Best daily contacts for people who hate contacts?

Hi, this is my first post, so I apologize if this is not the proper
forum for my question...

I have been attempting to wear contacts on and off for the past 6
years. However, I always give up within a month because I find the
contacts to get very uncomfortable after 4-6 hours. I was never able
to tell whether it was an issue of dryness or lack of
oxygen...rewetting drops provided some temporary relief, but not enough
to pull me through.

I would like to try again, and am thinking that 1-day contacts might be
a good idea--because I will likely only wear the contact every two or
three days, because they'll suffer less build-up, and because i am very
lazy in the morning.

Can anyone recommend a comfortable daily lens for a finicky wearer?
Are Focus Dailies better than Acuvue Dailies? Anything else better
than those?

Also--I've heard good things about Focus Night And Day. Might this be
a better option, even if I'm not wearing them continuously?

Thanks so much!

PS. Just wanted to add that my most recent contacts were Acuvue 2 and
a comparable model from Bausch and Lomb (and I found both to be
uncomfortable after a few hours...)

If you're uncomfortable in general contact lenses, going to a daily
lens will most likely make this worse. I would try a lens with higher
water content (eg menicon 72) or a silicone hydrogel (focus night & day
or purevision).

"dry-aye" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I have been attempting to wear contacts on and off for the past 6
>years. However, I always give up within a month because I find the
>contacts to get very uncomfortable after 4-6 hours. I was never able
>to tell whether it was an issue of dryness or lack of
>oxygen...rewetting drops provided some temporary relief, but not enough
>to pull me through.

It may be worth your while to work with your
optometrist/ophthalmologist on a proper dry eye evaluation (Schirmer's
testing, TBUT evaluation).

If you have clinical "Dry Eye Syndrome," there are measures--some
relatively simple--that might provide some relief and facilitate the
comfortable wearing of contact lenses.

In article <(E-Mail Removed) .com>,
"dry-aye" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Hi, this is my first post, so I apologize if this is not the proper
> forum for my question...
>
> I have been attempting to wear contacts on and off for the past 6
> years. However, I always give up within a month because I find the
> contacts to get very uncomfortable after 4-6 hours. I was never able
> to tell whether it was an issue of dryness or lack of
> oxygen...rewetting drops provided some temporary relief, but not enough
> to pull me through.
>
> I would like to try again, and am thinking that 1-day contacts might be
> a good idea--because I will likely only wear the contact every two or
> three days, because they'll suffer less build-up, and because i am very
> lazy in the morning.
>
> Can anyone recommend a comfortable daily lens for a finicky wearer?
> Are Focus Dailies better than Acuvue Dailies? Anything else better
> than those?
>
> Also--I've heard good things about Focus Night And Day. Might this be
> a better option, even if I'm not wearing them continuously?
>
> Thanks so much!

If you issue is dry eye , I'd doubt any of the daily disposables will
work for you for more than a few hours. Better choices that provide
higher levels of oxygen and experience no or less dehydration would be
the silicone-hydrogels (Night&Day (Ciba), Purevision (B&L), Oasis, when
and where it becomes available, (J&J Vistakon) or Advance (J&J Vistakon)
or lenses made of hioxifilcon (Extreme H20, Satureyes and other brands)
or omafilcon (Proclear).

--Lb, O.D.

great--thanks so much everyone. it sounds like i should forego the
dailies and talk to my optometrist about trying Focus Night and Day,
Extreme H2O, Advance, Purevision, etc...

much appreciated!

LarryDoc wrote:
> In article <(E-Mail Removed) .com>,
> "dry-aye" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > Hi, this is my first post, so I apologize if this is not the proper
> > forum for my question...
> >
> > I have been attempting to wear contacts on and off for the past 6
> > years. However, I always give up within a month because I find the
> > contacts to get very uncomfortable after 4-6 hours. I was never able
> > to tell whether it was an issue of dryness or lack of
> > oxygen...rewetting drops provided some temporary relief, but not enough
> > to pull me through.
> >
> > I would like to try again, and am thinking that 1-day contacts might be
> > a good idea--because I will likely only wear the contact every two or
> > three days, because they'll suffer less build-up, and because i am very
> > lazy in the morning.
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a comfortable daily lens for a finicky wearer?
> > Are Focus Dailies better than Acuvue Dailies? Anything else better
> > than those?
> >
> > Also--I've heard good things about Focus Night And Day. Might this be
> > a better option, even if I'm not wearing them continuously?
> >
> > Thanks so much!
>
> If you issue is dry eye , I'd doubt any of the daily disposables will
> work for you for more than a few hours. Better choices that provide
> higher levels of oxygen and experience no or less dehydration would be
> the silicone-hydrogels (Night&Day (Ciba), Purevision (B&L), Oasis, when
> and where it becomes available, (J&J Vistakon) or Advance (J&J Vistakon)
> or lenses made of hioxifilcon (Extreme H20, Satureyes and other brands)
> or omafilcon (Proclear).
>
> --Lb, O.D.