Does anyone here have any experiences with 'soft' contactlenses? I've been wearing contacts since I was 12 (I'm virtually blind without glasses or lenses), but those are the 'hard' variaty.
Since I'm gonna be in a theater show in half a year, the director has asked me if I could look into (pun!) getting soft contacts so my eyes will open up a bit more (With my hard lenses in, I tend to look through slightly slitted eyes).
So, are there any contactlense-wearers reading this, willing to share their experiences?
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Since I'm gonna be in a theater show in half a year, the director has asked me if I could look into (pun!) getting soft contacts so my eyes will open up a bit more (With my hard lenses in, I tend to look through slightly slitted eyes).
So, are there any contactlense-wearers reading this, willing to share their experiences?
P.S.
Twilight Imperium is a cool boardgame, but impossible to finish when you start at 8pm with 6 players.
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I used to have a soft pair of lenses for LARPing, with a white iris, but I proved to be either allergic to the lens or to the fluid.
Nearly got a nasty eye infection, but I stopped wearing them on time.
I cannot compare them to the hard ones because I never used those, but I can say that I do look "eye slitted" specially when there's wind, as they tend to dry up a little bit and they become slightly uncomfortable.
I got new lenses here in Holland, you use them for a month and then you ditch them. You can wear them for a long time but you still have to take them off to sleep, else they get sticky and it's not a comfy feeling when you take them out.
Eh, what else would you like to know?
The downsides are that they can't be made in as many variants/types as hard contacts, and you'll have to buy a new pair every so often. There's month-lenses, week-lenses and even day-lenses.
Hard lenses are less comfortable, more fragile but in the long run a lot cheaper. I dunno about the squinting thing.
I'd suggest you ask your optometrist if you can wear soft lenses, and what kind they'd recommend.
I've been wearing soft contact lenses for over 7 years now. I haven't had any problems with them (although I have no basis for comparison either). I can open my eyes just fine with the lenses in, no more or less than if I am wearing my glasses. The only thing I find is that my eyes are sensitive to sunlight - when the sun is not even that bright, and others have no problems keeping their eyes open, I find that I can't keep my eyes open properly unless I am wearing sunglasses. Other than that, they're grrrrrreat :)
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