Before You Try Lasik Eye Surgery -
Explore Colored and Disposbale Contact Lenses.
There are four options for people with poor
eyesight: glasses, contacts, surgery, or bumping
into things. Glasses suit some people just fine:
other people feel self-conscious in glasses and
prefer contacts. My friend Wes detested his
glasses, but was too lazy to take care of his
contacts. He frequently slept in them; rarely
cleaned them. So Wed went around with red-rimmed,
swollen, crusty eyes for a couple of years. Since
this was before they invented truly extended-wear
lenses, he opted for having laser surgery for his
nearsightedness. He had to have it redone in one
eye (his eye changed shape again after the
surgery), but that was more than ten years ago,
and he loves his lens-free lifestyle.
Another friend of mine, Rebecca, hated her glasses
so much that she just refused to wear them--all
through school. It made life hard for her because
she was very nearsighted and couldn't even see
people's faces in the hallways. The second Rebecca
heard about contacts, she started badgering her
mom for them, and when she was fifteen, her mom
finally decided that she was old enough. She's
worn contacts for 24 years, and only wears glasses
late at night, too watch TV.
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Getting Good Contacts at a Great Price - Even
When Your Insurance Won’t Pay
 Contact
hassles start when you need to buy new ones. There
are "instant" lens stores for a quickie eye exam
and cheap lenses, but too often, untrained store
personnel know much less about eyes and exams than
they should. You may find yourself with the wrong
prescription and a store that's unwilling to
correct the mistake. You need an optometrist for
an eye exam. At an HMO, you will end up paying top
dollar for contacts, since lenses are considered
"cosmetic" rather than "medical" items. Contact
lenses will cost more and you'll have to pay the
entire amount even if you have full medical
coverage.
You can see a private optometrist, but unless
there's a sale, chances are you're going to pay a
lot more for contacts than you'd like to. What can
you do? Get your exam and prescription from the
optometrist, and go to an online discount
supplier.
See a reputable online discount contact lens supplier and have your contacts conveniently
shipped to your doorstep.
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With contact lenses, you have several options in
terms of how long you'll wear them, how permeable
and comfortable they are, and whether they're fit
for regular nearsightedness or astigmatism, where
the eye is shaped differently and needs a more
highly customized lens. By far the most options
you have when it comes to contact are the number
and type of salines, cleaners, disinfectants and
eyedrops available to you. Particularly if you
have allergies or sensitive eyes, the right saline
matters, and the most expensive isn't always
what's right.
It's amazing really, that more people don't have
problems wearing contacts: it's kind of a weird
thing to stick a piece of plastic in your eye,
which was pretty much designed to keep anything
that's not an eyeball out of the eye. But with the
miracle of science, someone who can't read a book
unless it's perched on her nose can drive a car
across the country with the aid of two small
pieces of plastic and a bottle of salt water.
Some of the problems lens wearers experience are
dry, itchy eyes, redness, burning, or infection.
Rebecca, the glasses-hater, had to switch to
lenses that she changes once every few weeks,
after her optometrist diagnosed her with an
allergy to protein deposits on her regular lenses,
which only needed replacing once a year. The new
lenses cost more than double the price of the old
ones, but she didn't really have a choice, because
she couldn't wear her old ones at all. With
contacts that you throw out every couple of weeks,
the protein deposits don't have much time to
become an issue before the lenses are replaced
with new ones.
If your eyes are bothering you consistently, you
might start by switching salines. Rebecca has a
hard time, being allergic to soaps, perfumes,
various chemicals and latex. She had been using
the saline for sensitive eyes when she suddenly
developed a new allergy and wound up using the
generic, non-sensitive formula again. Changing
salines solved the problem, which was nice,
because she wasn't crazy about her red, puffy
eyelids.
If you decide to wear contacts, keeping them clean
is the best way of avoiding problems with
irritation and infections. Keeping lenses clean is
pretty simple. Always wash your hands before
taking lenses out or putting them in again. Change
the saline or disinfectant in your lens case
daily, and make sure to use disinfecting methods
either by buying the combination disinfectant and
saline, or by using a heat unit.. Use enzymatic
cleaners on a weekly basis to remove deposits on
extended-wear lenses, and rinse them well after
enzyming them.
If you're scrupulous about lens hygiene but still
have troubles, you may have an allergy. Talk to
your optometrist, and try changing salines,
cleaners or lenses.
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