Contact lenses
Contact lenses have evolved out of all recognition since their early days in the 1960s and 70s. When I first qualified, opticians spent an enormous amount of time sorting out contact lens problems and resultant eye infections.
Around half the new fittings were either hard or gas permeable lenses which meant wearers weren’t happy until they’d spent around six months of adaptation. Early soft lens wearers had to have a whole chemistry-set of solutions to clean and sterilise their lenses every night as well as fortnightly super-cleaning using protein-removing tablets.
Nowadays, barely anyone wears gas permeable lenses and the original hard lenses are a distant (bad) memory. Soft lenses are the norm; with the advent of daily disposables, solutions and infections are largely consigned to history. Not everyone is suitable for daily disposables, but if you are, then I would urge you to wear them in preference to other frequent replacement lenses.
Those people that find that they can’t tolerate lenses more than a few hours are likely to suffer from Dry Eye Syndrome which we treat very successfully to extend comfortable wearing time.
For us to take responsibility for your contact lenses you’ll need to have had an up-to-date exam with Adam followed by a contact lens fitting, which is charged in addition to a standard eye exam.
Fitting fees start from £75 and rise depending on complexity.
On the other hand, we can supply contact lenses if you have a current specification issued by another optician. On this basis, if you were to have any issues with the lenses such as poor comfort or inadequate vision, that would be down to the prescribing optician.