IME, the prescription does need to be renewed by a doctor before most places will fill it. However, if you shop around you can fairly easily find doctors who are willing to just renew it no questions asked. It’s not as if they’re giving you a prescription for morphine or anything.
NOT going underwater would be the safest bet. From my understanding, daily replacement is a big thing in Japan, and it’s safe to swim wearing contacts you’ll just be throwing away in a few hours anyway.
Yes, lots of people who’ve had cataract surgery will wear contacts afterwards. Years ago, before lens implants, hard contacts were routinely prescribed for post-op patients.
There have been several radio commercials about the eye exercise thing here. So I googled it, and found that the company advertising was being sued in several states for, as you said, hooey. Three out of 70 wearing glasses sounds like a low number, but consider that many after the age of 8 could be wearing contact lenses.
Demand correction for your son’s vision. If the family includes several people with refractive errors, then he likely has one too. Exercises really, to my knowledge, can’t change the actual shape of the eye, which is what is responsible for refractive error.
I’m not so sure about the growing, but definitely changing. Hormones are not nice to your eyes at all. In fact, pregnancy will change a lot of women’s eyes.
I have been wearing contact lenses since I was about 13 years old. I’m 21 (almost 22) now, and my eyes hurt a lot.
You should get her a pair of glasses and contacts - if something happens and she can’t use the contacts (you would be amazed how often kids get scratches and tears on their eyes which prevents them from wearing the contacts without causing considerable damage) she’s gonna need the glasses, and she shouldn’t RELY on them, even the gas permeables. I wear my contacts to work and if I’m driving long distances and that’s it. Everywhere else, I wear my glasses (except for formal functions and when I’m doing videography for the newspaper). My eye doctor actually threatened to withold a prescription for contacts if I didn’t start taking better care of my eyes. I explained that because I didn’t have insurance I couldn’t afford glasses, and he gave me my contacts and glasses at cost, with no profit to him (my eye doctor is one of those guys who actually gives a shit).
Another thing you need to worry about is that glasses are large and somewhat indestructable (depending on the pair you get). Contact lenses are small, expensive, and easy to lose and rip. Is your daughter a responsible 5th grader? Is she going to be able to remember to clean her lenses every day and not leave them in when she sleeps (which can also damage your eyes a lot, depending on the brand and the eye)? Is she going to remember to tell you when she needs lense solution?
Other than that, though, I don’t see there being a problem with it. Just remember that she’s sticking a piece of plastic into her eye - and that can damage the eye if it’s not done properly.
~Tasha
As a 10 year old I’ll say she wouldn’t be responsible enough. Sure I’m only 15 but after bugging my mom for years for contacts (got glasses when I was in 2nd-3rd grade) and I finally got a change in January. Well I got them and I have to say it takes some care to make sure it doesn’t go wrong. The contact has to be face the right way. And your daughter also has to think about cleaning her hands and the case and the contact. So being that a 5th grader or something like that have their mind on more funner things. So probably wait a few years maybe middle-end of middle school or high school. And if she’s embarassed it’s not so bad she’ll get over it in a few days.
Oh yeah I forgot to mention. I got 6months of contacts for 90bucks. Being that I have astigmatism I need toric contacts which cost more…
What could possibly be more funner than being able to see?
You also have to keep in mind, as for the cost, that she might need a separate prescription for each eye. That’s what happened to me, so I had to order two separate prescriptions and it wound up costing a little more.
Not a lot, but enough for me to notice.
Also, in regards to “What could possibly be more funner than being able to see,” When I get them in 7th grade, it wasn’t that it was more fun to see or not to see, but that it didn’t occur to me that being able to see might be compromised by not taking care of them. My mom kept a note taped up in the bathroom for me until I got into the habit of cleaning them every night and washing my hands before I put them in, etc.
~Tasha
Actually guys, why do you need to wear lenses if you can be lenses free for life? This is a laziness excuse, perhaps you don’t know that there is [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4g2pFWVw-M]eye exercises to improve vision naturally based on Dr. bates method published over 40 years ago and now have been improved by some doctors. However, this hasn’t been announced in news, televisions, etc due to several reasons. However, there are many testimonials out there that this program really works.
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