I've been a contact lens wearer for 49 years. I began in 1969 with the hard lenses that hurt and took forever to get used to (was told I had to build up calluses on the inside of my eyelids. Don't know if that was true or not.)
I'm nearsighted with astigmatism and have had mono-vision my entire life (read up close with one eye, look at distant objects with the other). Sometime in my 40s, like most people, I developed presbyopia. Since I have natural mono-vision, it was a non-event to get my RXs changed to accommodate the presbyopia. No adjustment from my perspective.
Over the years, I've tried toric soft lenses, and the soft disposables, etc. None have given me the clarity of vision and comfort that I get with hard lenses.
I've been wearing Boston EO gas-permeables for 20 years or so. They are super easy to care for. I pop them out at night, put them in a little cylindrical solution case overnight with a peroxide solution. In the morning, I put a few drops of lens solution on them and I pop them back into my eyes. Virtually no-touch. Easy-peasy. I can wear the lenses for up to a week (like when I'm camping or traveling) but I usually take them out daily.
A pair of lenses lasts me for years until I need a new RX. When I get a new RX, I buy the new lenses online for about $65 ea. (And I keep the old lens as a back-up, just in case I lose one. Sometimes my RX changes back to an old RX, so I dig back through my inventory and and clean and reuse on old lens. LBYM-style. )
At my last several eye exams, my doctor has commented that she can see the beginning of cataracts forming, but said they are in the very early stages "like someone in their early 50s" (I'm 68). She said I'll likely not need cataract surgery until I'm in my 80s. She hypothesizes that having worn contacts since age 19, with a contact lens resting right against my eye, it may have reduced exposure from UV rays to the lens within my eye (where cataracts develop).
I hope I can keep wearing contacts forever!
omni
I'm nearsighted with astigmatism and have had mono-vision my entire life (read up close with one eye, look at distant objects with the other). Sometime in my 40s, like most people, I developed presbyopia. Since I have natural mono-vision, it was a non-event to get my RXs changed to accommodate the presbyopia. No adjustment from my perspective.
Over the years, I've tried toric soft lenses, and the soft disposables, etc. None have given me the clarity of vision and comfort that I get with hard lenses.
I've been wearing Boston EO gas-permeables for 20 years or so. They are super easy to care for. I pop them out at night, put them in a little cylindrical solution case overnight with a peroxide solution. In the morning, I put a few drops of lens solution on them and I pop them back into my eyes. Virtually no-touch. Easy-peasy. I can wear the lenses for up to a week (like when I'm camping or traveling) but I usually take them out daily.
A pair of lenses lasts me for years until I need a new RX. When I get a new RX, I buy the new lenses online for about $65 ea. (And I keep the old lens as a back-up, just in case I lose one. Sometimes my RX changes back to an old RX, so I dig back through my inventory and and clean and reuse on old lens. LBYM-style. )
At my last several eye exams, my doctor has commented that she can see the beginning of cataracts forming, but said they are in the very early stages "like someone in their early 50s" (I'm 68). She said I'll likely not need cataract surgery until I'm in my 80s. She hypothesizes that having worn contacts since age 19, with a contact lens resting right against my eye, it may have reduced exposure from UV rays to the lens within my eye (where cataracts develop).
I hope I can keep wearing contacts forever!
omni