contact lens discussion thread (merged)

suki1964

You have left it way too late to get contacts. No optician is going to prescribe without a trial and unless you have the simplest of scripts - contact lens prescribing is trial and error and can take weeks of trying to get a lens that suits you

Auzelia

you should never go swimming with contact lenses in your eyes due to all the bacteria that is in the water.

You can however use them in the water as long as you are wearing goggles.

You would have to go for a contact lens fit and have them fitted to your eye as peoples eyes are all different, and your base curve and diameter may be differnt, or you may even have an astigmatism that would require toric lenses which again are a bit more complex in being fitted.

LittleTinker

tidus wrote: »

Incorrect.
You can't (or at least shouldn't be able) to purchase contact lenses without a contact lens specification - so you will need a contact lens fitting. Contact your optician.

When we buy the contact lenses, the optician looks at the glasses prescription and then issues the contact lense to match.....daily ones. He doesnt have a lesson on how to fit them every time because he has already had them.

So yes, you can have a prescription for your contact lenses filled the same day and issued the same day.

suki1964

LittleTinker wrote: »

When we buy the contact lenses, the optician looks at the glasses prescription and then issues the contact lense to match.....daily ones. He doesnt have a lesson on how to fit them every time because he has already had them.

So yes, you can have a prescription for your contact lenses filled the same day and issued the same day.

Thats so true but unless its the most simplest of prescriptions the lenes you are given to try will more then likely not be the ones you finally end up with.

Contact lens fitting is not an exact science and there are as many eye shapes and different prescriptions as there are different lenses.

Also as its the OP first time for lenses she will be asked to book an appointment to be taught how to put them in and take them out and the dispensing clerk should not be letting the op out of the store with them untill she is confident the op can get them in and out

thesim

suki1964 wrote: »

Thats so true but unless its the most simplest of prescriptions the lenes you are given to try will more then likely not be the ones you finally end up with.

Contact lens fitting is not an exact science and there are as many eye shapes and different prescriptions as there are different lenses.

Also as its the OP first time for lenses she will be asked to book an appointment to be taught how to put them in and take them out and the dispensing clerk should not be letting the op out of the store with them untill she is confident the op can get them in and out

very true & also should have a check up 2 weeks later to insure they are working ok & the eye is responding well!

suki1964

thesim wrote: »

very true & also should have a check up 2 weeks later to insure they are working ok & the eye is responding well!

Which is why the Op has left it way too late to get contacts (even dailys) for the holiday

Ms_Chocaholic

You can buy prescription scuba diving goggles I think or patch type things you stick on the inside of the goggles to aid your sight - might be worth looking into this for your holiday.

Here's a mask to give you an idea

http://www.divelife.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=1312

Ms_Chocaholic

Here's a forum discussing this issue which might help

http://www.bsacforum.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1770

left-right

Thanks for all your advice

TAZMANUK_2

HI all advice needed please

I use yearly soft contact lenses, which are renewed every 12 months,
my new contact lenses was dec 2008, however since i started wearing them they caused my eye to be painful and sore, so i went back to my optician again on 24th dec 2008 he checked my eye confirmed they was some soreness and to wear my glasses for a while

He checked the new lense and said they wasnt a airline crack in it, this week i have re-tried my lenses and yestarday started getting soreness again after just got rid of it for 5 weeks, i checked the lense myself and they looks to be a airline tear in the lense.

My optician has so many days to return this lense if not i have to pay £49.00 for a replacement, however in Dec i worse the lense for 7 days before i had a problem, and now end of january when trying them again I have only managed to wear it for 3 days before the problem started again.

The reason why i have to have yearly lenses as they are a larger lense and let more oxygen into the eye as the monthly ones i used to wear for about 2 years after going on holiday and coming back when i put a monthly lense in my right eye would get blood shot and my eye would hurt and took many attempts to finda lense my eye was compatible with.

The lense that have an eye line tear is my left lense, now its 2 months since i got the lense which have only been worn for a period of 2 weeks, and i take care in putting them in and out as i have 2 soultions on cleaning these lenses.

Any advice would be grateful