Toric as in, with little weights put in right? We had those, they wouldn't even hold up enough for ballroom dancing let alone figure skating. And eventually, all lenses just dropped off my eye slipping under my lower eyelids no matter what we tried - I'm guessing the fact that my upper eyelids are turned inside because of the scar tissue has something to do with this.

I also barely have a fluid layer on my eyes (we tried dripping fake fluid but I needed to drip every several minutes to keep up a normal fluid balance) and we tried some special air-permeable lenses that absorb fluid and thus don't need fluid from your eyes which apparently works for just about everybody except me and some other weird case the optician heard about at a seminar. He also consulted a ton of his collegues and the producers and nobody seemed to have a solution.

We even tried lenses that you never take out (yeah those exist as well). Those were the most comfortable of all, and we did get the best results with those, but nowhere near enough. They're also expensive as hell so not really an option to have just for skating.


I'm thinking I *might* try it with soft, disposable lenses sometime in the future that correct only the non-astigmatism part and leave the astigmatism alone. Maybe I'll see enough to see the boarding with those, but with -4.75 cilinder I'm guessing I'll still be pretty disoriented even with the rest of the problems corrected.



Anyway thanks for your views If glasses don't hurt, we'll stick with glasses.

This was why I started wearing lenses for skating - not that I ever did that, but one of my coach's other adult skaters did, and he said if you can wear lenses, please do.

And now I use bifocal spectacles, so couldn't possibly skate in them. If, for any reason, I can't wear my lenses, I skate "blind", which I hate, but can do. My lenses don't give me totally perfect vision (plus I need reading-glasses with them!), but good enough for skating and driving, and shopping afterwards! Toric lenses aren't quite as good as spectacles for people with severe astigmatism, but I do find them a superb second-best!

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