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    Contact Lenses Online

    Does anyone here get contact lenses online? How has it worked out for you? I would really like contacts for work; I still have my prescription from when I bought my glasses. I could buy some at the optometrist, but I was thinking it might be cheaper online... but there are a ton of websites purporting to sell them and I don't know who I can trust.

    They also all seem to be dealing in disposables. I like the kind that last for a year. Anyone know where I can get them? Oh, and I have to have the kind of contacts that are flat because my eyeballs are flat and the rounded contacts don't stay in. Would I be better off just going through my optometrist, or does anyone have a site to recommend?

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    It is cheaper online, but your glasses prescription would not be the same as your contacts prescription--they are different exams. You can get a contact eye exam and take that prescription to an online site though.

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    ^what she said. Your glasses prescription is not the same as for contacts, and they also need to measure your eyes for contacts.

    According to my doctor, contacts that last for a year are very hard to get now, as most doctors consider them less safe for the health of your eye.

    The ones I have I wear for two weeks, then throw them out. And I do find that now I'm on this plan rather than the year-contacts, my eyes are less irritated. I never get that uncomfortable "my contacts have been in too long" feeling.

    I think you'll have to go to the eye doctor anyway, but if you really want the year contacts, he may be able to help you. Most online sites no longer carry them.

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    I order from 1800contacts.com. If you have a contacts prescription still (not the one from your glasses), then you can order them online. I don't know anything about the year long lenses though, as I use 2 week disposables. The store contacts your eye doctor to verify your Rx, then sends them. They're pretty fast in my experience as well.
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    What they said, you need different prescriptions for glasses and contacts because contacts sit on your eyeballs and glasses sit further away.

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    I normally use coastalcontacts.com . I don't know if yearly contacts are still available

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    1800contacts....never had any problems.

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    Oh, dammit. Well, if I have to go to the doctor anyway... blargh.

    Thanks, guys!

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    I ordered my color contacts that were annuals from ContactLensHeaven.com which was 1StepContactLenses.com. They were the cheapest I could find w/o ordering with a prescription because they were purely for cosmetic reasons. I had no problems at all with them.
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