Monthly contact lens buying guide 2021 | Air Optix, Bausch and Lomb Ultra, Biofinity, Acuvue Vita 

😁👍 glad I could help’

Glad it helped’ 👍👍

This same thing is going on with me. Like I can’t really see clearly with the acuvue oasys. It’s like I still have a hard time focusing. I’m think of switching to biofinity

ya biofinity is the best i see blurry in acuvue vita

I believe the reason for the lack of mention of Alcon's Total 30 lenses is because they're seemingly not available in Australia where Antonio practices.

Have you tried Biofinity Coopervision?

Soft lenses should cover most astigmatism but for people with a lot of astigmatism hard contacts do yield clearer vision. I like soft because they are much easier to work with but RGPs have their place in the world 😁

Very much so 😁

@@AntonioTheOptom Ow, nice to hear. I live in the Netherlands and Acuvue Oasys were 62€ now 94€! I wanna change them for Acuvue Vita but Oasys we’re so good… I hope Vita will be too!

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I have astigmatism n near side weak My dr give b/l multigocal n astigmatism but it’s not work good for reading so which lens it’s good please reply

@@humerashahid22 I could never adjust to the lenses. I wear progressive lens eyeglasses now.

I have the same experience. It seems that the stabilization prints scratch my eyelids.

Dope! 👍

@@AntonioTheOptom Which solution were you using for this test? Do you think that rubbing solutions might've degraded comfort of the lens causing micro damage to the surface?

If your astigmatism of -0.5D is between 0° and 20° or between 160° and 180° - that's the physiological astigmatism that even people with perfect eyesight have and you actually should not try to correct it.

I can’t really say 0.1mm would have a significant difference in how they feel 😁

Yeah give it a few weeks and it should be okay 👍

Hi did you find out which one would be good 8.4 or 8.8?

Are you around the age of 45? If so, then you’ve reached a point where the crystalline lens inside your eye has hardened. This means glasses/contacts = clear distance vision, without them clear near vision. It really does depend on your prescription and age tho

No but I think the new Bausch and Lomb lenses may be quite thin so the eyes will be more reactive to the touch

It really depends on how each lens fits the eyeball regardless of dailies or monthlies. Given they fit well the difference will be negligible

@@AntonioTheOptom Thanks ☺️

Precision 1s don’t come in Toric just yet in Australia, but I’ve heard the US has had them for a bit now

Yea I wanted to know about these as well. Only like two videos that show them but not to informative.

Sure I’ll give it a crack!

From what JnJ told me they couldn’t get FDA because it’s a ‘new material’ although both have similar oxygen transmissibility

Better for different things, I would just for the cheaper of the two

Eye strain is most likely due to our behaviour as human beings in front of the computer, I would suggest taking regular breaks on the computer (i.e. 20 seconds after every 20 minutes), blinking more frequently and occasionally lubricating the eyes in the form of eye drops. I personally found the vita to be the most comfortable and unfortunately we don’t have the total 30s just yet in Australia. Blue light is probably not going to do too much here

@@AntonioTheOptom thank you. With vita, I have a hard time reading on the computer. Is that normal? How should I optimize it?

Best thing to do is to get it seen by an optometrist to see whether a smaller/larger BC makes a significant difference 👍

This is very interesting. What values ​​do you have for astigmatism?

I personally wouldn’t be able to tell the difference of 0.015mm in my eyes but every eye is different and I would encourage you to trial them with your optometrist first!

Not really unless you have protein build up on the lenses that you can clean off

My faves are either Acuvue Oasys 2-weekly or Coopervision Uvicia (no particular preference between the two)

I personally use the Acuvue Oasys 1-day for playing basketball and other sports

🤔 do I risk a microbial keratitis for a video... 😂😂

I mean it’s not ideal if the sand gets into the eye but it’s not the end of the world if you do 👍

I’m going to have to try it! 😁

I have 1.00 on my left eye and 2.25 on my right and right has astigmatism. Is that normal?

I have a spherical prescription but Vita is MUCH a better than Oasys. I had been using Oasys from around 2009 and switched to Vita in 2018. Vita stays comfortable for much longer and feels more comfortable even when new.

Have you found an answer to this question elsewhere? My left eye has that problem,where as my right eye does not.

It does make a difference to the amount of evaporation that occurs! 👍

Why were you put on Acuvue 2? It’s a very out of date lens, came out in 1999. It’s a hydrogel lens with very low oxygen transmission compared to modern silicone hydrogel lenses. Air Optix is a silicone hydrogel but originally came out in 2008. Air Optix with HydraGlyde is the same lens but updated in 2016 with a different surface treatment. The flagship monthly lenses out right now are Alcon Total 30, Acuvue Vita, Bausch and Lomb Ultra, and CooperVision Biofinity. They’re much more updated and healthier for your eyes.

