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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,

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
- lathiat 10y ago
  Try different brands. My wife had the same problem when she went to an astigmatism lense they were too floppy and very difficult but persisted and changed brand/type (still dailies) and they're much better. Stuff is changing all the time
  - david-given 10y ago
    Yeah, I wear daily disposable contacts for doing LARP stuff where being hit over the head with rubber swords isn't uncommon, and I am increasingly astigmatic; my old optician was unable to find daily disposables that would correct the astigmatism [ * ], while my new optician could. (The new contacts are amazing.) It's totally worth keeping looking. [ * ] Wearing lenses that correct for short-sightedness but not astigmatism is weird. I can see perfectly well, except that text is unreadable. Just text. I wonder if this is how dyslexics feel. Additionally, I normally wear glasses, and whenever I put my lenses in my first thought is always 'wow, my feet are huge!'...
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djeikyb 10y ago
kerataconus, which involves mild to severe astigmatism and a deformed cornea. from what i've read, it's a bit of both. there's a couple of newish soft contact designs i've heard of, but also there's the cost. at a point, glasses don't even provide sufficient correction.
- abritinthebay 10y ago
  It's not astigmatism but it's often misdiagnosed as such first due to similar presentation of symptoms. I actually have Pellucid which is often mistaken for Kerataconus so I did the whole shebang of diagnosis!
abritinthebay 10y ago
Irregular thickness of the cornea. Literally impossible to correct with soft lenses. It's hard lenses or a (risky) cornea transplant really (other options like intacs could help but not fix it)

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
lathiat 10y ago
Try different brands. My wife had the same problem when she went to an astigmatism lense they were too floppy and very difficult but persisted and changed brand/type (still dailies) and they're much better. Stuff is changing all the time
- david-given 10y ago
  Yeah, I wear daily disposable contacts for doing LARP stuff where being hit over the head with rubber swords isn't uncommon, and I am increasingly astigmatic; my old optician was unable to find daily disposables that would correct the astigmatism [ * ], while my new optician could. (The new contacts are amazing.) It's totally worth keeping looking. [ * ] Wearing lenses that correct for short-sightedness but not astigmatism is weird. I can see perfectly well, except that text is unreadable. Just text. I wonder if this is how dyslexics feel. Additionally, I normally wear glasses, and whenever I put my lenses in my first thought is always 'wow, my feet are huge!'...

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djeikyb 10y ago

kerataconus, which involves mild to severe astigmatism and a deformed cornea. from what i've read, it's a bit of both. there's a couple of newish soft contact designs i've heard of, but also there's the cost. at a point, glasses don't even provide sufficient correction.

abritinthebay 10y ago
It's not astigmatism but it's often misdiagnosed as such first due to similar presentation of symptoms. I actually have Pellucid which is often mistaken for Kerataconus so I did the whole shebang of diagnosis!

abritinthebay 10y ago

Irregular thickness of the cornea. Literally impossible to correct with soft lenses. It's hard lenses or a (risky) cornea transplant really (other options like intacs could help but not fix it)