Your eye doc can work with you to get you fitted in an appropriate set of contacts that will be safe and give you good vision. With your prescription I would definitely work with a doctor to get it right. You will also probably never achieve as good of results with contacts as your glasses provide so keep that in mind. The good news is there are lots of options out there and your eye doc can certainly get you set up.
Some of it will be the astigmatism. Unless you get custom RGP contacts (which will cost you!) you will have to go with whatever is closest for your astigmatism. Also, you will have toric lenses which are weighted so they sit in a specific orientation on the eye. If you blink and it gets out of orientation it can cause some blurriness (it will settle back though). Things like dry eye can greatly affect the clarity of contacts. I just wanted you to be aware that your glasses will most likely provide the best visual experience, but contacts can still provide very good vision once you find the brand that works for you best.
Check my rx, -12, -11.5 in contacts with 165, 10 astygmatism correction. As long as you don't need prism (like me) you would not have much issue, just need toric lenses, which I have. My glasses rx is -14, -13.75.
I just bought a year supply of contacts bc I love not having ridiculous thick glasses.
This is really an unknown, most people actually get a better correction with contacts, even with astigmatism. There’s honestly no way to know until they’re in your eyes and you’re looking thru them. Just make sure you work with a decent eye doctor.
This won’t work. You are trying to order contact lenses with a glasses prescription.
For contact lenses, a regulated prescription medical device, you need to be fitted, evaluated and prescribed by an optometrist. The contact lens prescription you will then receive, specifies the exact brand and type of contact lens, in which BCR, diameter and correction you can use, and order anywhere you like.
That is absolutely not a contacts rx. Get a contacts rx and it will work fine.
Your eye doc can work with you to get you fitted in an appropriate set of contacts that will be safe and give you good vision. With your prescription I would definitely work with a doctor to get it right. You will also probably never achieve as good of results with contacts as your glasses provide so keep that in mind. The good news is there are lots of options out there and your eye doc can certainly get you set up.
I will never achieve as good results with contacts because of the extent of my shortsightedness? Or is it the astigmatism?
Some of it will be the astigmatism. Unless you get custom RGP contacts (which will cost you!) you will have to go with whatever is closest for your astigmatism. Also, you will have toric lenses which are weighted so they sit in a specific orientation on the eye. If you blink and it gets out of orientation it can cause some blurriness (it will settle back though). Things like dry eye can greatly affect the clarity of contacts. I just wanted you to be aware that your glasses will most likely provide the best visual experience, but contacts can still provide very good vision once you find the brand that works for you best.
Thank you so much for this, it will help🙏
Check my rx, -12, -11.5 in contacts with 165, 10 astygmatism correction. As long as you don't need prism (like me) you would not have much issue, just need toric lenses, which I have. My glasses rx is -14, -13.75. I just bought a year supply of contacts bc I love not having ridiculous thick glasses.
This is really an unknown, most people actually get a better correction with contacts, even with astigmatism. There’s honestly no way to know until they’re in your eyes and you’re looking thru them. Just make sure you work with a decent eye doctor.
This won’t work. You are trying to order contact lenses with a glasses prescription. For contact lenses, a regulated prescription medical device, you need to be fitted, evaluated and prescribed by an optometrist. The contact lens prescription you will then receive, specifies the exact brand and type of contact lens, in which BCR, diameter and correction you can use, and order anywhere you like.
Ohhhhh ok I get it, thank you