Has anyone ever used gas permeable contact lenses?
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I've only been wearing contacts for a short time and have had a lot of bother with them - started off with monthly continuous wear ones but they irritated the inside of my eyelids and the optician said "no way" because they'd cause trouble in the long run. He tried about six different types of monthly lenses, and about five different daily lens. The ones I'm currently using are the ones he said suited my eyes the most, but they're horrible and I'm not getting on with them at all. They dry up too much, annoy my eyes by the end of the day, are so dry when I go to take them out that they're stuck to my eye and hard to remove, adn I think they're giving me headaches.
My last option (because I've tried every type of soft lens) is those gas permeable jobs - the hard lenses that you keep for about a year! I didn't even know that they stull used them, but the optician says they're much better for your eyes and although they take a bit of getting used to, they're a lot more comfortable when you're accustomed to them, and they'd be ideal for my eyes. But I'm a bit apprehensive - they sound not too nice... has anyone used them before?
I really don't want to have to go back to glasses again, and laser surgery is a bit excessive... -
Well, if it's the best option, go for it, I say. It'll be just like having glasses again, I think. A bit dizzy, a bit uncomfy, but you should adjust to it just like anything else, like braces. I use daily lens myself, and have never had any problems with them, apart from them being a bit hard to take out sometimes, but I always leave them in too long 
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My brother wore them for years, he couldn't use 'standard' soft lenses because his eyes were too bad. He persevered for ages because that's all he could get, but quite often he'd turn the air blue while trying to get them in or out, and he was constantly reaching for the eye-drops because he found that they dried out very quickly indeed. In the end he had laser surgery.
If you're not getting on with the various soft lenses I wouldn't bother with those, Angel.
It is still possible to get 'yearly' soft lenses, which are what I use. They're a little bit thicker than monthly or daily lenses and require more care, but you never know - you might get on better with them. Try bringing the subject up with your optician - they generally don't advertise them any more because they don't rake in as much money for the optician as the disposables do. -
I wore hard contact lenses for years - dead comfortable, gas-permeable are even better. Fucked my eyes though! I got an eye infection and was told not to wear contacts at all apart from disposables for sport and stuff. It's a bugger cos I fucking hate wearing glasses, swear I'll never get used to them. -
I don't think any of the soft lenses are going to be any good really. I've had everything from the cheapest to the most expensive, and told the optician that I really don't care what I have to pay for them, just find me some that are alright to use! But these, that I'm using now, were the last ones that were going to be suitable. Apparently the soft lenses move around in my eye too much and rub against the inside of my bottom eyelid, which would eventually get very sore and probably infected. Nice, eh? The hard lenses, he reckons, wouldn't do that. The optician bloke is very nice and helpful though, and I've had countless visits with Specsavers and of all the lenses I've used, I've only paid for one month's supply of disposables, even though they've gone through about twenty different types of lens. Nice people, the Specsavers lot .gif)
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Fucked my eyes though! I got an eye infection
Ooh - that was another thing! He was always getting eye infections and having to leave them out for weeks at a time. Although he never got it as bad as you obviously did, jiro. -
Oh... that's put me right off, that infection thingy. Don't like the sound of that at all.
The thing is, I've only a pretty weak prescription, but even so I'm absolutely useless without contacts or glasses. I can't function at all and get nightmare headaches if I go without. So I can't even just wear glasses for reading/work/whatever and do without the rest of the time
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Gas Powered Collar Lasso, you say?
/scratches eyes
*bloody contacts!*
Edited by GTBurns at 15:56:15 16-02-2005 -
I love my monthly continuous wear soft lenses. I can't imagine going back to having to take them out every night, put them in every morning.
Slight downside is that they can get pretty coated in crap. Occasionally one will start hurting, so when I take it out, there is a layer of dried on stuff. A quick clean and its fine. -
How often do you actually take them out, then? Do you leave them in till it's time to replace them? I'm not sure I'd fancy the idea of that at all! -
I wore GPs for about seven years; never once had an infection. That said, I now have daily disposables and wouldn't go back for the world; much more comfortable in my experience. -
I tried the hard ones at first and found them uncomfortable plus i lost three of the buggers as they have a tendancy to just fall out! I'd say try to find soft ones you can get along with.. i'm gonna have the laser surgery at some point though. -
I had gas permeables for years.
They are okay. Eyes hurt (lots) more with prolonged wear than with soft daily disposable ones I use now, though they are ment to be better for your eyes health.
