so have you ever heard of hubble contacts? if you have, it's probably because you've seen a
social media advertisement on instagram ,tick tock or facebook selling their hubble contacts
for just $1. yeah that's right, 30 contacts for just a $1! so is trying hubble contacts worth it?
well i got some, tried them out and there's a few things i think you should know about
before you try them out yourself so join me in my hubble contacts review, as we take a closer look
hey what's up there this isDr. Allen here from the Doctor Eye Health channel helping you learn about
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below so that you don't miss any of our future videos now today we're talking all about hubble
contact lenses, now again if you've never heard of hubble contacts they are a direct to consumer
marketing company that sells online contact lenses and again they're just a dollar or at least so it
starts. in fact if you check that out it's a dollar for about 30 contacts about a two-week
supply but afterwards suddenly the price goes up to about 39 a month and then just continually send
you out a month's subscription supply now before you go ahead and order anything up yourself let
me walk you through my experience we'll go through the ordering experience ordering the lenses we'll
go through wearing the contact lenses and just how it felt to have them on my eye and then we'll go
over the technology the lenses as well as the price starting off with the ordering experience
from hubble is pretty simple you just go to their website or you can see one of their advertisements
on your social media at the top it'll basically say hey get a contacts for just a dollar
you walk through it enter your prescription and hopefully they'll send you the lenses
now first off one thing i want to comment on being an eye care provider and other eye doctors we're
not stupid to the fact that a lot of people try to order their contacts online without a
valid prescription a lot of people will try to bypass this and just put in any number and hope
that they're able to get them now contact lens companies are supposed to verify your prescription
by contacting your eye care provider or you need to supply a copy of your valid prescription
and we know that there's online companies that fail to validate contact lens prescriptions so
i tried it out my individual contact lens prescription is a minus -5.50 in both eyes
and i wear the dailies total one by alkon so what i did is on their website i entered in
minus -5.25 slightly off trying to see if they would validate my prescription or if they're just
gonna send me lenses and hubble did a good thing they validated my prescription by contacting our
clinic and found that no my prescription was not correct and they would not send me the contacts
i even got an email saying hey sorry you need to contact your eye care clinic and validate
your prescription then reorder the lenses so hubble lenses at least when's a good point there
but the next problem was that then i entered my real prescription the next powers the minus -550s
but this brings up another issue where the contact lenses that i ordered were again hubble lenses but
the contact lenses on my prescription that i uploaded to their website was specifically
for daily's total one contact lenses and there is nothing similar between those two companies
the daily total one contact lens and the hubble lens do not have the same bass curve they do
not have the same diameter they're not the same seg height not the same lens design not the same
lens material the only thing that was similar between the two was the minus -550 power and
this is actually a big deal because in the united states the fda the food and drug administration
categorizes contact lenses as a class 2 or a class 3 medical device and by changing out
one contact lens brand for another is basically the same thing as your pharmacist switching out
your high blood pressure medication for your birth control pills they are not the same thing
and there's potential for causing bodily harm in fact the ftc the federal trade commission
explicitly says that an online contact lens company or a retailer cannot switch out one
brand for another unless they are exactly the same lens material just with a different name
and again there there's nothing similar between these two lenses so hubble big shame on you. but
this is not news to myself and other eye doctors there are many online companies that do this and
we know about it it's just i don't know if the ftc actually does anything. anyhow i put my order in
got my contact lenses a few days later in the mail and then went ahead and tried them
out the day that i wore them in both eyes my first impression putting them in was they were
pretty comfortable at least initially when i first put them in they they felt good they felt wettable
comfortable i could see out of them no big issues there and after about four hours or so they they
did feel a little bit dry i mean all contact lenses do tend to dry out and feel a little
uncomfortable after so many hours i went ahead and asked one of my doctors at my clinic to check on
them to see how they looked on my eye and here's a video quick of what it looked like on my eye
now here's the lens on my right eye on here you can see the lens is overall still fitting well
it's covering my cornea however it is feeling a little bit tight and you can clearly see the
optical zone on these lenses are pretty small and that means that the lens moves too much
the optical zone could go off every pupil and then your vision could fluctuate with these lenses
in addition these lenses also were drying out on the front surface pretty easily even the doctor
who is evaluating it they were able to see that just as i blinked the wettable surface just dried
out instantaneously the teeters just kind of moved off to the side of the lens and just to give you
a comparison here's another video of me wearing a newer contact lens from the Bausch and Lomb Infuse
one day line these lenses are basically top tier right now out on the market they're one
of the newest lenses there uh it fits very much flawlessly on the eye has no problems with dryness
and you can't even see a center optical zone of these lenses and they're the exact same powers
now the real big difference i had with the hubble lenses i noticed in the evening coming around
wearing the lenses for about eight to ten hours about six o'clock at night my eyes started to feel
