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Posted on 8/22/14 at 12:51 am to Hopeful Doc
You sound like you're an expert. What do you recommend for competitive tennis play if I'm still having problems tracking the fast moving ball in contacts?
Posted on 8/22/14 at 12:51 am to yankeeundercover
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Ok, seriously... Can we stop talking about them "rolling behind your eyeball"?!
If it makes you feel any better, it's not like it does a full 180 to the back of your eye. It just gets a little bit caught underneath your eyelid and rolls to the top of your eye. If you close your eye and blink, it rolls right back. Just think of physics and the way the contact sits and slides on the eye. There's little-to-nothing gross about it. It just has a very unique, uneasy feeling associated with it for a few seconds at a time.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 12:51 am to Hopeful Doc
quote:I almost feel like an analogy that would pertain would be like when you don't see a friends dog in awhile and they grow a TON and the owner doesn't notice because they're too close to the process.
"used to have 20/15, now I can't see well" means your vision is worsening.
I don't know when exactly my eyes started to go... But within the last year I've started to notice it's been much more prevalent.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 12:53 am to Hopeful Doc
quote:Strangely, it doesn't.
If it makes you feel any better
Posted on 8/22/14 at 12:56 am to LSUGrrrl
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Aren't I rubbing directly on the cornea with my eyes closed now?
Almost definitely:
In the image below, where the brown meets the white is the corneoscleral rim. That's where the cornea starts. Anything brown is deep to the cornea (it's like a windshielf, kind of). And it's got one of the highest number of nerve endings per square inch in the body (so when it hurts, it HURTS). So I'm not watching what you're doing, but so long as you're looking straight forward when you close your eye (the eye doesn't typically move when you close your eyelid unless you make it), you're probably rubbing your contact directly on your cornea. The reason this is bad is that you are doing this when your contact is uncomfortable. The two biggest causes of this are dryness and debris. If it's dryness, you're probably not going to hurt yourself. If it's debris, the cornea is the last place on your body you want to press a small piece of dirt (or what have you) into and wiggle it around.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 12:59 am to Hopeful Doc
Posted on 8/22/14 at 1:00 am to Traveler
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Actually, I have a set for just that at work and a single set, dark, for driving when my eyes are tired from contacts.
I have a distance set I use for watching TV. The online places make it so much more affordable to do this.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 1:00 am to LSUGrrrl
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You sound like you're an expert
More like an enthusiast. I thought I wanted to go into Optometry, then Ophthalmology for a while.
quote:
What do you recommend for competitive tennis play if I'm still having problems tracking the fast moving ball in contacts?
There are a handful of "performance" contacts out there, Nike Maxsight among them (warning: you'll look like an alien cyborg). I'd really probably just recommend a pair of sunglasses designed to differentiate your yellows and greens (assuming those are the colored balls and courts you're playing on). It would be cheaper in the long run. And you won't look like this guy (his left, your right eye has the MaxSight contact lens in):
Posted on 8/22/14 at 1:01 am to yankeeundercover
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yankeeundercover
I can see my image...?
ETA: But for good measure, a link to it
This post was edited on 8/22/14 at 1:02 am
Posted on 8/22/14 at 1:02 am to Hopeful Doc
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yankeeundercover
Good luck! At least give glasses a try.
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Hopeful Doc
Thanks. Honestly, idk if contacts are worth it for me. I'm super busy, nap whenever, wherever I can and they always feel weird. Love my glasses so only care about contacts for tennis but still losing the ball & getting hit in the face. If they aren't going to save me a nose job, I might just forego the hassle. Ill give it another week or so. Thanks for the insight.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 1:06 am to Hopeful Doc
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Nike Maxsight
They stopped making them bc no one other than wrestlers or linemen would wear them
I was actually willing to give them a try with sunglasses over to hide the scary. Not available anywhere. quote:
I'd really probably just recommend a pair of sunglasses designed to differentiate your yellows and greens (
Just picked up my Costa yellow lenses sunglasses today.
