Do I wear my contact lenses to my annual eye exam!?!
Question: I have a upcoming eye exam to get my eye's retested and I was wondering if I wear my lenses when I go...will I have to take them out over there?
(I have soft toric lenses by the way)
Also when I finish wearing my lenses at night I see way blurrier than in the morning before I put them on..will this interfere with the exam?
Answers: I have a upcoming eye exam to get my eye's retested and I was wondering if I wear my lenses when I go...will I have to take them out over there?
(I have soft toric lenses by the way)
Also when I finish wearing my lenses at night I see way blurrier than in the morning before I put them on..will this interfere with the exam?
Yes, you should wear the lenses when you go. They will allow you to take them out when you arrive. Be sure to mention that you are wearing them before they take you into the exam room. Even before you see the doctor, when you're with the technician, they use a machine called an auto-refractor to take an estimate of your prescription, so if you are wearing your contacts, the results will be false. The technician SHOULD ask you if you are wearing lenses before hand, but that depends on how thorough the technician is.
As far as you seeing better in the morning right before you put your contacts in, this is because your eyes begin adjusting to not having the lenses in as soon as you take them out. The muscles in your eyes are straining to see correctly. By the morning, they have adjusted as much as they can without correction. This is one reason why I think it helps to wear your lenses right up until your exam. I would think it would make the results more accurate to test your eyes before they've had a chance to adjust too much. This is just my theory though.
I would wear whatever you're most comfortable in. If you are ok with glasses, do that. If you always wear your contacts and need to see to drive to the appointment, then wear the contacts. If you do wear your contacts, I'd bring a case with solution already in it just in case you do need to take them out!
yea u wear them there and then they will prob have u take them out while ur there too and i dont think it will effect it too much its prolly normal that u see blurrier at first bc ur eyes arent working as hard to see when u have ur contacts in and eye doctors know all that plus more so i wouldnt worry to much about it
Yes, take your contacts, or wear them, so that the doctor can examine them for the correction you are using. Also, if you use glasses, take them along with you. And yes, if you wear the contacts, you will have to take them out, as he needs to give you a prescription from how your eyes are without interventions. Then he will prescribe a new prescription for you to have filled for contacts or glasses.
Explain the blurriness to your doctor and let him explain why that is happening. (It is simply an adjustment thing, but let him give you all of the details.)