Is it good for my eyes to wear contact lens?!

Is it good for my eyes to wear contact lens?

Well...I think I am ugly to wear spectacle so I think I should wear contact lens with different color.But I want to know the disadvantages of wearing that.By the way,is contact lens are expansive?

1 month ago
Oh...my left eye has 50 degree and my right eye has 100 degree.

Contacts are totally safe for your eyes. Its when people over wear the lenses that causes the problems. If you take care of the lenses and don't abuse them, there is no reason why you shouldn't be successful with them.

They shouldn't be slept in. Yes, they make lenses that are approved for that, but that increases your risk of infection. If you do get lenses that are approved for overnight wear, its important that you still take them out a few times a week and let your eye breathe. I've found that when people wear their lenses overnight, its too easy for them to remember to take them out at all and that's when they end up with infections and blood vessels growing across their corneas. If you take the lenses out at night, you will cut your risk of infection and complications.

Also, contacts should NEVER EVER be worn in the shower or while swimming. There are nasty amoebas and germs in the water that can cause very nasty infections that can lead to blindness in the most severe cases. Plus, contact lenses can wash out and I can pretty much guarantee that if that happens, you'll never find them!

So contacts do have their limitations, but the benefits far out-weigh those limitations. Even if you do get contacts, you will still need a back-up pair of glasses just in case you cannot wear your lenses either because of an infection or because you've lost them. So please don't be one of those patients that wears contacts and NO glasses to wear. These are the people who call our office in a panic because they have lost of ripped their lenses and they can't see...and then it becomes OUR problem because they don't have a pair of glasses - even though we TOLD them they should get them. So do yourself and your eye doctor's office a favor and get an inexpensive, but stylish pair of glasses - JUST IN CASE!!!

If you want colored contacts, they are more expensive than just clear lenses. For disposable contacts, they run about $50/box of 6 and if your RX is not the same for each eye you'd need a box for the right, and a box for the left. Each pair of lenses is good for 2 weeks, so it would cost you $100 every 12 weeks. People generally need 8 boxes in a year's time...that's $400/yr just to have colored lenses and personally, I think they look extremely fake. I don't think having colored contacts makes anyone appear more attractive...it makes them appear fake, and vain. But that's just one Optician's opinion...