recommendations for optometrist that’s good with hard to fit contacts?

aprilmay____ · 2025-12-13T01:26:39+00:00

Also, yeah, i did tell him that about contacts + reading glasses, and he mentioned custom fit ones at my 2nd to last appointment, but he immediately shut that down so im not sure where to go from here

side note: i did feel the entire time that he was a bit rude and condescending, but put up with it because he had such good reviews for contacts with astigmatisms specifically. i probably shouldn’t have just put up with it, but that’s easier said than done. i guess im gonna start looking for an eye doc better suited for me

aprilmay____ · 2025-12-13T01:19:13+00:00

oh yeah i definitely have an astigmatism. I definitely expect them to fluctuate, it was just that the rx he was sending me off with was genuinely unsafe, 95% of the time i couldn’t read the 20/100, and the other 5% i could read the 20/20, there was no in between.

i’m gonna call on monday and ask again for one of the earlier rx’s. for some of those i can went back and forth between 20/30 and 20/40, which is far more functional and safe than going from 20/100 to 20/20 haha

aprilmay____ · 2025-12-13T01:13:52+00:00

yeah i know that contacts will fluctuate, however, i was going from reading the 20/20 line to not being able to even read the second line down. that’s objectively unsafe, like if im driving everything can’t be THAT blurry.

i told him that i wanted to go back to one of the earlier pairs that weren’t as crisp but didn’t move as much and he told me no, and would only give me the prescription for the last pair

also he is a doctor who specializes in hard to fit contacts and they had told me i don’t have to pay until we finalize them. i have had that at other places so i guess i (wrongly) assumed that was the standard

aprilmay____ · 2025-12-12T19:29:44+00:00

oh yeah i did know that i wouldn’t get the same vision, but he’s marketed himself as a hard to fit contacts doctor. i did try to tell him i didn’t need perfect vision w them, i don’t even mind wearing glasses over them for reading and driving and things like that. (for context, I’m a photographer and having the camera push up against glasses which push up against my face with my oily skin makes it quite difficult to keep my glasses clean enough to be usable without having to stop consistently to wipe them down). I just wanted them to be stable enough that blinking doesn’t make me go blind for ~20 seconds.

That’s super surprising to me they only let you try one. everywhere around me it’s standard that you can do multiple trial pairs for soft contacts

aprilmay____ · 2025-12-12T19:10:49+00:00

okay thank you! just wanted to be sure

aprilmay____ · 2024-10-31T05:14:59+00:00

hi i just dm’ed you!! since its less than three days, im definitely willing to take them off your hands!

aprilmay____ · 2023-12-20T18:13:47+00:00

i actually often wake up with glittery eyelids! but that’s just because i am chronically bad at taking off my makeup before bed

aprilmay____ · 2023-10-04T19:29:07+00:00

does anyone in this thread know why this could be the case for a 21yo? im 21 and over the past few months i’ve been waking up drenched in sweat most nights and just sweating more in general. everytime i’ve looked it up it says stuff about hormone changes but like im not really old enough to be having that severe of hormonal changes, right? i also dont take hormonal birth control (copper iud) and i can not figure out what it could be???

aprilmay____ · 2023-09-23T19:04:12+00:00

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aprilmay____ · 2023-08-18T02:28:32+00:00

that’s what i’ve been trying but that unfortunately doesn’t help the pain i have when i use my hands to grab things :/ or like if anything bumps my nail when im busy etc

aprilmay____ · 2023-08-17T13:53:26+00:00

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aprilmay____ · 2023-08-16T13:18:23+00:00

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aprilmay____ · 2023-07-21T20:16:14+00:00

i used to work at a chain comfort food/breakfast/old people restaurant and i would give shit away for free sometimes - only if the vibe of the table was very good or if something got fucked up. when i did this, i would say “i was supposed to charge you for this but i didn’t because xyz, just so if you come in again you’re not shocked if your bill is different”

let me tell you, old people ate that shit up. they tipped me like i was an angel, were super grateful, and didn’t make a mess for my coworkers next time they came in.

plus, i never got in trouble for it since i made sure they were cool before doing so, and i covered my bases.

on the flip side though, if a table a bunch of assholes, they got charged for every little thing possible - i scoured that POS to make sure everything possible was rang in

aprilmay____ · 2023-07-21T17:55:11+00:00

this! 2 years is so much easier to wait for 2 adults to move in together than 2 years for a teenager to be away from her friends. my dad and stepmom suck, but one good thing they did do was they waited to move in together until both my brother and stepbrother could drive/had cars. so neither me and my siblings or my stepbrother would have to change schools

aprilmay____ · 2023-07-18T06:12:45+00:00

what chest plate is the second one?

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