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Contact Lenses
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Exactly.
Yeah, that's my only qualm with my contacts. If you do any activity where you don't blink for long periods of time they get really dry. I played Dance Dance Revolution for the first time the other day and it was a little bit more challenging for me than my buddy I was playing with because I had to deal with dry contacts.
But I don't play video games, I don't drive, and I am usually able to blink as much as I want, so this doesn't affect me much, personally
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Exactly.
Yeah, that's my only qualm with my contacts. If you do any activity where you don't blink for long periods of time they get really dry. I played Dance Dance Revolution for the first time the other day and it was a little bit more challenging for me than my buddy I was playing with because I had to deal with dry contacts.
But I don't play video games, I don't drive, and I am usually able to blink as much as I want, so this doesn't affect me much, personally
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Shoot, WoW can get brutal. I use Aquify though to help with that. 10 seconds of rubbing to remove protein and sterilization, and an additional 5 minutes of pure cleansing.
You'd have to ask your optometrist. I wouldn't think so because they're slightly more expensive. 6 pairs i.e. 12 lenses = £78.00. I had to ask for this brand specifically from my opticians because their main brand is one of the other popular ones. Funny though, all the optometrists there use the Night & Day ones. Must be good. I think they have the highest oxygen permeability of all contact lenses.
It might be a good idea to start with daily disposables or the less expensive monthly disposables just to get used to them. £6.50 a lens is a lot to lose and it happens occasionally.
Ask them and see what they think. If you're happy enough paying for them, why not. They're definitely more comfortable than daily disposables or other monthlies.
Have you tried sleeping with them in? I don't recommend it. I did this one night accidentally (very drunk
) with my older monthly lenses and don't get me wrong, they were comfortable when properly lubricated, but the next morning (afternoon maybe), I woke up and they lenses wear as dry as a bone. It was excruciatingly painful. 
My first time trying to get contacts in sucked. I spent like and hour-and-a-half and then came out to my mom and my eyes were so bloodshot that she thought they had permanently damaged my eyes. They told me the more red-haired you are, the more sensitive your eyes are.
Definitely make sure they are turned the correct way (as in that drawing that guy made in a previous post). I had a doctor that kept trying to make me put them on the wrong way (it looked like a taco, and I said "no way in hell am i putting that in my eye).
I put it on my index finger, and place it in the center of my eye. There's usually a little bubble of liquid trapped in it, so I move my gaze down and then toward my nose. That usually gets it in place. And I pinch it to get it off.
If your contacts never feel too good try a different brand. I had an Acuvue that dried out too quickly, and another that was just too thick and didn't let oxygen in. If your eyes are constantly bloodshot, get a new brand. If you see stars/halos around lights (like headlights on cars), get a new brand.
Try not to rub your contacts too often since it makes it more likely they will tear. I had one tear on me and go into the back of my eye all folded up. Hurt like hell. Make sure you don't wear bi-weeklies for too long, since it's more likely they will tear.
Sidenote: My sister got contacts back when they were new. The doctors never told her she had to take them out every night. She left them in for about a year never taking them out...ever. Then she remembered the doctors said she could clean them if they got dirty, and she decided to clean them before she went to college. She took them off and her eyes swelled shut for about a week. She had a ridge of crud around where her contact used to be, and scars on her eye. Got better though.
Definitely make sure they are turned the correct way (as in that drawing that guy made in a previous post). I had a doctor that kept trying to make me put them on the wrong way (it looked like a taco, and I said "no way in hell am i putting that in my eye).
I put it on my index finger, and place it in the center of my eye. There's usually a little bubble of liquid trapped in it, so I move my gaze down and then toward my nose. That usually gets it in place. And I pinch it to get it off.
If your contacts never feel too good try a different brand. I had an Acuvue that dried out too quickly, and another that was just too thick and didn't let oxygen in. If your eyes are constantly bloodshot, get a new brand. If you see stars/halos around lights (like headlights on cars), get a new brand.
Try not to rub your contacts too often since it makes it more likely they will tear. I had one tear on me and go into the back of my eye all folded up. Hurt like hell. Make sure you don't wear bi-weeklies for too long, since it's more likely they will tear.
Sidenote: My sister got contacts back when they were new. The doctors never told her she had to take them out every night. She left them in for about a year never taking them out...ever. Then she remembered the doctors said she could clean them if they got dirty, and she decided to clean them before she went to college. She took them off and her eyes swelled shut for about a week. She had a ridge of crud around where her contact used to be, and scars on her eye. Got better though.
Yeah, that's them. I have Acuvue 2's or something in right now, and have a trial pair of those. Are they better than the regular, non breathing ones? haha
I am right handed.
Put it on right pointer finger. Use middle finger to pull bottom eyelid furhter down. Open top part of eye as high as possible. Stare straight up, but keep your head pretty parallel to the sink/counter/whatever. Insert gently in to eye. Slowly remove finger (as sometimes the contact sticks to the finger). Close eyes. Use eye to move around with eyelid closed...look right, look left look up, look down..etc.. Open eyes. Voila! Repeat with other eye.
