Wearing Contact Lenses Before Lasik?

If you wear contact lenses and are thinking of undergoing lasik, you will have to stop wearing contact lenses for a few weeks.

Why?
Contact lenses change the shape of your cornea for up to several weeks after you have stopped using them depending on the type of contact lenses you wear.

Soft contact lenses, Stop wearing contact lenses for 2 weeks before your initial evaluation.

Toric soft lenses or rigid gas permeable (RGP) lenses -Stop wearing contact lenses for at least 3 weeks before your initial evaluation.

Hard lenses -Stop wearing contact lenses for at least 4 weeks before your initial evaluation.