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dude just go to dailies

by snissn 10y ago

nether 10y ago
Seriously unless you're budget constrained, so much better. Cost twice as much as 2-week lenses, but you get to crack open a sterile pair each morning. Toss em at night.
- wapz 10y ago
  Yup they are so much more comfortable. If you are running low and only wear them around 12 hours, you can even clean them and wear them another day (definitely not recommended by the manufacturer or eye doctor).
  - computator 10y ago
    > not recommended by the manufacturer or eye doctor I never found a technical explanation of why you shouldn't reuse dailies after overnight cleaning. I looked at papers, manufacturers' websites, and spoke to two ophthalmologists. Though not a safety issue, my own experience is that dailies are more fragile than long-term lenses. (Could this be deliberate?) They fit less comfortably after a week of reuse. Also, they sometimes develop a very tiny nick at the periphery after many days; when that happens you feel it the moment you put it in. My rule of thumb is that I reuse dailies for 5 days--disinfecting each day of course--and throw them out. The ophthalmologists, who are friends and can speak freely with me, agree that my regimen is fine.
    - wapz 10y ago
      My personal belief is that since they are made more fragile (I believe it's intentional), you risk the contact tearing while in your eye or not keeping the shape which could maybe cause a deformation to your cornea/eye(?) if used for a prolong time. I only think this because I always swam with my 2 week disposables in and my eye doctor got 'angry' when he saw my contacts were a little deformed from water exposure.
      - iicc 10y ago
        It's not the contact tearing that causes issues, it's infection. eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthamoeba_keratitis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthamoeba_keratitis
    - angry_octet 10y ago
      Recovering several pieces of torn contact from your eye is a great experience. The torn bits slide around to the side of the eyeball. Uugh.
      - GrinningFool 10y ago
        Bad enough when the whole thing slips around to the side... in pieces, that'd really suck.
    - joshyeager 10y ago
      > could this be deliberate? Dailies are more comfortable because they are softer and more porous. That lets more oxygen through and reduces irritation. But it also makes them less resistant to scratches and tears. That's why the manufacturers say you shouldn't clean and reuse them. Source: my sister manages an optometrist's office.
abritinthebay 10y ago
Assuming they can. I can't - they don't fix my eyesight. That's actually quite common. Dalies are great if you can have them but they don't fix all conditions.
- rincebrain 10y ago
  What about your vision is such that dailies can't correct for it, but other contacts can? Is it that you can't make use of "soft" contacts in general for this, or just (presumably) that making contacts to correct for this would be sufficiently costly for daily disposibles as to be infeasible?
  - jpwgarrison 10y ago
    Not the parent, but in my case - mild astigmatism - dailies are too big and floppy and don't stay put on my eye. 14 or 30 day are thicker and easier to put in. I use them rarely - just for skiing, and I end up using the 14 day ones once or twice and then throwing them away. But the daily ones are just mechanically awkward and uncomfortable.
    - rincebrain 10y ago
      Hm, I have mild astigmatism as well, but I've never explored whether or not I could get dailies. Good to know.
      - _MK_ 10y ago
        I'm on dailies with astigmatism and it has gone well. Ask your eye doctor about your options.
    - hvidgaard 10y ago
      I have found a few dailies that correct fairly severe astigmatism and is comfortable to wear. They work, when they stay put. Unfortunately they tend to rotate ever so slightly every now and then, and it so annoying that I'm back to glasses
tallanvor 10y ago
Dailies aren't appropriate if you want the option of sleeping with your contacts in. I rarely do it, but I still want the option just in case I end up spending the night somewhere unexpectedly.
yourapostasy 10y ago
Can't yet, much as I'd like. :-( I require torics, and for some reason the many dailies we tried wouldn't stay in their "up" orientation. My optometrist said that in a year or two, he thinks some of the newer dailies in the development pipeline might address my experience, and we'll try dailies again at that time. Has something to do with the weighting of the lenses, I gathered from overhearing his conversation with one of his assistants, but the sudden, unpredictable blurring after blinking being a safety hazard was all the explanation I needed at the time.
- qqg3 10y ago
  Cooper Vision do some great dailies that are torics, I've been using them for years.
  - yourapostasy 10y ago
    Another Cooper Vision recommendation, I'll really have to check them out, thanks!
- adav 10y ago
  I use toric dailies and it's the blinking that aligns the orientation. Once the angle is correct after blinking, the lenses then don't seem to rotate further. (I use '1-day Acuvue Moist for Astigmatism')
  - yourapostasy 10y ago
    Clarification: even sequential blinking did not realign the lenses we tried, for some odd reason. Dailies would be really awesome to be able to wear, because I only wear contacts for water sports and when dressing up, so I end up throwing out the 30-day lenses after only a handful of uses. Thanks for pointing me towards what you use, I'll ask my guy to try them on me if he hasn't already when I go in for my annual.
- blincoln 10y ago
  Did you try Biofinity toric lenses? That's what I've been using for several years after I started having that exact problem.
gpderetta 10y ago
That's interesting. I did wear contact lenses (either 15 days or 1 month) for a decade. After a while my sight deteriorated further (unrelated to contact lens use) and I started using glasses more, and then exclusively. When I tried to switch back to contacts, with a better prescription [1], I found out that I couldn't stand a full day of them anymore, they just weren't comfortable. Later I realized that I had switched to dailies; when I tried bi-weeklies or monthlies again, they were still as comfortable as I remembered. [1] I'm short sighted, and although I'm technically not astigmatic, I have need a strong astigmatism correction as well. For the same reason I can't get LASIK either.
driverdan 10y ago
For some reason daily contacts dried out very fast for me. Often they would be uncomfortable in 8-10 hours. I didn't have this problem with bi-weeklies.

