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Tancred · Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 9:07 pm Post subject: contact lens solution

well, i can't think of a more banal question than this, but i hope it garners a response or two...

Is it possible to buy contact lens solution in this country? recently i've been wearing my glasses a lot but frankly i've tired of the look. Can one buy this stuff anywhere?

Thanks...

T.

kimcheeking · Guest

Contact solution is available anywhere and everywhere.

Find an eyeglass shop and ask for re-nu. Althernatively you can go to carrefour and buy it there. Some convenience stores (buy-the-way, 7-11, LG-25) carry it as well. I buy mine at a local eyeglass shop for 5,000 won a bottle.

KK

Tancred · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 3:42 pm Post subject:

oh...okay...i guess i feel a little silly asking now. For some reason i assumed it would be more difficult to procure some. Thanks KCK.

T.

blah · Joined: 08 May 2003 Location: Ulsan, Korea

Is it also possible to get solution for gas permeable (not soft) contacts? I have Boston Lenses. I have not actually arrived yet.

Thanks

crazylemongirl · Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...

I found it cheaper here than back home (new zealand). I felt really silly for packing so much of the renu stuff.

CLG

matesol · Joined: 23 Jan 2003

I wanted to post this before in the "Lasik" column, but it was locked. DON'T get contact, don't get Lasik surgery, DO EYE EXERCISES! I was thinking about Lasik surgery for a long while. Thank God I didn't get it! If you are near sighted, or if you have other eye conditions, far sighted, etc, you can rebuild your vision without glasses, eye contacts or surgery. Glasses are only a CRUTCH. I ordered this eye program and IT IS WORKING! www.rebuildyourvision.com

There are two opinions about this. 1) Some people in the establishment say it is pure quackery, snake oil, etc. However some in the establishment are saying that it is getting harder and harder to refute. 2) The people who say it works say the "establishment" doesn't want the general public to know about it because contemporary eye care is worth billions of dollars annualy. I wanted to find out for sure, so I did a little research on the net. Here are some interesting facts:

1) When Russia still had Tsars, some men with perfeclty good vision would go out and get "negative lenses" and wear them for a few weeks before having a medical exam due to consription. They lesnes would threw their eyes out of whack temporarily and the would not have to be conscripted due to bad vision. One Austrian optometrist in the 19th centurty had a great treatment for near sightedness. He gave patients exactly the opposite kind of glasses that they "needed" to see better. For example, if someone was near sighted, he gave them positive (as opposed to negative) glasses that would make things far away even hard to see. What this would do is cause the lense of the eye to work even hard to focus. I am going to get some glasses like this myself shortly.

Near sightedness is caused from constant focusing on things that are close to your eyes. (Thus, it is true, bookworms eventually need glasses.) What happens is this. When you continually focus on something close to your eyes, the lens of the eye, which is basically a muscle, starts to conform to the shape that lets you focus on things closer to your eye. It become semi permanent. If you can do exercises, this muscle becomes more and more flexible, just like any other muscle in the body. When the lense of the eye eye become more flesible, you can see things far away much better. (Your lense in your eye tenses up to see things close to you, and relaxes to see things far away.)

Here is a webpage that gives pretty convincing evidence that near sightedness can be corrected NATURALLY! :

http://www.i-see.org/

This is the eye exercise program I am presently using:

http://www.rebuildyourvision.com

Although I think this one is better:

http://www.beyond2020vision.com/

I any case, I found that the program works better if you do the exercises twice daily. They recommend once. I think twice works better for me because I am on vacation now, and have been doing a lot of reading. (having books close to my eyes.)

Also, I ordered glasses like these and they really work:

http://www.pinholeglasses.org/

If you want to prove that they work do this. Take your glasses off. Look at something that is blurry. Now, use a pen or a pencil to pierce a small hole in a piece of paper. Now look at the object that was blurry through the hole. It will now be clear. Pin hole glasses train your eyes to see better. Wear them 2 to 3 hours daily. I ordered the Sunglasses version, so that I can wear them and eople won't notice they are pinhole glasses. (They do work, but they do look kind of geeky.)

You have Nothing to lose but your GLASSES!!!

matesol

krats1976 · Joined: 14 May 2003

In an effort to keep from posting duplicate posts, I'm resurrecting an old one. Laughing

So, I've seen the 1-step contact solutions--Renu & the like--but that's all I can find. Unfortunately, those don't work for my hyper-sensative eyes. Anyone know where I can find a peroxidal solution? I also need an actual cleaner. I usually use Lens Plus cleaner and Ultracare disinfecting solution, if anyone's familiar with those.

Any ideas?

The Lemon · Joined: 11 Jan 2003

I'm surprised your sensitive eyes are crying out for the 3% hydrogen peroxide stuff. I stopped using that almost 15 years ago *because* my eyes are sensitive - I never seemed to rinse enough of it off of the lenses before putting it in my eye, and on a couple of occasions mistook the "peroxide" bottle for the "saline" bottle, thus injecting hydrogen peroxide onto my eye - OUCH!

The Renu/all purpose stuff, in whatever form, is (for me) far more gentle on the eyes, as you can apply it directly to the eyes if you want.

I haven't actually seen the hydrogen peroxide stuff around ("AOsept", etc) but I'm sure it's here.

krats1976 · Joined: 14 May 2003

Guest · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 12:47 am Post subject:

a related question on the topic of contact lenses....
back home i was told that they were still working on getting contact lense for my type of vision...where the contact lens cannot swirl around but has to say bottom heavy...
so its posibble korea are a bit more jacked...does anyone know about this type of lens and could i get by without any korean at the local optometrist?
i.e. do they give machine tests or verbal tests or both? and how much is it?
thanks for any help....

krats1976 · Joined: 14 May 2003

blake,

Are you talking about toric lenses? For a stigmatism perhaps? I've been wearing them for 3 or 4 years. They're readily available in the States, but I don't know about here.

krats

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

While we're on the topic. . .

I was wearing the same contacts for 5 years (which is far too long) and finally decided to get new ones. I went to the optometrist yesterday -- no appointment, no wait. Eyes tested, had my prescription in 15 minutes for 19,000 won. Went to a shop and bought daily disposible lenses (one month 75,000), but you can get two-week disposibles and other kinds for less.

My eyes have rarely been happier.

The Lemon · Joined: 11 Jan 2003