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Hi All

A while back I read on the forum about someone being able to help with contact lenses - Hubby has astigmatism and has just had his eyes tested and would like to know if he could have contact lenses (Not hard ones) His perscription is below:-

Right Sphere Cyl. Axis Prism Base Dist.
+ 3.00 - 700 16

Left + 3.50 -800 172

Any help gratefully appreciated
Rainbow

An optician would probably answer that best, them numbers mean nothing to me

I have astigmatism in one one and so wear a toric(sort of shaped)soft lens in one eye and a normal lens in the other. I pay £14-50 a month and that includes all my cleaning solutions. I used to wear specs but work outdoors a lot so moved to contacts about 10 years ago. They are the bees knees(unless you can afford to get your eyes lasered!!!)

I use boots opticians.

TheBear is an expert in this field, I seem to remember, maybe he/she might see this post and try and help you. X

My prescription is twice as bad as that, and I also wear toric lenses from Specsavers - £15 per month and they come in the post.

I've got a slight astigmatism but I can still wear normal soft lenses. I'm going for a check up next week so I can switch back to monthly disposables, so I don't know if I'll need toric lenses then. I would definitely recommend Specsavers as if you are on their direct debit scheme you everything is included, plus you get a discount off glasses.

Skippy, this is an advert, don't know if we should allow it or not?

Gone!

I thought you meant my post about Specsavers at first Jan - I hadn't noticed the other one!

Sorry Skip - didn't mean you!

It was relevant to the thread, but still an advert so that's why I wasn't sure.

Thanks guys for all the replies - We will investigate further he did try them a few years ago but they were hard lenses because his astigmatism is so bad in both eyes. So he was hoping that they had made advances in them!

i also have really bad astigmatism optician says my eye shaped like a rugby ball
i was like oh thanks very much lol
but i use dailies although very very rarely

A friend of mine has a really bad astigmatism and she needs toric lenses like Melanie - defintely worth talking to the optician.

look_divine wrote:

i also have really bad astigmatism optician says my eye shaped like a rugby ball
i was like oh thanks very much lol
but i use dailies although very very rarely

They must learn the rugby ball thing at optician school,coz thats the same way my eye doctor described my eye too!!!

lol they must do plasticdaft
but the thing is i thought it really did look like a rugby ball and i was checking to make sure they were really round lmao