Issues with lentils

Alright, give me the lowdown—what’s your experience been like with prescription changes? I’m 23, and it feels like my vision gets worse every single year. My friend is dealing with the exact same thing; her numbers just keep jumping up constantly.

How much does your prescription actually jump?

Basically, my prescription just keeps climbing. I started at a 0.75 or 1.00 minus and now I'm sitting at a 3.00 and 3.50. It's honestly awful.

And during what timeframe did yours spike like that?
Mine jumped from 0.5 to 3.5, but that took eight years. My doctor says it isn't even a drastic change. 😁

Arthur Turner17 said:it basically just keeps going up... I started at like 0.75 or 1.00 diopters and now I'm at 3.00 or 3.50. It's honestly awful.

I guess it depends on when yours actually started, there aren't really any set rules.
Some of my friends saw things start changing around age 7, but then it totally leveled off by 15 or 16. For me, it kicked in at 12, and I think it might still be creeping up slightly—but just a tiny bit.

Daniel Smith8 said:Soft lenses are easier to put in and take out,

What soft ones are you wearing, 🤣 or which semi-rigid ones 😲 are you talking about?

So, here’s a bit of a semi-off-topic question from someone who isn't exactly an expert 😳 — I just found out I need glasses. Can I jump straight into wearing contacts instead of dealing with frames right away?

you can

Arthur Turner17 said:So, what’s everyone’s experience with prescription changes? I’m 23 and feels like my vision gets worse every single year. My friend deals with the same thing—her prescription just jumps up constantly.

Do you wear contacts?

Mine started climbing back in 4th grade. Wore glasses for a bit, then stopped, then they hit -3.5. Been on soft contacts for about three years now and nothing’s changed since my last checkup. Fingers crossed it stays that way, though I have some astigmatism stuff going on, so who knows. 😳
Mostly just soft lenses 🙏 won't ever switch. No issues, even if I accidentally sleep in them for a night or two. 😬
The only thing is when they get "old" (I swap them every two months). Toward the end of the cycle, my eyes get a little red, so I just pop in a new Complete set and I'm good to go. 👍

feralranger81 said:Random non-expert question here 😳 - I definitely need a prescription. Can I jump straight to contacts and skip the glasses phase?

Depends on the prescription, but most likely yeah, you can. 🙂

gentlecanyon92 The user said:What kind of soft lenses are you even wearing? 🤣 So, what kind of semi-hard are we talking about here? Just asking. 😲

I don't quite get what's supposed to be funny here... or why it's so confusing and unsettling. 🤔

The routine for putting in soft contacts—back when I actually wore them, though I doubt anything has changed since then—was always a mess. You’d fish the lens out of the solution, perch it on your fingertip, and carefully drop a bit of liquid into the center. Then comes the hard part: trying to slide it onto your eye without spilling the drop or having the damn thing slip right off your finger. It happened to me constantly. Just a total headache.
Soft lenses. I pull them from the solution, let them settle perfectly on my fingertip, and move toward my eye without any unnecessary rush. Voila. It’s always been that simple for me.

Removing a soft contact lens: you just push the outer eyelid aside and let the pressure from your lid pop it right out. Of course, half the time I’d scratch my eye or try to fix my makeup and that lens would slide right into the corner. Once it gets stuck up there, it’s useless on its own—I always ended up having to fish it out with the suction tool.
I squeeze the soft contact lens by its edges and pull it out. It’s exhausting. Before, they used to skitter off into the darkest corners of my eye, only deciding to come home on their own schedule. 😁

Soft contacts just seem simpler to me. Honestly, I don't see the point in overcomplicating things. 😬

My prescription shot up drastically during puberty—which isn't exactly surprising—but I refused to wear glasses back then, and my parents just wouldn't believe I'd actually commit to contacts. It jumped by quite a bit... maybe 2.00 diopters? Now my left eye is over -5.00, and the right is somewhere around -4.50 or -4.75, plus those annoying cylinders that I don't even fully understand. I've been wearing lenses for about four and a half years now. As far as I know, my prescription hasn't budged since then. I wear soft lenses. My first pair came from a private clinic, and honestly, it was a disaster. They were poorly fitted—a different doctor explained later that they were ground incorrectly—so they never sat right on my eyes. Tears would just pool underneath and everything would get "foggy." It drove me crazy... I ended up rubbing my eyes constantly and causing so much irritation. I wore those for nearly two years. Eventually, I went to the hospital (my insurance covers part of it) and I couldn't be happier with them. It'll be almost three years since I switched, if I'm counting right. They feel perfect... I have no intention of changing anything.
I use Total Care products. They last a long time. And glasses? I can't stand wearing them anymore.
I've been thinking about laser surgery for ages. It would be such a relief... I heard it costs about $1,500 per eye, so $3,000 total. Still, the idea of the laser itself scares me a little... Might even have to take out a small loan for it...