dude just go to dailies

by snissn 10y ago

dude just go to dailies

Seriously unless you're budget constrained, so much better. Cost twice as much as 2-week lenses, but you get to crack open a sterile pair each morning. Toss em at night.

wapz 10y ago
Yup they are so much more comfortable. If you are running low and only wear them around 12 hours, you can even clean them and wear them another day (definitely not recommended by the manufacturer or eye doctor).
- computator 10y ago
  > not recommended by the manufacturer or eye doctor I never found a technical explanation of why you shouldn't reuse dailies after overnight cleaning. I looked at papers, manufacturers' websites, and spoke to two ophthalmologists. Though not a safety issue, my own experience is that dailies are more fragile than long-term lenses. (Could this be deliberate?) They fit less comfortably after a week of reuse. Also, they sometimes develop a very tiny nick at the periphery after many days; when that happens you feel it the moment you put it in. My rule of thumb is that I reuse dailies for 5 days--disinfecting each day of course--and throw them out. The ophthalmologists, who are friends and can speak freely with me, agree that my regimen is fine.
  - wapz 10y ago
    My personal belief is that since they are made more fragile (I believe it's intentional), you risk the contact tearing while in your eye or not keeping the shape which could maybe cause a deformation to your cornea/eye(?) if used for a prolong time. I only think this because I always swam with my 2 week disposables in and my eye doctor got 'angry' when he saw my contacts were a little deformed from water exposure.
    - iicc 10y ago
      It's not the contact tearing that causes issues, it's infection. eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthamoeba_keratitis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthamoeba_keratitis
  - angry_octet 10y ago
    Recovering several pieces of torn contact from your eye is a great experience. The torn bits slide around to the side of the eyeball. Uugh.
    - GrinningFool 10y ago
      Bad enough when the whole thing slips around to the side... in pieces, that'd really suck.
  - joshyeager 10y ago
    > could this be deliberate? Dailies are more comfortable because they are softer and more porous. That lets more oxygen through and reduces irritation. But it also makes them less resistant to scratches and tears. That's why the manufacturers say you shouldn't clean and reuse them. Source: my sister manages an optometrist's office.

abritinthebay 10y ago

Assuming they can. I can't - they don't fix my eyesight. That's actually quite common. Dalies are great if you can have them but they don't fix all conditions.

rincebrain 10y ago
What about your vision is such that dailies can't correct for it, but other contacts can? Is it that you can't make use of "soft" contacts in general for this, or just (presumably) that making contacts to correct for this would be sufficiently costly for daily disposibles as to be infeasible?
- jpwgarrison 10y ago
  Not the parent, but in my case - mild astigmatism - dailies are too big and floppy and don't stay put on my eye. 14 or 30 day are thicker and easier to put in. I use them rarely - just for skiing, and I end up using the 14 day ones once or twice and then throwing them away. But the daily ones are just mechanically awkward and uncomfortable.
  - rincebrain 10y ago
    Hm, I have mild astigmatism as well, but I've never explored whether or not I could get dailies. Good to know.
    - _MK_ 10y ago
      I'm on dailies with astigmatism and it has gone well. Ask your eye doctor about your options.
  - hvidgaard 10y ago
    I have found a few dailies that correct fairly severe astigmatism and is comfortable to wear. They work, when they stay put. Unfortunately they tend to rotate ever so slightly every now and then, and it so annoying that I'm back to glasses

tallanvor 10y ago

Dailies aren't appropriate if you want the option of sleeping with your contacts in. I rarely do it, but I still want the option just in case I end up spending the night somewhere unexpectedly.

yourapostasy 10y ago

Can't yet, much as I'd like. :-( I require torics, and for some reason the many dailies we tried wouldn't stay in their "up" orientation. My optometrist said that in a year or two, he thinks some of the newer dailies in the development pipeline might address my experience, and we'll try dailies again at that time. Has something to do with the weighting of the lenses, I gathered from overhearing his conversation with one of his assistants, but the sudden, unpredictable blurring after blinking being a safety hazard was all the explanation I needed at the time.

qqg3 10y ago
Cooper Vision do some great dailies that are torics, I've been using them for years.
- yourapostasy 10y ago
  Another Cooper Vision recommendation, I'll really have to check them out, thanks!
adav 10y ago
I use toric dailies and it's the blinking that aligns the orientation. Once the angle is correct after blinking, the lenses then don't seem to rotate further. (I use '1-day Acuvue Moist for Astigmatism')
- yourapostasy 10y ago
  Clarification: even sequential blinking did not realign the lenses we tried, for some odd reason. Dailies would be really awesome to be able to wear, because I only wear contacts for water sports and when dressing up, so I end up throwing out the 30-day lenses after only a handful of uses. Thanks for pointing me towards what you use, I'll ask my guy to try them on me if he hasn't already when I go in for my annual.
blincoln 10y ago
Did you try Biofinity toric lenses? That's what I've been using for several years after I started having that exact problem.

gpderetta 10y ago

That's interesting. I did wear contact lenses (either 15 days or 1 month) for a decade. After a while my sight deteriorated further (unrelated to contact lens use) and I started using glasses more, and then exclusively. When I tried to switch back to contacts, with a better prescription [1], I found out that I couldn't stand a full day of them anymore, they just weren't comfortable. Later I realized that I had switched to dailies; when I tried bi-weeklies or monthlies again, they were still as comfortable as I remembered. [1] I'm short sighted, and although I'm technically not astigmatic, I have need a strong astigmatism correction as well. For the same reason I can't get LASIK either.

driverdan 10y ago

For some reason daily contacts dried out very fast for me. Often they would be uncomfortable in 8-10 hours. I didn't have this problem with bi-weeklies.