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.
Although the lenses are more expensive, there’s no cost for solutions and the ease of use and freedom from hassle and infections makes them worth every penny.
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.
New daily-use multifocal lenses are really worth investigating if, like me, you’re, ahem, over mid-forties.
We operate a simple fee structure. There’s a fitting fee, which includes the initial consultation to determine the optimum lens type, trial/diagnostic lenses, and a year’s aftercare.
You will have had to have had a recent (within six months) eye exam with me first.
Lens fitting fees start from £75.
We don’t tie you in to a direct debit for your lenses. When you’re running low, please contact us and we’ll supply you with a replenishment. We can have them sent either directly to you or they can be collected from us.