Can I wear contact lenses after Lasik?

The general rule is that if you were comfortable wearing contact lenses prior to laser vision correction, you can still wear the Custom Gas Permeable and Hybrid Contact Lenses after laser eye surgery is over 6 months.

While lasik surgery may vastly improve your eyesight, however it may not fix every vision problem or may not be able to correct your vision as much as you may have hoped. In other cases someone may want to wear contact lenses that change the color of their eyes.

LASIK

The best way to discover if you can wear contacts after you have had LASIK Eye Surgery is to give your eyes plenty of opportunity to heal. It is advised that giving your eyes 6 months to heal after Lasik is best before deciding to put anything into your eye.

Once you have given your eye plenty of opportunity to heal then visit your Optometrist discuss your desire to wear contacts and allow him to exam and remeasure your eyes to see if contacts are a viable option.

Because LASIK and other laser refractive surgery can significantly alter the shape of the cornea, fitting contact lenses on a post-surgery eye is more challenging than fitting lenses on a normally shaped cornea. In these circumstances, Custom Gas Permeable and Hybrid Contact Lenses may be your best solution, especially if a follow-up Lasik procedure or enhancement is not possible. Because gas permeable contacts are rigid, they maintain their shape on the eye, unlike soft lenses that drape the cornea, losing their shape.