I started using CRT contact lenses in december of 2003. I had been using -4.5 and -4 contacts in my left and right eyes respectively and within a few days of wearing the paragon CRT lenses my vision was perfect.
Here is my list of pros and cons from wearing them for 7 months
+ They actually give me perfect vision for most of the day.
+ No pain or surgeries.
+ Your vision can return to normal in about 2 weeks if you don't like them.
- I'm used to soft contacts, these felt like rocks at first. Even now they are uncomfortable to wear if I am active and about doing stuff.
- I sometimes sleep with my eyes open so these things dry to my eyeballs and it gets difficult to take them off in the morning, a few times I had to flush my eyes with contact solution for 15 minutes to loosen them up.
- At night, my vision fades a bit and I see halos around light sources , esp car headlights. Since the lenses don't cover the entire cornea, my periphial vision (everything else besides what I'm directly looking at gets a bit fuzzy) This is the suckiest thing about them.
- I've been to see my eye doctor many times since december for checkups. He has switched my lense prescriptions 3 times because the current pair wasn't a perfect fit anymore.
- Expensive
Despite all the negatives, I'd highly recommend the paragon CRT lenses for anyone who is considering lasik or who is fed up with regular contact lenses. The convenience of perfect vision during the day is way worth the price and hassle of fussing with contacts at night.
In my case, I sleep with my eyes open plus I get dry eyes when I wear contacts however 4 out of 5 days my vision is 20/20 or better. The other 1 out of 5 days my left or right eye is off a bit. Its annoying but I get used to it for a few hours and usually the eye somehow corrects itself in the early afternoon.
I remembered I had a winning bottlecap in my desk after reading this headline. I went to the itunes website and, not being a member, downloaded the itunes program just so I could download my one free song. Then I had to create an accoutn, give them my email and then they asked for my credit card number. Screw that! Maybe thats why only 5 million people have redeemed their caps and most likely those 5 million were already users of the service.
I'm a freshman student here at Georgia Tech and I took the 1321 computer science class in which about 150 students were caught for cheating. Some of my friends were "caught" and are now having to face appeal courts.
The last week of school, right before finals, is called dead week. It's called that for a reason, no projects or tests are to be given out to students because they are supposed to be studying for their tests. Well our soul-less profs decided to give us the largest homework assignment of the year in that week. This was the first semester that our professors used the book we had and also it was the first semester that gatech used the program, Dr Scheme, for its course. So naturally the professors hadn't taught all the material to us in time and they crammed the rest of it in the last two weeks. And so our last hw assignment was HUGE.
People were stressing out over finals and also over this assignment and so the majority of the 150 people that were caught for cheating, were caught on this assignment. And for the most part, it was for sharing code on the hardest problem.
I guess people wanted to help their friends when it got down to crunch time and they are paying the consequences for sharing their code with a friend who was too stupid to re-arrange and rename some of the code.
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Here is my list of pros and cons from wearing them for 7 months
+ They actually give me perfect vision for most of the day.
+ No pain or surgeries.
+ Your vision can return to normal in about 2 weeks if you don't like them.
- I'm used to soft contacts, these felt like rocks at first. Even now they are uncomfortable to wear if I am active and about doing stuff.
- I sometimes sleep with my eyes open so these things dry to my eyeballs and it gets difficult to take them off in the morning, a few times I had to flush my eyes with contact solution for 15 minutes to loosen them up.
- At night, my vision fades a bit and I see halos around light sources , esp car headlights. Since the lenses don't cover the entire cornea, my periphial vision (everything else besides what I'm directly looking at gets a bit fuzzy) This is the suckiest thing about them.
- I've been to see my eye doctor many times since december for checkups. He has switched my lense prescriptions 3 times because the current pair wasn't a perfect fit anymore.
- Expensive
Despite all the negatives, I'd highly recommend the paragon CRT lenses for anyone who is considering lasik or who is fed up with regular contact lenses. The convenience of perfect vision during the day is way worth the price and hassle of fussing with contacts at night.
In my case, I sleep with my eyes open plus I get dry eyes when I wear contacts however 4 out of 5 days my vision is 20/20 or better. The other 1 out of 5 days my left or right eye is off a bit. Its annoying but I get used to it for a few hours and usually the eye somehow corrects itself in the early afternoon.
I remembered I had a winning bottlecap in my desk after reading this headline. I went to the itunes website and, not being a member, downloaded the itunes program just so I could download my one free song. Then I had to create an accoutn, give them my email and then they asked for my credit card number. Screw that! Maybe thats why only 5 million people have redeemed their caps and most likely those 5 million were already users of the service.
I'm a freshman student here at Georgia Tech and I took the 1321 computer science class in which about 150 students were caught for cheating. Some of my friends were "caught" and are now having to face appeal courts. The last week of school, right before finals, is called dead week. It's called that for a reason, no projects or tests are to be given out to students because they are supposed to be studying for their tests. Well our soul-less profs decided to give us the largest homework assignment of the year in that week. This was the first semester that our professors used the book we had and also it was the first semester that gatech used the program, Dr Scheme, for its course. So naturally the professors hadn't taught all the material to us in time and they crammed the rest of it in the last two weeks. And so our last hw assignment was HUGE. People were stressing out over finals and also over this assignment and so the majority of the 150 people that were caught for cheating, were caught on this assignment. And for the most part, it was for sharing code on the hardest problem. I guess people wanted to help their friends when it got down to crunch time and they are paying the consequences for sharing their code with a friend who was too stupid to re-arrange and rename some of the code.