Contact lenses: Does it get better over time?

[Gothan]

Man, I got my first pair on thursday afternoon, and let me tell you, its been Contact lenses 1 : Gothan 0

Getting them in is already 700% of the battle, the right lense goes in chop chop (after 4 or 5 times), but the left one, oh my word, I have learned some new combinations of colourful words getting that thing in.

I need to get myself some coloured lenses so that I can see if I have them in or not, or if they fall out, it will be easier to notice them on a white towel then they 100% invicible ones I have on now.

But yes, that is my frustrating rant for this morning, already my eyes feel like I have been watching p0rn through a peephole for 8 hours, and they have only been in for an hour and a half

 

[ajax]

Definitely gets easier. After a few weeks I could put them in in under 10 seconds. Taking out even quicker. And you don't feel them on your eyes anymore either, unless you keep them in too long of course.

Every person seems to learn his own way of putting them in and taking them out. For me, I just pull my bottom eyelid down with one finger and slap the thing in with the other hand, contact lens on my little finger. Taking them out I just move the lens down to it's lowest possible position on my eye and use my thumb and pointing finger to take it out. Really easy.

Just remember some or other time you might forget you have contacts in you might rub your eyes. The contact lens may slip in "behind" your eye. Don't panic, just keep rubbing your eye, the thing will pop out again

 

[Gothan]

What??!!!! Slip in behind my eye???? What kind of sadistic device is this?

I think my left eye hates me, for some reason it takes me forever to get it in, think my left eye is smaller than they right one, I am some kind of freak of nature

 

[guest2013-1]

Dude, over the years it will be cheaper to just get lasik (if you qualify) so go spend the R600-700 consulting fee, go get an exam, and check if you're a candidate. Its literally 6 minutes and you have close to 20/20 vision.

Contact lenses are evil and the cash is deductable from medical aid I think...

 

[marine1]

Dude, over the years it will be cheaper to just get lasik (if you qualify) so go spend the R600-700 consulting fee, go get an exam, and check if you're a candidate. Its literally 6 minutes and you have close to 20/20 vision.

Contact lenses are evil and the cash is deductable from medical aid I think...

I would so agree. Go Lasik. Lenses are damn expensive over time as well.

 

[Kilgore_Trout_Redux]

It will get easier.

When you first start wearing them you should take them out if they start hurting your eyes even if it has only been an hour and a half.

Also if they keep giving you grief speak to your optometrist. There are a lot of different brands and materials that contacts are made from. It might just be a matter of finding ones that are compatible with your eyes.

Lastly not everyone is suitable for lasik. Over the years my perscription has affected the convergance of my eyes so if you get lasik it will also require major surgery to change the length of the muscles in my eyes. Not a lot of optometrists think about this when they suggest the treatment.

 

[flarkit]

+1 for LASIK (if you qualify)

I tried contacts for 10hrs and hated them immensely. Felt like 2 kingsized hairs stuck under my eyelids

 

[Gothan]

Well I have only had this test pair for about 5 days now, so I will wait a bit on any major surgery. I'll see how the day pans out with these ones, have some super duper eye drops that I got from the optomitrist, like little blocks of ice on your eyes mmmmmmmm

 

[Frankie]

For me it took about two weeks to put them in and take them out with ease, but even after many months of use my eyes would tire very early evening and even earlier in polluted environments.

I got LASIK done about 12 years ago, and I suspect the techniques have improved since, but I can tell you that driving at night is not good with all the lights flaring.
Low light visibility is poor.

Now I use reading glasses.

 

[JK8]

Wash your hands!

Seriously, wash your hands, clean your lenses thoroughly, it shouldnt be a problem.
Give it some time.
Are they hard of soft lenses?

 

[Gothan]

MY one friend also told me, point number one, always wash your hands, else your eyes will be burning like hell, seems she was right on about this one.

This is soft lenses, its a trail pair (those disposables that only last a month), but I am getting coloured lenses, trying to see if the flippen thing is in at 5 am in the morning is tough, atleast with coloured lenses I can see that its in

 

[SirFooK'nG]

Getting them in and out is just a matter of time ... as for comfortability, well that depends, some say that the hard lens is better (non disposible) others reckon the soft disposibles are the bomb... but if you are like me and suffer from "dry eye" then it never gets better, so I canned the idea after my first year and a half! back to the specs again! And I'm not a good candidate for lasic

 

[AvatarS]

Soft lenses are easy. If they're irritating, it's the wrong prescription or you need contact lenses for sensitive eyes or something like that. Get fitted for another pair; that might help.

 

[Gothan]

Yip, going back on thursday for my follow up visit, so will inform the dr of all the issues and stuff, but have to say, the eyedrops work like a charm, once or twice and no problems, just getting used to them that is the issue, and getting them in, yes that is the main uphill battle

 

[CathJ]

You will absolutely get used to them. I wore hard lenses for 18 years, and then soft lenses for a month - it takes a week or so, but you definitely do get used to them and then you forget that they're in your eyes most of the time

Having tinted lenses works well, they're much easier to see.

What I found with the soft lenses was that if my eye was a bit dry, and my finger was a bit wet still from washing my hands, the lens would mould itself around my finger rather than my eye. So make sure your hands are dry. Also try not to blink too soon - I put the lens on the bottom of my eye, then slowly released my bottom eyelid which would push the lens up onto the centre of my eye, then pause for a moment for the lens to settle on my eye properly before blinking.

But really, it's far more complicated in words than it is when you're doing it You'll get used to it in no time.

 

[Gothan]

Cool, so just have to be patient, also found the method you described to work the best for me, but unlike what the doc said, I always use my right hand to put the lense in, and the left to clamp the eye lid

 

[Boyrock]

Try accuvue oasis with hydroclear..amazing lenses,

 

[Nanfeishen]

Why use contacts? Why not glasses?

 

[Velenoso]

Hey guys, sorry to interrupt, but how much will lasik surgery set you back? Will medical cover it?

I wear lenses, they do get a lot easier after a while. I can even put them in and take them out when I'm drunk, no problem.

 

[ajax]

Why use contacts? Why not glasses?

Well for sport contacts is better. Trust me, glasses and squash don't mix.