Does anyone ride with contact lenses?

motov8tedcre8tor wrote:

I've been cursed with bad eyesight and have to wear hard/gas perms if I want to see anything. It's a major pain in the ass, especially...

I've been cursed with bad eyesight and have to wear hard/gas perms if I want to see anything. It's a major pain in the ass, especially on windy days when the dust kicks up. One tiny speck of dust under the lens and it feels like you have a large rock scraping against your cornea. A pair of goggles with a good airtight seal is the most important thing along with some re-wetting drops and a backup pair of contacts.

mehow2g wrote:

I have a condition where I have to wear RGP contacts. It sounds like you are wearing small RGPS invest in some 12mm RGPs they suck...

I have a condition where I have to wear RGP contacts.

It sounds like you are wearing small RGPS invest in some 12mm RGPs they suck on to the whites of your eyes and do not move, I even get away surfing with them on.

bdlcks wrote:

hmm 12mm lenses and you requested them from your doc? I've been wearing RGP lenses for 20 years (Keratoconus) and have never had success with them...

hmm 12mm lenses and you requested them from your doc? I've been wearing RGP lenses for 20 years (Keratoconus) and have never had success with them staying in especially in water. I don't even bother to try to ride its unbearable with even the slightest of dust.

mehow2g wrote:

I have a condition where I have to wear RGP contacts. It sounds like you are wearing small RGPS invest in some 12mm RGPs they suck...

I have a condition where I have to wear RGP contacts.

It sounds like you are wearing small RGPS invest in some 12mm RGPs they suck on to the whites of your eyes and do not move, I even get away surfing with them on.

bdlcks wrote:

hmm 12mm lenses and you requested them from your doc? I've been wearing RGP lenses for 20 years (Keratoconus) and have never had success with them...

hmm 12mm lenses and you requested them from your doc? I've been wearing RGP lenses for 20 years (Keratoconus) and have never had success with them staying in especially in water. I don't even bother to try to ride its unbearable with even the slightest of dust.

mehow2g wrote:

I also have Keratoconus, my condition isn't the most serveure however I can't really see much without them, I got cross linking done in both eyes...

I also have Keratoconus, my condition isn't the most serveure however I can't really see much without them, I got cross linking done in both eyes which is to freeze the cornea from progressing for the worse.

Anyway I've had 12-14mm contacts for 3 years it is by far the best solution in terms of comfort and consistent vision and you cannot even feel them.

Before I found out I had keratoconus I was using the small RGP lense so I know what you mean by them being annoying they are pretty unreliable for them to sit in your eye while you have an odd shaped cornea.

I think small RGP lenses offer the best vision as they slightly press on your cornea to create a more natural shape but it's inconsistent if you blink sometimes it blurs also I find these perform better at night than the larger ones, with the larger ones you get saline fill up the lense with it and place it on the white of your eye, the saline is needed to help form a lense for your eye, if you have a tiny bubble in the saline before you put it in it will show up and annoy you.

Another down fall for the larger lenses "ghosting" of vision doesn't get removed like it would with small contacts but in my case it doesn't bother me, also if you rub or knock the contact while it's in place chances are your vision will be screwed until you reinsert with New saline.

I suggest you find a good eye specialist from what my Dr tells me not many professionals know how to create a lense that fits and gives great vision, and logically speaking every case is different e.g. the ghosting in my right eye is far more noticeable than my left with the lenses on, but without lenses on my right eye is dominate.

bdlcks wrote:

hmm 12mm lenses and you requested them from your doc? I've been wearing RGP lenses for 20 years (Keratoconus) and have never had success with them...

hmm 12mm lenses and you requested them from your doc? I've been wearing RGP lenses for 20 years (Keratoconus) and have never had success with them staying in especially in water. I don't even bother to try to ride its unbearable with even the slightest of dust.

mehow2g wrote:

I also have Keratoconus, my condition isn't the most serveure however I can't really see much without them, I got cross linking done in both eyes...

I also have Keratoconus, my condition isn't the most serveure however I can't really see much without them, I got cross linking done in both eyes which is to freeze the cornea from progressing for the worse.

Anyway I've had 12-14mm contacts for 3 years it is by far the best solution in terms of comfort and consistent vision and you cannot even feel them.

Before I found out I had keratoconus I was using the small RGP lense so I know what you mean by them being annoying they are pretty unreliable for them to sit in your eye while you have an odd shaped cornea.

I think small RGP lenses offer the best vision as they slightly press on your cornea to create a more natural shape but it's inconsistent if you blink sometimes it blurs also I find these perform better at night than the larger ones, with the larger ones you get saline fill up the lense with it and place it on the white of your eye, the saline is needed to help form a lense for your eye, if you have a tiny bubble in the saline before you put it in it will show up and annoy you.

Another down fall for the larger lenses "ghosting" of vision doesn't get removed like it would with small contacts but in my case it doesn't bother me, also if you rub or knock the contact while it's in place chances are your vision will be screwed until you reinsert with New saline.

I suggest you find a good eye specialist from what my Dr tells me not many professionals know how to create a lense that fits and gives great vision, and logically speaking every case is different e.g. the ghosting in my right eye is far more noticeable than my left with the lenses on, but without lenses on my right eye is dominate.

bdlcks wrote:

Wow thanks for the info you have alot that I am interested in. I've been seeing the same doctor for 20 years and I am now...

Wow thanks for the info you have alot that I am interested in. I've been seeing the same doctor for 20 years and I am now starting to think I should look for someone new, I was going to ask you who your doc is but I just checked your profile and your in Austarlia and I am in the States.
thanks for the reply

Harry Backmon wrote:

I never could. I tried it several times and each time one or both would eventually blow out of my eyes. Yes, I wore goggles, but...

I never could. I tried it several times and each time one or both would eventually blow out of my eyes. Yes, I wore goggles, but there was just enough air coming in to blow them out. Eventually I had LASIK and no longer have to deal with it.

Bob, how do you manage to keep yours in? Special goggles?