Hey Citygirl -- I have astigmatism, dry eye, etc
For contact lenses, despite 5+ years here, I still pick them up when back in Canada, in 6mos or 1year batches. It's kind of silly of me to do so. Because of my dry eyes I wear 1 day disposables (though sometimes wear a pair for 2 or 3 days cleaning in saline in between)
I wear Johnson&Johnson's 1-day Acuvue moist -- I think you can get these here, I love them, I've been wearing Acuvue for years. My contact lens woman back in Canada wants me to change to Acuvue TruEye but she sent me a sample and they don't sit properly on one eye, so until I go home again I'm going to stick with what I have. My opthamologist here said these lenses I'm on right now though are perfect so no need to change -- TruEye do breathe more than the Moist though.
I believe you'll need a local prescription to get lenses here. I went to the Dr Charles opthomology centre over near Facultad de la Medicina -- very good centre, they're with OSDE, probably with Swiss Med etc as well.
I've been wearing contact lenses for 22 years, I haven't owned a pair of glasses in about 12 years -- glasses were just so expensive and distorted so much that I never used them. However my opthamologist said I should start wearing them again, even if just for a couple of hours a day. I got a prescription in August and then never went ahead and got glasses made -- does anyone know if that prescription is still valid, or are they like other recetas here and "expire" after 30 days?
o) as apparently they have the best prices. So maybe I'll check them out and then the other place.
