Comments on: Survival Eyecare

By: Trudi - Optican

Trudi - Optican — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:20:33 +0000

I wear contacts everyday and know the importance of looking after my eyes. You only have one set of eyes!

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:38:15 +0000

Great post! You went over a lot of different aspects. I wear daily contacts, probably not the best option for survival. I didn't know contacts lasted so long in storage though!

By: TheSurvivalMom

TheSurvivalMom — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:07:54 +0000

I've thought a lot about this because I have horrible eyesight. It's something like 20/800. Lasik is near the top of my To Do list because I know that in a survival situation I could be in real trouble if I lost a contact or couldn't get them in my eyes quickly enough.

By: Ben Tanner

Ben Tanner — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:57:14 +0000

Very nice information. Thanks for this.

By: Sup3D

Sup3D — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:39:25 +0000

That is usually true. They recently came out with soft contacts for people with mild astigmatisms. I actually have a degenerative corneal disorder. Think astigmatism on steroids where the bulging gets worse over time. I have very little to no internal structure in my corneas. I had surgery to implant plastic shunts in them to slow the progression of the disease. That went well and is pretty stable now, but I still have to wear the lenses in order to maintain a high quality of life.

By: Survivalspot

Survivalspot — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:08:38 +0000

Is there a reason that you use gas permeable vs. soft lenses? If I'm not mistaken people with astigmatisms can't use gas permeables (due to the eye being mishapen).

By: Sup3D

Sup3D — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:00:26 +0000

This topic is important to me because I rely so heavily on contacts. The problem is I wear Rigid Gas Permeable lenses(hard). They are nice because they last damn near forever unless you crack or severely scratch the surfaces.

My real problem is that because of the nature of my eye condition, I cannot get drivable vision without contact lenses. With glasses, I can only get 20/60 type of stuff whereas with hard lenses I can get 20/25.

Anyway, great point that most people forget to think about