That’s what I’ve been using for about 3 years now: I work as a technical editor (which means a lot of computer screen time), plus I just finished grad school (which meant a lot of reading), and I regularly read for pleasure. No problems. I had an opthalmologist spend ~2 years trying to fit me for soft lenses, to no avail, but then I switched to my current optometrist who tried the Acuvue Advance for Astigmatism and they worked right away. I think they were relatively new at the time. I do miss the sharpness of vision that I had with my old gas permeable lenses, as NinetyWt mentioned, but I can’t wear them anymore and soft contacts still beat glasses (and I’m not ready for Lasik yet).
You rub your eyes when your contacts are in?!? :eek: I wore gas perms for nearly 20 years, and if I’d rubbed my eyes they would have been sliced to ribbons. I still have a strong “do not rub!” mechanism.
I wear Acuvue Torics, which are unfortunately discontinued. I have 5 months worth left, and then I’ll have to switch to something else. I love them – I can wear them for extended periods with no problems whatsoever. It’s easy to forget that they’re even in my eyes until I go to take them out.
I am not a conscientious lens-wearer, and these have never given me issue.
I’ve been wearing contacts for 32 years :smack: starting with hard lenses and moving on to gas permeables. About two years ago my contact lens practitioner suggested soft lenses (Proclear Torics from CooperVision) . I don’t think the vision is so good but they are lot less prone to getting dust in them.
As I understand it the gas permeables automatically correct for astigmatism as they trap a layer of liquid under the rigid lens, rounding out the eye. The toric lenses are specially shaped and have to lie at the correct angle - the slightly less sharp vision comes when they are not quite lined up. I think they are shaped so that as you blink the lids push them round to the right angle.
Just to complicate things - being so old! - I now have presbyopia to go with my short sight and astigmatism so I have “mono-vision” lenses - different prescriptions for each eye, one for distance and one for vision. Seems to work for me and saves me lugging around reading glasses.
Generally I find soft lenses more hassle than the gas permeables - stupid floppy things that don’t go in first time, each time - but I wouldn’t swap back.
Wait till you hit around 45 years of age, and need progressive lenses for near, middle and far distance. That takes some getting used to.
I had gas permeable contacts for 10 years, and then went back to glasses for less hassles and WAY better vision. I think it depends upon your prescription-mine is apparently very complex, and the wrong type to be corrected by LASIK.
I found one eye jumped to the severe minus (short-sighted) range and the other is approaching the severe plus (long-sighted) range. It feels really weird when a lens is under-plussed/over-minused, when you are used to the other way around if vision is worsening.
I always thought my eyesight was only moderately bad, but now I’m pretty useless without glasses at ANY distance. THANK GOD for progressives.
I tried contacts for astigmatism when there was only one kind available, circa 2000. They were so dry I couldn’t bear them, and gave up for a decade.
When I came back to it, Acuvue Advance worked fine for me. At some point my optometrist switched me to Acuvue Oasys, which are noticeably more comfortable. There is no issue with dry eyes with Oasys, not even when the wind blows in my face. Yes, I can read for hours.
I wore those too for years with reasonable comfort but blurry vision d/t horrid astigmatism. Finally it was determined that I had mild cataracts and now Im in process of having implanted toric lenses. So far, one eye is perfect vision AT LAST!! No contacts, no glasses!
Oh heck - I never found torics that were comfortable either, we must have tried 8 or 9 different brands of soft torics. The only things I found workable were gas permeable rigids. The damned torics wouldn’t settle so the heavy part of the lens was down, they always spun around and would bury themselves in the corners of my eyes - drove my optician nuts when we tried fittings. I just plain gave up on the idea of contact lenses entirely and I am so not suitable for lasic. sigh
Apparently when this zombie was young, there was no Acuvue Oasys for Astigmatism. Well there is now, and that’s what I wear. They work great and are extremely comfortable.
