What would you say to someone..
 

That wears one contact lens at a time. For months in one eye, then for months in the other eye.

He gets headaches and cannot figure out why?

He's cheap as all hell too, for those wanting a hint.

one sock on, one sock off too :eek:

barbie socks.

Chugging the Hater-aid much?

I've been doing that for over 10 years now .. I have great short vision and bad long vision ... but the contacts compromise my short vision some ... so I'm getting the best of both worlds by only using one at a time. It's just as comfotable as having both in. I learned this once when I lost one and didn't want to put it back in cause it was dirty. After like 2 minutes .. its the same thing.

Plus I hated putting them in and taking them out ... so by keeping one in 4-to-8 weeks .. I might be putting stress on that one eye .. but it will get a long breather once I switch.

Plus .. I'm saving money on buying those stupid ass things all the time - and every year they want to make you get an eye exam .. I buy enough so that I run out about once every six or seven years at my rate.

So...

Pros: Improving vision, less hastle, saving money, avoiding expensive worthless eye exams, and improved health because one eye is always being kept fresh and naked.

Cons: None

I never have had frequent headaches .. and though my eyes are sensative to light sometimes .. especially when I have a headache .. I remember the same thing happening before I ever had lenses.

Wait. . . what? You only wear a contact in one eye at a time? Do you close the eye you're not using?

Take a day off from pushing 5k thru the windows at toga....then go and get the lasik done.

No.

You guys should try it. If you can get through the first 3 minutes the first time .. you'll see how well your eyes adapt. You won't notice a thing.

It's a lot easier to read this way... for me anyway.

How's this for full circle:

age 8 got glasses
age 14 got contacts
age 38 got Lasik
age 44 got reading glasses
age 45 got contacts again

it's not your eyes adapting. it's your brain.

your eyes are the same regardless of the lens you stick in front of them.

interesting experiment. glad i wasn't driving in front of you when it started.

Maybe all that added excersize I'm giving my brain to make it adapt is why I'm smart. Chalk up another one for the Pro category.

Hopefully my brain doesn't just give out one of these days from too much excersize though .. that would be the Con categories one great hope of staging an impossible come from behind victory.

I know I tell you this on a nearly daily basis, but I think you really might be retarded.

If I put a top 10 retarded things you've done in just the last two months thread here, frankly, people wouldn't believe me!

Oy.

Bend over and use your good eye!!!

You might want to take out your lens a little more than every 3 - 4 months! The protein deposits can cause this:

http://www.revoptom.com/HANDBOOK/SECT16a.HTM

I'm afraid you will need to translate that Sighty. Or maybe Doc can (ICU, not Roller).

Basically, blisters under the eyelid with puss coming out of the eye.

Eye Patch ?

If it doesn't make him less pretty, I'm not sure he'll think that matters.

Apparently not a trip handicapper.

blind eye sees all.......

Cataract surgery up next?

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.