Getting used to contact lenses..

took me awhile, few weeks to get totally used to them especially getting them in but now its easy as pie

I wear montly disposables (so take them out overnight) and had no problems at all, a vision check showed with them in my vision was almost perfect

occasionally they slip round and you lose focus/comfort but sliding it to the top of your eye blink a few times and it settles again (especially if you got toric lenses like I do)

DEL 707 said:
I went back to wearing glasses.

I tried to take my contacts out 1 night while drunk, ended up scratching my eye, glasses are much easier in that respect. :p
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I can even do it flawlessly when hammered not remember and wake up to find them perfect in the container :)
 
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I tried them for about 2 weeks (a month or so ago) and just couldn't get on with em :(

The optician wasn't very sympathetic to my cause, I spose I did him out of money by not carrying on with the subscription :p

It wasn't the putting them in and taking them out I had a problem with, its the environments I work in (air conn'd offices and server rooms). Doesn't help that I have to stare at a screen as well... my eyes were drying out despite me blinking loads and using eye drops.

I much prefer glasses though, there are very few situations where contacts would be advantageous for me (football, and washing the car :p)
 
NeedleGunner said:
Have you got it inside out? Sounds like it. My advise would be to go back to the place you got them and ask them if they could do a re-teach. Just so you know that you have got it right.



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Yeah but you just can't tell by looking at dailies!
 
Anim said:
No such thing unfortunately, i know the ones youre talking about but you still have to take them out for at least 1 day out of 7. Your eyes wont (healthily) take having them in for 30 days.
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Umm, I hate to tell you you're wrong, I know this as I've just changed from monthlies that you can only sleep in 3 or so nights a week, to continuous wear ones that you only need one day off a month.

Burnsy
 
This may be an obvious question to answer but do these soft contact lenses get noticeably thicker depending on how short sighted you are? I am very, very short sighted and 10ish years ago I had a go with hard lenses and it was like someone had stuck sandpaper to the insides of my eyelids. I'm assuming that if soft lenes have to be thick for very short sight then they still might "rub" in my eyes like the hard ones when I blink.
 
I had the hard ones to clean etc, I hated them, could never be bother to clean them, often felt like grit inmy eyes and could see a halo around the edge of the small lense. I swapped to the daily ones and was amazed how much better they suited me, i forgot they were in after about 10 minutes and so so comfortable. Really changes your life being able to see properly :D There quite expensive but i rarely use them as just keep glasses for work, im short sighted so do not need correction for my day to day tasks. My mum re uses her daily contactys, just drops them back in the dipenser tray and uses them for 3 days or so.
 
I've had monthlies for about 5 years now. I never clean them just use new solution all the time.

My eyes dry up a bit towards the end of a day, especially when i go from air conditioned rooms to hot ones and vice versa. I would like to try the continuous lenses but I havn't really got round to it yet, and I'm in no rush as my current lenses are generally fine for what I do, but nowhere near perfect.
 
burnsy2023 said:
Umm, I hate to tell you you're wrong, I know this as I've just changed from monthlies that you can only sleep in 3 or so nights a week, to continuous wear ones that you only need one day off a month.

Burnsy
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Same here , been using the continuous wear monthlies for about 5 years now . Wear them for 30 days (ish) , take them out when I get in from work then put fresh ones in the following morning. Only time I use glasses is when I have a cold / bugs (advice from optician)
 
I have just had a fitting of contact lenses. Last year I gave them a go and didn't get on with them at all. It was the middle of summer so my hayfever was in full swing. I tried the Accuvue daily lenses and my eyes were having none of it.

This morning I tried a daily toric lense? Anyway they went in fine. For the first 10mins or so it was very disoriantating due to all the extra peripheral vision that was coming in. After then they settled down fully and they were only slightly noticeable on blinking.

Well I have gone for them and I have a five day trial pack coming in a couple of days to see if they are really ok. Personally they are going to be for occasional use as I spend most of the day infront of a screen in heavily air-conned offices.
 
andybtsn said:
You can get monthly ones though, so you can sleep in them etc and change them after 30 days, what I'd want.
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The monthly day and night contact lenses are relatively controversial. I've had two opticians in a row who have point blank refused to issue them to me because they think they're really bad for your eyes.

Monthly ones that you take out each night are fine, but again you then have to mess around with solutions etc - dailys for the win!

fini
 
Yeah, as easy as the monthly ones (that you wear while sleeping) sound, i'd never ever use them. If i wear my fortnightly lenses for more than 10hrs or so, when i come to take them out it's a bit horrible. You do get a nice sense of 'relief' when you take them out though. It's wierd.

Having worn glasses since i was really young, it took me ages to having the extra peripheral vision, and being able to see my nose too :p Stick with them and you'll get used to them. If they feel like they're moving slightly when you blink, perhaps you have a slight astigmatism in that eye, meaning a 'normal' lens wont fit it quite right. Ask your optician about that, they can easily test for it (and they should have done anyway).

Interestingly enough, i had a wonderful evening yesterday kinda ended on a sour note because i'd foolishly worn my lenses for ~12hrs having not worn them for a week or so. I had a banging headache/migraine, although perhaps the lenses werent to blame as there was also a decent amount of alcohol drunk :o I've never had that before from wearing lenses, though.
 
Boycie said:
An inside out contact will have a slight lip around the edge as it sits on your finger.
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Cant say that with the dailies I sometimes wear I can tell if its inside out or not when its on my finger, but once I'm wearing it I soon can tell if it's inside out.
 
Scam said:
Yeah, as easy as the monthly ones (that you wear while sleeping) sound, i'd never ever use them. If i wear my fortnightly lenses for more than 10hrs or so, when i come to take them out it's a bit horrible. You do get a nice sense of 'relief' when you take them out though. It's wierd.
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The continuous wear ones have 'super dooper' properties that allow the eye to breath so you don't suffer the same effects as normal lenses.

I couldn't go back to standard lenses , being able to see all the time and not having to fiddle with my eyes every morning / night is :cool:
 
Sorry to bump this thread, just didn't feel the need to start a new thread.

Anyway after using dailys I'm now ready for the continous lenses, is there any implications of just ordering these online and wearing them?
 
For continuous wear lenses I would suggest getting them from an optician. Where they are in all the time there is a much greter risk of infection so you really do need to have regular checkups which you would get from an optician but not from the net.

Burnsy
 
the people in this thread who say disposables are the only way forward due to not having to clean then, how lazy are you?!

cleaning them involves putting them in a container and putting some solution on them, takes about half a second!

As for the whole inside out thing, i never really had much of an issue with that, sure i checked before putting them in but i dont think it ever really made much of a difference.

My current ones are a bit different due to my astigmatism so there is literally no way you can mistake them (when inside out they are a horribly disfigured oval)
 
DJammyRasta said:
cleaning them involves putting them in a container and putting some solution on them, takes about half a second!
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I thought that was where to store them?

Specsavers tought me how to clean them and that waS to put solution in your hand, put the lense on the end of you finger and gently rub against the base of your hand to clean...
 
You rub the contact lense on your hand with some solution to clean them; you put them in the container to disinfect them ;)

Burnsy
 
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