They are also a real pain to look after with the solutions - couldn't go back now I'm used to chucking my lenses down the loo after a days wear. And I seemed to lose one quite frequently which got expensive, though that was more to do with me than the lenses. They can pop out with quite a zing if you squeeze your eye just right...!
Might be worth trying a different optician as well. Just for another informed perspective. -
But there just aren't any soft lenses I get on with! I've tried 'em all! Literally! Apart from a few that the optician says I wouldn't get on with for definite.
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/glad I've stuck to sticking my "goggles" on when I need to see far away. -
I have been wearing GP lenses for the last 16 years and I've not had any problems with them. They do handle a lot more abuse than soft lenses. It took me a few weeks to get used to them and at first they felt like I had a lump of brick dust in each eye. Now I wouldn't be without them. They give a much better level of correction than my glasses especially with my level of short sightedness.
I need to replace my current pair very soon but I have had them for about three years now. Probably a bit too long but I haven't had any problems with them. -
Mrs. Gamer has been wearing GP lenses for years and years because she's so blind and hasn't had any major problems. Only the odd popping out at inopportune moments when she's been rubbing her eye or something. The best one being whilst shopping in Marks & Sparks. Found it amongst the womens clothing, eventually. Ah, happy days.
I used to wear the yearly soft lenses, in my footy days, but since giving up all physical activities that require more than the moving of thumbs and fingers, I have reverted back to glasses and haven't missed them at all. All that pain and inconvenience, never mind the cost.
Coincidentally, I caught the end of Case Notes on the way home tonight and they were talking about contact lenses. Unremarkably they concluded that the continuous wear lenses are the unhealthiest and that the GP were the healthiest, infection wise. -
I use dailies and love 'em, although I recall that when I started off using contacts (when I was 14-ish) it did take a while to get used to them. Then again, I have an acquaintance (we only really know each other due to our similarly poor eyes) who never could get on with contacts - she's been to any number of experts and no-one can figure out why her eyes dry out horribly. She actually has problems when NOT wearing contacts these days, I gather.
Anyway, I'm having surgery sometime - I hate being dependent on these things (as the peeps who stayed late at the last Geekmeet will testify, it hampers me sometimes. -
casualgamer wrote:
Coincidentally, I caught the end of Case Notes on the way home tonight and they were talking about contact lenses. Unremarkably they concluded that the continuous wear lenses are the unhealthiest and that the GP were the healthiest, infection wise.
I know that continuous wear ones carry the greatest risk (obviously, as any infections could be in your eye potentially up to a month), so when I start to notice their presence (as in I can actually feel them, most of the time I take them completely for granted and don't think about them) I take them out and clean them. I try to avoid touching them, or letting any tap water etc. touch them. -
I did a year with monthly-wear ones, but I got weird irritations and stuff in the eye, wasn't worth it. The dailies are ace - a fresh lens out of the box every morning!
Still getting surgery done, mind. -
Angel_Treats wrote:
I really don't want to have to go back to glasses again, and laser surgery is a bit excessive...
I have a 'girls that wear glasses' fetish.
Fuck, did I just type that out loud??? \0/ -
I've always had and currently have gas permeable lenses.
They've done a good job at preventing my eyesight from getting much worse (the "hardness" of the GP are better at keeping your eye in the proper shape than soft lenses), and are a total bitch to wear at first, but your eye adapts and soon you don't even feel them at all.
until late in the day, that is, when things start getting itchy. but all you've got to do then is take them out, clean them, and put them back in and you'll be fine for the rest of the night. or if you have glasses, wear them. give your eyes some relief.
it also helps to buy GP's with a slight tint of color. mine are blue because (as has been mentioned many times already) they have a tendency to get lost, and slightly blue (or any other color) contacts are much easier to find than perfectly clear contacts.
you will be sacrificing some comfort, but your eyesight will stay better longer and it isn't as costly in the long-run, since you don't need to replace them nearly as often. it's all a matter of balancing what's most important to you. -
Had a family member get laser-eye surgery done and not long after the surgery his retina detached! Whoopie! Lawsuit!
Anyway, caused a bit of permanent damage (he's not blind though) and got over a million dollars in settlement, nevermind him already being a millionaire. Strangest thing was I just had another family member go to the exact same person (or firm I should say), and that's quite stupid if you ask me. -
That sounded nasty.
I've got one good eye and one terrible one, leaving me with some very strange sight oddities. Light and dark objects always appear to be at different distances, either quite far away or almost up to my face. Very bright, flickering halos around any darker object on a lighter background, text on websites as an example. Something which I can best describe as 'TV noise' if I try to get my eye to focus properly. Still, I'm used to it and it only really pops up when my right (good) eye is strained or tired. Then the fun begins.
