soft contact lenses and a fiber obsession

I may not be of any help because I do not spin or knit, but I do crochet. I have worn soft contacts since 1979. My vision is a -6. I can, at the very least, vouch for their comfort and ease. I have been wearing Acuvue for at least 10 or more years. I have never had any trouble with them as far as yarn fibers or dust. I find them so comfortable that I do not even realize that they are there. They are easy to remove and squirt clean with solution when I do get something in there. So far, I have never had any abrasions or trouble.

I hope you can wear them as well. They are convienient now with the one solution that you can store, disinfect, and rinse them with.

Diane

Also a wearer for many years of hard lenses. Gave them up reluctantly for ......

GAS PERMEABLES! Wonderful. Wonderful, Wonderful. I wouldn't put a soft lens in my eye for anything. Gas permeables breath, no more corneal abrasion. Better correction (for me anyway.) Cleaner.

JaneB

I had gas permeables for awhile, and now I'm on disposable (monthly) soft lenses, and I have NO problem whatsoever with fibers when knitting. I don't do any spinning, but even winding fuzzy things like mohairs at the shop, I don't have any problems with them. I haven't had any trapped fibers or abrasions or anything like that.

Something else re knitting and lenses: My vision was excellent (and comfortable) with my old soft lenses, but the only trouble was that I had to wear reading glasses to knit with, in order to see close up. Either that, or take my contacts out and switch to my glasses while knitting. Last time I ordered contacts, the eye doctor get me set up with "monovision" -- which is where my right eye wears a prescription set to distance and my left eye wears a prescripton set to close-up. Which sounds odd, and like something that might make one dizzy, but it hasn't at all. The left eye is fuzzy at a distance (almost like not wearing a lens), and the right eye is like before where I can't see close-up with it -- but together, they magically come together and I can see both ways. No more reading glasses to knit with -- YAY!!

Karen in MN

I am extremely nearsighted (-15.50 in the right and -16.25) and have been wearing soft lenses for many years. I've never had any problems with trapped fibers or any abrasions. It never even occurred to me that working with yarn could be a problem.

My main concern with fibers is on the spinning side. It seems like I

*always* get an angora hair in one or both eyes when I spin that stuff, even when I wear the full-coverage chemistry lab goggles. I guess the only way to find out is to do it, eh?

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Well, I'm thinking the right lens leaves a lot to be desired - it felt like a hair the entire time I had it in and my DH said it was obviously uncentered. The left one is the toric that compensates for the astigmatism. I started with the the power the eyedoc recommended and all I can say is "overcorrection!" Tomorrow I'll try the weaker left lens but that right lens has got to go. I have an appointment for a lens check next week, hopefully he's got something that'll center better on my right eyeball.

Somebody mentioned the monovision thing - I'm not yet to the point that I need reading glasses. I could probably stand to use bifocals, however, because when I need to do more reading than is involved in scanning a recipe or pattern I have to take off my spectacles because my arms aren't long enough. Without the spex I have to put my nose right down on the page to see *lol*

RGPs may be right up my alley - the allergies are mostly under control thanks to injections, eyedrops, and cheap OTC store-brand Claritin. I don't recall much of a break-in period when I wore the hard lenses so I don't imagine I'd have much trouble with the RGPs. And in the long run they'd certainly be cheaper than the soft lenses. Hmmm.

Wooly, teaching the boy to knit on DPNs and how to turn a sock heel

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I have one pair of glasses for watching TV, one pair for working at the computer, my original pair (somewhere in my extremely large purse) that I only put on walking around IF I have a bit of eye-strain, and a pair of magnifying glasses (blue frame Benjamin Franklin looking glasses) that I bought at the dollar store for reading microscopic print.... but I don't need glasses for driving. *shrug* Actually, my TV glasses used to be my computer glasses, and my computer glasses used to be my reading glasses... so I just moved them to the right places as my eyes got a little weaker.

Gemini

And I can't spell either! LOL Would you believe that I am a *wussy*!!

Gem

I were disposable lenses and have no problems with spinning, knitting or any other crafts. I where a water based lense and have for a few years without any problems with fibers getting on them.

i actually get more fuzz on my glasses when I wear them then on my contact lenses.

Darlene in Toronto