Contact lenses?

[P.addy]

I'm considering switching from glasses to contact lenses, 2 reasons really, I look a prick with glasses and I have immense OCD with things being straight and they are not straight Gets right on my tits and they are starting to irritate my nose despite being adjusted many many times.

Unsure where to start with contacts, I hate touching my eyes so I'd need to do that step first but are they simple to add/remove and is there anything I should look out for?

Thanks for all advice

[Codemonkey]

Go to the opticians. They'll check your eyes and prescription are suitable for contacts and show you how to put them in and take them out. I used specsavers and they gave me a few free pairs to try for a few days to see how I got on with them.
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[Walloper]

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You'll probably faff with them for a few days and they'll feel weird for a few hours, no more. I've worn them for 26 years now and had no problems at all other than occasional dry eyes when I'm in a room with an open fire. Give them a go, you'll be fine with them once you're over the initial fiddling.

Or simply alter the height of one of your ears so your glasses sit straight.

Seriously, the benefits of wearing lenses will make you wish you'd done it years ago. Think choosing sunglasses, wearing a mask and snorkel and wearing the crash helmet plus not having to continually push your specs back up your sweaty nose when wanking like a chimp to online porn.
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[P.addy]

Mmm, cheers, I've always considered it. Perhaps worth going to get an eye test done ASAP then see where it goes from there.
Looking round, it appears to be far cheaper to go for ones online than what the local opticians sell, anything specific I need to look out for.

Might as well make a decent change for 2014, already had my long hair cut short

[hellkat]

Everyone hates the poking yourself in the eye thing, it seems a horror that you can't imagine coping with ever ... but in fact its nowhere near as bad as we all imagine.

After several goes, occasional accidents when you tear them or put them in inside out, flicking the damn lens off your finger with your neurotic eyelid/s, etc - you eventually get the hang of plonking it right in there without even thinking twice, and then squeezing them back out again.

The world of cool-shades-wearing will open its doors to you.
You really will wonder why you left it so long.

And you don't look any more gonky in glasses than the rest of us - don't throw them away, though. You never know when you might need them.
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[P.addy]

I look like a royal dick in glasses. Would open up the choice for helmets too as both my offroad lid and my carbon one do not accommodate glasses

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[yen_powell]

I switched to lenses in 1986. For a few years afterwards I was still trying to push my glasses up my nose through force of habit when riding the bike.

The best bit for me was not having the treble pain of rain on visor, rain on glasses, starting to fog inside as well.

I use hard/gas permeable lenses and I have never yet managed to put one in to the middle of my eye like others do and that's after 28 years of every day use. I put the lens onto the white of my eye and hold it still and look in the direction required to make it sit in the right place instantly.

Removal of gas permeable takes a gentle tug of the skin next to the eyelid and it drops out into the palm of my other hand. I gag in horror at my soft lensed brethren (and sistren??) pawing and scraping to remove their lenses.
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[Polarbear]

I got contacts purely for on the bike. It was getting ridiculous with visor tinted drop down internal visor and then glasses.

TBH I can't be bothered with contacts unless I'm riding, I'd rather wear reactive glasses most of the time.
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[Marmalade]

They don't mist up like glasses do.
I wear contacts occasionally, usually when the weather is crap, so i can still see.

I've got some online contacts, cheap as chips but they are in my opinion not as good as the specsavers ones.

You do get used to putting them in but do carry a spare set and a pair of specs as well in case you lose one, it splits or your eyeball gets irritated.
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[Easter Bunny]

Go to a proper optician, not one in the shopping centre where your never likely to see the same one again, I was prescribed extended wear ones by what you might call a "bucket" optictians (low prices lots of queues) which proved to be not suitable to my "dry" eyes, I had the beginnings of ulcers on my eyes due to being not suitable & mild over use.

I got my eyes lasered 24 years ago, the best thing I ever did although I heard the other day its considerably more expensive these days
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[P.addy]

Laser, In 2009 I was quoted ~ £1300 due to the wank factor of my eyes. They are quite bad, glasses puts them right, I'm sure I could get a lower price today as I think they have got better.

[wots]

I wear them occasionally, not for vanity, I look a tit with/without. Regarding touching the eye, you become de-sensitised, however to put them in you really shouldn't need to. When you put the edge of the lens near your eye it will sort of suck it on. Pay a little more and get the higher oxygen ones, makes a lot of difference, you become more tired with the cheaper ones.

They are a lifesaver when riding the bike, my only issue is ramming my helmet on a day after I have worn them, then realised I have my glasses on = Ouch.

Carry a small bottle of contact lens friendly eye drops too.
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[Easter Bunny]

I think mine cost £1200 but then the procedure was down on one eye first then the second 6 months later
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[sabian92]

Contacts are good but they're a bugger when the weather is dry. Mine always used to fall out and now my eyes are the point of I need corrective glasses to drive I wouldn't want to be faffing with contacts.

I want to go back to them but mine were always causing me problems. I ended up with a horrific eye inflamation and going to hospital to have my eyes looked about 18 months ago.

Turns out it had fallen out, I never realised and had spent 4 hours trying to remove a contact I was convinced I could feel but wasn't there Ended up with drops to sort my eye out because I'd basically rubbed my eye raw.

What a knob I am.

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[RhynoCZ]

I use contact lenses and it was the best decision I've ever made. Well, the laser operation would be the best, but still, good stuff those contact lenses. It never gets dirty, greasy, foggy, you've got ''perfect'' vision all the time, unless your eyes go too dry, then it's quite anoying, but I never had a problem on my bike. I get dry eyes in pub around the midnight, when it comes to paying.

I use them all year long, from -20°C up to +35°C, from just a walk in the park to 100mph+ fun on the bike. It all depends on how ''wet/dry'' your eyes are in general. There are drops for people with dry eyes, I've never needed them though. Just go to see a specialist, he's gonna measure the curvature of the eye and then just buy the lenses from the internet. I've been doing this for 8 years now.
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[syl]

I agree with the "why didn't I do this years ago" - and I've had them since I was 16 (now 43).

I've had soft lenses all the time and now wear daily disposables made from a silicone hydrogel - which allow more oxygen through and are great for me as I wear them 18 hours a day regularly. They're the best for your eyes, but more expensive and not quite as comfortable as the really thin older materials (that let less oxygen through).

I'm glad I didn't have laser surgery as my prescription went up slowly to -3.25 in both eyes until I was in my 20s but recently, over the last 12 months, it has come down in stages to -2.25 now. This is the equivalent of me needing reading glasses. Eventually I might need bifocals, but you can get bifocal contact lenses now.
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