Wake n Bake, Nothing Better!

Singlemalt

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I tried them a number of times and the process to get it in there without blinking or rolling it over was such a pain. Or I'd fall asleep with them in and that's painful. Forget about shop work if it's dusty. Just a all around pita.
And volatiles too. A lab mate in Grad school had contacts and had to stop wearing them in the lab due to the various solvents we used; the contacts absorbed/concentrated them out of the air and irritated his eyes
 

Metasynth

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I have some kind of weird shaped eye structure. They told me I was an odd fit for contacts? I didn't inquire further since poking myself in the eye with the potential for it to not work felt stupid.
i can't wear them because i have high astigmatism, with the curvature being off on my lens....at least that's what the optometrist told me...
I have a severe astigmatism, been wearing contacts for 25 years


The Mrs has astigmatism, the eye Dr said her eyeballs are football shaped, she wore contacts for years and had readers to go with them.
This^^

oh, I just assumed contacts were cheaper than glasses.
I mean, they can be in some cases. But if you buy disposables, they don’t last 10 years like a good pair of glasses.
 

Metasynth

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And volatiles too. A lab mate in Grad school had contacts and had to stop wearing them in the lab due to the various solvents we used; the contacts absorbed/concentrated them out of the air and irritated his eyes
In the kitchen, contacts made my eyes impervious to the onion off-gassing when chopping onions or shallots. It was like a kitchen superpower…lol

:shock: I'd get lasik surgery.
Not everyone is a good candidate. You have to have a stable prescription that doesn’t change as you age. Or else, you could get lasik, your eyes continue to change, and you need glasses again in a few years anyway
 
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