I got the impression that Ace is done with school, basically
non-functional and living in his parent's house. He has all
the time in the world to look for some attention.

-Quick

I like your attitude Larry. Ace is a dangerous moron.

As Maxwell Smart used to say, "It's a pity he didn't use his brain for
good and not evil".

grant

Schein's team calls contact lenses "very safe" in general, though they
note that contact lenses are associated with some extra risks, compared
with eyeglasses.

They rank the risk of vision loss from eye infection for different
types of contact lenses:

Lowest risk: Rigid, gas-permeable contact lenses for daily wear
Next-to-lowest risk: Soft contact lenses for daily wear
Highest risk: Silicone hydrogel contact lenses for extended wear of
three-to-four weeks

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extended-wear hydrogel: NSK, 48.2 and SK, 96.4; and
daily-wear hydrogel (excluding daily disposable): NSK, 14.1 and SK,
6.4;
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extended-wear silicone hydrogel: NSK, 98.8 and SK, 19.8.
daily-wear silicone hydrogel: NSK, 55.9 and SK, 0.0;

You can see that silicone is much safer. If we compare hydrogel vs.
hydrogel we see that sleeping in them increases the risks of severe
keratitis by about 15 times. The problem is you guys are comparing
silicone vs. hydrogel. Thats apples to oranges. I already understand
that silicone is safer, period. What im trying to show is sleeping in
silicone is infiniately riskier than daily wear. Notice that the rate
for severe keratitis is ZERO by NOT sleeping in those silicone lenses!

Wearing contact lenses overnight can increase the risk of keratitis
compared with using lenses only during the day. For extended-wear
users, silicone hydrogel lenses offer less risk of keratitis compared
with hydrogel lenses. The risks however are much higher compared for
daily wear.

The rate for severe keratitis when sleeping in hydrogel lenses was 96
per 10,000 wearers per year compared to 20 per 10,000 per year for
wearers of silicone hydrogel lenses. These compare to 6.4 wearers per
year for daily wear of hydrogel lenses and almost 0 wearers per year
for daily wear of silicone hydrogel lenses.

"Individuals tend to make choices based on factors such as comfort,
convenience, personal preference, and safety," notes Schein. "The data
are solid that the risks are least with rigid and soft daily-wear
contact lenses, more with overnight wear of contact lenses and most
with refractive surgery," he adds."

I leave this up to the individual. My choice is sticking to glasses and
occasional daily wear of contacts. I will never sleep in contacts! Some
people are risk takers and gamble their eyes and vision by sleeping in
contacts and especially getting RS, namely lasik. I never understood
why gamble your eyes sleeping in contacts? It takes me and most people
less than a minute to remove one's contacts and put them in the holder
before going to bed. It takes only a minute to pour out the old
solution, rinse the contacts in new solution, fill the contacts with
solution and insert them in the eyes. Its as easy as brushing your
teeth! Do you really want to risk your eyes more than neccessary to
save a minute of your time? I sure as heck dont! My eyes are far more
important than the very, very slight convinence and time saving of
inserting/removing contacts. I wear glasses most of the time so I avoid
the risks of contacts alltogether!

No thanks.  Not my job.  I certainly won't try to tell an OD how to do
their job.

I'm no OD, but I can't imagine giving you a pescription for contacts,
either.

I wouldn't recommend surgury, either.