Justin Low
J for Justin
I know this is really OT, but does anyone here use Acuvue-brand daily disposable contact lenses?
How does it stack up compared with other brands?
Thanks!
How does it stack up compared with other brands?
Thanks!
jdos2
Well-known
I wore 'em for a bit, but just like all other soft lenses, they just don't hold up to my body chemistry- becoming painful in just a couple short hours.
I'm a hard-lens kinda guy, I guess. Nice to be able to clean 'em in the field...
I'm a hard-lens kinda guy, I guess. Nice to be able to clean 'em in the field...
Justin Low
J for Justin
Hmm. Thanks. My optometrist told me I have a slight astigmatism problem so it'd be best to get the toric lenses, for best definition. They're terribly expensive. 
taffer
void
I have miopia (¿?) + some astigmatism too, I did some tests last year with soft (monthly disposable) and seemed to do quite well, they were Acuvue I think. Left it there though and last week I went to the optician to try again, this time with daily ones.
I'll let you know, but I agree with JD, being able to clean your glasses is a plus. Btw I also wore hard contact lenses for a while, never really liked them...
I'll let you know, but I agree with JD, being able to clean your glasses is a plus. Btw I also wore hard contact lenses for a while, never really liked them...
Trius
Waiting on Maitani
FWIW, here's my experience...
I have worn both rigid gas permeable and soft contacts over the years, along with spectacles. I have myopia, astigmatism and presbyopia. Several years ago, when the presbyopia set it, I needed bifocals, so I got glasses with invisible/multi-focal lenses, as the technology for multi-focal contacts wasn't very advanced. I was quite pleased with them, but was relegated to either not wearing my contacts or wearing them and supplementing with reading glasses.
Then I went to an optometrist (or maybe optician) at a national chain, aka "Doc in a box". My intent was to try multi-focal contacts. He discouraged me from that, and to make a long story a bit shorter, I ended up not being very happy. First I didn't like the soft, single vision lenses he prescribed, and it didn't get rid of my reading glasses. Next I made him give me a sample pair of multi-focal soft lenses which were better. I could tell that in principle they would work, but his prescription was off.
So, I ditched that place and went to a real, highly recommended optometrist. Boy, did she fix me up real good. First, we switched back to rigid gas perm lenses, because during the interview she ascertained that I had no problem with them in the past. Rigid lenses, in my experience, give the ultimate in resolution when compared to soft lenses. They cost more up front, but it is a one-time charge (for the life of the prescription), and I'll trade that for clarity any day. As a photographer, my eyes are important to me!
Yes, it costs me more, as her fees are higher than the standard rate. And as my eyes change with age, I'm having to have the prescription updated every couple of years or so. But I budget for what my vision care doesn't cover by using my company's flexible spending/benefit plan. This year, for example, I knew I needed a new script, new contacts, and decided to get all new glasses as well. So I adjusted my flexible spending deduction (pre-tax dollars) by an amount that would cover the additional expense this year. Next year I'll adjust back down.
If you can wear rigid contacts with comfort and for an entire day, try them out. If not, go with soft. Either way, seek out a really good optometrist (or opthalmologist,) but stay away from chains, big box stores, etc. Even if you find a good optician or optometrist at Wally World, say, the chances of them being there 2 years from now is pretty remote. It would be like me walking into K-Mart and expecting to buy a Leica, Zeiss or Bessa there.
Sorry for the longish post, but photographers need their vision to be the best it can be!
Trius
P.S. I tried Accuvue and didn't care much for them. OK, but nothing special.
I have worn both rigid gas permeable and soft contacts over the years, along with spectacles. I have myopia, astigmatism and presbyopia. Several years ago, when the presbyopia set it, I needed bifocals, so I got glasses with invisible/multi-focal lenses, as the technology for multi-focal contacts wasn't very advanced. I was quite pleased with them, but was relegated to either not wearing my contacts or wearing them and supplementing with reading glasses.
Then I went to an optometrist (or maybe optician) at a national chain, aka "Doc in a box". My intent was to try multi-focal contacts. He discouraged me from that, and to make a long story a bit shorter, I ended up not being very happy. First I didn't like the soft, single vision lenses he prescribed, and it didn't get rid of my reading glasses. Next I made him give me a sample pair of multi-focal soft lenses which were better. I could tell that in principle they would work, but his prescription was off.
