Sitting indoors at a pub on a beautiful day, because the father in law is a control freak who can't possibly change the fact that he booked an inside table [emoji19] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Just had my first IAM observed ride as the initial step in my training to become qualified to be an event escort rider. After 46 years I was repaired to accept that I had picked up a bad habit or two but all-in-all my observer was quite complimentary. Carole has been telling me for years that I forget the 2 second rule and I am now told to use my brakes to slow down and not the engine braking of a 1200 L twin (yeh right, like that's going to happen any time soon). Although I had an enjoyable morning, it was tinged with a little disappointment as Carole was not fit enough to come with me as her bad back got a lot worse overnight and she is confined to the sofa :Arghh:. Andy
I'm doing a contact lense trial, no problems putting them in or taking out and I can't feel them but the grey matter is struggling to focus. My left eye is reading and right distance. I have a very strong master right eye which keeps taking over. Won't drive or ride in them for that reason. So far not convinced but occasionally every clicks and it's great for a few seconds. Anyone been through this, how long before it settles? I'm on day four.
I've been wearing them years now. You do get used to them but it takes a week or so. Do you have daily disposables or longer? Daily ones are very soft and you don't feel them so much. Air con destroys them (not the forum member) so if they are that uncomfortable it may be the environment. My missus turns the air con on in the car and 5 minutes later my contacts feel awful. I only use them on the bike or with sunglasses. Getting them in/out is usually the thing that most people abandon the trial on so you're over that. Just wear them for a few hours a day and slowly increase the duration. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Hi there, I am using daily disposables, I am not finding them uncomfortable, it is the focussing that is all over the place, I'm back to the optician on Tuesday so I guess the prescription might be tweaked unless my brain makes sense of it all by then. Thanks for the hint on air on though, I haven't worn them in the office yet because I might have to jump in the car at any moment and frankly it would be dangerous to drive wearing them.
Well if it's focussing, you must either have the prescription wrong or have the contact/eye's switched. Don't think I ever had trouble with the focussing. When you are happy, don't sign up to their plan. Needlessly expensive. I buy online for £7.50 a pack with free delivery. Same lens as the optician was trying to sell me for much, much more. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
ide had been wearing them for around 10years, 9years problem free then for some reason they just became a nightmare to wear, my eyes were getting a strange allergic reaction which after 6 months of running back and forth to the optician I was advised to stop wearing them, back to glasses for a very short time before having RLE (refractive lense exchange) best £5k ive spent in my whole life, done 4years ago now, lenses wernt the best been an hgv mechanic in a dirty atmosphere
I'm too young for the surgery. It wears off and I'm not doing it twice in one life. That's a whole bike in money! [emoji857] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
yup, think I was 42ish when they done the surgery and wouldn't do the rle before that age because of that, your eyes go through a big change around 40(cant mind exactly) and until the change they wont do it, i was told that the surgery will last my life time and all aftercare is completely free, if I was to require a lazer top up its also completely free, since I was a kid ive had nothing but hassle with my eyes as I just hated wearing glasses and most of the time didn't, getting the surgery gave me a new lease of life no joke
That's basically what they told me. Not 40 yet, will wait and see but contacts/glasses don't bother me at all. If anything the glasses stop people realising the truth Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I tried contacts for about 3 months. One eye is -0.5 and the other +2.0 (I may have the signs the wrong way round :Oldman. Reading was great but distance vision had a surreal, 3d viewer thing going on that did my head in. RLE feels a bit scary. My reaction to it is kind of like it is to the idea of a penis extension operation. Things would have to be severely lacking before I'd go there. :Nailbiting:
It was frightening tbh because theres no going back once they've removed the original lense , one eye at a time one week apart, I could not believe what you go through the first 4 hours after the opp, I thought here goes I'm in the sh1t now lol, its pretty unreal tbh, It took about 6 months in total before my body adapted to the new lenses and my sight was spot on, saying all this I was at my wits end with the hassle I was having so to me was worth it
The challenge you re probably having from what your describing , is each eye doing a different thing , not just straight corrective lenses for each eye. Presume your optician explained that to you? I've not had the same yet but it's probably a matter of time , and age , when i hit forty in another 19 years...
It's the no going back part that worries me. The first 4 hours sounds like a scary time :Wideyed: and 6 months feels pretty long. How bad was your vision in the weeks after the op? Were you able to drive? How was reading?
I think the prescription is wrong, my left eye has astigmatism and those lenses are clearly marked so they are in the correct eye. I had heard it was cheaper to go on line so will look into that as it will cost about £35 a month through the opticians
i use feel good contacts online. it costs me roughly £30 a month for daily disposables for dry eyes, my optician was charging me just over £50 a month
I was losing the sight in my left eye due to an aggressive cataract and as my general vision was how shall I say, shit, I had the right done as well. I had focus the moment the surgeon oriented the lense and was seeing well enough to drive the next day. Only hassle was the discipline of hygiene to minimise the risk of infection and keep any inflammation down for 4 weeks after surgery. Long distance, arms length out, is very nearly 20/20 but I need reading glasses because the acrylic lens is inflexible. Andy
first 4 hours after taken patch of is terrible, it was feb and dark which made things worse as every light just glared in the worst way you could imagine, it made my head spin/ dissy also there were 2 different types of drops that had to be put in, thinking back I think one was a steroid and the other an anti biotic, cant remember which but my fck one of them stung like crazy, the first eye I had done was the worse of the 2, surgery and a bit of pain doesn't usually bother me, eyes is a funny thing, I was driving just a week after both eyes were done and vision was just ok, certainly ok to drive(they give the ok after eye tests are carried out for driving) my sight is very good now for distance and reading very good, my eye sight was terrible before for both distance and close up, I used to worry about going out on bike after many close calls, all were aproching corners after a straight bit of road, bends were always on me before I new it, funny thing is my eyes tested fine for driving,
