Can You Get Smaller Contacts?

If you have small eyes, you do have options for contact lenses. If your eyes are small, you can choose a soft contact lens with a smaller diameter. This will make it easier for you to put the contacts in your eyes.

What is the smallest size of contact lenses?

appeared first on Advanced Eye Care Center. Lenses that are 18 mm or smaller are subcategorized as mini-sclerals. The average human cornea is approximately 11.8 mm in diameter so even the smallest scleral contact lens is designed to cover the entire corneal surface.

What if my contact lenses are too big?

It is not recommended to wear contact lenses with a different diameter from your prescription. If the diameter is too wide, the lens will be loose in the eye and may slip out of place. If the diameter is too small, the lens will have a tight fit, causing discomfort.

Do contacts come in one size?

Yes. It’s important that your contacts fit your eyes. Your ECP will take measurements of your eyes during your eye exam and contact lens fitting to ensure your lenses fit you correctly.

What is the smallest prescription for contacts?

Contact lenses today can be manufactured with virtually any lens power so yes, with a prescription as low as 0-25/+0.25, you can still wear contact lenses.

How do you tell if your contacts are not the right size?

Place the contact lens between the tips of your thumb and forefinger, grasping it near the center so the entire edge is free. Gently squeeze the lens, as if you are about to fold it in half. If the edge of the lens points upward (resembling a hard-shell taco), the lens is correctly oriented.

How do you know if your contacts don’t fit?

Top Signs of Contact Lens Discomfort

• Stinging, burning and itchy eyes.
• Abnormal feeling of something in your eye.
• Excessive tearing.
• Unusual eye secretions.
• Eye redness.
• Poor visual acuity.
• Blurred vision or halos around objects.
• Light sensitivity.

Can your contact size change?

During the first two decades of life, the natural lenses behind your corneas, called the crystalline lenses, are able to flatten and bend to focus light rays on the retina in a way that makes good vision possible. However, this ability to accommodate begins to decrease in your 40’s, typically bottoming out by age 50.

Can you shower with contacts?

Eye Care Tips for Contact Lens Wearers
Avoid water while wearing contacts. Keep your contacts away from water. Make sure to remove your contacts before showering, bathing, or swimming. Don’t rinse or store your contacts in water, and if it does occur, make sure to throw away or disinfect them thoroughly.

How do you remove a contact lens without pinching it?

Hold your eyelids open by using the middle finger of your non-dominant hand to pull up on the upper lid and the middle finger of your dominant hand to pull down on your lower lid. Look upward and use the index finger of your dominant hand to gently touch the bottom of the contact lens.

Are there contact sizes?

DIA: The Diameter of your contact lens is the distance across the lens surface, also measured in millimeters. Usually, the number is between 13 and 15. This value determines how the contact lens sits on your eye, and when it isn’t appropriate for you – the contact lens will be uncomfortable.

Do contacts fit all?

Contact Lenses are not One-Size-Fits-All.

What happens if you wear contacts with the wrong base curve?

You should never order contact lenses with a base curve that is different from your prescription. This can damage your eyes and cause problems with vision. This is especially important for people who purchase cosmetic coloured contact lenses, which are often of a standardised size.

What does +0.25 eye prescription mean?

If your number is between +0.25 and +2.00, you have mild farsightedness. If your number is between +2.25 and +5.00, you have moderate farsightedness. If your number is greater than +5.00, you have high farsightedness.

What does D mean on contacts?

Sphere (SPH): The amount of lens power, measured in diopters (D), which corrects nearsightedness or farsightedness. If the number under this heading features a minus sign (–), this means you’re nearsighted; if it has a plus sign (+), this means you’re farsighted.

Should contact lens power be less than glasses?

So in most simple words, the power of a contact lens will be lower than the eyeglass prescription. Reason being the distance of the lenses from the surface of the eyes. Also, if you normally wear multifocal glasses, you can get multifocal contacts. Like glasses, contact lenses can be bifocal and multifocal too.

Why is my vision worse with contacts?

Debris: One of the most common reasons why your vision might become cloudy or hazy is the build-up of debris on your contact lenses. The best way to check this is to remove your lenses and use your glasses to compare vision with and without the lenses.

How can I make my contacts fit better?

6 remedies for contact lens discomfort

1. Artificial Tears. Artificial tears can relieve occasional dryness.
2. Nutritional Supplements. To be comfortable in contact lenses, you need to produce enough tears.
3. Punctal Occlusion.
4. Contact Lenses For Dry Eyes.
5. Contact Lens Care Products.
6. Orthokeratology.

Are contacts supposed to move when you blink?

Contact lenses are supposed to move around, especially noted after blinking, but up to a certain degree only and it should settle on its proper position on the cornea. In fact, ophthalmologists are taught that one way to check for proper fit of contact lenses is to have patients blink and then we look for the movement.

Do contacts flatten your eyes?

Your eyes certainly do change shape, and it is measurable. Gas-permeable and the old, hard (polymethylmethacrylate) contact lenses change the shape of the eye more so than soft contact lenses. Lenses that are fit flat in relationship to the front corneal surface flatten the central cornea.

Do contacts shape eyes?

Along with increasing your chances of infection and reducing the thickness of your cornea, contacts also, over time, change the shape of the eye. This effect isn’t anything you really need to worry about as it likely won’t affect your vision.