Emancipated!

[oldrider]

When you get really pissed and end up with them both in one eye, you will know what trouble is.
I guarantee you will know, sometime or other!
Weird is not the name for that. Cheers John.

[Karma]

I don't know how you do it Weasel - I can go maybe 40 hours straight, then I get the worse case of arc-eyes...

The secret is hydration, keep them nice and wet. I usually carry around one of those green tubs of contact cleaner, can use it as drops to wet the contact every so often... usually first thing in the morning to clean out all the crap, and last thing at night... obviously more during the summer.

When you get really pissed and end up with them both in one eye, you will know what trouble is.
I guarantee you will know, sometime or other!
Weird is not the name for that. Cheers John.

I can't say I've done that... I've had them in backwards before, that's a pain... but for sheer enjoyment factor, if you rub your eyes too hard and it goes up onto the top of your eye... that is the most irritating pain I've ever had.

[Krayy]

Free! Free at last!

I got contacts today.

Wish I'd done it years ago.

I could close my visor and shut it. No fogging. The pinlock visor really doing its job for the first time ever. In the wet and wearing the Arai, my glasses would fog up at every intersection.

Free!

Next stop Lasik.......Rob had it done (and he was blind as a bat), and now he's got pretty much perfect vision.

[ManDownUnder]

Next step - laser eye surgery... it's that same emancipation all over again. No faffing around looking for lenses, cleaners, washing thejm, replacing them etc.

Bloody brilliant. I got it done in 2000... loving it to this day!
MDU

[Blackbird]

Congrats Jim - hope they work out for you. My foray into contacts was a disaster. My optometrist got me to try some sort of dual focus jobbies (a technical term, haha). They had a sort of soft focus like those corny American movie love scenes and drove me nuts. Went to conventional ones and had all sorts of disasters like getting them stuck under my eyelid so flagged them. I have plastic lenses in my frameless glasses now and they're pretty fog-resistant. I should have probably bitten the bullet like MDU and had laser surgery.

[lb99]

I got contacts years ago, after getting my spec's smashed 3 times in 3 weeks, anyway I work in a coldstore and frozen specs are just a hassle, you go into the freezer and the get cold, you go outside and they fog up, you go back inside and they freeze over lol. I wish I could afford lasic, the government should sponser it, after all I can smoke and when I get cancer the government picks up the tab, I can eat all the pies I want and when I get fat and sick, the government picks up the tab, I can fry myself with drugs and alcahol and create a huge mess, the government picks up the tab for that, hell I can even get a sex change whilst in prison and the government picks up the tab, so why not give people an intrest free loan for things like lasik that can drastically improve the your quality of life, and work ability, not to mention being able to see properly when driving.
The funniest thing that happened to me was I was doing 200+ on the way into Roxborough and the turbulence inside my helmet sucked one of my contacts out and stuck it to the inside of my visor lol.

[James Deuce]

I've worn contacts before, primarily for racing to be honest. I didn;t used to commute as much in my last biking incarnation and these last couple of years have driven me nuts, trying to get helmet mods to help with ventilation and fogging.

I'd try Lasic surgery, but I'm one of "those" people. I'd either end up with worse vision or no vision, so contacts it is.

I agree with lb99. The license vision screening programme would be an ideal way to identify the people that really should have lasic surgery, because if the anecdotal evidence from my optometrist is anything to go by, the Baby Boomers are really struggling with wearing vision correction. Worst thing that can happen to them is needing glasses. Maybe, just maybe, it might help LTNZ get down to 300 deaths per year on the road by removing a chunk of the fatalities put down to inattention.

[Swoop]

Next step - laser eye surgery... it's that same emancipation all over again. No faffing around looking for lenses, cleaners, washing thejm, replacing them etc.

Bloody brilliant.... loving it to this day!
MDU

+1!

10 char.

[Fatjim]

Good job Jim.

I once forgot to take them out and woke up the next morning thinking I'd been healed. Man I was pissed when I found I still had my contacts in. AAARRRGGHHHH

[Hitcher]

I got contacts today.

From my brother? (just checking to make sure I don't miss out on any commission owing)

[Lou Girardin]

I had the dilema a couple of years ago where my sight was 6/60.....
which means ..... what normal eyes could see at 60 mts i would have to be at 6 mts.......so i had monofocal lens's inserted into each eye, they used ultrasound thingy to break up the old lens and put in the new lens through a 3mm cut in the eyeball....now i can see 1 line better than 20/20 on the eye chart...money well spent...

Cataracts?

[Sniper]

Nice one Jim.

[Hitcher]

Cataracts?

No, they're Rincoln Continentals! Boom tish (Sopranos joke)

[Lou Girardin]

No, they're Rincoln Continentals! Boom tish (Sopranos joke)

Heard the line of the series yet?

[gijoe1313]

I can well appreciate all the sentiment about contacts here. I've been a short sighted git since I was a nipper and the hassles with glasses while trying to be active is irritating!

I've worn contacts for years now and I can appreciate how much more freedom I enjoy with them (those bloody spur of the moment rough housing with the lads would've smashed my glasses ages ago! ).

The only problem I've encountered was when I inadvertantly slept with them on after 36 hours straight with them in and rubbing my eyes when I woke up - you guessed it, I scratched an eyeball and it hurt like buggery (not that I've been buggered knock on wood!). Had to go to A&E and endure a pirate patch and an orange eyeball for a while! (from the antibiotic drops)

Reading the different problems people have had here (lens sucked out onto the inner vison ) I'll remember to stash a few more disposables and solution into my tank bag!