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MJ3000
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MJ3000 asked in HealthOptical · 1 decade ago

Do I have to remove my contact lenses for an eye exam?

Do I have to remove my contact lenses for an eye exam? My vision is really bad (-11.5), and I hate wearing my glasses.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    You should wear your contacts to your exam and bring in information about what you are wearing. If I was testing your eyes, one of the first things I would do would be to look at your present lenses on your eyes. Then I would refract over your contacts. This would give me more accurate information about what you need in your contacts than testing your eyes without contacts will give. At some point, you would need to take your contacts out. People who are as nearsighted as you are need their eyes dilated regularly. That along with several other tests need to be done with your contacts out.

    Source(s): optometrist
  • 1 decade ago

    Yes you will but can you not take them out when you are there? The optician will take them out for you if you have a problem. Contact lens wearers should really give their eyes a break from lenses and wear glasses for a while every six months

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Wear the contacts to your exam but take your glasses with you in case you need them. Sometimes they will evaluate your sight with the contacts on then have you take them off and do the full exam. If they are a new pair they will have you put them in a case but if they are old they will have you throw them away and then give you a new pair after the exam.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    0. this is genuine. positioned on your contacts to the examination so your surgeon can examine how properly you notice with them and teach you some transformations over them. it may additionally be effective in case you deliver alongside your prescription for what you presently positioned on.

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  • 1 decade ago

    yes

  • 1 decade ago

    yes you will have to take them off.

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