Wear only one contact lens?

Hello, I'm currently on vacation and only have one contact lens. Is it bad if I only wear one now? Both eyes are equally bad, at -2.25, but I can see better with one than with none. I just can't see close-up things as well, but I can see things far away. I have to last about 3-4 days, is that okay?

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SehFee
6 months ago

It is not bad, but it can lead to the overall more strenuous seeing, even if it does not feel that way. For your brain (where the real vision arises), it is an additional challenge if it needs to process sharp and unsharp images. Headache, tension or nausea can be the result. What’s better for you for the few days, you have to judge. -2.25 are not so little now. If you’re back, you should definitely add a replacement goggles and take them with you whenever you travel.

whatatragedy
7 months ago

In your place, I wouldn’t even wear lenses instead of running around with just one. There’s nothing to fix one-sidedly, and since you’re just slightly short-sighted, no great problems are likely to arise, except that you can’t drive, which is the same with just one contact lens.

whatatragedy
7 months ago
Reply to  Jdjdjdjdj752zz

Then do what you mean. It has already been explained by others that it is harmless. I wonder anyway what you’re afraid of as a possible problem 🤔.

Personally, I would simply have dispensed with contact lenses in such a case before I have a dizziness on both eyes due to completely different visual acuity, a migraine attack (I generally have more often) or other complaints. You don’t see that bad with slight short-sightedness, so I had written in my answer that I wouldn’t wear a lens for a few days. But as I said, you need to know yourself what you do and if it works with a single lens, everything is okay.

sashman119
6 months ago

This is what you should write to the author of this conflict, which always pours new oil into the fire and with the next comment, this one here

I also find the sentence here regrettable by you:

Strangely, only the people with slight missight make huge problems out of such a thing –

The FS just asked a question, but you are not forced to respond to such?

went back to her contrahentine.

When I read something like that, I’m standing up to mountains as an unpartisan. How does the person concerned have to go?

sashman119
6 months ago

I don’t think it’s okay to see this discussion. What was declared here as their “institution” was not written anywhere by the user whatatragedy. In her place, I would have felt attacked. I also do not find the behaviour of the mods as a target to reject the wish for deletion of the comments.

rdsince2010
6 months ago

If you want to blame me for my statement now: Go for it.

Why should I – on GF everyone can freely express his opinion. But thanks for your assessment of how you would handle it. I really think it’s interesting how different it would be for everyone if he had only one lens available.

Interesting is also the contribution of Userin : it finds -2,25 not soo little, writes it. As I said, the opinions of all are already interesting.

Maybe the FS should have made a discussion about it instead of just asking if it’s bad if he only wears a contact lens for 3.4 days?

5 users have answered their question from their personal point of view, you and your comments and opinions.

The FS will grunt when he reads what triggered his question for a discussion…and maybe he’s already home and has a new pair CL in the eyes, who knows.

rdsince2010
6 months ago

It’s not a constructive feedback if you just talk to me about what I didn’t write here, or not at all.

You mine Words that I have given with goosephs, as those I have said by you, that is a mistake. You didn’t tell her. I only have mine put words in goosephs to highlight my thoughts. That from the input question

and have only one contact lens is that bad if I only wear one now?

I think it is quite regrettable to have developed such a discussion.

I also find the sentence here regrettable by you:

Strangely, only the people with slight missight make huge problems out of such a thing –

The FS just asked a question, but you are not forced to respond to such?

I met your request for deletion of my and all the comments below yesterday late in the evening. The moderators have decided (I copy the text passage from my email):

Output of the message: Release of the content. The content concerned does not violate our directives nor does it infringe applicable law.

LAVeniceBeach
6 months ago

if you are used to a clearly visible look and suddenly no CL or glasses can be put on, you can see that even more sharply than if you have not worn glasses/CL from the outset, but you need one.

With 2.25 dioptric difference from one to the other eye, however, one does not see sharp and then not only in the distance but also in the vicinity. The FS himself wrote. Seeing this is also not good with a lens and definitely more strenuous than just having blur in the distance, because I am full of User Whatatragedy. In the answer and the comments there is no need for glasses with -2.25. It was only written that you can do without contact lenses for a short time if you are only slightly short-sighted and unfortunately you do not have glasses. That’s exactly how I would handle it if I were just slightly short-sighted. The other method with correction on one eye would be too unpleasant to me and I think dizziness and headaches are program. If you want to blame me for my statement now: Go for it.

whatatragedy
6 months ago

We practice only in constructive feedback 😉

It’s not a constructive feedback if you just talk to me about what I didn’t write here, or not at all.
I also don’t know what to blame for my answer. There it was explicitly stated that the questioner should handle it as it is right for him, with the addition by commenting why it would not be a good solution for me personally to correct it with only one lens + the note that it is okay if the questioner comes along with this method.

So again, what is being said to me here is not true and I wonder what this accusation is based on.
Because all this is totally inappropriate, I would like to have removed this unnecessary discussion, because I do not want to defend myself for alleged statements that I have not made.

whatatragedy
7 months ago

And what exactly is that?

What opinion? Anyway, not the one you just assigned to me:

You represent your opinion that you should not “have like this” without visual aid.

I didn’t write it like that, so I’m fighting.

rdsince2010
7 months ago

Don’t worry, we’re not fighting. We practice only in constructive feedback 😉

rdsince2010
7 months ago

because I don’t let you sit on me, what you just said, because that’s not what I think.

And what exactly is that?

whatatragedy
7 months ago

I don’t see a fight here. The only thing that doesn’t fit me is that something is being told me what is supposed to be my opinion, but not true.

whatatragedy
7 months ago

No, it’s not “everything good” because I don’t let you sit on me, what you just said, because that doesn’t correspond to my opinion.

rdsince2010
7 months ago

because I think they are meaningless.

