Hubby wears the Night & Day Contacts and loves'em. Here's a link to a free trial pair. You obviously have to go to the eye doc to get your prescrip. http://www.gerber.com/special P.S. I got an error the first 2 times I tried to get them but the 3rd time was the charm!
That is kinda scary - has she ever been fitted for them. The prescription has to be specific for contacts. If the fit is off just a bit, they will drive her crazy. Just a fair warning from an old contact wearer.
The certificate says you have to get them from an eye doctor, so I'm sure he'll tell us if contacts aren't right for her. I just thought it might be something nice for her to try, she really isn't old enough for them yet anyway, but free is free, and it's only one pair, lol.
Oh ok cool, my ignorance, i didn't pull up the certificate cause i knew my prescription is out of date. One of my many past jobs was working for an eye doctor and i did the measuring, etc to fit contacts. i have seen my son go through torture trying to get one of our local places to get the correct measurements. That is why when i change eye doctors i take my old prescription cause i know the measurements are exact and i will not let anyone try to change them
The contact lens fitting fee that the eye doctors charge is a rip-off! I went to my same doctor as last year, same prescription as last year, not interested in trying the "new" B & L PureVision at his suggestion. He still charged me $45 "fitting fee". I asked him, " for what?". His reply was, "Well, I walked in the storage room and got you a pair and put them in for you and looked at them". His definition of "looked at them", was ok.. blink blink and took 2 steps back and asked how many fingers he was holding up! I was so irate when I got to the desk and saw that $45 Fitting Fee! Now, I can understand if you are changing to a different lens, etc... but to see the same doctor and keep the same prescription and the same lens... thats ludicrous and nuttin' but a way to charge me extra money! :x
That is why i tell them i only order my contacts online and my fitting from my previous prescription is what i need put on the new prescription. That way they know i don't need any tryins, etc. It's fun being witchy sometimes
Hubby loves them too!! It took him a while to get use to contacts and when he started wearing them he fell in love. He does do a bad no-no though, he sometimes wears them longer than 30 days. But I think the eye doc said he can do that, but just not too long. Because they can fuse to his eyes! :shock: :lol:
Yep mine does that also...MEN (LOL)! He will usually forget and then they are way past due to come out...so he'll take them out for a day to let his eyes rest, before he puts in a new pair
I asked that dern optomologist that question.. what if we just went with the same prescription and I don't want to change anything... he said he still has to charge me the fee to "write" the new contact lens prescription...ggrrrrrr.... I know I see those people spend more time fitting people with a new pair of glasses then they spend on my and my no change contacts, and they don't get charged a fee!
I used to have 2-wk disposables, and I used to wear them until they bothered me, sometimes that was 6 or 8 weeks... I did find out that they did start to cause a problem in my eyes with not enough oxygen getting to my eyes and hence my eyes started to grow more of their own little blood vessels which can cause issues down the road if not looked after.
what kind of fitting fee are ya'll talking about? my perscription changes every time i go and i've never been charged a sitting fee. both of my daughters got contacts last year and no fitting fee was charged. maybe my insurance takes care of it and i just don't know it??
I hate to play the devil's advocate here, but I have to chime in on this one. I worked for an optometrist for a few years back in the 90's and I'm sure things have changed since then, but since the contact sits on your eye, not above it, there is quite a bit more that can go wrong. Your Dr. would not be a responsible Dr. if he didn't have you come in yearly to have your eyes checked, especially if you are wearing disposables. You would not believe some of the eye ulcers I have seen from folks not changing their contacts often enough trying to save a buck, not to mention the vessel problem that someone else mentioned because the eye is starved for oxygen. I for one would not sleep in a contact lens if you paid me, disposable or not. With that being said, to each his own and if it works for you, then great, but there is so much that can potentially go wrong, he really does need to check you each time whether your prescription changes or not. Carry on.......... :wink:
I understand the checking and needing a "renewed" presccip. every year with contacts (thankfully my BCBS/NC covers an annual exam as opposed to my previous health insurance which only covered an eye exam every 2 yrs), but I don't get the bogus "fitting fee" IF I'm staying in the same lens and nothing changed per my eye exam which he would have just completed. When they told me of the damage I was doing to my eyes with the extended wear lenses, thats when it was my choice to go to a daily lens so that I would have to take them out every night and my eyes would get better oxygen. :?
I don't know for sure Tassy, I'm sure each doctor's office is different and my experience is a little out of date, I have a similar gripe about an office visit at my family doctor's office a few weeks ago. I told them specifically what I needed to be seen for, got there, had my blood pressure and temp taken and was then told I had to see another Doc in another office without this one even touching me, much less examining me, and got charged for a full office visit. :shock:
