Contact Lense help??

Question

see im getting contacts for sports this year and i dont know anything about them. do u reuse them. how much are they. any info that can help me ?? i dont wanna end up buying the wrong kind 2

Answer 1

it depends on which ones you get. you shuld start with clear (soft) lenses, dont get colored unless your used to clear ones first.

You have to get a little mixture for them, and every night you pur your contacts into this little flat panel with 2 sockets in it. they will most likely give you them.

I use the monthly ones. You reuse them about 30 times? Maybe even a bit more depending on how like well you take care of them.

For a few pairs they maybe cost like 30-40 bucks ? colored ones are around 70.

They take a bit getting used to when you first get them. They took me like 2 hours to put on the first time! Now it takes me like 20 seconds.

I've been wearing them for around 2 years and im really used to them, Don't ever try to scratch your eyes or rub them! They can sometimes sneak on the side of your eyes and its like reallyyy creepy.

When your contacts feel uncomfortable, blurry, or you feel like they keep moving around the edges of your eyes, then that shows your contacts are getting old and you need to open up a new pair.

But they're greatt i totally love them. Right now I'm wearing my green ones (: message me if u need anything else <3

Answer 2

ur  eye doctor wil explain evrything!

Answer 3

I've been wearing contacts for 10 years now, and i love them. there are so many choices though. the only person that can really help is your eye doctor because everyone's eyes are different and there are so many different contacts. i wear the 2 week one's. that seems to work because they don't get too dirty. make an eye doctor appt.

Answer 4

You can get extended wear, a pair that lasts 6 months to a year. You can also get disposables that last a day, week or month. It's up to you and your doctor/optometrist. The cheapest are extended wear, most expensive are one time use. You will also need solution and a case. Ask your eye care provider which kind you should use. Expect to spend about $200.00

Answer 5

Your eye doctor will make sure you have the correct kind and will tell you and show you how to use them correctly.  Don't worry at all!

Answer 6

acuve they come six in a box. Change them each month. You can get colored ones too

Answer 7

i think the best for you in sports would be the one day contacts. you can toss them when you are done. with the dirt and sweat even the 3 month contacts will get dirty and its better to toss them. each dr is different in price but they are about 40.00 for 30.  

Answer 8

My 13 year old son uses the disposable kind you replace every 30 days.  His are around $200 for a year's supply (24 contacts).  He has to take them out every night.  It would be more convenient to have the kind you can leave in for a while.  I would ask my eye dr. about those.  Good luck!  

Answer 9

buy the cheapest you can find (no difference)

Answer 10

You really should see an optician to get the best answer to your question - especially if you are using contacts for sports.

Here are some answers nevertheless -

Yes - you can buy disposables that you wear for 2 weeks (taking them out every night). Prices vary depending on style and brand. They will have to do some measurements on your eyes to see which brands will fit the best as well as if you can even wear them at all. So again - go to an optician.

Good Luck!

Answer 11

Well there are lots of things to consider when you get contacts. There are so many different kinds. Some you have new ones every day, some you have for 2 weeks, and some you have for a month, they aren't too expensive if you are already considering the price of glasses but how much they are depends on your prescription, what kind you get, and how many you get, your eye doctor should help you find the kind that is most comfortable and right for your eyes. Make sure you feel they are comfortable though before you order a bunch, Good luck with your contacts :P

Answer 12

First thing, you have to go see the eye dr.  After examining your eyes, he or she will fit you and prescribe a brand of contacts.  The dr. or an associate will help you put the contacts on and take them off prior to you leaving the office with your contact prescription.  Typically you are given about a week to try a trial pair of contacts out.  After a week, you should go back for your follow up with the dr. and let them know if you like the contacts.  If so, you will be given your actual prescription.  There is no way right now without examining your eyes to tell you what the best contact brand would be for you.  

There are daily, weekly, monthly, and extended wear contacts.  Depending on your prescription will decide which kind you get.  Usually, most people are prescribed the bi-weekly contacts.  

