Continuous Wear Contact Lenses

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Shikkaka

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Does anyone wear these? The ones that you can wear solid for 30 days days and night?

I have an appointment with SpecSavers tomorrow and am considering getting some. I don't fancy wearing them for 30 days solid but plan on taking them out once a week for a clean.

Thanks
 
Yea they are awesome :) Been wearing them for about 10 years now I think (not the same pair :p). To be honest I never bother taking them out except to put a new pair in. On the 15th of each month I take old out and put them in bin, then the morning of the 16th put a new pair in and off I go.

I wear them for all activities including swimming/showering. Snorkelling was awesome in them this summer (I gave up snorkeling as a kid as I could never see anything).

Although you are not supposed to even shower in them :p Also I get told off on each of my check ups that I should take them out now and then.... then they tell me my eyes are perfectly healthy - no protein build up or anything.
 
JBod said:
Yea they are awesome :) Been wearing them for about 10 years now I think (not the same pair :p). To be honest I never bother taking them out except to put a new pair in. On the 15th of each month I take old out and put them in bin, then the morning of the 16th put a new pair in and off I go.

I wear them for all activities including swimming/showering. Snorkelling was awesome in them this summer (I gave up snorkeling as a kid as I could never see anything).

Although you are not supposed to even shower in them :p Also I get told off on each of my check ups that I should take them out now and then.... then they tell me my eyes are perfectly healthy - no protein build up or anything.
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10 years.... blimey, didn't realise they had been around that long.

I'm just sick of wearing glasses and am not in a position for laser surgery just yet. I want to pop them in and forget about them for a week then just take them out one evening a week for a clean and pop them back in the next morning.

Have heard some bad stories about them though. My boss's wife works in specsavers and apparently they aren't too good for eyes.
 
Steameh said:
10 years.... blimey, didn't realise they had been around that long.

I'm just sick of wearing glasses and am not in a position for laser surgery just yet. I want to pop them in and forget about them for a week then just take them out one evening a week for a clean and pop them back in the next morning.

Have heard some bad stories about them though. My boss's wife works in specsavers and apparently they aren't too good for eyes.
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Like any lenses it is down to the individual. The shape and tolerance of your eyes etc... I personally find them extremely comfortable, far more comfortable than the daily/monthly "can only wear them for 8 - 12 hours" at a time lenses.

Next best thing to laser surgery imo.
 
JBod said:
Like any lenses it is down to the individual. The shape and tolerance of your eyes etc... I personally find them extremely comfortable, far more comfortable than the daily/monthly "can only wear them for 8 - 12 hours" at a time lenses.

Next best thing to laser surgery imo.
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I've wore Focus Dailies before and did find that after around 8 hours of wear they do start to dry out and bug me. I'm hoping these will be much different.

Where do you get yours from?
 
Steameh said:
I've wore Focus Dailies before and did find that after around 8 hours of wear they do start to dry out and bug me. I'm hoping these will be much different.

Where do you get yours from?
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Specsavers :)

For me I don't get any irritation from dryness, closest is when I am uber tired.
 
Steameh said:
From your current ones or dailies? Have you ever had dailies before?
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From current ones, but its like when really tired and you rubbing your eyes anyway. I don't think it is even the lenses causing any problems.

I have had to wear dailies on the odd occasion. Its always been after a contact lens check up (which is every 6 months with these ones) they put yellow dye in your eyes to check for protein build up and if you put your regular lenses in afterwards the dye gets stuck to the lens and you walk around looking a bit jaundiced for the rest of the month :p So before I had glasses they would give me a pair of dailies to wear home for a few hours. They are SRSLY uncomfortable in comparison.

I didn't even own a pair of glasses until about 2 years ago where they moaned at me enough that I bought some.
 
JBod said:
From current ones, but its like when really tired and you rubbing your eyes anyway. I don't think it is even the lenses causing any problems.

I have had to wear dailies on the odd occasion. Its always been after a contact lens check up (which is every 6 months with these ones) they put yellow dye in your eyes to check for protein build up and if you put your regular lenses in afterwards the dye gets stuck to the lens and you walk around looking a bit jaundiced for the rest of the month :p So before I had glasses they would give me a pair of dailies to wear home for a few hours. They are SRSLY uncomfortable in comparison.

I didn't even own a pair of glasses until about 2 years ago where they moaned at me enough that I bought some.
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Sweet. I get a free trial with SpecSavers anyway so will soon find out.

Thanks for your replies.
 
They're pretty great and you can get them elsewhere for cheaper once you have your eye results. Though if you join their slightly expensive subscription you get free eye tests every few months.

The good thing is that you don't need to faff around every day putting them in and out.
 
they are awesome but after even week of wearing them your eyes will hurt when you take them out as they've gotten used to a protective plastic shell
 
Tefal said:
they are awesome but after even week of wearing them your eyes will hurt when you take them out as they've gotten used to a protective plastic shell
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Ah yea I forgot about that, the one night I have them out my eyes tickle like crazy every time I blink! Is little like the feeling you get on your skin after you take a plaster off you have had on for a couple days.
 
JBod said:
Ah yea I forgot about that, the one night I have them out my eyes tickle like crazy every time I blink! Is little like the feeling you get on your skin after you take a plaster off you have had on for a couple days.
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yeah it's like "oh god why have i never felt my eyelids before aghhhh"
 
I wish I could wear these. Even daily disposables, the minute I go in doors or in enclosed spaces my lenses just seem to dry up and I'm left blinking all the time. :(
 
I still can't get my head round these. The first 10 years of my contact lens wearing life they told me that overwearing contact lenses and sleeping in them was bad, mkay. If I ever slept in mine I'd wake up with eyes glued closed or a contact lens stuck to my face somewhere. I still can't get my head round how you can wear them for a whole month with no adverse effects :p
 
I couldn't live without continuous wear lenses. I hate wearing glasses, daily's are too much hassle and Laser technology is too new for me to trust it. Admittedly after about 3 weeks the lenses aren't as clear as the first day you put them in and they do begin to dry out quickly and become irritable but I'm used to it.
The amount of eye crust you get get when you sleep in them is unreal, no idea where it all comes from.
 
I use monthlies. Some mornings, I put the lens in and it stings like buggery. I take it out, try again and it still stings like buggery. Then on the third or fourth attempt, it goes in without feeling anything at all. Most odd. I'm quite interested in continuous wear lenses because it would mean I don't have to faff around with it every morning.

Sin Chase, you say you wear yours long term, but don't you find the contact lenses very dry when you wake up in the mornings? I know if I take so much as a short nap with them in, I wake up and it feels like cling film over my eyeballs.
 
Bit blurry after waking up, gone in about 30 seconds though. No biggy :) They will do that even if you take them out everyday. In a 1 hour massage if I keep my eyes closed I get the same thing when I open them.
 
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