Are contact lenses really that bad?

Started by Vinny Valentine3 pages

Don't you start something you too nono

Don't make me put you both in corners.

Originally posted by Vinny Valentine
Don't you start something you too nono

Don't make me put you both in corners.

oh I wasn't doing anything!

Originally posted by Naz
No it's not. When they dialate your pupils you have to wear sunglasses afterwords because you're all sensitive to light. And that obviously not the case because a minute later the doctor shines a light in my eye and it doesn't bother me all that much. 🙄
No, the pupil dilates to allow more light into the eye, allowing it to see. The pupil constricts in light, because it doesn't need as much light. The optometrist dilates your pupil and then shines a light into it so they can see how healthy it is. Ask your eye doctor sometime.

Originally posted by Strangelove
No, the pupil dilates to allow more light into the eye, allowing it to see. The pupil constricts in light, because it doesn't need as much light. The optometrist dilates your pupil and then shines a light into it so they can see how healthy it is. Ask your eye doctor sometime.

❌ I've had my eyes dilated before. They put some eye drops in it, do their light thing, then your eyes stay dilated for like four hours, and you have to walk about with ugly sunglasses. I can walk into a lit hallway after the air thing and my eyes are perfectly fine and not dialated.

Originally posted by Strangelove
....yeah

that's getting your pupils dilated

😆

Originally posted by Naz
❌ I've had my eyes dilated before. They put some eye drops in it, do their light thing, then your eyes stay dilated for like four hours, and you have to walk about with ugly sunglasses. I can walk into a lit hallway after the air thing and my eyes are perfectly fine and not dialated.
Maybe they do it differently in South Dakota hmm

Originally posted by Vinny Valentine
Don't Take pictures with my glasses ever on, always contacts.

I have Horrible vision.

Everything Past 1.5 Feet away pretty much is a total ****ing blurr.


Same here. I think my vision is like 7/20 or something. xD
Originally posted by Naz
I just went and got a new prescription last month. The doc will check out your eyes and usually he'll have lenses on hand that are your prescription and then you'll wear those home and order some to last you about a year. Then the first time you get contacts they'll show you haw to put them in and take care of them etc etc. But they don't really suck that much. You just have to take them out every night and the first couple weeks you have them it takes a while to put them in in the morning. I like them because I have peripheral vision that I didn't have with glasses and everybody looks better in contacts anyway.

Thanks much. Yeah I have normal peripheral vision and since my eyesight gets worse by the minute, it seems, being able to look straight with GOOD eyesight and see what's in my peripheral vision will be kickass.
Originally posted by Strangelove
....yeah

that's getting your pupils dilated


I've had that done before and it sucks. I felt weird.

I laugh at all of you people and your inferior vision... evillaugh

I just got the contact lenses today. At first they were a ***** to get in and an even bigger ***** to get out but they're better than glasses. I'm astonished that I can see without the glasses on. The bad thing is earlier I felt kind of nauseated(sp?) when I sat down to eat.

But anyway, w00t. I hope I have good luck with them.

Originally posted by Yuna_And_Tidus
A lot of people I have spoken to about contacts say they're a big hassle and suck really bad. Are they really that bad? I have an appointment made for Tuesday the 27th to get some. How long, appx., does it take for the contacts to be made in my prescription and come in, if anyone knows?
they arent bad.. . i wear them... better than wearing glasses

they arent a hassle...i cant even tell Im wearing them.. they take like 2 seconds to clean up for the day 🙂

I like my glasses 🙂

Originally posted by Strangelove
I like my glasses 🙂
some guys look really nice in glasses...

but some of us...just look yuck in glasses -- plus bugs and hairs are always getting on the lenses

I had ridiculously good vision, but now I have bad sight. Anything that isn't reasonably close is blurry.

Opticians say it can also be to do with fonts, font sizes etc, but that you can regain the sight if you had good sight previously, as the common cause of loss of sight is atrophy.

-AC

Originally posted by Morning_Glory
some guys look really nice in glasses...

but some of us...just look yuck in glasses -- plus bugs and hairs are always getting on the lenses

I clean mine off every day...sometime several times

I'd get contacts, but I hate the thought of touching my eye

Originally posted by Strangelove
I clean mine off every day...sometime several times

I'd get contacts, but I hate the thought of touching my eye

touching your eye is just like touching day old jello doped

Originally posted by Morning_Glory
they arent bad.. . i wear them... better than wearing glasses

they arent a hassle...i cant even tell Im wearing them.. they take like 2 seconds to clean up for the day 🙂


Yeah I can kind of feel them now, but it's not "annoying" or anything.

Originally posted by Strangelove
I clean mine off every day...sometime several times

I'd get contacts, but I hate the thought of touching my eye


Me too, I'm the same way, but it's really not that bad considering something sterile and clean is between your finger and your eye. 😛

Originally posted by Morning_Glory
touching your eye is just like touching day old jello doped
😘

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