A box of contacts can range for $13-$150.  The cheapest place I have found so far to sell contacts is Sam's Club.  I don't know about where you live, but where I am at, you don't need a membership card to shop in the Optical Department.

But heads up, some people take a looooong time getting use to putting and taking out contacts.  Don't get frustrated.  Just take your time.

Always wash your hands prior to handling your contacts.  Make sure you use ONLY the contact solution your dr. tells you to use to clean your contacts.  Every other week, take warm soap and water and clean your contact cases and the tops to them.  Every day, rinse contact solution in the cases and turn them up side down on a napkin to let them air dry (don't put the tops on them).

Answer 13

You can pick either the contacts that you throw out every 2 weeks

(i like the throw out ones the best) or the ones that you keep forever. If you wear them forever, you can not open your eyes under water or even peek, so make sure you always wear goggles when you're swimming. Every night when you take them out of your eyes, make sure you change the sanitizer every night. Your eye doctor will tell you the rest. Hope I helped! :o)

Answer 14

I just started wearing contact lenses this year. I got the temporary kind that you wear for 2 weeks then toss. I got a year supply at Sears that cost me $220 but this was with great insurance and a discount for buying in bulk.

You can get the hard contact lenses, which I don't know a lot about, or you can get the soft lenses. You don't want to sleep in them and you have to clean them daily to avoid calcium deposits on the lenses that can affect your eye's health.

They were kinda awkward and hard to get used to putting in at first mainly because I had a slight fear of touching my eyeball but even I got used to it really quickly. I can now put them in without a mirror and in just a second where at first it took me about 10 mins an eye and my vision with my contacts is 20/15!!! :)

Just let your eye doctor know you are curious about them and ask them questions about the use and determine whether or not you think they are right for you. Now if you have astigmatism or some other eye disease you may not even be able to wear them.

Take care hon.

Answer 15

Hello,

I don't pretend to be absolutely up to date, but I have been wearing contact lenses since I was 23, now I'm 60.

The main types of contact lenses are: hard ones and soft ones.

Hard ones are the 'oldest' type, - when I first started wearing them in 1970 there was only the hard type. The main problem with them was, that putting a piece of plastic across the fronts of your eyes prevents the oxygen from the air 'getting in' to the front of the clear corneas.

As time has gone by, new types of plastic have been invented which are described as 'gas permeable.' What is meant by this, is that oxygen can now work its way through the plastic. This has made hard contact lenses more comfortable to wear, and has allowed them to be made larger (so they cover more of the clear cornea).

When you blink whilst wearing a hard contact lens, the eyelid squeezes just that little bit harder on the front of the eye, and this squashes the cornea just a bit. It has long been known that this effect can stop 'short sight' from getting worse. More recently, a new type of hard lens called an ortho-K lens, has been devised which uses this squeezing effect on purpose... you only wear the ortho-K lens at night and the 'squeezing' effect improves your vision during the next day, because the eye takes some hours to 'spring back' into its normal shape.

I would advise avoiding ortho-K lenses for the time being because: (1) the best technology is new and you would be better with a longer-established choice of lens (i.e. not be a 'guinea-pig'), (2) ortho-K lenses are very expensive.

'Hard' contact lenses have advantages if your eyes have a moderate or high degree of irregularity of the corneas, called 'astigmatism,' (pronounced ay- STIGG'' - mat - tizumm). This is because they flatten this irregularity a bit.

However, you can't wear hard contact lenses to play 'contact sports' like football, rugby, judo, boxing etc because if the front of your eye is brushed, they fall out relatively easily.

The other type are 'soft' contact lenses, which are squishy and flexible and cover up the whole cornea. They stick on much better, and can be used for contact sports. However, they do not correct 'astigmatism' at all, if you have it, (you could tell by looking at your spectacles prescription, - - is there a reference to CYL or 'Cylinder'?) The main requirement for successful soft contact lens wear, is that you must have a good flow of tears, I mean that you must not suffer from dry eyes. This is because the soft lenses must be kept wet in order to work properly. You should have a good flow of tears at your age, (I am not referring to when you cry because you are upset).

