I need Replacement Contact Lenses - Where should I buy Contact Lenses online? Also, do I need a prescription?
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The best place for Contact Lenses is: http://www.actionlens.com\nThese guys have great prices and when I ordered the shipping was Free and the contacts arrived pretty fast.\n \nYou Need a prescription, but that's the same for all contact lens stores.\n \nHope that Helps.
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yes, depends on the manufacturer. You can get weekly,by-weekly, monthly and yearly contact lenses. Refer to your optician.
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I wear Contacts. It will be better so you will be able to see all your blind spots clearly without your glasses getting in the way.
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use contact lens,I don't think there's any other way.
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The website which i found the best was www.globaleyeglasses.com. They are value for money
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Yes phone book and do some doctor searching, internet can work also. Call your doctor and ask for refferals I am sure he can find someone for you,how come you can't change them yourself or have someone in your family or a friend help??? It'd save you some money too!!
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Yes, there are contact lenses that go this high, but you have to find a doctor willing to do a bit of research for you.  Your prescription would be easier to fit with something called a gas permeable lens- a rigid lens that would have your prescription ground into it. \n\n\nIf you have your heart set on soft contacts it will cost a pretty penny, and there is no one I know of that makes a lens higher then a -9.00 in a disposable lens.   At the very least you should be able to get your correction with some degree of astigmatism correction in a soft lens. Typically toric lenses over -6.00 power only come in astigmatism corrections of 0.50 increments.  Which means a doc should be able to get something very close to your prescription.  \n\nThe only choices I could find for your sort of prescription are the following:\n\nDurasoft 3 Optifit Torics- these have a very large range of powers including spherical corrections to -20 and astigmatism correction to 9.75 (in 0.50 increments)\n\nTorisoft lenses by Ciba\n\nHydrasoft L2 or L3 lenses by Coopervision.  \n\nSo next time you are told these lenses don't exist the individual stating this is either uninformed or does not want to fit you for their own personal reasons.
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You don't need to buy your glasses from where you were tested. Just get the prescriptions and go elsewhere. You can buy glasses for under twenty dollars online. That is where I buy mine and they are just as good as the ones the opticians sell for over a hundred.
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on the average about 90-99 dollars for the exam, prescription and trial pair...\n\nyour first estimate sounds right.. your normal eye doctor may be doing something extra or may be prescribing much more expensive lenses to charge more...\n\ngood luck
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I play team basketball too and wear glasses. I tried a trial sport glasses pair from Wal-Mart and their extremely uncomftratable, not to mention unstyish so itried lenses. They have a time to get used too and getting them on but they're much better than sport glasses. Only problem is care for it, in a game once i was fouled hard, ran into the wall and my lenses cracked and it was extrmely painful and couldn't get back into the game. So in most cases contacts are much better but you just have to be extrmely careful with them and make sure they don't crack in your eye when you take them out (i have expirience, can be a pain, and ur eye turns red and ur can't open it until you rub the eye to take it out).
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My 15 year old daughter uses 02 optix, they are better for your eyes than ordinary contacts because they are breathable. She sometimes forgets to take them out at night because they are so comfortable she forgets she's wearing them. These may just be what you're looking for.I don't know where you live but if you're in England, specsavers will give you a free trial. If you're happy with them, you get three new pairs every three months at a cost of £13 per month. http://makeashorterlink.com/?X1661201D
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yes go to an optometrist
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Sometimes insurances are crappy like that.  you should make sure that its for the entire pair of glasses.  some ins. cover a portion of the frame and something for the Lenses.  wal-mart or america's best... or a private optometrist may have some cheap glasses too.  just look around.
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Dear Tim,\nOnce you cross 40 years it is not recommended to wear an extended wear contact lenses because your metabolism doesnt permit that. That is one reason why not many companies manufacure bifocal contact lenses with extended wear modality. If you really want a bifocal EW, u can get it done by your own Optometrist but in a Rigid Gas permeable material which will be specifically designed to suit your own need.\n\nJ&J's Acuvue bifocal when earlier lauched was launched as a Flexible wear lens (lenses with which you can take a nap)\nO2 Optix is a silicon hydrogel a newer material which is specifically made for EW modality\n\nJ&J's Acuvue Advanced and Oasis are again next generation EW silicon hydrogel materials.\n\nCIBA vision will soon be launching their new EW multifocal. But God knows how much time it takes.\n\nContact lens availability also depends on the country you live in. If you are in India, you definitely have a very few options left with you even with a multifocal/bifocal lens.\n\nZubin J\nOptometrist
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Haha...yeah! I go to the doctors, and they say I have 20-20 vision...but I know for a fact, that when I look at things far away...they are somewhat blurry. My right eye is worse than my left. So I finally went to the doctor. And without straining I tried to guess the letters. I got one wrong and the guy was like..ooo! You need glasses! So I got a prescription with only the right eye...like, there are lenses, but only the right one helps me see better...if that makes sense. So yeah...I have glasses, but I don't use them.
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Yes, absolutely - ask your optician/eye doctor - in the UK I think they were appx GBP 1.00 per pair for disposable Acuvue lenses.\n\nMy optician gave me some sample ones (which had test written on them so you couldn't wear them out !!??) I have green eyes but tried out the blue ones which were just really unnatural & ended up buying some brown ones which I like but they are slightly strange to wear as if the coloured bit edges over your pupil it's like looking through a veil !!!\n\nThey are cool though & a great easy way for a non-drastic way to look a little different !!
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If you dont like touching your own eyes, I would recomend Focus Day and Night contacts.  You put them in on, say, the 1st of the month, wear them for the entire month without ever taking them out (even when you are sleeping) and then throw them out on the 1st of the next month and put in a new pair.  I HATE having things touch my eye and I LOVE my contacts.  I forget that I am wearing them half the time.  They are a bit more expensive, but I think the hassle it saves you is worth it.