09-19-2002, 08:14 PM
I've been wearing contacts for close to 10 years now. At first, they do take a lot of getting used to - especially putting them in. After a few weeks, it become second nature. I get a six month supply, but I stretch them to last me a year (more or less) by taking them out every night. They're designed to be left in all the time, but my eyes get way too dry in the morning, and they're actually painful to wear like that - and for close to $9/bottle for those re-wetting drops, it's just easier and less expensive to take them out and soak them.
I thought about getting LASIK, but it seems like it's still in the infancy-stages - and my eyes are bad enough as it is, I'd hate to screw them up even worse. If you screw up a contact, it's replaceable. I don't mind my lenses anyway - the only thing that sucks is the occasional piece of dust flying into them, or ash from a cigarette, or really smoky environments (like bars, after wearing them all day). That's when I'll use the drops.
And Kid's right - using them while in front of a PC terminal is a pain, but it takes getting used to. I carry my cheap pair of glasses around in my bag, and a few times my lenses got so bad I had to take them out (that's usually my cue to start up with a new pair).
I thought about getting LASIK, but it seems like it's still in the infancy-stages - and my eyes are bad enough as it is, I'd hate to screw them up even worse. If you screw up a contact, it's replaceable. I don't mind my lenses anyway - the only thing that sucks is the occasional piece of dust flying into them, or ash from a cigarette, or really smoky environments (like bars, after wearing them all day). That's when I'll use the drops.
And Kid's right - using them while in front of a PC terminal is a pain, but it takes getting used to. I carry my cheap pair of glasses around in my bag, and a few times my lenses got so bad I had to take them out (that's usually my cue to start up with a new pair).