ATTN: Contact-wearers

[DandyFop]

I think I'm gonna try to wear contacts once in a while. I suck at putting them in, but I manage. Though they never feel quite right...my vision is never as good as it is with glasses and it always seems a little muddled. Is this how it is for everyone that wears them or am I doing something wrong? I would take them out and clean them again but it takes me so damn long to get them in :/ Any tips for getting them in/out?

[NON]

Try using a needle to put them in.

[DandyFop]

You're hilarious!

[b i o n i c]

yah. er sumthin else rilly pointy-like. *snort*

[Sarky Devotchka]

POOP ON THEM.

[NON]

You're hilarious!

At least some one is doing their job.

[b i o n i c]

At least some one is doing their job.

non they are not

[NON]

Have you looked in a mirror lately?

[b i o n i c]

eef ju speak to me... jes.

eef non, excuse moi.

[NON]

Punch it with your fist and swallow the shards.

[b i o n i c]

non

[ToucanSpam]

I fuckin hated contacts. my advce is dont let air get inbetween your eye and the contact, and for the love of sauce use eye droplets too to wet and lubricate the eyes to prepare them for contact.

[b i o n i c]

get disposables

[HotAndWet]

it just takes getting used to unfortunately. I started wearing them at 12, almost 10 yrs. I'd say it took me about 6 months or so to get used to them, I had a hard time putting them in at first. The bad thing is, I've gotten so lazy with them that I end up sleeping with them in and rarely take them out, it's bad.

[b i o n i c]

your eyes are gonna fall out

[kleptomaniac]

i'm just gonna zap lasers in my eyes so i don't have to deal with the contacts. it's a much easier process than trying to get them on and taking them off and putting them back on and so on and so on...see? i see real well cuz i got four eyes 8)

[TAL]

I've been wearing contacts for 19 years. At the beginning it sometimes took me 30 minutes to get just 1 in. Now I can do both with one hand.

[jackrock]

I just got mine about 2 weeks ago, it's easy now. I can't complain about them, except that i didn't get enough solution from the eye doctoer (60mL?!!?) yeah.

I don't know how you were taught it, dadny, but i do it like this: Take your right hand middle finger, pull down the bottom eye lid, left hand middle, top eyelid. then the approach, go slow, but not too slow, you don't wanna go tofast cause you'll end up without an eye, place it on the color part of the ball. It's cool, watching it sort of sink into the eye.
aye.

(y)

[YoungRemy]

I have sensitive eyes and have always battled wearing corrective lenses... I hated wearing glasses as a kid and I wore hard lenses (gas permeable) when i was about 14....I switched to every kind of soft lens on the market- daily, weekly, disposable, toric...

now i use the two week toric disposable by Acuvue... for astigmatism and nearsightedness( -3 is my magnification)

I go through one or two eye infections a year, my eye doctor gives me discounts because i am such a devoted customer... I used to neglect my eyes, never cleaned the lenses, slept in them every night... that shit can make you blind... I try my best, but if you have sensitive eyes they will never feel comfortable, they burn at the end of a long day and if you have allergies they will make wearing lenses hell...

also, IF YOU HAVE USED BAUSCH & LOMB solution, you should know there was a major government recall on "Renu with Moisture Lock" brand of solution..


we're talking serious infection and/or blindness have been caused and they took the product off the market last month...

consult your eye doctor if you used this product...

[jackrock]

i saw the commercial for the bausch&lamb, i freaked out cause i use the same brand, just not moisture loc, still though...

[Documad]

I've been wearing them for 25 years and I never had any trouble sticking my finger in my eye so I can't help you with how to get them in. It was much easier to start as a kid.

As for the vision part, I've been to some crappy doctors over the years who couldn't fit me properly for lenses and I just had to keep bitching until I got the right ones. I have bad eyesight and I need soft toric lenses, but if they sell me the cheapest ones they have no shape and I can't see out of them. All soft contacts are not made the same way and I have a brand that works for me. (I actually had a doctor tell me that I would never be able to see 20/20 out of contacts and that I just had to live with it. Three doctors later, I can read the 20/20 line on the chart with contacts)

Anyhow, the other issue is that if you're really used to seeing through glasses it takes a long time to adjust to contacts because you will never see the same way out of glasses and contacts. They're just different animals. I have different depth perception with glasses and when I first started wearing glasses again during the day sometimes, I would get a bit dizzy from walking in them.

[DandyFop]

Yeah, I gave up on the contacts the other day. I have no problem touching my eye, but they just felt too fucking weird. Ah well, back to the glasses for me.