Diving with contacts

[Minion_Diver]

I have noticed here lately that after a dive in which I wear my contacts one of my eyes has a hard time focusing. I have never had the issue before while wearing my rx mask and glasses. Just curious as to if anyone else has experienced this and what solutions you have found.

Thanks.

 

[caruso]

Try a different type of contact lenses, and more frequent replacement schedule. If you're wearing 2 week or monthly get yourself into dailies, at least for diving.

The causes vary but the solution is still the same.

 

[Duke Dive Medicine]

I have noticed here lately that after a dive in which I wear my contacts one of my eyes has a hard time focusing. I have never had the issue before while wearing my rx mask and glasses. Just curious as to if anyone else has experienced this and what solutions you have found.

Thanks.

What type of contacts are you wearing?

 

[Divectionist]

I don't like dailies as they are inferior to monthlies, i.e., they don't breathe as well, and are more likely to cause trouble.

I wear contacts on every dive and also went out with them on the last day of the lens month, getting my eyes dried by the wind on the boat ride, without any real issues thereafter.

The only thing I do specifically before diving is to give the lenses an extra attentive scrub, squeeze some lens liquid into my eyes, massaging them a bit to make sure the eyes are nice and clean, before putting them in.

 

[caruso]

I don't like dailies as they are inferior to monthlies, i.e., they don't breathe as well, and are more likely to cause trouble.

Where did you get that crazy idea from?

 

[Divectionist]

Where did you get that crazy idea from?

a) Experience - if I accidentally fall asleep with daily lenses (which I used for years in the past), my eyes are glued shut. If I fall asleep with monthly lenses, it is a bit hazy but manageable.
b) Optometrist - stated that monthly lenses are 'engineered' with better, more breathable materials as they can obviously throw more dollars at a lens you wear for 30 days vs 1 day.

 

[caruso]

a) Experience - if I accidentally fall asleep with daily lenses (which I used for years in the past), my eyes are glued shut. If I fall asleep with monthly lenses, it is a bit hazy but manageable.
b) Optometrist - stated that monthly lenses are 'engineered' with better, more breathable materials as they can obviously throw more dollars at a lens you wear for 30 days vs 1 day.

a) Your experience does not reflect the population as a whole. If it did, every clinical study could be done with only one trial patient.

b) Doctors aren't always correct.

 

[Minion_Diver]

What type of contacts are you wearing?

I am diving 30 day Air Optix Night& Day Aqua

 

[Divectionist]

a) Your experience does not reflect the population as a whole. If it did, every clinical study could be done with only one trial patient.

b) Doctors aren't always correct.

a) so what do you say? Dailies are better for diving? I assume you did a clinical study then to make your statement better than mine?

b) aware of that, my lady is one

 

[Zef]

Did you get a mask squeeze during your dive? or did you ensure it was equalized throughout the whole time you were under water? If there was any significant pressure differential, I can only imagine the film of a contact lense pressing on the cornea might cause some problems.

-Z