Contact lenses

[zipper2]

Anyone have any positive news about wearing contacts while
being on coumadin?

I forgot to bring this up to my cardio on the 11th,but no optomitrist
will ok a perscription for contacts everyone ive seen says they will
cause clots to form underneath my eyes.Is this true?
I have no faith in their answers, so can anyone confirm this here.

I used contacts for years then because being told this by an eye doc
i turned to glasses,but they arent staying on my face as well as the
contacts stayed in my eyes and im do for yearly checkup and would
like to know if what they tell me is true.
Do i put my boxing gloves on or the fights over their case is won (LOL)

 

[MarkU]

Never heard of that. I wear soft disposable contacts with no ill effects.

Sounds like the same old Coumadin BS. Why do people still perpetuate the idea that Coumadin causes bleeding?

I was very disappointed to read an article about actor/comedian Robin Williams this week in Livestrong Magazine - he said that he chose a tissue valve for his AVR because he wanted to keep riding his bike and was fearful of "bleeding out" if he ever crashed while on Coumadin.

Mark

 

[Ross]

Just about everyone I know wears contact lenses. Only reason I don't is because my eyes are irritated all the time and dry.

 

[AgilityDog]

I gave up contacts this year because I needed reading glasses with them just to see my dinner. The multifocals didn't get me good enough focus to read, particularly in lower light conditions, or drafting documents on the computer.

But I wore my contacts with no problems, and still can if I want to wear them dog training. Never heard that line of BS. Neither my regular eye doctor, nor my boss's dad, who's an opthamologist with years of experience, whom I saw for the multifocals, ever said a word about such nonsense. Dr. Dad knew all about my surgery and medications 'cause he heard the horror stories from my boss at the time!

And really, Robin, tsk, tsk.

 

[Cooker]

I wear them them all the time .... no problems....

 

[Dale]

I never heard of this either -- I wear a contact lens in my right eye for distance, and nothing in my left eye for reading. It makes my prescription last a looong time.
I hate glasses too -- esp in the cold when they fog up.
Time to put on the boxing gloves Deb!

Dale

 

[zipper2]

I figured that much,and not much choice of optometrists in my town as you can tell on info given to me
but maybe time to find one an hour and half away at Freddys toontown.

Thanks everyone for all your info

 

[sknydave]

I've never even heard of this.. I wear contacts every time I walk out of my house.

 

[Ross]

I'm really beginning to wonder about the Doctors up around Zipper2 and Freddie. Wonder if they're really even doctors or if they're just playing doctors.

 

[tobagotwo]

Out of a sense of fair play, I spent some time scanning the web for any reference of this, and was unsuccessful. There are scads of references for anything negative about a drug or medical product. All I saw was blank screen and crickets chirping.

It's interesting to note that he thought that if you use coumadin, the lenses would form blood clots underneath, which is the opposite of what would happen (if anything would happen at all, which it wouldn't).

This person is miserably uninformed. I would seriously wonder if he's competent to prescribe contacts (maybe he's had enough failures that he just tries to push people toward regular glasses with any excuse he can muster on the fly).

Drive the 1-1/2 hours. It's got to be worth it.

Best wishes,

 

[Philip B]

Blood Clots?

Blood Clots?

I wore contacts for a lot of years before going back to glasses. I switched back because I was working Wildfire Management Teams for the Feds and contacts didn't work well in smoke and dirt. To my knowledge, I never had any blood clots develop in my eyes because of the contacts I wore.

Maybe you've got some special condition that most contact wearers don't encounter, but I've never heard of anyone getting blood colts from wearing contacts. Perhaps you should ask your eye doctor for a copy of the medical research study which provides the basis for his concern.

My eye doctor actually asked me if I wanted to switch to contacts during my last visit with him.

I could be wrong, but this one sounds about as far-fetched as those people who want to talk about having thick and thin blood. It sounds kinda silly to me.

-Philip

 

[harleysandguitars]

I wear Acuview Oaysis disposables, and even sleep in them quite often. No issues whatsoever, and my eye doc is fully aware of my Coumadin med.

 

[catwoman]

I figured that much,and not much choice of optometrists in my town as you can tell on info given to me
but maybe time to find one an hour and half away at Freddys toontown.

Thanks everyone for all your info

Deb:
Perhaps you should switch to an ophthalmologist (an MD or DO or its equivalent in Canada).
I don't mean to disparage optometrists -- one of my friends is a retired optometrist and taught at the Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tenn. -- but ophthalmologists are medical doctors first, specialists second. Again, I don't mean to belittle OD's. I go to one and I also go to a ophthalmologist.