contact lens discussion thread (merged)

condyk

Does no one get their contacts online? Can't believe it!

Any help welcome ...

Thanks :-)

Luis

Dunno about online, but the OH used to get his toric contacts from vision express for about £20 per month's supply of dailies (before he stopped wering them).

suroben

£18 per month from Specsavers shops or cheaper if you buy annually. They have an online site so may be cheaper there.

Woby_Tide

Not sure about dailies for torics, sounds like your eyes may be as bad as mine! I just did the Specsavers free trial on the monthlys, they had to order them in especially for me as they didn't stock that strong a prescription. I went in for my check up today and the price quoted was £52 for 3 montsh supply including solutions, i.e. £17.50 per month. Not sure how they compare online but when I did look a while back they seemed quite favourable considering how strong a prescription I was needing, even the US sites by the time tax etc was included were about the same. Specsavers do have an online website that can be cheaper but the lenses I needed weren't on there

condyk

Thanks, I'm off for a check up and fitting Tuesday AM at Specsavers, so we'll see what happens.

The monthly ones are not suitable for me as I hate the hassle. I just want dailies so I can put 'em in and then chuck 'em away at the end of the day. May as well stick to specs otherwise.

Bennifred

Am surprised to read that daily lenses are available for astigmatism - my son has just (last week!) been told that they were unsuitable, and that he has to use the monthly ones. We would have preferred dailies because of the hassle of cleaning/possiblity of damage by 12yr-old and fewer spares etc, but were told not. Although, having said that, 15yr-old (not astigmatic) finds the fortnightly lenses more comfortable than dailies, he said they don't get so dry. He has been using contacts since he was ten with no problems, but 12yr-old struggles to get the left one in - much stress every morning, but he hates glasses and insists he wants to wear lenses :rolleyes:

KG

Woby_Tide wrote:

Not sure about dailies for torics, sounds like your eyes may be as bad as mine! I just did the Specsavers free trial on the monthlys, they had to order them in especially for me as they didn't stock that strong a prescription. I went in for my check up today and the price quoted was £52 for 3 montsh supply including solutions, i.e. £17.50 per month. Not sure how they compare online but when I did look a while back they seemed quite favourable considering how strong a prescription I was needing, even the US sites by the time tax etc was included were about the same. Specsavers do have an online website that can be cheaper but the lenses I needed weren't on there

I have just been fitted with monthly torics (free trial) at Optical Express. I have quite a bad astigmatism and although have 'good' vision with the lenses they don't currently do toric lenses string enough to give me 'perfect' vision.

I think there may be daily toric lenses out there, but only for very slight astigmatisms.

KG

pin

Focus do Daily Toric lenses. I know spec savers sells them because i had a free trial from them a few years ago. Only problem is they only do two axis dimensions(?): 90 and 180. I tried them and I did not like them at all. However they may suit other people.

condyk

I noticed the Axis thing in a couple of internet provider sites. Sizes offered don't suit me either :-(

Woby_Tide

thats why I suggested the monthlys in fairness, they have a greater product range and coverage of different prescriptions compared to dailies, I'm guessing the costs etc still aren't particularly viable for strong toric dailies. Got to say can't agree with the 'hassle' comment though, taking them out and then putting them in the all in one solution takes only marginally longer than taking them out and throwing them. certainly don't require the time like normal soft or hard lenses did to use the two stage solutions etc..