The Truth About the 1 Day Acuvue Contact Lens

For the last three years I've been wearing the 1 Day Acuvue Contact Lens.  Now I've been wearing contacts for about thirty years so contacts aren't new to me.  But a 1 day lens was a new idea.  Frankly, I thought it was crazy.  The whole idea of throwing contacts away after only wearing them one day made no sense to me.  But I went along with the eye doctor and I learned.  See, fresh lenses every day and no maintenance has some real advantages.  Here are a few...

Fresh lenses every day give you that new lens vision every day.  Over time contacts just get dirty.  It may be from actual dirt or built up of proteins or other stuff, but older lenses don't give you the same vision as perfectly clean, new lenses.  Fresh lenses give sharp vision.  There's this too...

No cleaning.  That means no chemicals to buy and keep up with.  It also means no time spent on cleaning, disinfecting and all the other maintenance that usually goes along with wearing contacts.  Between the chemicals and the time saved, that may be a quite large saving.  Clean, fresh lenses do more too...

Because dirty lenses and lots of handling may lead to eye irritation or worse.  Eye infections arise from those dirty lenses too.  With fresh clean lenses every day, there's much less chance of any eye infection.  What's that worth?  Maybe quite a lot if you develop eye problems.

So it's just a lot more convenient and much less trouble if you use 1 Day contacts compared to lenses you wear longer.

Then there's the comfort issue too.  Now I've worn both the 1 Day models, but not every other Acuvue lens.  I can say based on my experience that these are the most comfortable lenses I've used.  I know the lenses are high in moisture.  In fact, they are mostly water.  But, I'm not sure just why they feel comfortable for long days.  The Moist version seems to be even better on my dry eyes. 

The advantages of the 1 Day lenses come with a price.  If you wear contacts every day, you'll use a lot of lenses.  Then again, maybe you don't wear contacts every day.  In either case, the lenses actually cost less per lens than the one or two week lenses.  It's just that you use more lenses.  The higher cost for the lenses is offset some since you don't need any kinds of chemicals and that's a savings.

The 1 Day Acuvue Contact Lens is just right for my needs.  You wear new lenses every day and don't have to ever clean and disinfect lenses.  That makes it a lot more convenient and less trouble.  The extra cost of lenses is somewhat offset since you don't need all the chemicals.