So, I ditched that place and went to a real, highly recommended optometrist. Boy, did she fix me up real good. First, we switched back to rigid gas perm lenses, because during the interview she ascertained that I had no problem with them in the past. Rigid lenses, in my experience, give the ultimate in resolution when compared to soft lenses. They cost more up front, but it is a one-time charge (for the life of the prescription), and I'll trade that for clarity any day. As a photographer, my eyes are important to me!
Yes, it costs me more, as her fees are higher than the standard rate. And as my eyes change with age, I'm having to have the prescription updated every couple of years or so. But I budget for what my vision care doesn't cover by using my company's flexible spending/benefit plan. This year, for example, I knew I needed a new script, new contacts, and decided to get all new glasses as well. So I adjusted my flexible spending deduction (pre-tax dollars) by an amount that would cover the additional expense this year. Next year I'll adjust back down.
If you can wear rigid contacts with comfort and for an entire day, try them out. If not, go with soft. Either way, seek out a really good optometrist (or opthalmologist,) but stay away from chains, big box stores, etc. Even if you find a good optician or optometrist at Wally World, say, the chances of them being there 2 years from now is pretty remote. It would be like me walking into K-Mart and expecting to buy a Leica, Zeiss or Bessa there.
Sorry for the longish post, but photographers need their vision to be the best it can be!
Trius
P.S. I tried Accuvue and didn't care much for them. OK, but nothing special.
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jdos2
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II! That's what I meant about being able to wash 'em- the hard lenses (gas perms) are awesome. I did have to commit, though, to wearing 'em for a few months, as they weren't comfortable until the callous developed (ew!) After that, though... Well, I've slept in 'em, even though that's not recommended.
And best of all, my dry eyes don't shrink the lenses, or worse, digest 'em.
I do wear readers at the end of a long day staring at a computer monitor, though, but that I can chalk up to my two decades out and about.
And best of all, my dry eyes don't shrink the lenses, or worse, digest 'em.
I do wear readers at the end of a long day staring at a computer monitor, though, but that I can chalk up to my two decades out and about.
Trius
Waiting on Maitani
jdos: Right. Field maintenance of gas perms is not much of an issue. A little fussier than glasses (can't exactly use Ivory hand soap on 'em; I prefer Boston Advanced solutions,) but given the superiority and increased acuity over other options, it's a bargain.
I've napped in them, but never an entire night's sleep. If I try it and have a problem, I'll have my optometrist give you a call.
Trius
I've napped in them, but never an entire night's sleep. If I try it and have a problem, I'll have my optometrist give you a call.
Trius
jdos2
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Oh, I still wash 'em in the morning, but a couple times a month the bathroom seems SO far away after tucking in and reading, only to realize that I gotta get vertical ONE more time...
I use the "Simplicity" stuff. Expensive but good.
Funny story:
Hard lenses aren't exactly flexible (duh!) and occasionally get stuck to the eyeball. That's uncomfortable but no emergency. Discomfort is partially based on the vacuum created behind the lens- if there's a bubble of air, no problem, the lens pops off, but if there is none, the skin on the eyeball has to fill the space under the lens before it comes off without a little plunger.
I was in Portugal (why do so many disaster stories of mine start that way?) when putting in a contact lens early in the morning in an unfamiliar city (V.N.de Gaia), I blinked the contact off and it stuck to my eyeball. This was a good vacuum, and there was nothing I had to convince it otherwise, so I struck off for the front desk. After 15 minutes of exhausting my entire vocabulary of Portuguese, and a COMPLETE inability to express "little tiny contact lens plunger" (atuador didn't exist in my vocabulary at the time) and pantomime was getting me NOWHERE (wish I had the lobby tape, though), the desk clerk looked at me and in perfectly clear British English asked if it would be better for me to try in THAT language. I was stunned (not enough for the lens to fall off, though) and had to repeat my performance at the chemist. Sadly, she and I parted company lacking complete understanding.
By the time I got back to my room, I blinked hard, and out it popped.
Oh, I still wash 'em in the morning, but a couple times a month the bathroom seems SO far away after tucking in and reading, only to realize that I gotta get vertical ONE more time...
I use the "Simplicity" stuff. Expensive but good.
Funny story:
Hard lenses aren't exactly flexible (duh!) and occasionally get stuck to the eyeball. That's uncomfortable but no emergency. Discomfort is partially based on the vacuum created behind the lens- if there's a bubble of air, no problem, the lens pops off, but if there is none, the skin on the eyeball has to fill the space under the lens before it comes off without a little plunger.
