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Wellness Wednesday for January 15, 2025

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Have you considered contact lenses? If you're not sensitive to them or creeped out by putting them in or out, your eyes just feel naturally like they can see better in every direction. I forgot my vision sucks, until I take them out at night before bed, whereas I'm pretty much always aware that I'm looking through glasses.

Additionally, you can just add sunglasses without getting a prescription specifically for them.

They're surprisingly robust. I can get water in my eyes while showering and even in the pool and not lose them. I primarily got them so that I could look through a rifle scope without my glasses making it more complicated and fell in love with them for primary use.

I use daily disposables. After practice I can put them in and take them out in about 30 seconds.

Have you considered contact lenses?

I have. I was told they're unsuitable for those who enjoy seasonal allergies in two seasons out of four. But given your very positive opinion, I should probably reconsider. So far, I do find glasses fairly annoying.

I've been nearsighted for a decade and have and allergies in 2 of 4 seasons as well.

I recommend having both contacts and glasses so that you can switch depending on the situation. I wear contacts when I want to look nicer (glasses don't suit me well), when I want to work out, or when it would be inconvenient for my glasses to fall off or for a small child to grab them. I wear glasses when I'm sick, traveling long distances, or having a lazy day at home. It's really nice to be able to switch.

I'm not sure what over the counter allergy meds there are in Germany, but have you tried all the available ones for at least a few weeks? I took fexofenadine and found it didn't work well, then I took loratidine and it worked, but my eyes, nose, and throat were constantly dry, so I was chugging water and peeing all the time, which was annoying, and my contacts would hurt my eyes due to the dryness. I eventually switched to ceterizine and have had no problems, it Just Works™ for me.

Also, regarding contacts, IMO you should just spring for the 1-day contacts. I used 2 week contacts for years -- fiddling with the disinfectant, having the contacts get less comfortable toward the end, the stress of trying not to drop one because they're expensive, all of that sucked. 1-day contacts are pricier per day, but if you drop one you can just shrug, and you're putting something new and sterile in your eye each time.

I'm convinced. Will look into getting 1-day lenses. Thanks.

I'm not sure what over the counter allergy meds there are in Germany, but have you tried all the available ones for at least a few weeks? I took fexofenadine and found it didn't work well, then I took loratidine and it worked, but my eyes, nose, and throat were constantly dry, so I was chugging water and peeing all the time, which was annoying, and my contacts would hurt my eyes due to the dryness. I eventually switched to ceterizine and have had no problems, it Just Works™ for me.

Yep. Tried all the ones the pharmacy offers. Found none that worked reliably. They all seem to kinda maybe do something for the first week or so but it might also just be the placebo effect and and then the allergenes just win.

Unsuitable just because of allergies...? Hm. That sounds a bit nonsensical to me, but then I don't have any severe allergies. Aren't there allergy medicines you could use to keep your eyes from itching too much? Rubbing your eyes won't usually destroy the lenses, btw.

Try contact lenses. Once you get used to putting them in and taking them out, I can't imagine anyone going back to wearing glasses.

I also recommend the daily disposables, if you don't mind a somewhat higher cost.

I really enjoy the cyberpunk aspect of putting contact lenses in. Can't believe how long they've been around.

Aren't there allergy medicines you could use to keep your eyes from itching too much?

I wish.

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