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Assuming they can. I can't - they don't fix my eyesight. That's actually quite common.

Dalies are great if you can have them but they don't fix all conditions.

What about your vision is such that dailies can't correct for it, but other contacts can?

Is it that you can't make use of "soft" contacts in general for this, or just (presumably) that making contacts to correct for this would be sufficiently costly for daily disposibles as to be infeasible?

Not the parent, but in my case - mild astigmatism - dailies are too big and floppy and don't stay put on my eye. 14 or 30 day are thicker and easier to put in. I use them rarely - just for skiing, and I end up using the 14 day ones once or twice and then throwing them away. But the daily ones are just mechanically awkward and uncomfortable.

Try different brands. My wife had the same problem when she went to an astigmatism lense they were too floppy and very difficult but persisted and changed brand/type (still dailies) and they're much better.

Stuff is changing all the time

Yeah, I wear daily disposable contacts for doing LARP stuff where being hit over the head with rubber swords isn't uncommon, and I am increasingly astigmatic; my old optician was unable to find daily disposables that would correct the astigmatism [ * ], while my new optician could. (The new contacts are amazing.) It's totally worth keeping looking.

[ * ] Wearing lenses that correct for short-sightedness but not astigmatism is weird. I can see perfectly well, except that text is unreadable. Just text. I wonder if this is how dyslexics feel.

Additionally, I normally wear glasses, and whenever I put my lenses in my first thought is always 'wow, my feet are huge!'...

I have found a few dailies that correct fairly severe astigmatism and is comfortable to wear. They work, when they stay put. Unfortunately they tend to rotate ever so slightly every now and then, and it so annoying that I'm back to glasses

Hm, I have mild astigmatism as well, but I've never explored whether or not I could get dailies. Good to know.

I'm on dailies with astigmatism and it has gone well. Ask your eye doctor about your options.

Irregular thickness of the cornea.

Literally impossible to correct with soft lenses.

It's hard lenses or a (risky) cornea transplant really (other options like intacs could help but not fix it)

kerataconus, which involves mild to severe astigmatism and a deformed cornea. from what i've read, it's a bit of both. there's a couple of newish soft contact designs i've heard of, but also there's the cost. at a point, glasses don't even provide sufficient correction.

It's not astigmatism but it's often misdiagnosed as such first due to similar presentation of symptoms.

I actually have Pellucid which is often mistaken for Kerataconus so I did the whole shebang of diagnosis!

When I first got contacts, dailies weren't available in my correction (mildly shortsighted with strong astigmatism). By the time I needed a second batch they had become available. Things change, maybe you could get your optometrist to order some samples for you?

I'm quite aware but I have a thickness of the cornea issue so it has to be hard lenses.

Mine are fancy and have a soft "skirt" on the edges that make them larger but VERY comfortable.

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