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Cognisseur
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Hey, I just got my first pair of contact lenses today, not a very strong prescription. Also, I've never owned glasses so this is my first non-normal vision experience.
I got them so I could see stuff far away better. That part seems to work already, without my eyes needing much adjustment. However, I'm having some difficulty seeing up close. Like typing this, the text isn't as clear and focused as usual.
Is this a tradeoff I need to decide on with contacts, or will my eyes get used to focusing on some new place to accommodate for the contacts in my eyes?
I got them so I could see stuff far away better. That part seems to work already, without my eyes needing much adjustment. However, I'm having some difficulty seeing up close. Like typing this, the text isn't as clear and focused as usual.
Is this a tradeoff I need to decide on with contacts, or will my eyes get used to focusing on some new place to accommodate for the contacts in my eyes?
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Mention it to your optometrist. They'll be able to tell you if it's something to expect, or if there's something wrong.
Secondly I had a problem with contacts where my eyes naturally are more dilated than normal or I just have big pupils or something, so unless I was outside in the sun or in a brightly lit area, everything would be a bit fuzzy and give me slight double vision because my pupils were partially looking out of the non focused areas of the contact. Maybe it's that? Ought to be easy to check.
A computer screen definitely shouldn't be harder to read than it was without them. It must be a really weak prescription... Not sure why you'd bother with contacts at that point.
-Scott
My issue is in the office, with forced A/C, my eyes are super dry and agitated. Do your eyes ever get used to the contact and start pumping out the tears more? I need a really sad story right now.
You know, a bunch of people told me that and I don't understand why. If I'm having trouble reading far away signs and subtitles and such and there exists an easy solution for it, why not take it?
I feel like there's some crazy hidden cost that I haven't discovered yet. I have insurance so this is a cheap way to magically improve my senses. I'm one step closer to being a badass cyborg!
I'm kind of surprised that people don't get contacts when their vision is somewhat but not terribly bad. I just don't see the downside.
I just always thought they were a bit of a hassle. I probably wouldn't wear glasses very often at all if I could use a computer without em. But to each their own, and it's pretty cool your insurance covers it.
Nah, they get dry and stay dry. You'll need to get eye drops. Just make sure you get ones that are meant for contact lenses. Visene has a chemical in it that will actually harm your lenses.
You can also just get a bottle of optical saline, which will be by the no-rub solution your optometrist probably has you buying. Should be about $2, lasts forever, and very useful for cleaning off that piece of towel fuzz that gets stuck to your contact, or flooding your eyes if you get a lash caught somewhere annoying.
Never been an issue for me. I wear Acuvue Oasys (or however the heck you spell that), and my eyes don't dry out on me. Unless I've been wearing them for 14-16 hours straight. My doc told me that the cleaning solution I use for 'em can also be used as drops, but I've never felt the need. My prescription is fairly strong (-5.0 & -4.5 I believe)
I don't believe it - I'm on my THIRD PS3, and my FIRST XBOX360. What the heck?
Exactly this, with me.
I've also got a fairly light prescription (-1.75), but looking at things up close does this to me, too. The initial blurriness is probably something you'll get used to - but I've been wearing contacts for years, and this still happens. It's so minor, though, that it doesn't really bother me. If it does bother me, I just switch to my glasses, and take them off to do whatever it is I need to up-close.
Also wear Acuvue Oasys (as the poster above mentioned) and they're great.
Some people have drier eyes than other I think, my friend doesn't like to wear contacts because after about 4 hours his eyes have super dried out and are really uncomfortable. I get that, but only if I've had them in for like 14 hours straight or something. But yeah, eye drops or saline will work fine; both are available at supermarkets.