For that reason I already have a pair of specs but they're less than ideal so I don't tend to wear them unless I'm having hassle from it. I'm not used to using my left eye and getting it suddenly in (far from perfect but still usable) focus in tandem with my normal vision is something I don't think I'd ever get used to. I've considered laser surgery but I have no idea how much of an improvement I'd get, or if it would get rid of the strange effects I get from it currently.
As it is I've noticed that I've been squinting with my left eye for a few years now, presumably because I subconsciously want to block out the problems and I get perfectly good eyesight from one eye already. I try to correct it when I notice as it apparently makes me look a little menacing O_o -
I find the monthly continuous wear ones to be more comfortable than the daily or monthly ones, as they are insanely thin. If it wasn't for the fact I only have to deal with them once a month, they would be too fiddly, but once they are in, you can't feel them at all. The only time you start to notice them is very late at night (small hours) where you can barely feel them, but you start to get halos because they are a bit too dry. You then end up blinking more. Not perfect, but much better late at night than monthly or daily lenses. -
Yup. Tried every bloody kind of daily disposables! Those particular ones were wildly unsuitable, apparently. You'd have thought the monthly continuous wear ones would have been alright, being very thin, but they weren't at all.
I had to rush home yesterday and take mine out because my eyes were absolutely killing me, and I have my specs on today. Definitely thinking of giving the GP ones a go, as a last resort, but the initial outlay is a bit much if I'm not going to be able to wear them... -
It's not actually my eyes - it's my bottom eyelids. They pull on the lens too much, with the result that it rubs against the eyelid and irritates it, and would result in lots of nastiness eventualy. Infections and suchlike. They tried every bloody size of lens, shape (because they vary), type etc. The ones I have now are the only ones that didn't do it, but I'm just really not liking them at all because they dry my eyes up so much, and by the end of the day at work I'm dying to get the buggers out. Maybe I could try eye drops. -
rhythm wrote:
Kinda
Retroid wrote:
What, like that?
it apparently makes me look a little menacing O_o
Or mad, depending on your point of view. Still, I know I'm lucky to have one good eye so it's not a complaint. -
I just got gas permeable contact lenses. My problem with them is that I keep getting some kind of film on them while I'm wearing them and it makes my vision blurry. I told my doctor and he cleaned them and they were perfect for the rest of the day. However, the nexr day, it happened again and he's gone on vacation for a week. Does anyone have any suggestions? -
A quick update, just in case anyone's interested (doubtful):
I got new gas permeable lenses last Sunday. Was meant to wear them for an hour the first day, two hours the second day, etc. But I was up to ten hours by Wednesday, they felt a bit odd at first but not too bad and by now, five days later, they're absolutely fine and more comfortable than the last, horrible, daily disposables I tried. Definitely glad I went for them in the end.
Sandyo, no suggestions mate, other than keep them as clean as you can, make sure to use the soapy stuff every time you take them out and rinse them really well with saline and you should be fine.
Has anyone ever used gas permeable contact lenses? • Page 2
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ecosse_011172 wrote:
Is it true that it can shaft your night-vision?
It's much cheaper than a few years ago and I know a few people who's have the op recently and swear by it...
I was reading about what they do and stuff, and it seems it can affect night vision, which would suck for driving at night -
Hard contact lenses?
Gas something ones?
Laser eye surgery?
Man, I'm so 1990 ;].
Glasses are teh sex you silly people
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My other half gives me endless abuse when I wear specs. He reckons I look like Thelma out of Scooby Doo. -
And you think who early teen boys had wet dreams about?
Shaggy? Don't think so! ;] She had that 'demon of sex hidden in bookworm girl'- thing about her ;D. -
Glad to hear they're comfortable for you know Angel There's nothing wrong with specs (I wear mine when needed thanks to my dodgy eye) but it's what you're happy with that counts, eh? -
Well done on building up the resistance - Im the lazy sort who kept getting up late and not having time and hard contacts definitely didnt suit my eyes.
I've a years worth of dailies - do I wear them though? About once a year... so I should be set fo life...
