to work upto 5-6 weeks lol which is bad i know

[matthewy2]

Another here for Day Soft.

Been using them for 2 years now and never had any issues.

When I damaged my eye playing football last year, I was seeing an eye specialist in the hospital.
After he told me my eye would never recover i asked about laser eye treatment in the other to make it perfect.
He told me not to bother as there is something on the horizon that will take over laser eye treatment and that is why they are flogging it everywhere we look now.

I am still waiting though......

[baggy13]

I've been wearing mono vision contacts (just one lens) for a few years now as long as you make sure there seated right its fine but been thinking of laser for ages

[Lestronics]

I used daily's a few years back at a cost of around £30 p/month and my experience is that once you've mastered getting them in, I used to fill them with solution as they went in better, they were good for about 8 hours then after that they would dry up and your eyes would feel heavy and tired and since I was doing about 12 hours a day then I used to take them out and revert to normal glasses. The freedom that they gave was superb. Another thing I found, every so often the lense would work its way behind the eye, you knew it had because your vision would drop, strangely I couldn't feel it and it was a pain to try and get it out.

[Nibb]

I used to wear glasses and then went straight to the contacts that you wear day and night for 30 days. They are brilliant I pay about £220 for 12 pairs. But I often get at least 6 weeks out of them.

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Day and night for 6 weeks??? Fucking hell I wouldnt risk that!!

[big-paul]

I had LASIK 11 years ago at Moorfields. It cost about £3.5k but was worth it. Not had a minutes bother with my eyes even after 11 years. The reason I went to Moorfields was that Moorfields is where they send you when someone else fucks it up - so why go anywhere else?

At the time Boots were doing it as well but I thought do I really want to get the front of my eye peeled off in the same place I buy my deodorant? Turned out the answer was no

[Ashley]

I had LASIK 11 years ago at Moorfields. It cost about £3.5k but was worth it. Not had a minutes bother with my eyes even after 11 years. The reason I went to Moorfields was that Moorfields is where they send you when someone else fucks it up - so why go anywhere else?

At the time Boots were doing it as well but I thought do I really want to get the front of my eye peeled off in the same place I buy my deodorant? Turned out the answer was no

I agree totally worth it, I had it done in August 2011 at Optimax in Finchley cost £1100 as I had a weak prescription and is probably the best thing I've had done on years.

[blacksheep]

Again I ask the question - why do most opticians and ophthalmic surgeons wear glasses themselves rather than get laser? The answer (from two different sources, both surgeons) are that they don't reccomend it unless your eyesight is so bad you can find your glasses when you drop them. Can't remember all the ins and outs but it was around scarring refracting the light differently, more prevalent at night and once knackered hard to fix.

[TAR]

I was told that because the laser scimms the eye, making the lens thinner, you tend to get light glare. Was advised not to have
Mine done because my prescription is so slight.