Contact lenses

Fizban140

So I just got some contact lenses from my optometrist but they only give me the first pair. I was wondering what a good brand is, I am planning on getting monthlies since they are the cheapest. Also, what is the cheapest (cheap but still useful) lenses solution I should get? What is the lenses solution used for? It says a bunch of stuff on the box but the optometrist told me something else. That is all I can think of for now, I almost put a hole in the wall earlier trying to put these things in when they kept sticking to my fingers., but I think I got it down now.

LondonBridge

Takes practice putting them in and such. A good brand though not cheap is Acuvue with hydroclear, they are so nice & comfortable.

BlochWave

It'll take you a couple of weeks to get use to putting them in

I had the ones you take out every night and dispose of after two weeks for about....oh wow, since like the 7th grade, and I'm three months shy of 23, so do that math.

I've got the month long ones now that you just leave in and sleep in and everything and they're ok. They're stiffer than normal contacts so I'm on my sixth pair and they're still a BITCH to put in and take out, but once they're in you're done for 30 days, so it's a tradeoff. I've never even considered brand, I just took whatever the optometrist suggested, usually Acuvues and Acuvue 2

If you have the month long ones that you never take out, you don't need lens solution, just eye drops. If you take them out(AND DON'T SKIMP ON THOSE DIRECTIONS, if you're not sposed to sleep in them doing it too much will do hilarious things like scratch your cornea and you'll need eye surgery. Hilarity. It isn't common really and I slept in them occasionally but it's possible)you store them in the solution overnight and rinse them out in it. Just get whatever your optometrist recommends. Opti-free and Renew were the two that I always used.

Rubick

I second Acuvue, I've been using them for years.

Turret

I tend to wear my glasses more days a week than my contacts, so I opted for Focus Dailies. I can see them being very expensive if you wear contacts almost every day of the year, but they are a great value for me since I only wear contacts the odd day the week. Also, they feel a lot lighter and more comfortable than the bi-weeklies I used to use since they don't really need longevity.

Fizban140

So would just the basic acuvue lenses be fine? I found some here:
http://www.1800contacts.com/lens/acuvue.htm

They talk about an added visible tint, what exactly does that mean?

BlochWave

They're mostly water, they'd be invisible pretty much all the time and especially trying to fish them out of the solution every morning if they weren't tinted

there's also a little AV inscribed in them that reads as VA when you have them inside out to, which is nice

I swear to God, 10 years(yes I did the math)and I still can only recognize them as inside out about half the time unless they have a marker like that. Incidentally putting them in inside out = STABBING PAIN

EDIT: And no none of that affects your vision. The ones I have are like yellow because they're made from something different, for example

The inside out thing I exaggerate. Well, except the stabbing pain, it's a bitch, but they usually fall out, but if you take them out and don't turn them inside out yourself rinsing them or taking them out in the morning, they won't be inside out. Though again you have the ones that you can check real easy(you can check them without those aids by like folding it like a taco and if the edges fold into each other they're right)

ShimSham

Edit: I just realized Bloch talked about all that above me. Oh well

Something to remember when first learning to put contacts in. I didn't learn this until I had contacts about a year, granted I was also 12.

But remember to make sure the contact isn't inverted (or rather inside-out) before you put it in. The thing won't fit right at all, it won't feel right, it can get lost in the whites of your eye, and it's an incredible pain.

You can tell if it's inverted by looking at it on your finger basically. It should be near perfectly cupped. But if it's inside-out then it will be cupped but the edges will be kind of flattened out. It just won't look right.

NightDragon

When you need more contact lenses, I found it MUCH much cheaper to order them online. I personally use 1800Contacts but there may be a better place out there, I don't know. But ordering them from that place is cheaper than getting them through your optometrist's office.