Contact lens's the thruth?....

teddysmum

Specsavers are currently sending out flyers advertising their varifocal glasses and show illustrations of how peripheral vision is impaired by soft focus, though this decreases as the cost and quality of the lenses increases.

C_Mababejive

I would further add that some eyecare suppliers will be minded to upsell you and sign you up for multifocal contacts as its more income for them. I would speculate that for most people, they simple dont produce good results and you are better off fully correcting for distance.

As an example, i have a degree of astigmatism in both eyes around 1.25/1.75.

It is corrected in my specs prescription but i have never corrected for it in my contacts. I always use spherical contacts and they are simple,uncomplicated and sharp..

pollypenny

I managed to scratch my cornea when putting lens in, not once but twice.

The optician sent me straight to a consultant, who challenged me on why I wore them. I admitted to vanity and gave them up.

C_Mababejive

pollypenny wrote: »

I managed to scratch my cornea when putting lens in, not once but twice.

The optician sent me straight to a consultant, who challenged me on why I wore them. I admitted to vanity and gave them up.

I guess its more of an issue for women due to fingernails etc.

In reality though, contacts are very much a boon.

One shouldnt one feel comfortable about their appearance?

True there are lots of trendy specs designs these days and specs can be functional and fashionable.

They both have their advantages and disadvantages.

I wear both but not at the same time !

For mid to high myopes, CLs are a positive advantage. Instead of having to wear sometimes heavy and certainly very expensive specs, they can slot in a simple CL and have near perfect vision.

I do think a lot of optometrists or their shop assistants need to really improve contact lens education and most certainly insert/remove techniques.

A year or so ago isat in my boots optom (never again) and in the corner, a supposed trained dispensing optom was teaching insert/remove techniques to some new recruits. It was painful. I so wanted to intervene.

KingS6

DUTR wrote: »

So I recently had an eye test with a fresh optical prescription, the store offered a fee contact lens trial.
However I'm finding the daily multifocal lens's are
a) Not as good as spectacles for distance
b) Not as good for near eg reading.
With my specs everything is crystal clear and I can read a number plate a good 6 houses and more away, the lens's are not as clear even at 4 car lengths ahead.
Am I expecting too much from lens compared to specs?
Or is it a matter of trial and error of the len's until an ideal is found?
What worries me is the lens power is very close to the spectacle prescription.

What are your experiences of contact lens's?

Do you make sure the marking on the lenses are correctly aligned when you insert them, and adjust if misaligned? If not perfectly lined up it can affect your vision.

It's been a mixed bag of an experience for me. I used to have the hard lenses with the two separate cleaning solutions and found if they were inserted incorrectly or my eyes just didn't feel like having them I would have tearful red eyes until they were removed.

Apart from that vision was excellent and exceeded what my glasses could have given me.

Thankfully after a year I switched to soft monthly lenses with a single cleaning solution and was fine using them for many years, until the latter half of 2014 when my eyes decided to just randomly reject them. Eyes became quite red after 10 minutes of being inserted and wouldn't go away until removed. Air con and wind exacerbated this.

Began eye bag and drops treatment regime and did not solve the problem. Tried changing the cleaning solutions without success. So I switched to fortnightly ones and there wasn't a major improvement and I never felt the vision was as good.

Now on dailies and all these problems disappeared on the first time of using them. They are more expensive but gives me vision greater than 20/20 in both eyes and can use them for any situation whatsoever. I wouldn't be able to do that with glasses. Quite a strong prescription too with myopia and regular astigmatism in both eyes.

My advice. It's trial and error, stick at it and exhaust all options before condemning or praising them.

pandora205

I've tried all combinations and now have different prescriptions in each contact lens. I have distance in left so I can read road signs clearly when driving and near vision in my right. I have reading glasses off the shelf that I use on top for close work and reading but don't need them for the computer. I did not like varifocal contacts at all.

At the beginning and end of the day I wear glasses: varifocals mainly but near vison ones for reading. I have some distance glasses too but have never used them.

I wore hard lenses for many years but now have monthly soft lenses which are more comfortable. I can sleep in them but don't as my eyes get dry. I found it took quite a while to learn to put soft lenses in and out quickly.

dawyldthing

It might be the solution too. I had contact lenses for a few years but found when I changed solution for my monthlies they got better

C_Mababejive

I have used daily contacts for years and i would not switch to re-usuable soft CLs. The risks are just too great for me to take even though i am very careful re infection control .

thestens

i tried contacts many years ago and certainly couldn't see as well as in my glasses. That and the fact that I could never fit and forget them for a whole day without discomfort persuaded me to stick with glasses!