Contact lenses - whether and when?

[Anonymous]

I would do a trial with your DD. I do think if she understands the responsibility, she is old enough. I started wearing contacts in grade 8 and have never had an eye infection. I am not super careful either. I know dozens of people who wear contacts and none have ever had eye damage from them.

I wear 14 day contacts - they are easy to put in and take out unless I am dehydrated then they are stuck like glue and I either have to squirt solution into my eye or go drink a few cups of water.

[Anonymous]

OP, daily throwaways vs. soft daily wear non-disposable vs. thirty day lenses all feel roughly the same (I'm the former gas perm wearer from the 80s who posted previously).

I wear mine (as dailys. I never sleep in them.) every day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks, everyone, for your info. Her dad and I decided to hold off for a while. DD has a few other things going on right now that are requiring lots of responsibility; no sense adding something optional to that load.

I, too, heard the NPR report and decided that when we do let her have them, we'll go for daily throwaways. New corneas are more expensive than daily contacts, I'm pretty sure.

For those of you who are more contact-experienced than I: are the daily throwaways harder to put in than the 30-days? I've worn contacts occasionally, starting with rigid gas-permeable, which were super easy to get in and out. Lately I have an rx for daily throwaways, which are more like saran wrap - I almost have to smooth them onto my eye with two fingers. Are the 30-days like that, too? Wondering how hard it will be for DD to get the saran wrap in place.

Thanks!

I've had both the monthlies and the dailies and really can't tell much of a difference in terms of ease. I love the fact that I don't have to worry about disinfecting the dailies or ditching one if it rips (it's only happened once, but that was enough). BTW, I'm a mom.