The key to getting good with contacts is to just keep wearing them. I'm legally blind and between when I put my contacts in/out and when my glasses are on/off, I can't see anything. If I can get good at contacts, anyone can.
Also, make sure you have some good cleaning stuff. You should clean any time it gets to the late afternoon and the eye starts to get a little sore or itchy. Take them out, clean them, and let them sit over night. Clean about once a week.
Put it on right pointer finger. Use middle finger to pull bottom eyelid furhter down. Open top part of eye as high as possible. Stare straight up, but keep your head pretty parallel to the sink/counter/whatever. Insert gently in to eye. Slowly remove finger (as sometimes the contact sticks to the finger). Close eyes. Use eye to move around with eyelid closed...look right, look left look up, look down..etc.. Open eyes. Voila! Repeat with other eye.
The key to getting good with contacts is to just keep wearing them. I'm legally blind and between when I put my contacts in/out and when my glasses are on/off, I can't see anything. If I can get good at contacts, anyone can.
Also, make sure you have some good cleaning stuff. You should clean any time it gets to the late afternoon and the eye starts to get a little sore or itchy. Take them out, clean them, and let them sit over night. Clean about once a week.
If you touch your eyeball with your bare finger does that give you pink eye or anything? I guess I could start practicing the motion and then make an appointment and tell her that I want to try the way where you put it on the white part and move around.
2 or 3 days at most. I was never very uncomfortable with it, but I definitely stopped minding it after 2 or 3 days.
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It varies...as I mentioned, I don't recall ever having an issue with it. But plenty of people do...I think they come around fairly quickly though. I'd be willing to bet that it becomes second nature for you in no time.
You'll get used to it very quickly. Took me like 2 days. I used to never be able to touch my eye. At first, you just keep in mind that you're touching your contact not your eye. But later, you'll realize that you have no problem touching your eye cause it's just like touching your contact.
I've actually helped one of my friends get a contact out of her eye cause it was torn and stuck in the corner. Seemed really gross to other people, but perfectly fine for other contact-wearers.
It'll be hard at first, so persevere! It'll get easier with time, and you'll develop your own technique that will work for you. Just make sure you wash your handy properly before putting them in or taking them out. Never sleep with them!
Sure...just don't get so much water in them that you wash the contacts out. A little spray in the eyes is fine.
Wow... ive heard people got so fed up of wearing contact lenses that they just wore glasses after 3 yrs of contact lenses
I hate glasses, i tried wearing them when i went out, i get dizzy too.. and i hate the way the 'frame' your world. Like i cant use my eyes to look up at the clock i have to physically move my head etc.
One thing: I have been using contact lenses since early last year, i got really sensitive eyes and go bright red everytime i put them on. Should i be worried? Any solutions u guys recommend?
Also, if you wear them for more than 8hrs do they start to feel dry etc?
Ive heard that if u wear contact lenses for too long u eventually go blind
im so scared.Hmm r most of you here in this thread caucasian? Because i hardly see any europeans wear glasses at all... so are most of them wearing contacts?
We asians have a tendency to have bad isight
I used to wear the Bausch and Lomb 57 ones
nice and thin , good for wearing non-stop on weekend trips and even thought they are suppossed to be 2 weeks they were really fine until week 4 or so...
Night and Day is good for extended wear, as in take them out 30 days later.
they are very comfortable after the first day, they seem much thicker than other disposable lenses then just soft nicely hydrated eyes...
I have no proble sleeping with them, no dry eyes or anything...
PS my eyes are -11.25 and -10.50 when the lenses are out I am blind...and no I can't do laser eye surgery.
nice and thin , good for wearing non-stop on weekend trips and even thought they are suppossed to be 2 weeks they were really fine until week 4 or so...
Night and Day is good for extended wear, as in take them out 30 days later.
they are very comfortable after the first day, they seem much thicker than other disposable lenses then just soft nicely hydrated eyes...
I have no proble sleeping with them, no dry eyes or anything...
PS my eyes are -11.25 and -10.50 when the lenses are out I am blind...and no I can't do laser eye surgery.
I clean once a night.
Thats a lot. I try for once a week (Sunday, right before a week of school) but I typically go at least 10 days. I know it's bad... but damn. it's a bitch to clean them.
As for the question of comfort... I was never really uncomfortable with touching my eyes. But, I still... after a couple years... have trouble with putting them in every once in a while. Either there's still saline in the contact and it's making it an odd shape or it's sticking to my finger. My advice is to just have patience. Because they're usually great once they're in. 8)
Holy crap. From what i heard in my lectures, I think you may just qualify for some kind of surgery which embeds an artificial lens beneath the cornea in betwwen and behind the iris. Its not like laser surgery. Its like a permanent contact lens, except it stays with u for like 10 years or something..
go ask ur doctor
PS: Are there even contact lenses that support that kinda power? Arent they very thick and uncomfortable?