Lol awh no problems as away I don't mind,I've got all this random knowledge on contact lenses from my years of wearing them, why not share it with someone who needs it,lol.I'll try answering your questions as best as I can, I'm quite tired so if there are spelling mistakes bare with me..lol
JazakiAllah sis
I've been wearing RGP lens for the past 2 years or so and i find them really really uncomfortable. Most of the time, theyr're ok but if they move even slightly out of place the pain is excruciating. It's like slivers of sharp glass are being dragged across my eye. NOT a pleasant feeling at all :ermm: lol I just stand there with my eyes wide open and staring. willing it to STOP. It only succeeds in making me look like a lunatic lol:X
LOL oh wow that reminded me of myself, the last phrase that is. Sis carry a bottle of solution around with you, and if they feel uncomfortable, pop them out and drop a bit of solution on it...though don't overuse it, since it might irritate your eyes.
My consultant keeps making them smaller and smaller but it's not helping. However, when I suggested Kerasoft 3 (soft lens) he seemed convinced that soft lenses don't give as good vision as RGP. Is that right? :ermm:I understand that RGP lens are made-to-measure, but they wouldn't invent soft lenses for Keratoconus if they were useless, would they? :-\
By good vision, do you mean that your eyesight is less likely to lower when wearing RGP's than soft lenses? I was recommended RGP lenses by my optometrist because as a kid, my eyesight was dropping FAST. every visit I'd go, it would drop .5, or more! RGP lenses somehow prevent your vision from dropping...as soon as I started wearing them, my vision stopped dropping ALHAMDULILLAH. That was the major nubmer one benefit of having them. Then when you reach 18, I think your vision stops dropping altogether.
I thought maybe Piggyback Lens would be useful, it's like the best of both isn't it?
Did you find it difficult taking them out? Did you use the plunger thing or did they 'pop' out? My lens seem to have a mind of their own lol.
I usually have them for about an average of 4 months till my prescription changes again.
I'm really grateful I have them, as I have absolutely no idea how I'd cope with day-to-day matters without them :nervous:
I've never heard of Piggyback lenses...sorry...I might look it up now that you mention it. How come your vision is dropping every 4 months?? That's strange! It is weakening and you need a new prescription every 4 months?? Even with RGP lenses??InshAllah i'm wrong here.. i used to pop out my lenses into my palm..rinse them (what a pain that was,lol) and when I put them on, I'd just slide them in and maneuver them into place...lol. it seemed much easier than putting on soft lenses (Touching my eye freaked me out a bit,but I got used to it,lol). RGP lenses are very easy to put on and take off...I'd do it in about 10 seconds. Practice is all I can say, hehe.
I slept with them in a few times...and looked like a zombie with bloodshot eyes the next morning.
I'm thinking about getting the soft lenses anyway but...:-\
Soft lenses are great, though the problem with them is that you can't sleep with them on...and some solutions require that you keep them in at least 6 hours...see when I was at school, I'd sometime sleep less than 6 hours, maybe only about 4, and during that time, I'd be studying (so normally, I'd need to keep my lenses on) ...that was a bit of a pain. Consider that fact if you are a student and you do a lot of late night studying.
Do you use normal daily/monthly/weekly soft lenses? Or specialised ones?
Sorry for asking so many questions :embarrass
I use monthly lenses, though I have been told they last more than a month, maybe a month and a half. They are great alhamdulillAh, from the comfort to the maintenance to the quality...(this coming froma person with very sensitive eyes...)problem is, they are pretty expensive compared to the RGP ones. Anyway, I'd choose them over RGP's any day, probably because I don't need RGP's anymore...inshAllah this helped, any more questions let me know.