Alright, here’s my take on it...

Take the soft lens out of the solution, rinse it with water, pop it on your finger—it’s never slipped out on me, though when it sticks 😛—and get it onto your eye within about 0.2 seconds.
Soft lenses are larger, so you almost have to pull your eyelid back to get it right (unless you’re some kind of owl 😁), or at least that’s what I have to do to get it seated properly.

As for removal... it's never been an accidental thing for me, but when I actually mean to do it, it takes about 0.1 seconds. 😁

Removing soft lenses: you have to touch the eye with two fingers, grab the lens, pinch it, and pull it out :onesvijestise:

Well, whatever works for you. 😁

Heh, I honestly thought those soft lenses were going to be a total bust at first. Felt way too complicated, like there was just too much fiddling around with my eyes 🙏pooky:
But after sticking to the routine for two weeks, I can pop them out in seconds. Even putting them in is easy now—they kind of stick to my finger, and I just tap my eyelid a couple times until they snap right into place. The best part? These soft ones don't jump around on their own...

Man, looking back at the first time I tried them, it took me a solid hour and a half. I didn't even take them out all weekend until I finally went to see my eye doctor to practice properly. 😳 😳 🤣

🤣 🤣 For my first two or three times, I used to wear them for an hour and a half each, 😳

but I was young back then :bojise: 😁

First time trying contacts at the doctor's office to see if they actually worked for me 🤣 🤣
The poor nurse spent like half an hour struggling to get them in, totally failing. I ended up laughing about it, which just made her lose it on me 🙏 🤣
So when the doctor finally walked in and went straight for my eye 🙏 I didn't even see her coming 🤣

👍 🤣

Look, 😳 she kept trying and trying, but it was just a losing battle 😢

Then, after about 40 minutes, my old man stepped in, had a word with me, and suddenly the doctor managed to get it right on the first shot 🙏 🤣

gentlecanyon92 said:Look, here’s my take on it...

Pull the hard lens out of the solution, rinse it with water, pop it on your finger—never had one stick to me, thank God 😛—and get it on the eye in under 0.2 seconds.

The damn things have never stuck to my finger; they just wobble around on there soaked in fluid. No way I'm putting a dry lens in my eye—that would be like shoving a razor blade into my eyeball. And what kind of water are you even rinsing them with?

gentlecanyon92 said:Soft lenses are bigger. You practically have to gouge your eye out to get them in right 😁, unless you're some kind of owl. Taking soft ones out: you need two fingers on the eye to grab the lens, squish it, and yank it out 🤦

Digging around in my eye was never an issue for me. Doesn't hurt when I put them in or take them out. I can even do it without a mirror, which I could never manage with the hard lenses. Removing them? Fine. Putting them in? Forget it.

gentlecanyon92 said:Well, to each their own, I guess.😁

Exactly.👍

First time wearing contacts went smoothly, thanks to one vital piece of advice from my PhD supervisor: ''Don't stare at the lens on your finger; look at your eye in the mirror.'' 😬

I’ve even tried thinning it out with tap water if it gets too thick... 😬

And don't even get me started on the first time I tried. A total disaster.
The first time they slid under my eyelid, we actually ended up in the ER because I couldn't get them out for hours. The nurse at the hospital actually laughed at me. Especially when I asked for anesthesia! 😁

Daniel Smith8 said:This damn thing never actually sticks to my finger. It just wobbles around, soaked in all that solution—there's no way I could have tried putting it in my eye dry; that would be like rubbing a razor blade against my eyeball. And what kind of water are you even using to rinse them?

Whatever. 😁 I take them out of the solution, rinse them under the tap. 😁 Still haven't hit the jackpot. 🙂 And then you get poked in the eye.

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I’ve never had an issue poking around my eye, so I don't feel any pain when putting them in or taking them out. I can even do it without a mirror, which was something I could never manage with my semi-soft lenses—getting them out is fine, but putting them in? Never happened.

It doesn't actually hurt, but that sensation you get in your eye when you press on it... 👎 ... I mean, that’s far from the truth. It's all just a matter of habit.
I put them in and take them out without even using a mirror. I haven't thought about it in ages.