changing from monthly (toric) contact lenses to daily, anyone?

GlasweJen

Most opticians have a preferred company but hold accounts with all of the manufacturers.

I think purevision have their place, they're excellent as a bandage lens but I've found refitting a purevision patient is a nightmare. I'm glad I got into the hospital and out of contact lenses before they discontinued it lol

C_Mababejive

I wonder what your degree of astigmatism is? With low levels you can easily get away with spherical lenses rather than torics.

I use daysoft dailies,,very good and cost effective but deprecated by many optoms mostly because they cant make such big profits with them. I have used j&j acuvues in the past,also very good,,,often used for two days,just cleaning in between days....not recommended..as always be guided by your optom

PenguinOfDeath

I've recently done the same albeit with Specsavers going to Acuvue moist daily torics. I was amazed how thin they were and had a lot of trouble at first but found them better when actually in, I still need drops for comfort after 5/6 hours though.

It did take a lot of trial and error to get the right lenses with the right fit as different manufacturers do slightly different sizes apparently

AbbieCadabra

thanks for the extra replies/info

C_Mababejive wrote: »

I wonder what your degree of astigmatism is? With low levels you can easily get away with spherical lenses rather than torics.

my last eye test was Dec 2013:
...........right / left
sph -0.25.... -0.50
cyl -1.75.... -0.75
axis 5.... 2

my last purevision & these current trial lenses are:
right / left
-0.25.... -0.50
-1.75.... -0.75
180.... 180
bc 8.5.... dia14.5 (PV was 14.7 i think)

i did wear the acuvue moist with reasonable success for about 6 hours last night. took a few attempts to get them in, especially thr right. the fitting on the right is definitely 'off' as it nearly fell out, just flipped forward by itself, when i was putting my mascara on, never had that before!

vision in both eyes was crystal clear looking straight ahead, slightly out of focus looking down/left/right. after about an hour, the right had obviously gone out of place as completely out of focus. it slipped back into place again about 2 hours later which was a very disconcerting feeling, especially after a few drinks! i felt it twirl round then vision popped back to crystal clear again, very odd.

we go away on holiday in a few weeks & i really need to have lenses available. it takes at least 5 days for any trial lenses to come into costco so i'm starting to run out of time (i obviously didn't appreciate that there'd be quite as much trial & error in this change over process!). at the moment, i'm nearly ready to give in & just go back to my monthly lenses (which i'll wear nearly every day whilst away) & get back in the habit of wearing them again when back home. but i'll see what happens at my appointment tomorrow...

C_Mababejive

Have you actually trialled some spherical dailies? I too have astigmatism,,cant recall but more than 1 dioptre i one eye and about 0.75 D in the other and i wear spherical dailies (non toric) with no isues