Is anyone here a 'hard to fit' case when it comes to contact lenses?

Question

if so... what brands have been the best for you?

do you use 2 different brands in each eye..

do you use 2 different circumstances?

i really am a 'hard to fit' case.. and i always get discomfort in one or both eyes.. its the most frustrating thing on earth!!! im going thru all the brands.. and my eye appointments are costing me..

Answer 1

I use Acuvne Advanced with hydro-clear.

Certain brands bother my eyes.

The brand I use works best for me.

Hope this helps some.

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Answer 2

I can't wear soft lenses 'cause I can't see anything out of them.  I got my first pair of hard lenses back in 1965, switched to gas permiables in about 1980.  One of the problems with rigid lenses is that they do have to fitted to your eyeball or else they pop off real easily or slide out of place or feel horrible so the doctor must know what he/she is doing and be good at his/her job.  They also cost more than soft lenses (and if you lose one, you have to get the prescription filled which takes a couple weeks since they have to grind a whole new lense just for you).  As I get older, I find these lenses tiring out my eyes more and more (I used to be able to sleep with them on, leave them in for days at a time with no problem; now I pop them out as soon as I get home from work and don't wear them when I'm home at all since our home computer monitor is hard for me to see clearly).  I've done some stupid things with these lenses too--like putting both lenses in the same eye (unintentionally) and then panicking because I can't find the lense for my other eye (not enough sleep to think clearly), then when I took the lenses out they were basically stuck to each other and they are fragile and will crack/break/chip.  I've also had lenses where the edges started to chip causing incredible pain in my eyes but the chipping was so minute I couldn't see it so didn't know that was the problem until (weeks later) I went to the doctor.  I once went in to get my eyes examined because I could tell my prescript had changed significantly enough and I was going to Europe in a couple months and wanted to be able to see everything clearly--but then it took the eye person almost daily visits from me to adjust the lenses (they kept shaving them down until they were these wee little dots) because they'd measured incorrectly so the lenses kept popping off and then floating around my eye (ended up going to Europe wearing my old lenses).  And at this point in my life, I wear contacts to see far away, but now can't read if I have my contact in so I wear reading glasses (when I have my contacts in; I read fine without my contacts but can't see far away) and reading the computer screen sometimes becomes a problem since it's in the middle ground--can't see close, can't see far, can't see in the middle.  Maybe I should just get a cane and a dog.

Answer 3

i am hard to fit.  My holy grail is Gas Permeable lenses.  They last FOREVER (I've had about 4 pairs in 20 years).  Last time I went tho' it took the mfgr. about 4 tries to get them just right for my eyes.  I can't remember the brand but they were the kind that allows 6 times more oxygen to pass thru than a normal gas perm.

PROS:  they help hold your eye shape so your vision doesn't fluctuate or change as much, they do not rip, tear or get holes in them,  they don't 'pop out' accidently or get hooked on the edge of your eyelid, nor will they get lifted off your eye in big gust of cold or hot wind, etc.  I also have been sleeping in mine for 20 years.  I do not have to boil, soak, or treat them special in any way..... & god forgive me, I do NOT recommend this, but I only clean them about once every 2 months or when/if they get cloudy or 'grainy' ....by clean I mean rub them with cleaner, rinse & pop right back into my eyes.  Never soak or enzyme them.  No need.  They're fabulous!

CONS:  Terrible to get used to for the first week, after that, you hardly ever have to do anything to them, occasionally they'll slide off the eye center & get 'stuck' like sucked onto another area so you have to pry it up & slide it back into place; IF you get a little piece of mascara, or a fine fiber in your eye it HURTS like there's a wood chip in there so you have stop what you're doing & get it out.

SO..... all that being said, B4 I tried these, I wore soft contacts for about 5 years & my optician & I were on a first-name basis.  I wore torque (weighted) lenses for my astigmatism &  was always something.   Discomfort for me was usually when I wore them too long & they got adhered too hard to my eye.     One time I had discomfort from the fact that they were the wrong size & too 'tight'  for my eye.  Again, always problematic, so I am SO glad my Dr. recommended I try gas perms.