contact lens discussion thread (merged)

wenger08

nedmundo wrote: »

With that prescription - I suspect you should be wearing a correction for all driving, irrespective of time of day.

Yea i was thinking about getting glasses aswell for driving

i called asda yesterday but they want £30 for an eye test and consultation

then another £30 for the lenses (or so)

Visions express will want closer to £60 for test and new lenses

This is what is making me think shall i just order from https://www.daysoftcontactlenses.com

For £12?!

pmduk

wenger08 wrote: »

This is what is making me think shall i just order from https://www.daysoftcontactlenses.com

For £12?!

This is a money-saving site, but sometimes saving money can be foolish. Any company dispensing lenses to your out-of-date specification is breaking the law. Do you really value your eyesight that cheaply?

wenger08

pmduk wrote: »

This is a money-saving site, but sometimes saving money can be foolish. Any company dispensing lenses to your out-of-date specification is breaking the law. Do you really value your eyesight that cheaply?

Well no

But i cant afford £60 right now

Thats the whole point of me trying to save some money for now until maybe i can afford it

The cheapest option for me is to just carry on as i am, with no glasses and no lenses

But then as said before i should be wearing them for driving........so im at risk to others

Catch 22

Nothings as simple as your own mind makes it mate......

nedmundo

Sorry - but I might be a bit unsympathetic here.

If you can afford to drive, then you should be able to afford to drive legally (which I suspect you are not currently, due to your eyesight). You wouldn't not get insurance or road tax because you couldn't afford it. Not having either of those is just as illegal as driving with defective vision.

It boils down to priorities, but your eyesight really should be top of the list. Much as it pains me to say it, why not get a budget pair of specs online to tie you over with for driving until you can afford the 'luxury' of contact lenses?

wenger08

nedmundo wrote: »

It boils down to priorities,

Yup and what do you think my priority is?

The contact lenses are as much for driving as they are for the sports i play where you cant wear glasses.

Anyway thanks for the help, you are basically suggesting that i should go to the opticians

Cheers

nedmundo

No I'm not! You already have your prescription so can order away online and get some specs for a tenner if required.

I don't agree with online dispensing, but it's got to be better than driving around with nothing and putting your and others lives at risk unnecessarily, which is what driving with defective vision is.

All contact lens wearers should have specs as back up anyway. Get the specs 1st, contacts later and then you'll have the specs as back up.

NaughtySpot

wenger08 wrote: »

Yup and what do you think my priority is?

The contact lenses are as much for driving as they are for the sports i play where you cant wear glasses.

Anyway thanks for the help, you are basically suggesting that i should go to the opticians

Cheers

I think nedmundo and I are on the same page

Contact lenses are a luxury with a prescription like yours. It also pains me to say it but get a cheap pair of specs online until you can afford something better.

Have a couple of months off the sports and that'll probably save you enough money to get yourself sorted. Contact lenses are a medical device and require proper fitting, yes this is a money saving site but you have to use your common sense with it.

jac1970stone

I have recently left hospital after 17 weeks and 2 days, having lost my left eye due to a fungal infection from my focus diailies contact lens. It was a brand new lens from a brand new batch, manufactured in Singapore, but purchased in the UK, from Lenstore, following checking on moneysavingexpert as to what was the best deal for me. There has been a number of cases now involving daily disposable lenses, and appear to be a result of biofilms growing on the lens, which you cannot see and cannot detect. I put the new lens in and within a couple of hours it felt very uncomfortable and on removing the lens in the afternoon it had partially sealed itself to my eye. By the next morning my vision in that eye was blurred and the eye was red, but had no discharge. The eye became increasingly worse, and the fungus was resistant to treatment, resulting in having to have two cornea transplants, including sclera and limbus, and eventually have to have an evisceration of the eye, as it was spreading to my brain and blood stream which would have resulted in death. This is extremely serious. If you have any lenses manufactured in Singapore or India, which have had Fusarium fungus outbreaks, immediately return them to your supplier and ask them to be changed for those manufactured outside of these areas.

EleanorW

johnk wrote: »

Posted a question but it seemed to get lost during the forum upgrade.

Anyway, have been with D&A on monthly lenses for half an year, I am thinking of going to internet vendors. However, D&A bluntly refused to provide me with a signed contact lense prescription, which is apparently required to order from internet, saying that by law they are only obliged to provide a normal glass prescription. This seems to contradict with the advice in Martin's article. Anybody knows of any reference to the relevant law, or regulatory body that I could find out the truth?

Thank you.

There are a lot of pharmacies with no prescription

sillygoose

Anyone using Sauflon Synergi solutions, there is a seller on Ebay doing a good deal - a years supply (4 x 3 month packs) with shipping works out just under £60. Its a proper Optometrists shop and the use by date is August 2014 (some cheap ebay sellers are short or out of date stuff)

My order arrived safe and that's it sorted for a year, best price I ever managed.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/140906720855