Contact Lenses - who wears them on here?

[gingerjedi]

Beware of the eye eating amoeba

Contact lens wearers at risk of amoeba that can eat eyes - Health, News - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk

You wont get that with daily disposables, I wear glasses most of the time but contacts for sport/going out which also happens to be a cheap way of doing it.

I find contacts rubbish for VDU work, TV, driving etc as your gaze as mostly straight forward so they tend to dry and stick.

[Pondlife]

You wont get that with daily disposables, I wear glasses most of the time but contacts for sport/going out which also happens to be a cheap way of doing it.

I find contacts rubbish for VDU work, TV, driving etc as your gaze as mostly straight forward so they tend to dry and stick.

This is my plan I think. Stick with galsses for work and use contacts for nights out.

[d000hg]

I'm too short-sighted for laser surgery to completely 'cure' me, I'd still need specs.

How bad ARE you? I thought they could fix up to something like -8 or worse these days (possibly needing a second procedure).

There are some newer things coming in, one I read about is where they surgically implant a tiny (and I do mean tiny) lens into your eye, like an internal contact lens. Non-Laser Eye Procedures - Intra Ocular Lenses - Ultralase UK

[BlasterBates]

I can see the point of contact lenses for sport but I think my sister for example looks far better with glasses on than with blood shot weepy eyes. I suppose that was due to the creepy crawlies having a good feed.

[SueEllen]

I find contacts rubbish for VDU work, TV, driving etc as your gaze as mostly straight forward so they tend to dry and stick.

You obviously don't blink enough. Some people don't automatically.

I find contacts better for anything long distance i.e. driving as when I look side ways there is no gap in vision.

Reading it doesn't matter whether I'm wearing glasses or lens.

I wouldn't have laser surgery for many reasons including every time I've been to a hospital (not for my own treatment I should add) the ophthalmic consultants and other doctors all wear glasses.

[SueEllen]

use contacts for nights out.

One of the worse things to do particularly if you are younger. Younger people have a tendency to leave go to sleep with contacts in their eyes when they are drunk.

[the_rangdo]

How bad ARE you? I thought they could fix up to something like -8 or worse these days (possibly needing a second procedure).

-10.5 in one eye, -9 in the other - blind as a bat

The thought of the surgery is bad enough, having it done twice

But have no problems at all with lenses, vision's better with them than specs. Definitely prefer driving with them in, especially for peripheral vision.

[Pondlife]

One of the worse things to do particularly if you are younger. Younger people have a tendency to leave go to sleep with contacts in their eyes when they are drunk.

I wish.

[BlasterBates]

I wouldn't have laser surgery for many reasons including every time I've been to a hospital (not for my own treatment I should add) the ophthalmic consultants and other doctors all wear glasses.

Absolutely....

... and all the hair transplant surgeons are bald.

[SueEllen]

Absolutely....

... and all the hair transplant surgeons are bald.

Then again as a woman I wouldn't know if hair transplant surgeons are bald.