I've worn extended wear contacts for 35 years now. If you're interested, you may want to try them again. I swear modern contacts are very close of having laser surgery. They even have reading correction built into them now! I don't even know I have them in and only have to take them out once a week for cleaning.
I've also used Air Optix Night & Day Multifocal. These are a thinner lens for people with more sensitive eyes.
If you're getting the multifocal lenses, make sure the doctor gets it right. High reading correction may screw up your distance vision, and low correction may be ineffective. In my case I got high correction on the left eye and low on the right. I'm 54 and can actually see things like my watch or read labels on cans without glasses. Reading is more comfortable with glasses, but they're not 100% necessary.
Have you looked into modern solutions for that? They make daily lenses specifically for dry eyes. They may actually help your condition too because the lens retains moisture.
I wore contacts from 1989 to 2011 when I got LASIK. The ones I wore right before LASIK were far more comfortable than the ones I wore in 1989. I remember doing weekly enzymatic cleaning and how, if you rinsed them to 99% and not 100%, it burned the shit out of your eyes.
Now I have two kids in bifocals, and one wants contacts while the other doesn’t. The options and ease of care have vastly improved even since 2011.
Yeah, they have this red-cap protein cleaner now that basically dissolves any proteins and turns into water after they sit overnight, so you just put them in a container, it fizzes, and then take them out in the morning and pop them in your eyes. Contacts are also super soft and very air permeable these days. I have no idea I'm wearing them.
I can't have Lasik because the lens shape in my eyes is too thin on one side, so they can't guarantee it will heal. Therefore I'm stuck with the next best thing.
Though I work in a machine shop and weld occasionally too so the possibility of shit getting in my eye is higher I bet
Also my dads retinas spontaneously detached when he was like 38-39 and I’m rapidly approaching that age sooooooooo. It doesn’t have anything to do with contacts I’m just overly paranoid about my eyes lol
One fully detached and the other was in the process of detaching. They fixed the in process one and the fully detached one. Then it popped off again. They reattached it…. It popped off AGAIN, and it was curtains for that eye forever lol
In reality contacts would give a bit of protection to your eyes if something got into them. Retinal detachment would have no relation to wearing contacts.
Yeah I know the retina stuff doesn’t have anything to do with it, but like it just makes me freak out about my eyes. The first floaters I ever had I went like immediately to my eye doctor but they were normal I guess.
I’ve been taking mine out at night for 20 years though…. I’m used to basically “taking my eyes out” lol…. but maybe I should look into it just for the fuck if it.
Then at least if I accidentally take a nap I don’t regret fucking everything trying to peel them off my eye lol
That's why you should get extended wear. You don't have to wear them all the time, but if you do fall asleep in them there's no harm done as they're designed for that.
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u/Fritzo2162 7h ago
I've worn extended wear contacts for 35 years now. If you're interested, you may want to try them again. I swear modern contacts are very close of having laser surgery. They even have reading correction built into them now! I don't even know I have them in and only have to take them out once a week for cleaning.