Hello all, I have a dilemma and I wanted to seek the advice of people who are visually impaired like me who would understand. I have heard many fully sighted peoples opinions already
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i'm sighted, but i had a couple of thoughts on this (i don't know if you remember me.. i'm the one that works for an eye doctor):
i assume you are talking about hard lenses, because of your Rx. i'm newer at what i do, but i have never even heard of a hard lens cutting someone's eye unless it was broken, chipped, or worn way too long. (that's bad with ANY contact.) most people with hard lenses keep the same pair for many years, so you do have to be really careful to watch them for flaws. i imagine his concern is that your vision is too low to really be able to see such flaws before sticking them in your eye.
as far as the decrease in vision, i couldn't really say. i know lots of people with higher scripts that say vision is BETTER with contacts. but again, not knowing what you're wearing, it's hard to assume. however, something that IS true is this: people with poor vision won't notice small changes in vision as readily as people with perfect vision. if i am checking the script for someone with good vision, one turn of the knob will have them saying "no, now it's blurry". someone with a cataract will let me turn it three or four clicks before they notice the blurring.
if it's only a slight change, you may not even really notice it. even if you do, you have had low vision since birth and i think you would be probably ok. it's not like it's a permanant change to your vision, and since your trouble lies in your retina and not your cornea, i don't see how it could hurt you.
maybe you can compromise and try a pair only for special occasions, where you could have someone (who was familiar with how to care for your lenses) would help you check them and get them in and out and stuff.
oh, and: i don't know if it matters, but hard lenses tend to be really really expensive. if you are only going to wear them sometimes, it might not be practical in that sense.
all that being said, i totally understand. i look cute in my glasses and i STILL totally hate wearing them. they annoy me. i just got my first pair of contact lenses yesterday, actually. dude, they were HARD to get in. even with two people with relatively decent vision and a 5x magnifying mirror, it took me an hour and a half to get them in, and i had to keep saying things like "is this inside out? is it even CLOSE to my eye?? dude, which eyelid am i hitting??? GAH!" and then, they were hard to get OUT, which was really sorta freaky. it's not super easy, but people get used to it and whip them in and out like nothing.
i'll stop chatting your ear off now. i just thought his "no way jose" line of reasoning seemed strange, or, at least, overly cautious, if one can be such a thing with their eyes.
You are right about my vision being too low to notice any kind of damage to the lense, but no matter what there will always be sighted people around. That trial period with them was a good idea. I'll mention that to my doctor. I probably won't even notice a difference.
i assume you are talking about hard lenses, because of your Rx. i'm newer at what i do, but i have never even heard of a hard lens cutting someone's eye unless it was broken, chipped, or worn way too long. (that's bad with ANY contact.) most people with hard lenses keep the same pair for many years, so you do have to be really careful to watch them for flaws. i imagine his concern is that your vision is too low to really be able to see such flaws before sticking them in your eye.
as far as the decrease in vision, i couldn't really say. i know lots of people with higher scripts that say vision is BETTER with contacts. but again, not knowing what you're wearing, it's hard to assume. however, something that IS true is this: people with poor vision won't notice small changes in vision as readily as people with perfect vision. if i am checking the script for someone with good vision, one turn of the knob will have them saying "no, now it's blurry". someone with a cataract will let me turn it three or four clicks before they notice the blurring.
if it's only a slight change, you may not even really notice it. even if you do, you have had low vision since birth and i think you would be probably ok. it's not like it's a permanant change to your vision, and since your trouble lies in your retina and not your cornea, i don't see how it could hurt you.
maybe you can compromise and try a pair only for special occasions, where you could have someone (who was familiar with how to care for your lenses) would help you check them and get them in and out and stuff.
oh, and: i don't know if it matters, but hard lenses tend to be really really expensive. if you are only going to wear them sometimes, it might not be practical in that sense.
all that being said, i totally understand. i look cute in my glasses and i STILL totally hate wearing them. they annoy me. i just got my first pair of contact lenses yesterday, actually. dude, they were HARD to get in. even with two people with relatively decent vision and a 5x magnifying mirror, it took me an hour and a half to get them in, and i had to keep saying things like "is this inside out? is it even CLOSE to my eye?? dude, which eyelid am i hitting??? GAH!" and then, they were hard to get OUT, which was really sorta freaky. it's not super easy, but people get used to it and whip them in and out like nothing.
i'll stop chatting your ear off now. i just thought his "no way jose" line of reasoning seemed strange, or, at least, overly cautious, if one can be such a thing with their eyes.
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You are right about my vision being too low to notice any kind of damage to the lense, but no matter what there will always be sighted people around. That trial period with them was a good idea. I'll mention that to my doctor. I probably won't even notice a difference.
Thanks you made my day!
Bye-bye.
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