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littleme

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New prescription for contact lenses, spent most of the day feeling sick and not being able to read things right in front of me... Getting old sucks.
 
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Gramaisc

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Can't see feck all close up either!
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Cue

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Used the motorway for the first time, only 24 hours after driving on my own for the first time. So far so good!

I took a motorway lesson after I passed, scarred the shit out of my instructor as I wasn’t used to going at speed (basically only ever did town driving at that point, and that Fiesta struggled getting to 50 let alone 70...) and almost went into the back of someone coming off at J13.

Put me off motorway driving for quite a while, not entirely sure that car would have liked it anyway as it really didn’t have amazing acceleration (wasn’t even that old, 2011). I do motorways now, but I also drive something with quite a bit more BHP...
 

Carole

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New prescription for contact lenses, spent most of the day feeling sick and not being able to read things right in front of me..
Can't see feck all close up either!

I’m sure that you probably know this but new contact lenses shouldn’t hurt.
Seriously, go back and get the prescription looked at.

Took me a while to get used to contacts but wouldn’t be without them now, but I have had a similar experience to you previously.
 

littleme

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I’m sure that you probably know this but new contact lenses shouldn’t hurt.
Seriously, go back and get the prescription looked at.

Took me a while to get used to contacts but wouldn’t be without them now, but I have had a similar experience to you previously.
Don't hurt, just weird, they've changed considerably over the last two years, varifocals glasses have been threatened, but I'm not ready for that yet...

*motion sickness
 

Carole

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Don't hurt, just weird, they've changed considerably over the last two years, varifocals glasses have been threatened, but I'm not ready for that yet...

*motion sickness

Ah ok.
I didn’t want to go down the varifocal route either.
Wasn’t ready etc.
Eventually went for it two years later and wished I’d done it earlier.

Both my glasses and contacts are varifocals, hard to get used to initially but in the long term it really does make life easier.
 

Lucy

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I can still read without correction fortunately, but rather than varifocal contacts my sister has a reading one in one eye and distance in the other. She said she didn't get on with the varifocal ones but her brain worked this out really quickly.
 

staffordjas

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You are all so brave wearing contact lenses! I hate anyone or anything coming near to my eyes. I feel sick and faint even having a normal eyetest in the opticians !

I've got so used to driving with my varifocals (glasses) now that I don't notice I've got them on most of the time.

As much as I dislike having to keep getting my reading glasses out everywhere , and driving with my varifocals, I just couldn't cope with putting contact lenses in. (Still using my old reading glasses, as new ones from Vision Express last year are far too strong. And the new varifocals crap at the reading bit. I either caught the optician on an off day, or she just prescribed anything just to get me out of there after fetching me water when the room started spinning !)

Had enough fun and games trying to use the nasal spray the doctor prescribed me yesterday ! :barf: Complete waste of time as I just can't do it, and feel sick just thinking about it. Had to fight hubby off yesterday as he grabbed the bottle and was going to squirt it up my nose for me :lol: Supposed to be using it for 6 weeks to help clear fluid in middle ear. Will just have to squirt it in the air and try to sniff it in.....
 
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Perrier

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My wife is due another checkup but our optician allows us a double booking to allow me to be with her due to her condition so i have mine checked at the same time.
She has varifocals and wouldnt use anything else now she has gotten used to them.
quite expensive though , last ones cost £350 and that was a while ago .
 

BobClay

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I had contact lenses many years ago. They were of the hard type, and I never really got used to the discomfort, although my vision (been wearing glasses since I was 8) did seem better. Then one day in Australia (a truly awful place called Port Hedland) I dove into an outdoor swimming pool without thinking, and when I came up, they were gone !!!! :eek:

Never bothered again after that.
 
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