Help!!! I'm getting a tril version of contacts on January 5th, and i'm a little nervous because a few of the people I know have them and they say it's really bad and it hurt's. I'm not sure if they're just joking around or what?!
What do they do so you can contacts (i.e. test and stuff)?
If anyone can help it'd be a real help, so I won't chicken out and live with glasses AND braces (ya it suck's!)

Well if anyone can help me it would be a BIG help!!

Jan 5? LOL Hey don't feel bad I have my post op appointment with my eye doc that day :D... Are you going into soft lenses or hard?

I've been in both...now in soft and I like them much better.

They'll basically walk you through the care of your lenses....put them in for you once and then show you how to take them out....and then let you do it on your own a few times and coach ya through it.

It shouldn't hurt at all...your eye(s) will feel irritated but it shouldn't be unbareable.....just stick to the breaking in schedual they give you and you should be fine :D

Good luck.

Jan 5? LOL Hey don't feel bad I have my post op appointment with my eye doc that day :D... Are you going into soft lenses or hard?

I've been in both...now in soft and I like them much better.

They'll basically walk you through the care of your lenses....put them in for you once and then show you how to take them out....and then let you do it on your own a few times and coach ya through it.

It shouldn't hurt at all...your eye(s) will feel irritated but it shouldn't be unbareable.....just stick to the breaking in schedual they give you and you should be fine :D

Good luck.

I'm not sure, but I know I have stigmatism so that mean I have bigger lenses......Will I beable to survive the pain for the rest of the day at school? Or is unbearable enough that I could just miss the whole day? LOL

Let me know, if possible!

I'm guessing you mean astigmatism....

No it shouldn't be a huge problem...I have pretty bad astigmatism in my left eye. And they were able to find contacts that work just fine :) Might be a bit more expensive....but should be doable and not cause any pain or discomfort if you have lenses that fit right.

I'm guessing you mean astigmatism....

No it shouldn't be a huge problem...I have pretty bad astigmatism in my left eye. And they were able to find contacts that work just fine :) Might be a bit more expensive....but should be doable and not cause any pain or discomfort if you have lenses that fit right.

My dad said that one of his co-workers has astigmatism and the bottoms of the contacts are weighted so that they don't move around.

What are the weighted parts for?

They said they cost 190$ (CA $) plus 75$ for the fitting minus 25$ because i have the astigmatism...do you think i'm paying to much?

I am gettigna trial first before i go for the gusto.

It's like your dad said, the weighted part is so the lenses will stay "right side up" in your eye. Astigmatism means that your cornea is not spherical, which results in the image your brain gets being tilted. "Regular" spherical contacts just refocus the image so it won't be blurry sort of like a magnifying glass. No matter which way you hold a magnifying glass, it still magnifies the image, so it doesn't matter if regular contacts rotate on the eye. However, contacts for astigmatism both refocus the image so it won't be blurry and help to correct the "tilt". In order to do that, they need to remain "right side up", so they are thicker (heavier) on the bottom edge to keep them from rotating.

None of the tests that they did for my contact fitting hurt, and Dakota is right, they may feel weird/uncomfortable at first, but in no time at all you won't even notice them!

Good luck!

It's like your dad said, the weighted part is so the lenses will stay "right side up" in your eye. Astigmatism means that your cornea is not spherical, which results in the image your brain gets being tilted. "Regular" spherical contacts just refocus the image so it won't be blurry sort of like a magnifying glass. No matter which way you hold a magnifying glass, it still magnifies the image, so it doesn't matter if regular contacts rotate on the eye. However, contacts for astigmatism both refocus the image so it won't be blurry and help to correct the "tilt". In order to do that, they need to remain "right side up", so they are thicker (heavier) on the bottom edge to keep them from rotating.

None of the tests that they did for my contact fitting hurt, and Dakota is right, they may feel weird/uncomfortable at first, but in no time at all you won't even notice them!

Good luck!

Oh, so it's lieka mini magnifying glass, kool!