Soft contact lenses are 'absorbing' like blotting-paper or tissue paper, so you cannot use any eye-drop medicines in your eyes at the same time, (the medicine would be absorbed into the substance of the lens). Similarly, any coloured drops you put into your eyes would discolour the lens. Eye make-up can occasionally be a problem. This 'absorbing' feature also makes the lens slighly more prone to harbouring a particularly nasty germ called an 'amoeba' (pronounced a - MEE'' - burr), so hygiene is a lot more critical when handling soft lenses.

Soft lenses are definitely easier to wear than hard ('gas permeable') lenses, because they are softer and gentler on the fronts of the eyes. You can get to wear either type of lens all day, from getting up to going to bed, but you get to 15-hour wear quicker with soft lenses.

Your idea about daily-weekly-monthly is to do with the aspect of cleaning the lenses. Every day when you wear them, they get dirty, just like your clothes do. So you have to soak them overnight in a special cleaning fluid. For hard gas-permeable lenses, you can also physically rub them with a special detergent.

Disposable lenses get round this by making each set of lenses 'throw-away'' after a given length of time. So cleaning them is not so important, - - you just throw them away and wear new. Throw-away lenses tend just to be the 'soft' kind, - - I don't think you can get throw-away gas-permeable lenses.

On the one side you have the regular costs of the cleaning fluid, - - but only one set of lenses to buy, - - and on the other hand you have hardly any cleaning fluid costs, but the cost of having new replacement lenses regularly. You pays your money and takes your choice. Throwaway lenses are maybe a bit safer, because any germs or chemicals which get absorbed into them, get thrown-away every so often.

I think another thing to consider, is how good you want your vision to be in contact lenses. Surprisingly enough, it is not so easy to achieve perfect vision of 20/20 (or as we would say in the UK, 6/6) with contact lenses as it is with spectacles. You can normally get to within one line (on the vision chart) of 20/20 though. This is good enough so long as you do not want to pilot an aeroplane, get a heavy goods vehicle license, or be a train driver.

Spectacles and contact lenses don't mix very easily. You really need to 'commit' to one or the other. This is because of the 'squeezing' function that I have mentioned before, - - your spectacles 'prescription' actually changes after you have worn contact lenses, especially hard ones, because the fronts of your eyes need several hours to spring back into the shape they were before.

What will happen if you go and try out a pair of lenses, is that the Optician will check your suitability. The main problem with contact lenses is if you already suffer with allergic eye problems or hay-fever, contact lenses may make that problem worse.

He/she will put a pair of 'approximate' ones in for you, and let you go walkabout and try them for a couple of hours. I suggest you ask to try soft lenses one day, and then ask to come back and try hard gas-permeable lenses the next day. They really are different. See which ones you like best, and which you want to commit to. Ask about ''astigmatism." I am afraid that the eyes are associated with a big set of special technical words, so it is especially easy for you be 'blinded with science,'- - - but the Optician should be quite prepared to explain technical terms in plain english, it is not rocket science.

I have been very happy with a single set of hard, gas-permeable lenses for 37 years. I did have a pair of soft lenses for boxing and playing rugby, but I didn't get on with them because my eyes were too dry, (an older-age problem).

Also I fly a plane, and I couldn't get 20/20 vision with soft lenses, I can with hard ones. I just clean them every night, it's no big deal. I change them every 2 years. I don't insure them, I bought a spare pair which I take away on holidays.

I can't tell you how much you should pay. Soft lenses are 'bigger business' than hard gas-permeable ones, and they will probably be the ones the Optician wants to sell you, - - yes, I am afraid commercial considerations apply as well as 'ethical, professional' considerations. It is more profitable to sell 'repeating' throw-away lenses, for every day even, and this can be bogus-ly justified as genuine clinical concern.

There are unscrupulous practitioners in every walk of life. I suggest you go to an Optician that one of your friends has been to, and actually recommends, as reputable and honest.

I hope this is of some help.

Best wishes,

Belliger (retired uk gp)