I'm blind

[Terez]

So I was rubbing my eyes just now cause I just woke up, and one of my contacts went flying somewhere. Not good, cause I'm on my last pair. I couldn't find it, so I got out one of my mom's disposables that she donated when she had lasik surgery, but it's 3.75 where I need 4.75 or something. So everything's all weird-looking. Not exactly fuzzy, but it's like I'm cross-eyed.

And my financial aid for school doesn't come in till Friday, so I'm stuck being blind till then and maybe later cause that's a holiday (might have to wait till Monday), and I have to drive up to Hattiesburg (an hour north of here) to get my refund check then. I could probably get my stepmom to drive me but I can't stand her company so I think I'll risk driving blind instead.

[1Powerslave]

1) Get an eye patch.
2) Relish cool look of having an eye patch.
3) Go to your optician and ask for a new pair.

If you've bought the contacts in a store and not on the net you should be able to get a new one for the lost one. They should cover that. Or say that you need a slight change in power and they should give you a new pair.

[Sarevok]

The problem with Strong's idea would probably be that they don't have all types of contacts in stock at any time. They have to order them from their HQ.

[Zaela Sedai]

I think Sare may be blind too...

[Terez]

hehe...and they won't give me a free one. Last time I went to the eye doctor, he was upset cause I hadn't been to see him in years, and he charged me a new patient fee even though I've been going to him since I was a kid, and my whole family still goes to him. Bastard.

[irerancincpkc]

Is it better to have the disposables than none at all?

[Terez]

Well, I always use disposables, but my mom's aren't the right prescription...

[Gilshalos Sedai]

I can just imagine the headache you've got, too. Your prescription is low enough that your optometrist should have it in stock. (Unlike mine, which is a -10. Good luck finding THOSE in a sample.) Wouldn't hurt to ask. Or heck, if they're in, they might just give you a couple to tide you over. ;)

[Terez]

Holy CRAP Gil I thought my brother's eyes were bad (he's in the 8-9 range). Jeez.

[Gilshalos Sedai]

Yeah, I'm nearly legally blind. (Shut up, Sinistrum.)

[Terez]

Say it Sini. :)

[tanaww]

Yeah, Lizard. I dare you. You can run faster scared than she can mad anyway...

[irerancincpkc]

Well, I always use disposables, but my mom's aren't the right prescription...
I mean, is it better to have the wrong prescription than none at all?

[Terez]

Yeah, or else I'd just take the contact out. But it's still not good...

[Crispin's Crispian]

Weird...I always thought when you got contacts, you had a backup pair of glasses for emergencies. My brother always did, and so did friends of mine.

Or is it that you can't find your glasses because you're blind?

[tanaww]

Most people have a pair of glasses as a back up. Or should I say I do and therefore everyone should.

[Gilshalos Sedai]

I didn't, until this year. The previous pair of back ups were an outdated prescription and broken. For most of us who REALLY can't see, glasses are a bad idea since they encourage your eyes to get lazier and get worse. (At least that's what my eye doctor said.) I can really only wear my glasses for two hours a day just so my corneas can breathe.

Terez might have the same issue.

[Terez]

I have a pair of my mom's old glasses. I've never bothered with buying a pair because they're so expensive and I hardly ever need them. Mom's old glasses are an even older prescription than the contacts she donated, but at least they're balanced...

[Davian93]

Been there before...that sucks T.

~sympathy headache~:(

[Mort]

I had about -6 before I had Lasik surgery. Seeing just fine now. Money well spent (a lot of it too).

[Terez]

I can't have lasik surgery because my vision deterioration hasn't plateaued yet...

[tanaww]

Gil, I think your doc is crazy. The reason people see better with Contacts is the lack of distance / distortion between the lens correcting your vision and your eye. I, for one, see a lot better with contacts and reading glasses than I do with my damn bifocals but I still have my glasses for when I just want a break.

[Terez]

I tend not to take a break from the contacts unless there's actually something wrong with my eye...

[Gilshalos Sedai]

Doubt he's crazy, Tanaww. And my eyes do get lazier and get worse with glasses. For instance, I need to be corrected for an astigmatism in glasses but not in contacts.


But you need to let your eyes breathe for a least a couple hours a day.

[Terez]

My contacts claim to let my eyes breathe.

[Gilshalos Sedai]

Mine do, too. But my previous pair didn't. My cornea was apparently trying to grow from out behind them just to get air because I wasn't wearing my glasses enough.

[Terez]

Yeah, I did have more problems with contacts before I started buying this brand (Acuvue II I think, supposed to be better ventilated than the original Acuvue).

[tanaww]

Astigmatism either you have or you don't. Do you wear Toric lenses? Those are for astigmatism;) I personally wear Acuvue for Astigmatism - don't remember if there's a deriviative like Oasys or not, but I've no complaints. Of course my cataract surgeon says that he can do laser correction on lens implants and that is really intriguing.

[Gilshalos Sedai]

Actually, no. You can avoid correction in contacts, even if you need it in glasses. I can show you my prescription(s) when you visit... ;)

[1Powerslave]

I've got those 24hours contacts that you can wear round the clock for a month. I take them out to breathe as needed during that period and it's no more than a couple times if that. It's great to be able to wear them that long. To wake up and be able to see right away!

I also have glasses as backup, but then my eyes haven't changed from -1.00 since a long time. I also recently had sunglasses made for me which is great during the summer contact troubles.

[Ishara]

I buy contacts online, and there's an option to "pay later" (even though I always pay up front), so why don't you buy them that way? Charge them and get them delivered to your door? No blind driving required.

I buy my contact lenses bi-monthly because right now I can't justify spending upwards of $800 on a pair of glasses. My so-called back-up pair are oudated and broken, held together with jewellers wire. I'd love to wear glasses again, but probably won't bother since by spending just under twice that I can get laser eye surgery and call it quits.

Funny story though, when I went to Paris last month I forgot to bring along contacts (other than the ones I had in my eyes at the time). How dumb is that?! So the first thing I had to do was find me a pharmacy and get me some lens solution and a case to keep them in. For dailies, I didn't notice any detioration, they felt great at the end of the week, so that was nice!

[Terez]

You're one of those people that actually throws away disposables when you're supposed to? Wow.

[RogueSavior]

Well, in October I got 12 for each eye of two-week contact lenses... I have 7 left for each eye.

Hooray me.
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[Ishara]

Well I made the switch to daily dispoables because quite frankly I was getting really lazy about keeping them clean and spending a lot of time in the water with them, and they weren't worth the grief. With daily disposables I don't have to worry about whether I cleaned them well enough, or if I rinsed them off well enough, or where in the hell I put my lens case. Now I just pop them out at th end of the day and start fresh the next day. I can carry a spare pack for each eye in my purse and not freak out if I lose one rubbing my eye the wrong way, or if it gets lost in the bathroom.

It's just easier for me!