I’m About To Get Rigid Gas Permeable Contact Lenses, And I’m Wondering If It’s Okay To Play Tennis With Them?

I just had my eye exam almost exactly a week ago, and my optometrist recommended me rgp contact lenses for crisper vision, as I have bad astigmatism. I know the diameter of rgp contact is smaller than a soft contact, thus, will it be easier to… fall out of my eye in a sense?
I’m going to be playing tennis with them, and I can’t afford to lose a contact lens by it coming out of my eye.
Also, how long does it take generally to custom make rgp contact lenses? I have yet to get a call from my optometrist.

Can Someone With Astigmatism Wear Clearly Colors (comfort Fit) Conact Lenses?

I have astigmatism, and a really, really high prescription. I can’t see well far away, and my prescription is a little above negative five on each eye.
I have wanted color contacts for a while now, but usually they are really expensive. I found clearly colors (comfort fit) contact lenses online for a pretty low price, but I cant find any for astigmatism. Do I have to get a special kind for astigmatism, or are these okay? If there is a special kind I have to get for astigmatism, I want them to be Clearly Colors colored contacts, and in some variation of the color gold, honey, or amber.
I have brown eyes, if that helps.
Thank you soo much:)

How Much Are Contact Lenses Without Insurance…?

I’m 18 years old, I’ll be 19 at the end of this month. When I turn 19 my insurance is switching. I’ll be going from NC Health Choice to Adult Medicaid (I believe its Medicaid and not Medicare). I know that Medicaid (or Medicare) doesn’t cover contact lenses. I just recently switched from glasses to contacts over Thanksgiving. I’m still wearing the trial lenses (this is my 2nd pair) because the first pair didn’t adjust well to my eyes. I have another check-up on December 18th, and hopefully the doctor will write me out a prescription then, so I can at least get a few months worth of contacts.
Anyways, my questions is, roughly how much will contacts cost me without an insurance? I’ve already had the exam and everything. I just need to know the cost of the contacts themselves. I do have astigmatism in one eye, but the doctor currently has me using a contact that’s not for astigmatism correction because of how my eyes reacted to the first pair of lenses I had.

Why Aren’t My Ckntact Lenses Labeled Right Or Left?

So i switched from astigmatism contact lenses to acvue oasys but when i got this new box they weren’t labeled and i only nticed now. They’re the boxed disposable kind that u change every 2-3 weeks. I just want to knw if it doesn’t matter anymore with non-astigmatism contact lenses or otherwise how do i find out which is which. I member the doctor said my eye was getting better and that the astigmatism was pretty much neglible.

Are Contact Lenses Supposed To Make Everything Look Closer/bigger?

I used to wear contacts, for about a year and I eventually stoped because they gave me terrible migraines and headaches. Then I started wearing my glasses for about another year and I got absolutely no headaches or anything! But glasses are really annoying so I recently started wearing contacts again, and I’m starting to think that I got those terrible headaches and such because they make everything look closer and bigger. My eye doctor also said that is probably why. He gave me contact lenses to correct my astigmatism, but everything still looks the same. Is there any type of contacts or way that I can make everything look the way it does when I’m wearing my glasses? In other words, are contacts supposed to make everything look bigger/closer? Or are there contacts that make everything look normal, like when I’m wearing my glasses?

Should I Discard My Contact Lenses?

i bought monthly contact lenses, i have really high astigmatism so i had to have them custom madeee, they cost me like $300 for 6 months & even though i do use them often, I haven’t been using them exactly everyday for one reason or another. Well its been well over a month & i want to know if these contact lenses need to be discarded 30 days after you started wearing them no matter how many days you do not use them 0R discard them after 30 usess..

Toric Lenses And Blurriness….?

So I got contacts yesterday. I did fine with putting them in a taking them out. All that stuff. I can see really good through my lenses, BUT they keep moving and going out of focus so everything gets blurry. So I hafta blink a lot to make it go right and then I can see fine again. This keeps happening and it’s getting so annoying in school, while reading, while driving, etc. I went to the eye doc and one of the workers said it was normal with toric lenses and that I COULD get weighted ones, but they would be uncomfortable. I have a follow up with the doc on tuesday. But I’m just really annoyed. I have astigmatism. No nearsided or farsided-ness. I hate glasses cause they’re such a bother. But I think having your vision go blurry every few seconds is much more annoying. What can I do???

Contact Lenses Problem?

Would it even be possible for a person to find the following: non-prescription colored contact lenses for someone with an astigmatism?
Yes? No? Maybe?
If yes, would anyone be kind to help?

Does Anyone Know Of Any Toric Contact Lenses With A Cyl Of 0.50?

I went for a contact fitting (first time). My script is only -.75, cyl -0.50 but it is intermittently blurry. I have tried three brands now. He says this is because of my astigmatism and I am out of luck because it isn’t a bad enough astigmatism to correct. Any help?

Rgp Lenses Or Soft Lenses?

I’ve been wearing soflens toric 66 lenses by bausch&lomb since 2006. I stopped wearing them after half a year and now i am wearing them again (after a whole year of not wearing them at all and only wearing glasses. I find that they are very uncomfortable and am looking to get a new brand. I also read up on rgp lenses and am considering them. my prescription for contacts is:
Right: sph: -5.00, AX:180, CYL: -0.75, BC:8.5
Left: sph: -4.75, ax: 170, cyl: -0.75, bc: 8.5
I have read that if my astigmatism is less than 1.00 I can probably just wear regular spheric lenses. Can an optometrist on this site verify that for me? Would it benefit me more to wear regular spheric soft lenses, toric lenses, rgp lenses, or toric rgp lenses?
How much is an rgp fitting? Does my regular optometrist do this fitting for me?
Thanks in advance

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