Contact lenses (at Boots)

roughly 2 weeks worth, but you can ask for another weeks worth of dailys for free if needed

Oh and you'll get used to them pretty quickly, its all about practise!

edit: Im not with boots, but i got 2 weeks supply (they mentioned it as standard procedure anywhere you go) and came back and asked for a further 2 weeks dailies cus i was still adjusting to it... they ordered it for free.

Hey truecolours...don't worry about the lenses, I recently went through my trial and found I could easily get the contact in my right eye, but not my left. If your eye gets red and you keep jabbing at your eye to put the lense in, i suggest you take a 5 minute break, so your eyes are less red. Always take a break if you find yourself getting frustrated as hell. Usually, after, you can just pop it in when you're relaxed.

Also, do you pay for every single appointment you have with Boots? Isn't that expensive. I wanna go with another company but it costs like £25 for each appointment you take with them, whther it's a check-up or consultation.

Heya,

yeah after the 4 weeks of free trials i payed.

Btw how old are you? cus you can get some form of discount if your below 18, il be 17 next month & got a test, 1 months worth of contacts and 250ml saline solution for free

When you clean your lens, try not too use tap water cus it can easily contaminate your lens... solutions cheap and prevents eye damage!

good luck with trial.

I had my first appointment about getting contact lenses about two weeks ago now... to be honest; I found it all a bit confusing. I have another appointment this week when I think they are going to teach me how to put the lenses in, etc and then check how the new lenses they've ordered for me are. I'll have to check this when I go, but from what I've gathered this is like a trial - if these lenses suit me then I can buy them, if I don't like them then I suppose they'll give me some different ones to try?

Does anyone know how long they give you to try the lenses out for? I'm quite nervous about getting contact lenses actually; I'm very sensitive about my eyes. I bet it will take me ages to even put them on.

If its your first time and if you seem pretty confident about them then I guess they'll give you them for anytime up to 1-4 weeks.
They'll probly give you the daily one's, and they are so comfortable you will probably forget you've got them in after 5 minutes! They're pretty easy to deal with once you've got the hang of it, Ive had contacts since I was 13 and it only took me a few days to perfect putting them in, taking them out etc. Good luck!

Don't worry! It took me ages to get them on! At one point, I wanted to give up. DON'T!! It takes a bit of guts to put a foreign object on your eye, and it takes some time for your body to acknowledge this foreign object. Lol, maybe it's just me!

But the truth is, it's like cycling - once you got the hang of it, you will never have trouble.

They seriously are so comfortable, they feel a bit odd when you first have them in, but its not painful or even uncomfortable really, it just feels weird because its not normal to have something in your eye lol.

i just got some daily ones myself . the monthly ones would pop out of my eyes occasionally and were uncomfortable but these are great (apparently dailys are thinner than monthlys). for the first day you wear them for about 4 hours, then 6, 8 and work your way up to 12 which is supposed to be the max.