Me too. Because she has absolutely nothing to do with the initially asked question. You represent your opinion that you should not “have like this” without visual aid, and I have another, just my opinion. It’s okay, no problem. All right.

whatatragedy
7 months ago

I don’t, either, because I think they’re meaningless. And I didn’t start with it

rdsince2010
7 months ago

Jo and I’m wondering why you want to run around with a single contact lens,

because the FS might think he can at least see something better?? I don’t want this discussion anymore.

whatatragedy
7 months ago

Jo and I’m wondering why one wants to run around with a single contact lens, which does not mean a reasonable visus, if one already has any (although unnecessarily) concerns. If it wasn’t me, I’d just leave it and finish it.

rdsince2010
7 months ago

In a comical way, only the people with slight missights make huge problems out of such a thing.

Again: it was not a question whether the FS survives without contact lenses, but he asked

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But with one I see 1000 times better than nobody I’m just wondering if I’d get any problems if I’m just wearing one

whatatragedy
7 months ago

As if I could see anything further away with missing two diopters 😅. Unfortunately, I can’t even live with my current glasses yet, but also 🤷🏼 ♀️.

rdsince2010
7 months ago

No more sharp, but also not so bad that you temporarily in such a (unnecessarily created because no glasses are involved) situation could not be clear at all.

That’s not what the FS mentioned. The fact that he is responsible for this situation is, of course, out of question.

I can easily simulate with my old, about this value to weak glasses of two years ago, how seeing is with a deficit of -2.25 dioptrics and do not find that it is impossible to get out a few days.

If you can, it’s okay for you. The FS can’t. I, by the way, could (and the FS certainly can) well orient me everywhere, but just because of short-sightedness, read nothing further, even here on the PC monitor blurs the font at an arm length, unless I wear my glasses.

A Like gets your comment of course from me, although we are not of the same opinion 😉

Thank you. You don’t always have to be an opinion ðŸ ̃‰ I also liked your contribution with thanks 💙.

whatatragedy
7 months ago

Addendum: Lack of replacement glasses in corresponding strength I had been reliant some time ago on an existing one with much less dioptrics (in principle, just as self-inflicted as that in question) and I also survived. Of course, it wasn’t nice, but such a gigantic problem is a deficit of two diopters not again, if it’s the case for some time. In a comic way, only the people with slight missights make huge problems out of such a thing – from a very short-sighted user I have never read this before. And if the questioner gets clear with a single lens, he should do – was in my answer.

whatatragedy
7 months ago

With -2,25 dpt. you can already see from approx. 40cm no longer clear

No more sharp, but also not so bad, that you could temporarily get into such a (unnecessarily created, because there are no glasses) situation at all.
I can easily simulate with my old, about this value to weak glasses of two years ago, how seeing is with a deficit of -2.25 dioptrics and do not find that it is impossible to get out a few days.

A Like gets your comment of course from me, although we are not of the same opinion 😉.

rdsince2010
7 months ago

You don’t see that bad with easy short-sightedness,

Nanana. With -2,25 dpt. you can already see from approx. 40cm no longer clear. All the more everything is gone, the harder it gets. And if you are used to a clear look and suddenly no CL or no glasses can be put on, you can see that even more sharply than if you have not worn glasses/CL from the outset, but you need one.

easylife2
7 months ago

No, that’s not a good idea. Wear your glasses until you can wear both lenses at once again.

rdsince2010
7 months ago

If you think it hurts your visual organs if a contact lens is only on one eye, I can calm you down. The eyes do not harm – but there are 2 different images in your brain. An unsharp, a sharp one. This can cause headaches as well as if you don’t wear contact lenses. So please put on your glasses if you want to see clearly with 2 eyes.

rdsince2010
7 months ago
Reply to  Jdjdjdjdj752zz

Extremely unreasonable! You write:

Author

-2,25 I find pretty bad I don’t see any faces and no traffic signs and with a contact lens I actually see very good except things that are close

You should, if you already have a clear look, provide that you take at least 1 pair of contact lenses more! And before to make a new goggle. What if you get an eye inflammation? Will you keep the infected CL?

And one question is allowed to me: did you take a T-shirt on holiday, or just a underpants?

euphonium
7 months ago

Your two eyes don’t care if both give a sharp picture to the brain or not. I had as an aging contact lenses, one lens being for the distance and the other one for the close. In principle, you are exactly in this state. You look into the distance only with one eye. I didn’t get a headache at the time and no complaints at all. I just didn’t look like glasses.
It can be critical for you if you want to drive by car. If you’re involved in an accident or a police control, you might threaten financial danger, because the driver’s license doesn’t mean you can only see with one eye.
A mistake like this will not happen again at the next holiday.
rdsince has addressed it, never go on vacation without glasses, you feel it now, inflammation on one eye, what are you doing when the other eye is also inflamed?

rdsince2010
7 months ago

the only thing I care about is whether it’s bad for me if I’m just wearing one now because I can actually see quite okay except as I said things are very close

I had already answered that. Hope you don’t infiltrate your other eye.

sashman119
7 months ago

The difference between both eyes is certainly more unpleasant than completely without lenses.
Don’t you have glasses? If not, this slight short-sightedness of -2,25 dioptrics is certainly also a few days without keeping everything home.

rdsince2010
7 months ago
Reply to  Jdjdjdjdj752zz

Joa, with the misunderstanding it will be inconspicuous for you from about 40cm… Personal pitch I would say.