1-Day Acuvue

sarikasap · #1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 04:54 PM

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using 1-Day Acuvue in comparision with other brands?

Why do some patients prefer daily use contacts to longer use contacts?

What is the typical monthly cost of 1-Day Acuvue contact lenses?

KSCbase · #2 (**permalink**) 02-22-2008, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by sarikasap

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using 1-Day Acuvue in comparision with other brands?

Why do some patients prefer daily use contacts to longer use contacts?

What is the typical monthly cost of 1-Day Acuvue contact lenses?

Hi sarikasap,

Welcome to Lens 101. Are you new to the forum?

To answer your questions, I can't really give you a comparison with other brands, because I've never tried anything else, so hopefully someone else will see this and be able to answer that question for you.

As far as the advantages of one-day contact lenses, the biggest one in my mind is the fact that you don't have to worry about cleaning solutions. You wear them once, throw them away, then put in a fresh new pair each day. There's no buildup of impurities on your contacts, and so they are better then like new each day, they ARE new.

Now with the cost, that will depend on where you get them. My suggestion would be to shop around on line and look for the middle price range. You probably don't want to go with the ones that are the cheapest, because they may lack quality.
Another thing you may want to try is to ask around among your contact-lens-wearing friends.

Well, I hope that was helpful to you.

KSCbase.

tmostuff · #3 (**permalink**) 04-19-2008, 03:54 AM

I have to agree the benefit of 1-Day Acuvue lenses is you don't have to worry about cleaning them. I've done the math and it appears there isn't much cost difference between 1-Day Acuvue and extended wear contact lenses.

bubble · #4 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 02:43 PM

The positive is that they are disposable, and you dont need to mess around washing them with expensive solutions at the end of every day.

psimonk · #5 (**permalink**) 01-04-2009, 03:52 PM

That would be really great for some people, its easy, put them in every day, toss them at the end, get new ones out of the box in the morning.

I wear monthly lenses.

KSCbase · #6 (**permalink**) 11-13-2009, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by tmostuff

I have to agree the benefit of 1-Day Acuvue lenses is you don't have to worry about cleaning them. I've done the math and it appears there isn't much cost difference between 1-Day Acuvue and extended wear contact lenses.

Hi tmostuff. You say you've done the math. Would you care to--as they say in school--"show your work"? What numbers did you crunch and how to arrive at your conclusion.

Not that I'm doubting you, mind you. I just want to see the steps.