@@RSWDev I honestly don’t know. But I will be going back to them.

Lenses are awesome because it’s basically like temporary lasik that you can switch on and off so I wear them when I play sport or a night out but I prefer wearing glasses at work mainly because I genuinely enjoy wearing glasses - allows me to style my look better but also because contact lens overwear can make the eyes unhappy let alone the costs that stack up from wearing them consistently

@@AntonioTheOptom I'm currently getting fit Corning's Dreamlens OrthoK (night lenses) because I really want to get rid of my glasses (I hate how I get a slightly blurred vision if I don't look perfectly straight through the center). However, the optometrists has switched the night lenses two times so far and it's still not an acceptable vision (halos at night and dim light). Before trying OrthoK, I tried basically every monthly soft lens out there, but it was always too dry. Also tried RGP twice (like glass shards...). Somehow, I completely forgot about the option of wearing dailies on a daily basis. As they only have to last a single day, the are thinner than monthlies and thus should be more comfy. As there seems to be quite an innovation going on with dailies (Total1, INFUSE), I'm excited to try them out after my night lens experiment. Any opinion on my situation? Cost doesn't really matter to me as you can tell from my trial of OrthoK's (70$/month). I have a video suggestion: Comparison of spectacles lens models. I'm curious how much aberration, weight etc. can be eliminated by choosing the most expensive one vs. a cheap lens. When buying new glasses, my optometrists just says "well this Zeiss lens model is thinner and lighter than that one", but he can't give me objective numbers to compare, which makes me crazy ;)

@@taulvi oh wow that’s a good idea, I might have to figure out a way of testing those aberrations 😁

Not massively, did you use Toric lenses?

@@AntonioTheOptom I use spherical lenses and have a very minor astigmatism (-0.5 L, -0.75 R). I find that the Acuvue contacts provide me with crystal clear vision and don't give me any eye strain especially when looking at objects close up. I can't say this for any of the other lenses, which is weird to me because B+L and CooperVision seem to make sharp optics (aspheric backbone) a selling point for their lens.

@@gatherfarmen7843 I think the optical quality differences of contacts is something that isn't discussed enough. For example i find that BL ultra gives me better contrast vision than biofinity. Biofinity also seems to be more sensitive to sunshine (if I wear a cap it improves vision quality) but apart from That I like biofinity for its sharp vision. When it comes to multifocal lenses Ultra is way better for me though.

@@JG-ke7gj I've also noticed that Biofinity makes everything very bright on sunny days, very uncomfortable, and colors were washed out and lack of contrast. Coopervision Myday 1-day contacts were much better, so are Acuvue Oasys 1-day, they don't have any of those issues.

@@musicchinook4009 I haven't tried the Myday lenses yet but I thought about doing it so thanks for the feedback. I've been experimenting with Oasys vita and so far they are the sharpest I tried for distance vision and have great contrast as well. Near vision isn't that great. Also acuvue multifocal is by far the best multifocal I tried for both near and far vision. The new alcon total 30 spherical lens gives great near vision for a normal lens (almost feels like it had a slight addition) but at the cost of slightly less sharp distance vision compared to acuvue vita. Next week I'll be trying out acuvue oasis for Astigmatism and compare them with biofinity toric. Hoping they'll give better contrast and stability...

It's stated clearly on the packaging

Hmmm I honestly don’t think a change in 0.1mm in base curve will make a big difference....

@@AntonioTheOptom Alright, I ordered a test set and will let another optometrist have a look, thanks! Nice video too by the way, very informative 🙌🏻.

@@papafranku8657 thanks Frank the Dank!

Inconclusive at the moment, they don’t have a Toric option just yet which means I can’t really test the digital zone optics on the lenses.. need to wait for the Toric version to be released

Maybe if you don't get any water in your eyes. I totally forgot to think about it one time and looked under water like usual, and later realized that the contacts had floated away during the swim.

@@XDuralexX This summer i was wearing my contact while swimming with my swimming goggles. It was nice expiriance 😊

No worries!

@@AntonioTheOptom You answered all my questions about Acuvue Vita in this one video! New subscriber :)

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Great question! The ideal method is to have prescription goggles (but I find they are quite difficult to find and especially if your prescription is high you are left with no other options) so the next best alternative is to use daily disposable lenses because if the pool water gets into your eye it might soak into the lens, so dispose of the lenses after you’re done swimming. Probably not the best idea to use monthly lenses for swimming 👍

welcome!

I try my best with my skincare routine 😂

@@AntonioTheOptom Need to know what skin care routine you have - I like to take 20 years off my age.

@@CherylRiderhaa ha