I've seen hellFollow

Works for me baby.

I get the dry eye so badly that I won't even try contacts any more. They're a waste for me. I wore them for years but my condition gradually got worse. I can put them in just fine. In under an hour I look like I've been on a 4 day bender my eyes are so red. In about 4 hours the actual discomfort starts. After 6 hours, the level of discomfort is enough that I start considering taking them out. When I DO take them out, that's when I pay the price. The fresh air hits my eyeball and it feels like a hot poker. I have to sit with my eyes closed for 5 to 10 minutes occasionally blinking to let air in again and just let them adjust. They burn for around two hours after I take out the contacts.

That stuff can't be healthy for your eyes so I just ditched my contacts after I went through a half dozen brands with several different doctors who were convinced they could find the right contact if I kept paying money for them.

I've got the money stashed for Lasik, but I'm a big puss. One day, maybe.

I just heard recently that they have come out with a permanent contact lens that is surgically implanted behind the cornea.

That sounds appealing to me because one of my fears about laser is that one little slip and it's a permanent problem.
With this new procedure, it can always be undone. I don't know the costs off the top of my head but you might want to check in to that.

The newer accuvue lenses aren't nearly as bad about drying out your eyes and if you haven't tried Clear Vision no rub solution made by Ciba, you should. I had the same problem with the burn when I took mine out, but when I switched to the Clear Vision, that stopped and they seemed alot cleaner.

Water content is the shit.

I started with gas perm lenses when I was 15, could never get used to them because of how thick they were. I went back to glasses for awhile and then switched to soft. I have a slight astigmatism and I too wear the toric lenses. I have a little dry eyes problem but I just keep eye drops on me becuase I really don't like glasses.

My one horror story of contacts comes from sleeping in them though. To this day I will never sleep more than an hour or two nap in them. Try waking up with your eyes really sore and not being able to open them. I had to take steroids and other medicine to get my eyes back to normal after that.

When I took my first scuba class, the initial part was in a pool. There's a point where you have to take off all your gear, including your scuba mask, and find it and put it all back on underwater.

I couldn't believe how many contact lenses were on the bottom of that pool. I almost drowned laughing.

Put the contact on your index finger of your right hand. Take your left hand and with thumb and middle finger hold open your eye lids. Place contact in eye. I find it helps also if you put a drop of rewetting solution in the contact before placing it on your eye. Once the contact is on your eye (WITHOUT RELEASING THE EYE LIDS) move your eye around, the contact should settle nicely. Release eye lids. Rinse and repeat on the next eye. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS have clean hands. Keep your drops with you at all times. For the first 6 weeks put a drop in each eye about every 30 minutes to keep lenses wet and discomfort down.

It gets much easier. The first time I did it it took forever, now I can get both of the in, in just under 1 minute and be all set for the day.

Just keep working on it and they'll get better. If they don't after a week or so, give your eye doctor a call.

Edited, Fri Mar 17 12:16:23 2006 by Frakkor

These contacts are for night time only, apparently providing correction while you sleep so that you can see during the day without them.

http://pojkrummet.blogspot.com/2006/03/next-gen-contact-lenses-during-night.html

Or you could just sleep with sand bags over your eyes...

Just stop being a baby and bent it and push it in.

Works everytime.

I think I've got it figured out. I pull down on my bottom eyelid, look up, and put the contact on the white part of my eye. Then I just roll my eye down. I've done it 6 times today without any major problems.

I celebrate the fact that I've mastered what will surely be the most horrifying experience of my life.

Nah, I stick it directly on my iris, too. I used to leave mine in for long periods of time, sleep with them, etc,. but it was rough when I went in for a lasik eval and found out I had developed astigmatism from doing that, and that it would triple the cost of my surgery. Wah.

You'll get used to putting them in and taking them out. It seems like you wont at first, but you will...


My worst horror story was when I had a contact literally split in half while in my eye. From my perspective, that eye just kinda got blocked up (like when the contact pops out and you blink a bit and it either falls out or slides back into place) then remained blurry. I assumed the contact had fallen out. I looked all over for it (was playing at my computer at the time). I did notice that my eye seeme irritated, but just assumed that it was from whatever had caused the contact to pop out.

Next morning I wake up and my eye's really irritated. I blink and it's like there's something in there. Ooops. Run to bathroom mirror and pull out half a contact lens (and a bunch of morning "eye goop"). Well. That sucked. Go on about my day.

Fast forward about 2 months. Eye's been bothering me, but only when I'm trying to sleep. Eventually wake up one morning to notice that the other half is still in there and it's finally worked it's way out to the inside top of the eye where I'm able to get it out (with some more eye goop). Apparently, that half slid up in the socket and kinda floated there. I noticed irritation when I was trying to sleep (cause the eye slides up in the socket when you're sleeping). Eventualy, both halves did work there way out, but that was at least a bit scary...