Contact Lens
Aug 25, 2012, 6:27 pm
#16
Join Date: Feb 2006
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I wear Acuvue Oasys (no astigmatism). Sleep in them and do very well. I didn't start wearing glasses until I was 18. Now I am 42 and cannot read the E at the top of the eye chart with corrective lens!
I will echo another posters comments. I remove my contacts and go with glasses for any fight over 4 hours. Too dry in the cabin. My eyes get read and painful.
Good luck! Contacts are great. I love waking and being able to see.
I will echo another posters comments. I remove my contacts and go with glasses for any fight over 4 hours. Too dry in the cabin. My eyes get read and painful.
Good luck! Contacts are great. I love waking and being able to see.
Aug 31, 2012, 10:10 am
#17
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: London
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Posts: 17
OK, I am stretching to figure out which forum this goes in.
I have lost ANOTHER pair of expensive titanium, tinted, scratch and smudge resistant blah blah blah glasses. Took them off in a lounge today and walked out without them. I called but no one has seen them, oh well.... so, I decided to go with contacts, harder to take them off and forget them
however, I have NO IDEA whatsoever about contacts. What are the best for someone with astigmatism? Also, I don't want to have to carry around a bunch of liquids so are daily wears better? You wear them once and throw them away, right? What are the downsides to these?
Here is the last prescription from zenni optical. Is this all I need or do I have to go get an eye exam?
Right
OD SPH -2.25
OD CYL 0.00
OD AXIS 0
Left
OS SPH -0.50
OS CYL -0.50
OS AXIS 80
My left eye looks like I can see pretty good, Can I just buy for the right eye?
I have lost ANOTHER pair of expensive titanium, tinted, scratch and smudge resistant blah blah blah glasses. Took them off in a lounge today and walked out without them. I called but no one has seen them, oh well.... so, I decided to go with contacts, harder to take them off and forget them
however, I have NO IDEA whatsoever about contacts. What are the best for someone with astigmatism? Also, I don't want to have to carry around a bunch of liquids so are daily wears better? You wear them once and throw them away, right? What are the downsides to these?
Here is the last prescription from zenni optical. Is this all I need or do I have to go get an eye exam?
Right
OD SPH -2.25
OD CYL 0.00
OD AXIS 0
Left
OS SPH -0.50
OS CYL -0.50
OS AXIS 80
My left eye looks like I can see pretty good, Can I just buy for the right eye?
I use J&J Trueye which are great, silicon based, like the Oasys (which I used for many years) but daily disposable.
Sep 4, 2012, 1:17 am
#18
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Singapore
Posts: 324
Contact lens for astigmatism is very expensive. There are only a few brands on the market that I can use because I have very high near-sightedness and high astigmatism. Right now I'm using Borsch & Lomb monthly disposables, but I have tried Acuvue (monthly and daily disposables) and my eyes hated it. Especially the dailies; for some reason they dry out the minute I pop them in.
I wear my dorky throw-everywhere thick glasses when I fly because contact lens are too drying. If you travel to SE Asia, glasses are really cheap so you can use them for flying?
I wear my dorky throw-everywhere thick glasses when I fly because contact lens are too drying. If you travel to SE Asia, glasses are really cheap so you can use them for flying?