contact lens discussion thread (merged)

ayeshasi

ok, i will give these a try.....is returns free? Oops, i weared coloured and they dont do coloured though.

Nicki

I've put the lenses in the wrong eyes before, which has led to blurry vision in both eyes! Have you checked to see they have marked them up correctly and that you are putting the right prescription in each eye!

ayeshasi

yep, checked that.

ayeshasi

the thing is, the BC for my eye is 8.7 and these lenses are 8.6. My optician said it shouldnt make a difference....could it be becos of this? Very blurry now. Had to take them out!

ayeshasi

i went to the optician yesterday and she said that the colour on the lense is covering part of my pupil when the pupil dilates therefore the blurriness and that i would have to get used to it!

madkid88

what place is cheaper then specsavers,i got astigmatism on my left eye and the right eye is normal,looking for cheap contacts.Im paying £12.50 a month right now monthly direct debit.thanks

sarahg1969

I get lenses for astigmatism (in both eyes) from Costco. They are about £13 a month for Acuvue two-weekly lenses - these are silicone hydrogel (long-wear) ones too. Ordinary ones are about £9 a month.

So they could be a cheaper option?

DebtphobicDeirdre

I would always get lenses from the optician, not the net. Opticians give an excellent service and you are asking them to advise on anothe persons service. That is like buying shoes from Dolcis when Clarks have measured your feet and complaining that your shoes don't fit. Opticians make no profit from testing eyes, only the products they sell.Thats why the internet companies can sell them so much cheaper. At the moment not that many people take advantage of this loophole but if too many do Opticians will be as hard to find as dentists.

ayeshasi

well, i have paid a fee to be in my opticians care scheme so even though i didnt order from them this time (simply because the price was too high), i still have the right to go to them as the optician did say that to me herself therefore the shoe exaple you gave is totally different from my problem.

Nicki

ayeshasi wrote:

i went to the optician yesterday and she said that the colour on the lense is covering part of my pupil when the pupil dilates therefore the blurriness and that i would have to get used to it!

I've never heard of this happening, but maybe you should ask the optician whether a different make of contact lens would suit you better. When I got mine recently, they measured my eye, and then chose the brand of contact lenses which they thought would be the best fit. They gave me a couple of weeks supply as a trial and asked me to come back after a fortnight for a check up. When I went back, the optician, a different one to the first one I had seen, thought that they were a bit tight on the eye, and changed them to a different brand, which were checked again by optician number one a few weeks later, and pronounced to be the best fit for the shape and size of my pupil. I didn't have any problems of blurring with either brand, except, as I posted earlier, when I accidentally put them in the wrong eyes (the prescription for each eye was quite different)!

There doesn't seem a lot of point IMHO in giving you lenses which make your vision blurry, and telling you to get used to it! Don't they know the whole idea is to make your sight better not worse! What would happen if your vision blurred over while you were driving for example - you would then be liable for driving with defective vision.