I've been wearing them for about 12 years and just had the mandatory exam last Dec when I had to buy more ... my vision actually improved slightly from my last eye exam in like '02 or '03.

There is no chance I could ever get that because one eye is always naked for an extended peroid ... and with the other one .. six to eight weeks go by before I remove it.. and 95% of the time I remove from boredom and not because of the old "when in doubt take it out" rule of thumb once they get slightly uncomfortable.

I've tried putting both in at the same time before because I thought it might help me when I played baseball ... but it was very uncomfotable having both in... and it is so much harder to read.

More importantly, why hasn't this thread been moved to Eso?

For that 6 or 8 weeks, do you at least take it out to clean it at night?

No.

That would drive me nuts...I can't even nap in mine.

F/n Funny Best laugh I have in awhile.:)

Genius dig. A Grade I-winning smartass remark.

Vol Jack, I just wanted you to know it was appreciated. You must be checking this thread hourly to see what the responses were to it.

I stood up and cheered.

I guess the obvious question is, what does your optometrist say about this practice? I've lost or ripped a contact and had to wear one for a few days until I got a replacement, but I never even considered going with one. I thought it would be damaging. But if your eye doctor says it's OK, hell, I think Drugs makes some great points. Think of the money I could be saving!

Be careful that you don't end up cross-eyed. I know that kids who have much better vision in one eye sometimes end up cross-eyed because they depend so much on the "good" eye that the "bad" eye becomes lazy. Often an opthamologist will patch the good eye to correct matters.

My opthamologist has a bias against contacts. I've been wearing extended wear contacts for 20+ years and the only problem I've had with them was a bout with GPC. I wear them for a week straight, including sleeping in them, remove them, and insert new ones. He is horrified by this, and also can't understand how I can wear the ones I do since he claims I have an astigmatism. Glasses are out of the question since my vision is so bad (-9 power for my contacts). There is not much he can do, so he always gives me his anti-contacts lecture when I see him. It is probably from some CYA text he picked up at a medical conference on how to avoid getting sued.

I have the exact same vision in both eyes. I don't have a good eye or a bad eye. I've been doing it for 12 years .. no one ever notices anything because I see the exact same out of both. I don't have to close eyes or anything odd.

But wouldn't the eye with the corrective lens become the good eye? I mean, if there isn't much difference between the vision in the eye with the corrective lens and the one without, why even wear the lens in the first place.

good god..leave the man alone. If the sock fits, wear it...no matter what foot it's on

If you knew what he did recently for some overall body soreness, you wouldn't leave him alone.

Bathtub full of vanilla pudding?

I've done that. Don't knock it 'til you've tried it. Better than Advil.

Somehow I doubt I'd be surprised..sickened..maybe, surprised, no

So anyway - back to the original problem, did you cure your headaches?

Last I heard, his right arm is bigger than his left. Or something like that.