For all of you that don't know this, I wear glasses normally, but I've taken to wearing false eyelashes (which rub up against my glasses when I wear them), so I wanted to get contact lenses so that I could see better with them on. My vision is actually not that bad, it's like a -1.00 for my right eye and a -1.25 for my left eye, I just wanted 20/20 vision when wearing my eyelashes.
I usually go to River Vally Vision for my eye appointments, so I called them to make an appointment for a contact fitting. They were charging
$200 for a fitting! And you only got a month's supply of contact lenses with that! So I decided to look for another eye doctor to go to. I called a couple places and found one that did the fitting (and gave you a month's worth of contacts) for $20! That's like,
90% cheaper! (I can't do math, you figure it out). I decided to go to them, so I went into my regular eye clinic and asked them for my information because I wanted to get contacts at another eye place. The freakin' lady REFUSED to give me my information because she said that it
wouldn't work for contacts. She made up this total bullshit story about how you can't use your glasses prescription for your contact prescription because contacts are ON your eyes, and glasses aren't. I didn't know any better, so I was like, "Yeah, ok, that makes sense." and went home, only to find out that it works fine, and she just didn't want me to go anywhere else for my contacts. Then when I called in later to ask her about it, she kept to her story about how it can't work. (I eventually got my information, but it was a couple days later). That pissed me off so much! I was a loyal customer to them (until the contacts) so she shouldn't be such a snob. I know they want to keep customers, but lying to them isn't going to make them want to stick around. I sure as hell don't want to after that.
After I got my information, I went to the other eye place and made an appointment, they said it was no problem, and that the information was all they needed (stupid River Vally Vision...) and my contacts would be ready in
TWO DAYS. How awesome is that? I went back in for my fitting, she put the contacts in and had me take them out. It took me 10 minutes to get the left one out (I'm right handed, so it was easier). After that I tried to get the right one out. And tried. And tried. And tried some more. Guess how long I sat there trying to pry that damn thing out of my skull?
One hour and thirty minutes.
And I didn't even get it out. The (extremely nice) lady had to gouge it out of my eye with her fingers. I sat there and rubbed my eyes for a good minute after that because they were so irritated.
I got another appointment to try it again, but when I sat down to put them in my eyes, I couldn't do it. I just sat there for ten minutes feeling upset and panicky (because of what happened last time). It was so pathetic! I was so disappointed in myself, but hey, what can you do. I now have a fear of contacts. Stupid things...
The lady didn't charge me a thing though! Even though she ordered the contacts, and I had used up two pairs of them. Thank goodness I didn't go to the other place and pay $200 to fail at taking them out (they make you pay upfront).
I hope you enjoyed my horror story about contacts. I will never attempt at getting them again. Screw that. I'll just wear my pretty eyelashes and have a bit of blurry vision. I can live with that.