Alrighty. I'm getting the hang of it sort of. I can touch my pupil easier now and it's easier to place it on my eye. Centering it is now the problem. I heard moving your eye up, down, left, and right a couple of times will center it, but I can't keep my eyes from tearing up and my lids from slipping... Geez, this is frustrating. I'll keep at it though. School orientation tomorrow (approximately 12 hours), so hopefully I can get these in, hope for an all nighter tonight, and have them on for tomorrow.
Fucking contact lenses?
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put a splash of saline solution in your eye first, so its already got a foreign substance in it, then dim the light as much as possible, your contacts will usually go in easier while your eyes are still adjusting to the saline and light change. After a few weeks of this, I could touch my eyeball just fine without it blinking/tearing up.
You wanna look up and put it below the pupil and slide it up, once you get comfortable you can just plop it on smack in the middle.
Do you know how to tell whether or not they are inside-out? If they are inside-out, they look more like [, as opposed to ( You will know for sure if you try to put them in. Back in the day (inside-out) they would hurt, cause severe tearing-up, and if you did manage to see through the tears, it would be similar to looking through a fisheye lens. Also, they might not stay in place when you blink.
The acuvues they make now don't hurt if you try to put them inside-out, and they print these little 1::2::3 inside of the lens. But if you get them in and look around, you can tell.
There's also the possibility that they gave you the wrong size (diameter). If they won't stay in place and you know they are not inside-out, go back in and have them take a look- they will tell you real quick if they are not the right size.
Here's a question for some of you with 18-hour days behind the screen:
How do you keep them from drying out after they've been in over 12 hrs?
The acuvues they make now don't hurt if you try to put them inside-out, and they print these little 1::2::3 inside of the lens. But if you get them in and look around, you can tell.
There's also the possibility that they gave you the wrong size (diameter). If they won't stay in place and you know they are not inside-out, go back in and have them take a look- they will tell you real quick if they are not the right size.
Here's a question for some of you with 18-hour days behind the screen:
How do you keep them from drying out after they've been in over 12 hrs?
I could never get used to it. Fucking nuisance. Thank god for the light weight frame and glasses.
I have tried all sorts of lenses. The lenses now are extremely soft and thin. Even then I always felt somethin in my eyes. Tried for months. Threw them all after that. lol.. My wife too. I became an expert in putting it in, it was just the "feeling" of something in the eye. My wife never got past putting it on. She had to always blink as soon as the lens got near.. lol
I have tried all sorts of lenses. The lenses now are extremely soft and thin. Even then I always felt somethin in my eyes. Tried for months. Threw them all after that. lol.. My wife too. I became an expert in putting it in, it was just the "feeling" of something in the eye. My wife never got past putting it on. She had to always blink as soon as the lens got near.. lol
I agree. Contact lenses seem great at first, now I can't wait to get them out at the end of the day.
contacts are sterilized in the case so when you first open them you don't have to clean them. Just pop them in and you are good to go
As for taking them in and out i would strongly recommend cleaning them with contact solution nightly. Unless they are leave in contacts i would take them out every night or else they will wear out faster and dry out your eyes more
As for taking them in and out i would strongly recommend cleaning them with contact solution nightly. Unless they are leave in contacts i would take them out every night or else they will wear out faster and dry out your eyes more
I'm a baby about eye drops. Ah the memories of my girlfriend standing over me screaming, "Now keep your eyes open this time you piece of shit."
I'll take glasses over contacts any day lol.
I'll take glasses over contacts any day lol.
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I use to put them on inside out on purpose in school. It burned and hurt, my eyes would tear up and get blood shot. Would not take long for a teacher to notice and ask if my eyes were bothering me, I would tell them "I don't know, they're burning and itchy". Worked every time, schools are scared to death of pink eye.
Another possible reason is that you have man contacts, and you should be wearing sissy girl contacts. :1bluewinky:
Added: To check if they are out, just look at them before you put them in. There will be a noticable bulge on the outer rim of the contact lense if they are inside out. It should be near flat around the rim. Hard to think of a good example for visual.. I guess half ping pong ball vs nazi helmet?
LASIK is proof that free markets work in healthcare. It has gotten far over time, and it has gotten far cheaper.
As someone above said put some solutution in the lens, this makes it so much easier, and if you have trouble and haven't got it in after about 30 seconds put some more in, don't put em in dry.
Just put it lightly on the eye, doesn't matter where then move your eye a little and it will find the centre itself.
You think this is bad...wait till the time you wake up after a big session with dry lenses stuck to your eyes and one of them is half missing!
Just put it lightly on the eye, doesn't matter where then move your eye a little and it will find the centre itself.
You think this is bad...wait till the time you wake up after a big session with dry lenses stuck to your eyes and one of them is half missing!
Or when they get dry halfway through the day (because you've been wearing them for like 2 months, sleeping in them, even though you're not supposed to), and fold somehow, and get stuck behind your eyelid.
Oh yeah, make sure you take them out every day. I use to be really bad about sleeping in mine. They feel much better when you let your eyes air out each night.
Going to have to look into LASIK, my issue is I had a viral infection in my eye in high school, and I may not be able to get LASIK because of it.
Yep- a real hassle to get em in.
And then after all that shit I found out two things -- they could only be corrected to 20-20 ( I'm 20-15 with eyeglasses).
And the wetting solution was making my vision blurry to add insult to injury.
Fuck dat shit.
I got mine last week.
It took me hours to get it in but as you move on and keep trying, you get the hang of it.
Now it takes a matter of seconds for me.
It took me hours to get it in but as you move on and keep trying, you get the hang of it.
Now it takes a matter of seconds for me.
Interesting, I'll have to try them out. Have my annual exam this weekend, will ask to see if I can get a trial pair from the doc. I've wore several different brands, and none of them have been super comfortable to the point where I don't notice them on (been wearing them since '98). Thanks!
I've never really had the problem of drying out. Then again been wearing the same brand for what seems like forever (CooperVision Proclear). That being said, something like Clear Eyes works fine.