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[osmar]

I have hard contact lenses. All the cleaning solutions in Thailand appear to be for soft contact lenses.
Can anyone advise please.

Thanks
Carl

[zaphodbeeblebrox]

Same here. I knew there was a problem getting RGP (rigid gas permeable) solutions in Thailand, so when I moved here, I brought a 2 year supply. I'm thinking that a large private hospital might be able to get these. I've asked about this on other boards, and no one seems to have a clue. After 35 years of wearing hard lenses, if I can't get the solutions, I am going to switch to soft contact lenses.

[Inthai]

there's a shop on 2nd floor Central Silom selling Boston Advanced products, check it out, this is only optician seen selling them, name of shop is Wellington as far as i remember

[zaphodbeeblebrox]

Inthai, on 2008-07-23 23:12:18, said:

there's a shop on 2nd floor Central Silom selling Boston Advanced products, check it out, this is only optician seen selling them, name of shop is Wellington as far as i remember

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[Inthai]

my pleasure!

took me some time to find this shop but Bangkok is a city where any product from around world can be found, so definitely there must a business selling solutions for hard lenses, Wellington is way to go!!

Secret's OUT!

Cheers!

[osmar]

Thank you for this help. much appreciated.

Carl

[spr&q]

You might inquire at Rutnin Eye Hospital, the nation's leading opthalmologist.
Call 02 639 3333 / 3399

[jm49er1]

Inthai, on 2008-07-23 23:12:18, said:

there's a shop on 2nd floor Central Silom selling Boston Advanced products, check it out, this is only optician seen selling them, name of shop is Wellington as far as i remember

if you are in Pattaya you can also buy Boston Advance products for gas permeable lens at Siam Drug store in the Big C shopping center on 2nd road - first floor - there are stocked as a regular product - both the cleaning solution and the wetting solution

[ColinChapman]

Also Siam Eye Clinic, 420/5-6 Siam Square Soi 1, 02 251 9576 or 02 252 9474, who also sell RGP contact lenses. I have had several pairs from them, very comfortable, no problems.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Inthai, on 2008-07-23 23:12:18, said:

there's a shop on 2nd floor Central Silom selling Boston Advanced products, check it out, this is only optician seen selling them, name of shop is Wellington as far as i remember

A bit of an update here... I was noodling around in the Silom Complex yesterday and spotted a shop there on the second floor with both Boston cleaning and soaking solution bottles in their window display. They gave me a card with the name Rajadamri Optical. Not sure if it's the same one referenced above, but I'd suspect so.

But since the Silom Complex will be closing for renovation in Jan. 2011, the shop operator advised that for the next 6 months to year while the mall is closed that they'll have the same Boston solution products at their other shop nearby in the Thaniya Plaza, which is on the opposite side of Silom Road, second floor, phone 02-632-7597.

The manager of the Silom Complex shop said he did expect that they would reopen their shop there, as well, after the mall renovation is completed. As for pricing, he said they sell the pair of Boston Advance bottles -- one cleanser and one conditioner -- for 650 baht.

Another nearby shop that definitely sells the two Boston brand solutions for RGP lenses is the Paris Miki Optical shop on the second floor of the Siam Center mall next to Siam Paragon. 370 baht for the conditioner and 330 baht for the cleanser.

There also used to be a second shop also on the second floor of the Siam Center that sold the two Boston solutions... But in checking with them this week, they said they no longer stock them and won't for the future.

The thing that's been more difficult for me is finding an eye doctor here who knows anything about fitting and prescribing RGP lenses... I found one M.D. on Sukhumvit Road near Soi 20 who specializes in various aspects of hard contact lenses. Dr. Vitaya Kritalukkul who goes under the business name of Bangkok Refraction Hospital. 02-259-4159.

But I use a special kind of orthokeratology lens that apparently isn't directly available in Thailand. So as best as I recall, the same lens that I have fitted and purchased in the U.S. for around $350 was going to cost about $1,000 here, as best I recollect his quotation. But I don't think I asked him at the time about options for more generic RGP lenses.

If anyone else has direct experience with an eye doctor here who knows their way around prescibing hard contact lenses, both the fitting and acquisition of them, please do chime in with any recommendations.

Every time I find a shop that stocks the RGP solutions, I ask them about a doctor who handles the lenses. And they haven't been much help in that regard thus far.

As for Rutnin Eye Hospital, I've never inquired of them myself. But there have been other past reports by members here indicating that 1) they'd only do full package fitting and lense purchases, not just replacement lenses, and 2) that it's difficult to set up an appointment there with one of their doctors who actually knows anything about RGP lenses, since they always run you thru the eye exam mill first before assigning an eye doctor.

Edited by TallGuyJohninBKK, 2011-12-24 20:57:05.