one use contact lenses

[El Rojo]

conrade!

my optician is telling me wearing "one-time" lenses for more than one day will gimme eye infections. my optician also seels me these things for £30 a go. sooo is she indeed correct, or just profiteering?

[revolution inaction]

conrade!

my optician is telling me wearing "one-time" lenses for more than one day will gimme eye infections. my optician also seels me these things for £30 a go. sooo is she indeed correct, or just profiteering?

i thought they where £30 for a months worth?

[FreeFocus]

You can get away with a little more than a day, like a few days at most, but why risk it? Get two-week disposables or something.

[Vicarious]

Mine are monthly

If you take care of them, take them out at night keep your eyes and contacts clean (with saline), you should be fine

[Os Cangaceiros]

You can get away with abusing your eyes a little bit, but it's not healthy and you shouldn't make it a habit. I got an eye infection once from leaving contact lenses in overnight...it's really a pain in the ass.

[Bitter Ashes]

If you want the cheap option try hard lenses. I used to wear them all day 7 days a week. I lost one after two years and had it replaced. The other one lasted another year until I lost that one too and got sick of it and went back to glasses.

They take some getting used to though, but they're easier to put in your eyes and they last forever so long as you wash them properly.

[Sasha]

i wear one monthers, even in a quite dirty/dusty squat with no hot water as long as i clean my hands with soap and take them out every night i'm fine till now.

[El Rojo]

sooound

i normally wouldn't run the risk, its just for this nasty cadet course im putting myself through, generally I have too much cordite on my hands and its a ***** to get it out. but the course is only done over weekends

[Bitter Ashes]

sooound

i normally wouldn't run the risk, its just for this nasty cadet course im putting myself through, generally I have too much cordite on my hands and its a ***** to get it out. but the course is only done over weekends
That's why I wore glasses in the army.

[El Rojo]

That's why I wore glasses in the army.

Thought about i Ranma. but we had one guy in our section who wore glasses, the staff basically bullied off the course, "four-eyed prick" ect ect.

also, didnt they get in the way when you had to wear a kevlar / do radio work?

[Bitter Ashes]

Thought about i Ranma. but we had one guy in our section who wore glasses, the staff basically bullied off the course, "four-eyed prick" ect ect.

also, didnt they get in the way when you had to wear a kevlar / do radio work?
No actualy. I did have some comments, but tbh, it wasnt that bad, at least not about my glasses. The only problem you might have is keeping them on, but you can get things from the optician that attach to the arms and go around the back of your head to stop them falling off.

I had to take them off for when I was wearing a noddy suit, but the lenses on my respirator had my prescription in them. Wouldnt matter if you hadnt anyway, nobody can see out of those bloody things at the best of times.

[El Rojo]

they do perscription gas masks?! that is my fact of the day

[Bitter Ashes]

they do perscription gas masks?! that is my fact of the day
Yeah. The optician makes the lenses and the QM fits them if I remember right. Unless you've got a severe prescription though, it's probably not worth the bother as you can hardly see a thing out of the resperators anyway.

http://www.arrse.co.uk/Forums/viewtopic/t=100815.html
lol. It's been ages since I've been on ARRSE. Memories...

[El Rojo]

um, i didn't mean ill get those, we don't use and NBC kit on this course... not to detail it any further for sec culture reasons (feels faintly embarrassed)

i just meant awesome how genuinely amusing the idea of perscription respirators... specsavers shelves stacked full of gas masks ect

ARRSE? nuevo palabra...

[bricolage]

I wear daily contact lenses occassionly (when I'm not wearing glasses), you can wear them for a bit more than a day but I'd advise against taking them out then putting them back in. I'd also say get some eye drops with the solution they keep lenses in it it, that way if you fall asleep in them it helps in getting them out.

[DenisDenis]

I wear month-lenses, i take them out every evening but i wear them for 2 - 3 months
or something, some friends of mine also use 1 month-lenses and they wear them day
and night for a month or 2 months... they haven't had any trouble yet, but my eyes
are too sensitive, I once had an eye infection because i wore them every day, which
my eyes apparently couldn't handle, so I think its best to take them out every evening
and use glasses when its not necessary to wear contacts!

[Jazzhands]

I used to wear the month lenses. I got a nasty, painful eye infection because I didn't take good enough care of them. I had to sit in a pitch-black room with curtains drawn for days and whenever I would leave my bedroom, even when it was dark outside I would have to put on Ray Charles-ish sunglasses. There was nothing to do in my bedroom I could do without making my hypersensitive eyes hurt. So then I got to wear an eyepatch for a few days at school and I looked extremely cool. I had to deliver the Tyrell monologue from Richard III wearing that, so that definitely made it 1000X cooler. Anyway, I still have a hypersensitivity to light. It was there before but it was very, very mild and almost unnoticeable. Now I can't even look at the sky when it's raining. On the plus side, I have an excuse to wear sunglasses ALL THE TIME. :cool: