Paging the spectacle wearers

Open face helmet and a neck warmer.
Nothing says Bad Motherfucka quite like a Peter Schmeichel nose.

Steve

 

Hard lenses yes because the gap between the irregularlarly shaped cornea and
the lens is filled in with tear fluid.
Soft ones conform to the shape of the eye.

 

Wear contact lenses

HTH.

Phil.

 

Not an option for me - since my father had both corneas transplanted
because of keratoconus (and his father largely lost the sight in one
eye because of it) no-one will do it for me[1]..

Phil.

[1] Quite rightly - I don't have it and neither do any of my brothers
but messing about with the cornea might be enough to trigger it *if*
it's still there in the genes.

 

ewwwww. "There's something about Simon"

 

For indices of 1 or below, don't bother, your brain will adjust; this is[/QUOTE]

And even for indices of 2 or below this holds (or so my specialist was
telling me at my last sugar-mong eye check). Yes - you get some
degradation of vision but still better than glasses.

I'm still on hard gas-perms because soft lenses generally don't give as
good vision for my levels of prescription (9.5 in one eye, 11.5 in the
other) and I've been wearing them for so long that they have become
second nature. And with modern fluids you don't have to do all that
boring 'clean for 30 seconds each lens' stuff every night. I just take
them out, put them in the lens pot and leave them to soak. And every
month or so give them a soak in the protein remover.

I've tried soft lenses a couple of times in the last couple of years
and they have been only slightly more comfortable than my hard
gas-perms and the loss of vision quality has been high enough to make
them not worthwhile. And my HGP lenses last me (on average) 5 years so
end up being much much cheaper than daily disposables.

Phil.

 

Plus, as you're not handling them for cleaning, or storing them, the
chances of an infection are massively reduced.[/QUOTE]

With hard gas perms the chances are vastly reduced too - soft lenses
give an almost perfect medium for bugs to grow in (which is why the
daily disposibles are such a good idea!) whereas the hard ones just
don't offer the same environment. And I used to clean mine in tap water
all the time..

Phil.

 

Shit really? **** What happened, and what are the results?

And what compensation have you been offered?[/QUOTE]

Tweren't me. That was a 'one' not an 'I'.

I'm not sure of the ins and outs, but he's not been good.

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Plus, as you're not handling them for cleaning, or storing them, the
chances of an infection are massively reduced.

That was what killed off monthlies for me; sooner or later I'd pick up
an eye infection, no matter how carefully I cleaned my hands and the
storage cases.[/QUOTE]

Lord knows how. (NHS perhaps). I've been wearing contacts for years and
never had an eye infection. I have fortnightlies now, and astigmatism
in one eye. They are very comfortable and convenient.

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That happens more often than you'd think (and more often than the
companies doing the work would like you to think).[/QUOTE]

Really? Explain then the comments of a merkin nursey type burd who I
was talking to who said, "Look at it this way superstud, in my town we
have three laser surgery clinics and more than dozen hungry lawyers and
non of the lawyers have earned a cent from malpractice suits against the
clinics." Or is your comment just confined to something you thought you
overheard in the pub about the English Experience?

 

I risk my vision on a daily basis.

 

I resort to wearing my contact lenses, I don't like the feel of
glasses under a helmet and when I had to wear them last week (on the
way home from the optician after having dye put in my eyes) I found
leaving the visor open a tiny crack reduced the glasses misting but
then the sodding visor misted up.

I don't like wearing lenses day in day out so I'd like to solve the
problem prior to the elephant so I'll watch the replies with interset.

 

Same way as you do with your visor if you haven't got double glazing,
chemicals[1] and the right ventilation.


[1] I am using Imperial Leather these days.

 

Well I'm going to try washing up liquid for the ride home today. It
always used to work well on visors.

 

Even, though I think they are available for astigmatism now, I don't
think I CBA with them, even if I could learn how to poke myself in the
eye on a daily basis. Not only that, I'm at that crappy stage where I
have to have one pair of specs for reading, and another for distance. So
far resisting the varifocal/bifocal option.[/QUOTE]

I've found in heavy or prolonged rain that daily contacts are far less
bother than anything else. Two minutes in the morning to get them in
and the day's sorted.

A couple of years ago I also spent a considerable sum (for a tightwad)
on quality varifocal glasses. Worth every penny and then some.

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, Simon Wilson typed:

Practice.

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, platypus typed:

Bet you have hairy palms too.

 

Being a diabetic also makes the medics rather reluctant to do anything
to the eyes.

 

Just a tiny bit of washing up liquid on them, polished off, worked fine
for the (even colder) ride home tonight.

Thanks for all the responses, especially on the contact lenses. I really
might give them a go this time.

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, Simon Wilson typed:

Leave off the washing-up liquid, though. Smarts.