Author Topic: Contacts: Yea or nay? (Read 6565 times)

Deezer · « **on:** August 25, 2005, 11:40:48 AM »

I have an eye checkup on the 29th, and I know I'll need a stronger prescription. This time, I was considering getting contacts.

My questions:
1) Is it OK to take naps without removing the contacts?
2) How much do your contacts cost you per year?
3) Should I go with disposable or not disposable?

Also, post your contact horror stories. If contacts made your eyes dry up and fall out or something, I want to hear about it!

Glorb · « **Reply #1 on:** August 25, 2005, 11:52:30 AM »

I wear glasses, but my mom wears contacts. You know how she cleans them? She PUTS THEM IN HER MOUTH, swishes it around a little, dries it off ON HER SHIRT, and puts them back on her eyeballs. *shudder*

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HolyAarom · « **Reply #2 on:** August 25, 2005, 12:13:32 PM »

1. It might be okay to take naps with contacts on. Just as long as you get used to tour eyes in a different shape.

2. Depending on where you get your contacts, they may range to $100-$350.

3. If you can't clean your contacts, go with the disposable. But if you go with non-disposable, you'll fell more comfortable wearing them every time.

It's up to you if you say yea or ney.

Mario, Mario, He''s our man, If he can''t triple-jump and ground-pound, no one can!

TEM · « **Reply #3 on:** August 25, 2005, 06:35:36 PM »

1. Yes.

2. 80 USD for a 6 month supply for me.

3. Disposable for sure; the 1 month long ones are nice, for me at least.

Time slowed and Reality bent.
But on and on the Eggman went.

Koopaslaya · « **Reply #4 on:** August 25, 2005, 06:41:07 PM »

I have no contacts, so I am unfortunately unable to answer any of your questions.

Johnny thought he was a chemist, but does not no more,
what he though was H2O was H2SO4!

Vidgmchtr · « **Reply #5 on:** August 25, 2005, 06:51:15 PM »

The only ones in my family with bad eyesight are my Mother and brother.

My brother stopped wearing glasses once he got contacts, and my mother sometimes switches between the two.

So, I really can't say.

Deezer · « **Reply #6 on:** August 25, 2005, 09:08:05 PM »

Hmm. I'm leaning more towards contacts now.

4) For how many consectutive hours can you wear them before they start irritating your eyes? (Not wearing them overnight, obviously)

TEM · « **Reply #7 on:** August 25, 2005, 09:27:54 PM »

Depending on the shape of your eyes when you put them in(lets assume you've got them clean and not with hairs on them and stuff). A good 16 sounds about right. As long as you would need them in. Also, it depends on what you mean when you say irritate. I take irritate to mean a slightly dry feeling.

Time slowed and Reality bent.
But on and on the Eggman went.

Deezer · « **Reply #8 on:** September 02, 2005, 12:36:25 AM »

Okay, so, contacts have this really cool dizziness feature that I never heard about. After I put them in, turning my head and eyes at the same time makes me want to hurl. But, after some time, my body adjusts. When I take out my contacts and put my glasses back on, the vertigo is even more intense, and I basically have to stare straight ahead for an hour.

My review of Contact Lenses (Multi-platform)

Pros:

Vertigo Visionâ„¢ feature recreates feeling of real nausea
No more nerdy glasses that you can easily put on and take off whenever and wherever you want

Cons:

None!!!

Final score: 20/20 (100%)

Koopaslaya · « **Reply #9 on:** September 02, 2005, 05:00:36 AM »

A bunch of my "freidns" at my school are now buying plastic glasses that look like real ones to waer. SO pretty soon glasses may be back in style? I don't know about that though, since they actually look dumb with them on.

Markio · « **Reply #10 on:** September 02, 2005, 07:39:11 AM »

Nay! Nay on contact lenses! My friend died from using them!

How? Oh, well, uh ... they were those malaria-carrying contacts.

â€œOf all the people I know, it is expected that Watoad will say â€˜cheeseâ€™ first.â€

PaperLuigi · « **Reply #11 on:** September 02, 2005, 03:58:51 PM »

I have contacts. Don't sleep or shower in them, and keep em' clean to, or your eyes will sting all the time.

I have the body of a God! Unfortunately, it''s Buddah.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #12 on:** September 02, 2005, 08:56:18 PM »

That was the weirdest review I've ever read.

I bte yuo cna rdae tihs by lkooign at it.

PaperLuigi · « **Reply #13 on:** September 02, 2005, 08:59:55 PM »

Are you talking about my review, LD? Yeah, it is weird. Oh, I do have some contact horror stories.......

One time, I went to a wrestling camp at St. Marks. School of Texas. At the end of the day, we would go to the pool to swim and cool off. I had my contacts in, and even though my mother told me not to, I said, "What the heck," and I went in. Well, this was all well and good, until about a day later. The contact lenses had sucked up all the chlorine water in the poopl, and it irritated my eyes so much that they began to ooze green glop and other gross stuff. It took three days of nothing but glasses to clear up my poor eyes. Hehehe, man that was bad.....

I have the body of a God! Unfortunately, it''s Buddah.

Edited by - PaperLuigi on 9/2/2005 8:06:31 PM

Suffix · « **Reply #14 on:** September 02, 2005, 09:36:53 PM »

Aw, man, I do not feel good anymore. Nausiated would be a better term...

This also makes me very glad that I have 20/20 vision. But, as I explained in "I Pose A Question," this won't last forever.