If there were ever a chance of my scrip being upped regularly, that's been undone by the fact that I'm highly lazy with the optometry appts, and only go when absolutely necessary. Remember, raised with military medicine, so to this day I will do whatever I can to avoid the medical profession (and I worked in it for several years!)... especially the needles. There is nothing scarier than a military medical intern and a needle. *shivers*
Thanks for the book suggestion -- I'll keep an eye out for it, err, so to speak. I still find it rather peculiar and somewhat marvelous that wearing contacts can actually reduce your astigmatism, simply by shaping the eye in such a way that it compensates for the uneven back-part of the eyeball. Enough that daily all-day wear for several years can pretty much clear out the astigmatism (or at least to such a degree that it's almost unnoticeable).
Which has been what I've always done: two years on, two years off. This most recent time, I would've expected the astigmatism to be almost nil, except that my last pair of contacts were bugging me so much that most of the time I wore glasses, so I lost that benefit. But next time I'll have it!
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Date: 15 Nov 2009 12:59 am (UTC)Thanks for the book suggestion -- I'll keep an eye out for it, err, so to speak. I still find it rather peculiar and somewhat marvelous that wearing contacts can actually reduce your astigmatism, simply by shaping the eye in such a way that it compensates for the uneven back-part of the eyeball. Enough that daily all-day wear for several years can pretty much clear out the astigmatism (or at least to such a degree that it's almost unnoticeable).
Which has been what I've always done: two years on, two years off. This most recent time, I would've expected the astigmatism to be almost nil, except that my last pair of contacts were bugging me so much that most of the time I wore glasses, so I lost that benefit. But next time I'll have it!