Well done Chunks But you really need to go in and let them show you how to put them in , cos it takes some getting used to.

Generally you use a special fluid to clean them. Whatever you do, DON'T run them under the tap!

 

When you go to collect them the optician should give you all the information about looking after them and your eyes.

 

Best of luck!

Taking them out is easy. You either pinch or slide. I have long nails so I slide. Putting them in is easy too as long as you know how to pull your eyelids apart properly and your hands aren't too shaky. The hard part is when you're so short sighted that when you've got both lenses out and trying to put a new one in and you're trying to read if the "123" on the lense is the right way round or if you take it out and find you've only got half a lense on your finger and realise that the other half must still be in there.....somewhere.

 

You'll know when the month is up too as no amount of cleaning will make them comfortable to wear

Mine don't have 123 on them so I'm forever putting them in the wrong way but I can tell straight away there's something wrong.

 

Chunks.....go in and get the optician to show you how to put them in and take them out coz although it's soooo easy once you know how you are best to learn how to do it properly so you aren't fiddling about with them on your fingers and freaking out when trying to get them on your eyeball.  

 

DON'T FALL ASLEEP WITH THEM IN!!  I used to do it when I was younger and stayed out overnight but ended up with sore dry eyes coz your eyes can't 'breathe' properly with them in all night.  

 

If you ever lose one in your eyeball don't freak out.  There's nowhere for it to go and if you gently massage your eyelid it will come out eventually (mine took hours once....I was beginning to wonder if it COULD find a way to escape and end up rattling around in my head )

Better off gettin glasses really 

I'm glad that never happened to me when i had my brief fliration with contacts - I'd have freaked out imagining them having to take my eyeball out to get it out again   (I admit I have a slight tendency to over-react at times...)

I'd agree with that.  Lenses are a pain the ass for me.  I only wear them on nights out or meeting teachers etc.  Glasses for everyday things for me.  

 

My eyes don't seem to like lenses much.  They make me feel tired after a few hours wear.

Kaffy! You crack me up!  

Oh and never, ever, ever handle chopped chillies and their seeds and then put your lenses in (even after hand washing) as that might just reduce a grown man to tears.  I'm not a grown man so I was ok to cry.  Loudly.

Or onions. I learnt that the hard way

 

 

 Cagney there's other culprits too...even hand moisturiser is a bugger too.

Soap, shampoo, perfume etc. I have to plan my day round me changing my lenses

 

One good thing though...they act as a barrier when you're chopping onions. I've never cried once

thanks for the tips

a couldnt have glasses coz ad look like a plum n ppl we tek the p outa me n a get enufa that as it is

I'm with you, I have v sensitive eyes and they're a bloody pita. More so now I'm of a 'certain age' and they are even more challenged to meet all of my prescription requirements. They can't do it all, short sighted, with astigmatisms, and now need them for reading too....I'd rather wear my specs!

It's 'trendy' these days chunks....and for many secccsy too 

Same here My eyes feel 'tired' towards the end of the day if I have lenses in all day I wear them sometimes, but I have the daily disposables so I dont have to worry about cleaning and all that

It took me about three months to realise that and I just gave up contacts completely.       I get a lot of 'oily' sort of film in my eyes so I was forever cleaning them and it annoyed me that they'd occasionally drift 'upwards' and they need to float back down to where they should be before I could focus properly again.    I can see better with glasses too - astigmatism makes it harder for lenses wearers I think because all the correction has to be on a smaller area of the lens (so the optician said)  

Good luck with your contact lenses Chunks. Yes they can be a pain *nods* but at least technology has moved on - they're softer, and more water based now so more comfortable to wear. There used to be the hard ones  gas permeable or summat they were called.

 

I paid extra for the soft ones back then cos I'm a sissy. 

 

I wear daily ones which sometimes I do wear for more than a day   but since I got advice here on how dangerous it can be I've reduced the time I wear them.

I wear dailies too and yes, I wear them more often than the one day.  BUT only if I've only worn then for an hour or so and have put them in fresh solution.  A box of 15 sets of lenses lasts me about 3 months at the minute because I don't wear my lenses much.

 

I do need new glasses though....which are bloody expensive and it takes me days of going back and forth to the optician to find the right ones   I'm picky when it comes to them.

 

I can't abide wearing glasses and seem to be forever cleaning them or trying to stop them slipping off.  I'm very short sighted so wear glasses most of the time but rarely when I'm out.

EEEk I'm about the same Ells. I dowse my eyes with a squirt of saline in the morning to freshen them. My glasses make me look like Thora Hird, and I'm too vain to wear them  I should take more care  - or even get them lasered to correct them... heard good things about that.

frigin hell man reading this bout dangers n stuff am bricking it now a dont wana lose a eye

I wouldn't worry unduly chunks.

Suppose you spoke to 1000 contact lens wearers and 100 said they had a problem and 900 said they didn't. What are you going to remember most? The 900 who said 'fine, no problem' or the 100 horror stories?

nah.. you'll only lose an eye if one gets stuck behind it and they need to pop your eyeball out to find it.     <== like this guy 

just a update av got me lenses n ther mint cant beleuve a suvived widout em before
reason a havnt bin on for a bit was coz wen a fust got em they med me see good far away things but med me close vision crap but they fine now n so wen a went in today they sed its coz of me eyes not bin use to it so its making tears a was like frigin hell man am a cry baby lol but its mint like a cant put it into words its like av just switched me eyes to hd

av gota change me solusion evry day n clean em or else a cud get problems wid things growin on me lenses or suming