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Try switching your contact solution. I use Clear Care. It's made a huge difference. That and switching to an LCD instead of a CRT. My eyes still get dry, but I only need drops a couple times a week.

If you really want contacts that will be easy on your eyes get CibaVision Night and Days. They're extended wear so if you like to party you can wake up 3 states away with no discomfort. I personally have allergies and that doesen't cause any trouble at all. http://www.us.cibavision.com/lenses/night_and_day. shtml

I swear by Clear Care. It's a peroxide based solution that has to neutralize overnight so your contacts have to be out for at least six hours. I wore a pair of two week contacts for damn near six months and they were a little more irritating, but not bad. This solution really helps with dry eyes and I find it very convenient. I used to rub my contacts religiously, but would occasionally tear them, this solution cleans them as well as rubbing with no rubbing.

Really lasik is so cheap now that you don't even need a lump of cash anymore; a minor bolus will suffice. For me the argument holding me back isn't the price but the "in 10 years scenario." A decade ago (okay maybe more like 15 years) the state-of-the-art, cutting edge (pardon the pun) was RK, where apparently they would grind/slice by hand your poor lenses into submission. Issues with scarring and healing up were multiple, yet simultaneously there were those ranting and raving about how great this new technology was how they were never going back.

Sounds a little similar today.

I can't help but think that sometime in the very near future we'll all look back on LASIK in the same way that we now do on RK, i.e. as a laughable, medieval relic of the surgical past. Sometime soon, correcting to 20/10 with no cutting, residual artifacts, nighttime issues, etc. will be the order of the day.

Plus some guy mentioned they're running Win 3.1. Yegads!

If I've talked you into waiting I have two suggestions that might tide you over in the meantime. First, look into natural vision improvement. Depending on how myopic you are, you may be able to improve several diopters by yourself. Second, get yourself some Focus Night & Day contacts. These have literally changed my life, and made me completely indifferent to waiting however long it takes for them to work out the kinks in LASIK. Today's the 24th; you change them once a month; and literally I haven't touched, taken out, cleaned, or even really though about them (until now) for the last 23 days. You can sleep with them in, no problem, and your eyes don't feel horrible like they do if you slept with other contacts. I'm horribly blind (-8 diopters both eyes) but my lifestyle is just like it was back before I started losing my sight in 4th grade.

Try the new silicone contact lenses, currently made by bausch&lomb and cibavision.

You leave them in for 1 month at a time, no need to take them our when you sleep. Their oxygen permeability is similar to wearing no lenses at all, thus there is no risk of corneal anoxia.

I wear them, they are extremely comfortable, i don't even notice they are in.

If you are too lazy to change your lenses 12 times a year, then maybe you have other issues :-)

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