How to order contacts with no prescription?
This is of course one of our most common questions or searches regarding contacts and no prescriptions. You can't get contacts if you've NEVER had a prescription but if you had one and it expired then you have options. Follow these easy steps to get contacts with no prescription from the UK.
1. Use this link to buy contacts with no prescription.
2. On the LensPlanet site choose your base curve, lens diameter and eye power for both eyes... if you don't know this information stop at this point and make an appointment with your eye doctor - and then add an email address to create an account and hit the checkout button.
3. Select United States from the country drop down and put your State in the County field and your City in the Town field. Zip code goes in Post code and the rest is obvious. That's all there is to it.
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Is it illegal for a person who lives in the US to order contacts without prescriptions online?
We don't think so but if someone can point to some statutes or laws or examples of US citizens being prosecuted for buying contacts without a prescription online we will update this article and post or link to any legitimate links or articles of authority. Please read the question carefully before sending examples of laws regarding the selling of contact lenses without prescription for US based businesses. We understand it is illegal for any US based company (retail or online) to sell contacts without performing a prescription verification. This has long been established and is well known. Our question is specific to the buyer of the lenses and not the seller. For example as anyone ever been prosecuted for buying their contacts without a current prescription from a source outside the US that ships contacts world wide?
There are generally 2 types of transactions involved when someone speaks of contacts without a prescription. The first is when someone is actually looking to purchase color contacts or cosmetic lenses that do not come in prescription strength and so do not correct vision. The second is when someone who has an expired prescription wishes to buy a refill of their contacts without prescriptions verification so they can continue to see properly without spending the money to go back to the eye doctor each year. This is not recommended if your eye sight has been changing over the past few years. Even with the first scenario it's important to understand it is still illegal for a US based company to sell non-prescription contacts without a prescription verification. Why? Because in the US even non-prescription, plano or non-vision correcting contact lenses are considered medical devices and as such can not legally be dispensed in a US based shop or shipped to a US address from an online retailer with operations based in the US. While this is absolutely the law selling non-prescription colored contacts is a huge Internet business and many stores sell and ship these products to the united states. Circle lenses, cosmetic contact lenses, colored contacts and many more variations are growing in popularity and continue to cause headaches for FDA officials that want to restrict all contact lens purchases to prior approval by certified eye care professionals.
Please offer any refuting or supporting links and we will do our best to update this page accordingly.
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Should you buy contact lenses without a valid Doctor's Script or Rx?
Note that the keyword in this topic or question is 'should' not if it's possible. While there are other articles on this website that tell you how you can buy contact lenses online without a current prescription this one provides some advice as to why you should cough up the $100 or so which is the average cost for a current contact lenses prescription from a certified eye doctor without insurance. Yes it can be expensive if you are on a tight budget and especially if you have to get a new eye glasses prescription as a result of the eye exam. And if you are getting the eye exam so you can keep your script current to purchase a refill of contact lenses then you will have that expense as well. But... it's your eyes and so if you can afford it and you think there is a chance that your current or recently expired prescription may need to be changed for optimal vision then you should absolutely get your Rx updated. After all who wants to buy contact lenses that don't correct your vision as well as they could. About the only scenario where some people might agree it wouldn't be too bad to skip an exam and buy contacts without prescriptions would be for those of us 30+ that have had the same prescription validated with an annual exam for multiple years in a row with no changes at all.
In the mid 2000's a group of eye care providers actually presented options to the FDA to provide multi-year prescriptions based on published criteria that would include age, length of time wearing eye glasses or contact lenses and the number of script changes throughout the patients history wearing corrective lenses. To many educated people this sort of intelligent prescription writing is exactly what is needed in the US and the FDA's lack of consideration of these options is what gives critics ammunition to suggest that the current FDA laws are more economical in nature than they are to protect consumers.
In summary we strongly suggest that if you aren't very certain your script has not changed since your last eye exam you should take the time and incur the expense and only buy contacts online with no verification if you are confident your existing prescription and vision will get you 20/20 vision.
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