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Medical Forum / General / Vision / June 2005Best daily contacts for people who hate contacts?
Hi, this is my first post, so I apologize if this is not the proper forum for my question... I have been attempting to wear contacts on and off for the past 6 years. However, I always give up within a month because I find the contacts to get very uncomfortable after 4-6 hours. I was never able to tell whether it was an issue of dryness or lack of oxygen...rewetting drops provided some temporary relief, but not enough to pull me through. I would like to try again, and am thinking that 1-day contacts might be a good idea--because I will likely only wear the contact every two or three days, because they'll suffer less build-up, and because i am very lazy in the morning. Can anyone recommend a comfortable daily lens for a finicky wearer? Are Focus Dailies better than Acuvue Dailies? Anything else better than those? Also--I've heard good things about Focus Night And Day. Might this be a better option, even if I'm not wearing them continuously? Thanks so much! PS. Just wanted to add that my most recent contacts were Acuvue 2 and a comparable model from Bausch and Lomb (and I found both to be uncomfortable after a few hours...) If you're uncomfortable in general contact lenses, going to a daily lens will most likely make this worse. I would try a lens with higher water content (eg menicon 72) or a silicone hydrogel (focus night & day or purevision). >I have been attempting to wear contacts on and off for the past 6 >years. However, I always give up within a month because I find the >contacts to get very uncomfortable after 4-6 hours. I was never able >to tell whether it was an issue of dryness or lack of >oxygen...rewetting drops provided some temporary relief, but not enough >to pull me through. It may be worth your while to work with your optometrist/ophthalmologist on a proper dry eye evaluation (Schirmer's testing, TBUT evaluation). If you have clinical "Dry Eye Syndrome," there are measures--some relatively simple--that might provide some relief and facilitate the comfortable wearing of contact lenses. > Hi, this is my first post, so I apologize if this is not the proper > forum for my question... [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Thanks so much! If you issue is dry eye , I'd doubt any of the daily disposables will work for you for more than a few hours. Better choices that provide higher levels of oxygen and experience no or less dehydration would be the silicone-hydrogels (Night&Day (Ciba), Purevision (B&L), Oasis, when and where it becomes available, (J&J Vistakon) or Advance (J&J Vistakon) or lenses made of hioxifilcon (Extreme H20, Satureyes and other brands) or omafilcon (Proclear). --Lb, O.D. great--thanks so much everyone. it sounds like i should forego the dailies and talk to my optometrist about trying Focus Night and Day, Extreme H2O, Advance, Purevision, etc... much appreciated! > > Hi, this is my first post, so I apologize if this is not the proper > > forum for my question... [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > --Lb, O.D.
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