red irritated and they were just they were sore it was a unique feeling with contacts i'm used
to dryness with contact but never actually felt like pain like a deep throbbing pain sensation
with contacts before but i went ahead and did the right thing my eyes were not feeling well
with contacts i took them out and typically after taking them out switching back to glasses the eyes
start to feel a little bit better but this didn't happen in fact my eyes continued to feel sore and
painful for the rest of the evening until about 10 or 11 o'clock at night when i finally went to bed
and i think i know why this happened and it has to do with the lens technology itself
now hubble contacts are a daily contact lens these are one time use lenses so you wear
them for one day you throw them away and then the next day you put in a fresh new pair and
there's a lot of positive benefits to having daily lenses versus monthly or two-week lenses
in fact i have a video on that if you want to learn more you're not sure what the pros and
cons are you can check out that video i'll put in the link description below but the big thing
with hubble contact lenses is that the material it's made out of called methafilcon A is an older
material originating from the 1980s and it has an oxygen transmissibility that in the eye care
world we denote as dk over t you've probably heard me mention this in other contact lens
uh review videos that i've done but the dk over t for this particular lens is around the 18 to
19 range which is well below the established standard for oxygen transmissibility in preventing
hypoxia to the eye you see back in the 1980s there were landmark studies that found that to prevent
hypoxia and corneal swelling on the eye that could potentially lead to complications damage
to the eye that the oxygen transmissibility measured at dk over t needed to at least be 24
for just daily wear lenses and they had to be much much higher for people who were wearing lenses
in an extended wear modality or they were sleeping in their contacts and that's why so many lenses
coming out today are all reaching a dk over t of usually at least about 100 or greater but there
still are many budget lenses out there with dk over t of at least 24 or higher so basically
the reason my eyes were so painful were because i wasn't getting oxygen to my eye and my eyes
were screaming meaning the corneas on my eye were likely swelling up new blood vessels were
trying to grow toward the eye and there could have been potential for possible infection and other
complications if i had continued to wear them and that's unfortunately the risk for wearing these
older technology for contact lenses and that's also the reason why i don't know any single doctor
that has ever prescribed hubble lenses now let's just take a step back and let's say hey
you can see all these lenses maybe for you they're comfortable maybe even your doctor
says that they that your eyes are just really tough as nails and you can handle that lower
oxygen amount to your eye then let's look at the price again it's one dollar for at least
your trial pairs lasting you two weeks but then the price again goes up to about 39 us dollars
every single month if you multiply that out for a year supply for both eyes it comes up to about
468 dollars plus the one dollar you spent for the trial so 469 dollars a year now for daily contact
lenses you may think wow that's actually a pretty good deal however when you compare it to other
lenses that are more on the affordability line of the daily lenses on the market you can get things
like the Bausch and Lomb bio true one day lenses or you can get the dailies aqua comfort plus
lenses or you can get the cooper vision clarity lenses all which have a much higher dk over t
than the hubble lenses and you can get them for much cheaper when buying your supply usually all
those lenses you can get for about the 250 to 300 us dollar range whether you're buying them online
or if you're buying them from your local eye care provider so really when it comes down
to it you think that you're getting a cheaper lens from hubble that's more convenient but in fact
you're overpaying for an older technology that's not anywhere near as comfortable or as healthy for
the eye as other lenses. now before i even went ahead and ordered lenses i heard from another
eye doctor friend that they tried it and there was an issue with canceling their subscription.
the problem is that i don't find their website to be very user friendly and there is no button or
easy way to cancel your order so even if you do go ahead and get the one dollar trial set you go on
their website to cancel it you don't want to get paid 39 dollars to keep getting them every month
their website has no way for you to cancel it and i'm not the only one who had trouble with this
if you check out the better business bureau's website they have almost 500 listed complaints
of people saying the exact same thing in fact the only way that i was able to stop paying for
hubble lenses was to go to my credit card company and cancel my credit card i had to tell them that
it was lost or stolen and to give me a whole new card just in order to stop paying them for lenses
i didn't want now in hindsight i was able to pull up the company policies and it does clearly state
that in order to cancel your subscription with hubble contacts you do either need to call them
during their open business hours or if you live in the state of California you can email them
but still i think for the fact that their website makes it so easy to purchase the lenses
they could also make it just as easy to cancel your subscription now perhaps in the future
maybe after hubble even sees this video they'll kind of go back and start correcting all these
different mistakes maybe they'll invest in having a better lens i mean if hubble came out with a
really good lens such as something that compared to like the dailies total one or maybe the Bausch
and Lomb infused lens there's no way i'd be able to refute them for just making a really good lens
but there's a lot of ground that they need to improve on but please if you have ever ordered
from hubble contact lenses whether you like them or not or if you've ordered online contact lenses
from a different source uh good experiences bad experiences let us know just overall how things
have been drop those comments in the section below hey if you enjoyed today's video and you want to
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