Difficulty with contact lenses

Ordi.d.ice
Sat, 01 Jul 2006 23:05:09 +0000

I so LOVE my contacts! I should have gotten them earlier.

For one, I swim and I was not going to get prescription goggles- talk about lame compared to swedish or aquabalde goggles. Anyway, so I used to swim in a hazy fog for months, then I decided that it was ridiculous and finally conviced my parents to let me try contacts. Eventually I got them, and I did have a little ‘learn to put on and take off your contacts’ thing too.

Turns out I have a little astigmatism, but there a contacts for that. Since mine is not very pronounced, I used to wear a different presciption in each eye. Now, I’ve stopped since my astigmatism isn’t much of a problem anymore.

About that letting your eyes “breathe” thing- my optometrist said that I shouldn’t over wear my contacts since capillaries? can grow over your cornea and damage your vision. This happens when your eyes are deprived of oxygen. Anyway, I decided to get hydraclear, since that allows more oxygen to get to your eyes.