quick Q- contact lenses- astigmatism?

Sminty_Smeagol · 03-13-2004, 05:46 PM

Hey. Can you wear regular prescription, non-toric lenses if you have astigmatism? What would happen?

The reason I am asking is because I was looking to buy a set of colored contact lenses for one eye (I have dark brown eyes and I was thinking of something in violet or blue for one eye) and the only colored toric contact lenses I can afford don't come in my 'cylinder' measurement. Mine is -.50 and the lowest they have is -.75. Plus the regular ones are cheaper and they have nicer, brighter colors...

**Nurvingiel** · 03-13-2004, 06:09 PM

I have astigmatism, and I wear soft, 30 wear lenses. (If you want you can get colour ones I think.) They are made for my perscription though, so they might be shaped for my astigmatism. If you wore "unshaped" ones, I imagine that you could wear them but the perscription would be less effective. You should probably talk to your optometrist.

Yea for us, we have rugby ball shaped corneas!

gimli7410 · 03-13-2004, 07:31 PM

how ironic i just got contacts yesterday and i also have a stigmatism

you can wear them but with my eye lids they are small so they are hard to open but the contact still fits the shape of my eye. im supposed to take them out right now but im tired of poking my eyes

sun-star · 03-14-2004, 04:31 AM

I have quite bad astigmatism and I have tried one-day soft lenses, but they don't really work for me. It depends how serious the astigmatism is - my friend has it too but to a lesser degree, so she can wear soft contact lenses with no problems. Astigmatism is no problem for hard gas permeable lenses AFAIK. All that would happen if you wore ones that weren't right for you would be that you wouldn't be able to see as well from that eye, so it depends how much that bothers you.

BTW, violet and brown eyes - very cool

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gimli7410 the dumb stoner canuck Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: canada Posts: 2,542	how ironic i just got contacts yesterday and i also have a stigmatism you can wear them but with my eye lids they are small so they are hard to open but the contact still fits the shape of my eye. im supposed to take them out right now but im tired of poking my eyes __________________ -"Down with the system"-Serj tankian of system of a down -“Humans have been on the earth for millions of years, yet we don’t believe man began thinking until he started building walls. And what good have these walls ever done us?”-Serj tankian of soad -"stupid people do stupid things"-Serj tankian of soad "Trying is the first step to failure" Homer Simpson "It isn't going to be easy"-jerseydevil "only the good die young" I AM CANADIAN If the people lead, the leaders will follow.

03-14-2004, 04:31 AM	#4
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I have quite bad astigmatism and I have tried one-day soft lenses, but they don't really work for me. It depends how serious the astigmatism is - my friend has it too but to a lesser degree, so she can wear soft contact lenses with no problems. Astigmatism is no problem for hard gas permeable lenses AFAIK. All that would happen if you wore ones that weren't right for you would be that you wouldn't be able to see as well from that eye, so it depends how much that bothers you. BTW, violet and brown eyes - very cool __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

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