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[aprilstarchild]

Oh, duh, forgot to mention. I got my hard lenses today. They're RGPs, rigid gas permeables.

They feel very, very strange. They're smaller than my corneas (soft lenses are bigger--you can see them if you get really close up). They're very definitely hard plastic, as my eyes keep reminding me: "Blink! Blink!! We have something stuck to our eyes!!" And every time I blink, I can feel them, and they move around a little. They kinda bounce up and down when I blink, actually, and the edges of my vision do funky things--if I look into the corners of my eyes, I can see the edges of the lense for half a second, until it floats over there. Things also get slightly blurry for about half a second. Even that half-second of blur is clear enough for me, though; and when they settle in, my vision is even better than with my glasses.

I'm attempting to wear them for a whole hour, I was able to do half an hour earlier. I'm going to add a bit of time every day until I can wear them all day. *crosses fingers* I've been warned about how irritating they are at first, and they were right. ARGH. Plus, they make my eyes feel oddly dry.

They're going to give me a little plunger thing in case the contacts float to a spot they don't belong, and I'm apparently going to get callouses on the insides of my eyelids. Freaky.

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In a random side note, at Costco they have these little bottle-shaped chocolates with various kinds of liqour in them. The chocolate is vegan. *snarf* Yummy.

Comments

[aeonflux1973.livejournal.com]

Oh the joys of having a hard lens sucktion cupped to the wrong part of your eye and you can't get it unstuck. Oh boy. I do not miss those days.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

My current choices are, "deal with hard lenses" or "wear glasses." *shrug*

My current glasses are a good prescription, but I think it might be fun to get really geeky looking glasses as my second pair, since I won't have to wear them all the time.

[glitterninja.livejournal.com]

technically rigid gas permeables aren't hard lenses. I tried both. I wonder if they even make those type of hard lenses anymore. Hey, I guess if they don't, then gas perms actually are today's hard lens. Hmm. Anyway, I got used to mine but it does take time. After a little while the callous will make it so you won't be able to feel it much more than a regular soft lens. At least that was me. The one thing that you have to watch for with those as opposed to soft is that they canpop out unexpectedly. Like when you open your eyes really wide. So there you are, shopping for produce and minding your own business, when you look up and see that Elijah Wood is looking over some zuccini about 3 feet away from you and you are so surprised that you make that wide-eyed surprised face and your lenses *pop* right out. Isn't that fun?

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

They don't make the older ones anymore.

The RGP's have less of a chance of randomly popping out, or so they tell me. I've had one come out twice, but only because I was trying to rub my eye when it actually itched. I was able to find it both times--once it fell on the floor, the next time it was sticking to my hand.

[ourglasslake.livejournal.com]

I really want to see this little plunger thingy!

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

Next time I see you, I'll show it to you.

Yeah, last night one wandered, I think my eye was itching or something. I really should use the plunger thing--I just pushed it back into my cornea, and ooooh that hurt. Not good.

[koschei23.livejournal.com]

Good luck with them. You always look great in glasses too you know. No luck with corrective eye surgery?

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

Waaaay too much money. *lol* It would probably be over a thousand bucks per eye.

[koschei23.livejournal.com]

Maybe someday then? :)

[(Anonymous)]

I'll get them done when I can afford braces, too.

I've been told I should get braces. It would be close to $5,000, and I'd have metal mouth for two years. They'd look better after that, but the idea of having braces as an adult isn't too exciting.

[koschei23.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that I got braces when I was in junior high. But you know, braces nowadays can be clear and you really don't notice them.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

The top front six ones would be clear. The rest would be regular metal. Yowza.