Hope to wear these without contacts. Blurry is ok as long as I can see the green object aimed at my nose.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 1:12 am to LSUGrrrl
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only care about contacts for tennis
Speak with your eye doctor about prescription lenses in sunglasses and see what he recommends. He can also write your script down and you can take it in or send a picture of it to most manufacturers online. Basically any famous brand you can think of (Oakley, Ray Ban, Costa Del Mar, Maui Jim...) makes their exact quality lenses in prescription variants (some caveats, they may do .5 diopters instead of .25, they may only offer matches in strength (one strength for both eyes instead of two different ones), or a few other little unusual things, but all in all, they should be much, much better than nothing). Buy a pair that are snug and made to be worn while moving around and sweaty. If you get a lens shading that's supposed to help, it's a small bonus. They're usually roughly on par with the cost of high-end non-prescription sunglasses (you'll be pretty hard pressed to find cheap ones, though, sadly).
Posted on 8/22/14 at 1:16 am to Hopeful Doc
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Might as well check out Coastal while you're at it. Tons of top brands for fairly cheap + frequent coupons and specials.
There are a bunch of them, but here's why I like the two I mentioned.
1. Zenni has had the same semi-rimless frame I like for the last several years, which is pretty unusual, and their progressive design works fine for me even with their "standard" seg height. So, every time I order a new pair, the previous pair becomes a spare frame, though I've never needed to use one as the frames have never broken. Also, they come with magnetic polarized sunshades. So for $60 shipped, I get a set of good-looking progressives with AR coating and clipon sunglasses. I doubt anyone can beat that.
2. Eyebuydirect.com offers CR-39, while most places do not. At least this was true at the time I discovered this site. I use them for computer and distance (TV), and they often have buy one, get one free deals.
When I've had the lenses checked, the Rx has been dead-on accurate for both, and I even have a shitload of astigmatism, e.g. -4.0 in one eye. When I dot the progs from Zenni, they even got the asymmetric PD right. These places are completely legit, very high quality, and the equal of local shops charging 5x as much.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 1:19 am to LSUGrrrl
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They stopped making them bc no one other than wrestlers or linemen would wear them I was actually willing to give them a try with sunglasses over to hide the scary. Not available anywhere.
Maybe these are worth trying? I'd talk to someone more in the know than myself. I'm clearly out of the loop, but at least these seem to be available. I don't think Nike is/was the only manufacturer of "sports tinted" contacts.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 1:22 am to Hopeful Doc
That's an option! Thanks!!!
Posted on 8/22/14 at 1:24 am to Spock's Eyebrow
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These places are completely legit, very high quality, and the equal of local shops charging 5x as much.
Can't argue with success. I'm definitely going to check these two out for my next pair, which is pretty much going to be any day now. I hate choosing new glasses. There are too many damn choices. At least now that I can shop for them online, I don't have to make a decision with dilated eyes in the waiting room.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 1:29 am to lsunurse
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Jet my husband is the same way.
He is blind as a bat without glasses/contacts. He hates me seeing pictures of him as a kid before he got contacts because his eyesight was so bad that he had some serious coke bottle glasses as a kid and was teased a lot at school about it.
I don't know why he hasn't gotten LASIK yet.
Honestly, LASIK is not for the squeamish. That doesn't help.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 1:32 am to lsunurse
quote:quote:The worst is when they roll behind your eyes and you just have to relax until they roll back to where you can take them out. Still a freaky feeling when that happens.
I still pause and wonder if my contacts are in.
That makes for a funny conversation when you're standing there blinking.
"What are you doing?"
"I lost my contact."
"Where?"
"In my eyeball."
This post was edited on 8/22/14 at 1:33 am
Posted on 8/22/14 at 1:34 am to Jet12
First time it happened I was a lil bit drunk so I overreacted a wee bit about it
My husband(was just bf at the time) had to talk me through it.
My husband(was just bf at the time) had to talk me through it.
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