Nice light glasses - sorted! -
After waxing lyrical about the new lenses last night, I went to take them out and realised one of them was missing A brief temper tantrum ensued before I had the bright idea of taking the sheets off the bed to look for it, and lo and behold, Rutty spotted the bugger! I'd just put clean sheets on the bed about an hour before and we were lying on it playing Resi 4 (well he was, I was watching) so I was very lucky it didn't get squished
Really must be more careful. -
Angel_Treats wrote:
After waxing lyrical about the new lenses last night, I went to take them out and realised one of them was missing A brief temper tantrum ensued before I had the bright idea of taking the sheets off the bed to look for it, and lo and behold, Rutty spotted the bugger! I'd just put clean sheets on the bed about an hour before and we were lying on it playing Resi 4 (well he was, I was watching) so I was very lucky it didn't get squished
Really must be more careful.
Hmm, in almost 3 years now of wearing contact lenses, permanently for the last 6 months, I've never ever lost one. I've occasionally dropped on when taking them out/putting them in, but never lost one from my eye. How would that even happen? -
get laser surgery! its funky! ive seen it done and its really quite simple... you want the mingin bits?!?! -
[$mooth] EcToX wrote:
get laser surgery! its funky! ive seen it done and its really quite simple...
/takes off reading glasses
you want the mingin bits?!?!
/puts them back on
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get some davids-esque goggles. http://vnexpress.net/Vietnam/The-thao/2004/09/3B9D4B2B/da.jpg
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Rain Man wrote:
get some davids-esque goggles. http://vnexpress.net/Vietnam/The-thao/2004/09/3B9D4B2B/da.jpg
+2 cool points
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Mate of mine wore contacts and kept having them pop out. Last straw was when he managed to completely lost one of them while he was in town and had to resort to wearing his specs again :/ -
Retroid wrote:
Mate of mine wore contacts and kept having them pop out. Last straw was when he managed to completely lost one of them while he was in town and had to resort to wearing his specs again :/
I still don't get how that is possible. I've never lost a lens, and the only time I have ever dropped one is when I was handling one in my fingers.
Maybe its different with hard lenses, but I can't see how soft lenses can just fall out, they stick to your eye. -
Heh. It is different with hard lenses. Mine have popped out a few times, and in fact this time I've completely lost one. Had to happen the week that I'm completely skint, and now I have to replace the fucker. -
Guys love a girl in glasses.
Gowan. Ask Rutty.
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Bad luck losing a lens it's a total pain in the arse. I lost one once while playing football on a gravel pitch. Miraculously, my mate found it.
Too many years of abusing contact lenses fucked one of my eyes though and now I can't wear them. Only wear daily ones for sport and that...
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i lost a contact three weeks ago and it really pissed me off. i was walking with the gf and when we were near to a pond i picked her up to pretend i was going to throw her in. she elbowed me directly in the eye and i lost my contact.
edit: weeks, not days
Edited by Bill Gates is Evil at 22:46:38 10-05-2005 -
Heh. Man I'm having a hard time thinking what to send you. Don't worry though I've not forgotten. -
jiroczech wrote:
Too many years of abusing contact lenses fucked one of my eyes though and now I can't wear them. Only wear daily ones for sport and that...
/sulks
See, this is why I had surgery... I was afraid that at some point I'd end up not being able to use contacts anymore, and have to go back to specs - and that somehow they'd tell me that surgery wouldn't be a good idea due to the long use of contacts or something.
Anyway, I LOVE my right eye so much now - everything is so CLEAR all the time! No muck on the glasses, no film on the lens, no slight delay to focus after blinking! \o/
/can't wait to have the second eye done
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khab, let's Lo-it. HaLo 2, that is.
or at least someone should join me for big-team battling. i've got to procrastinate somehow. -
Aw, sorry didn't see you respond to that until just now. :/ I would now, but it's 1.40 am and I have to get up in six hours and be in meetings all day tomorrow, so I'll have to take another raincheck on that one. You'd probably annihilate me badly anyway, I haven't played Halo 2 since december sometime... -
Nemesis wrote:
I'm Not Allowed to wear specs. My bloke doesn't want to go out with... hang on, who was it he compared me with... Themla out of Scooby Doo, I believe it was. Before I got lenses he used to moan about the glasses all the time. Pissed me off, it did.
Guys love a girl in glasses.
Gowan. Ask Rutty.
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Hooray! Found the fucker on the floor! Ha!
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Hooray! Thread from teh dead!
Picked up a pair of gas permeable lenses this morning after trying, unsuccessfully, to get on with five different types of soft lenses so far.
It feels like Everest just popped by and dropped a couple of French doors in my sodding eyes
Even through the tears though, I can see the potential- I had genuinely brilliant moments of 20/20 vision before I couldn't wear them any longer. Hope I can get used to them over the next week...
Edited by mcmothercruncher at 13:34:13 06-11-2013
https://community.eurogamer.net/thread/26534
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