Help with contact lens.?!

Help with contact lens.?

My prescription is 1.75 with cyl. -0.5 and AX of 80 and in the other eye 1.25 with cyl. -0.5 and AX of 70. I think i have astigmatism. I am 16. I wanted to know if it ok to for me to wear contact lens, Do they specially make lens according to a persons eye and are coloured lens safe.

The cyl. portion of your Rx is the astigmatism correction and judging by what you've written, your astigmatism is not enough to really warrant using toric contacts (lenses for the astigmatism) I believe they only start making them with a -0.75 and go up from there. So I doubt that your doctor would fit you with torics. He would give you a spherical equivalent. Torics can be tricky to fit and they are far more expensive, so unless your astigmatism were to get worse, chances are that regular spherical lenses would suit you just fine. In a few years, you made need the toric contacts.

All contact lens manufacturers make lenses according to base curve and diameter. The doctor will take measurements of your eyes during the exam and fit you with a lens based on your measurements, also called "K readings". Contacts are available with flatter or steeper base curves and this has to do with how curved your own cornea happens to be. A lens that's too big will move around too much and cause irritation and corneal ulcers and such. Lenses that are too tight also cause complications, so that is why its important that you wear ONLY the lenses that the doctor prescribes for you, instead of trying to substitute them online because they are cheaper. Poorly fitted contacts will open up a world of problems with your eyes.

Colored lenses are safe, although I personally don't think they look natural at all. The enhancer contacts that are meant for those with light eyes don't look bad. They just enhance what the patient already has. But the contacts they make for those with dark eyes actually work by completely covering up what you have already with green or blue or gray or violet. There is a cut-out for the pupil, so your pupil will look the same size all the time because of that cut-out...so the color (to me) looks fake and the fact that you cannot see the pupil dilate and constrict, make you look like a dead perch. I tried them years ago when i first got into Optics, and they were non-prescription lenses and I couldn't ever see out of them. I would catch the colored part of the lens all the time and it made all the lights have horrible rainbow rings around them. They were dry and uncomfortable and I couldn't see. Everyone's experience is unique, I'm just telling you about my personal experience. Colored lenses are also quite salty, compared to clear lenses.