I was in Portugal (why do so many disaster stories of mine start that way?) when putting in a contact lens early in the morning in an unfamiliar city (V.N.de Gaia), I blinked the contact off and it stuck to my eyeball. This was a good vacuum, and there was nothing I had to convince it otherwise, so I struck off for the front desk. After 15 minutes of exhausting my entire vocabulary of Portuguese, and a COMPLETE inability to express "little tiny contact lens plunger" (atuador didn't exist in my vocabulary at the time) and pantomime was getting me NOWHERE (wish I had the lobby tape, though), the desk clerk looked at me and in perfectly clear British English asked if it would be better for me to try in THAT language. I was stunned (not enough for the lens to fall off, though) and had to repeat my performance at the chemist. Sadly, she and I parted company lacking complete understanding.
By the time I got back to my room, I blinked hard, and out it popped.
taffer
void
OUGH !!!
Yes, I worn gas perms some years ago and apart from some eye-incompatibility problems I had also some episodes like that one.
I still remember my face when sometimes I missed trying to pop them off and they went up in the eyeball, so up that they no more were visible...
OMG when it happened me the first time !
Yes, I worn gas perms some years ago and apart from some eye-incompatibility problems
I had also some episodes like that one.I still remember my face when sometimes I missed trying to pop them off and they went up in the eyeball, so up that they no more were visible...
OMG when it happened me the first time !
Trius
Waiting on Maitani
taffer: Yeah, that's a bummer. I've had it happen a few times, but it's usually when I'm really tired.
I got a new script a couple of months ago, and new lenses with new material. First go round wasn't too good. Whatever material they used to make the lenses wasn't that great. So the doc ordered new lenses (same script, new material) and these babies are awesome! The only problem I had was they seemed to get dirtier faster, but I switched to Optimum (Lobob) cleaning/care solutions, and everything is fine.
I am really, really happy with these lenses, and the spectacles I got with the same script (a Kenneth Cole frameless model) are great, too. I got multi-coated lenses for the specs and they are great. I inquired about Zeiss lenses, but Zeiss wasn't available for this frame/size. I have an old frame that I will probably use for knockaround/camping specs, so when I get new lenses for that frame, I'll ask for Zeiss glass and Transitions coating.
Zeiss glasses, Zeiss glass on a ZI RF? Sounds like heaven to me! ;-)
Trius
I got a new script a couple of months ago, and new lenses with new material. First go round wasn't too good. Whatever material they used to make the lenses wasn't that great. So the doc ordered new lenses (same script, new material) and these babies are awesome! The only problem I had was they seemed to get dirtier faster, but I switched to Optimum (Lobob) cleaning/care solutions, and everything is fine.
I am really, really happy with these lenses, and the spectacles I got with the same script (a Kenneth Cole frameless model) are great, too. I got multi-coated lenses for the specs and they are great. I inquired about Zeiss lenses, but Zeiss wasn't available for this frame/size. I have an old frame that I will probably use for knockaround/camping specs, so when I get new lenses for that frame, I'll ask for Zeiss glass and Transitions coating.
Zeiss glasses, Zeiss glass on a ZI RF? Sounds like heaven to me! ;-)
Trius
foon
Established
they use multi coating on spectacle glasses??Trius said:
that's something new to me
but what for?? increasing contrast and reduce flare?
is that a single element lens
Trius
Waiting on Maitani
foon said:they use multi coating on spectacle glasses??
that's something new to me
but what for?? increasing contrast and reduce flare?
is that a single element lens
Yes, multicoating is available for spectacles. Now that you mention it, though, I'm not sure if mine are multicoated or single coated. Multicoating is much softer and I know my doc said the coating I have is pretty tough. The primary reflected color is green when I look at the lenses at an angle.
The coating does what you guessed: reduces reflections and flare, and appears to me contrast is increased. With my frameless "frames" (oxymoron!), the glasses tend to disappear. A friend of mine was over Thursday evening and hadn't seen these specs yet. He didn't even know I was wearing them!
If you go to http://www.zeiss.de/de/ophtalmic/home_e.nsf, search for "coating" and you'll find som pages on Zeiss' coating offerings.
Trius
zpuskas
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I use the ProClear by Coopervision lenses. Have used them for several years now. Buy them by the 6-pack that last one year---so I change them every 2 months. No problems.