How to tell if contact lenses are inside out?

Nephew

I'm giving contact lenses a try at the moment. Is there any way to tell that the lense is inside out before I put it on my eye? The method the optician showed me is a load of bollox tbh.

Thanks

They should naturally bend a certain way - put them flat and see what way they go. If you're in doubt, do it several times and go by that.

Some info on putting them in your eye:

http://www.ohsuhealth.com/cei/patient/contacts_using.asp

Kastro

look for the this way up arrow :P

Agamemnon

This drives me nuts as well. If a lens looks funny, I can never guess right and always end up putting it in the wrong way. The way the optician showed me worked well for my first pair of lenses, but not at all with the daily disposables I wear now.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

um.. if you can't see properly through one eye.. try taking it out and putting it in the other way

mother of pearl.. it's not rocket science

Faith

Yeah, it's so annoying trying to figure it out. I put the lense on my left hand, below my pinky finger, on top of the line there. Then I bend my pinky towards my palm. If the two sides of the lense come in and touch each other, it's the right way. If they stay apart from each other, or flop the opposite way, they're inside out.

It generally works, unless the contact is too dry.

Fraggle Rocks

agamemnon wrote:

This drives me nuts as well. If a lens looks funny, I can never guess right and always end up putting it in the wrong way. The way the optician showed me worked well for my first pair of lenses, but not at all with the daily disposables I wear now.

Daily disposables are the right way up in their little container so if you take them out without bending them they'll be the right way up.

Faith

Not always, particularly if you've travelled with them.

Gandhi

Put the lens on your fingertip with the open end up and look at it closely. If the rim is curving out (like a saucer) then it is inside out. If the rim is curving in (like a cup) then it is the right way around.

I used to wear lenses years back that wouldn't stick if they were inside out. They would just fall right out of my eye. Pretty handy.

xebec

Hasn't really been an issue for me, never bother about which way I put them in and it doesn't usually affect my eyes.

The way I was thought - but don't use - is to put it on the tip of your finger and try to bend on of the sides in gently, if it bends easily it's the right way around, in not it's inside out.

Good luck with the lenses, they were fantastic for me - especially for sport - cos I'm fairly blind

robinph

Gandhi wrote:

Put the lens on your fingertip with the open end up and look at it closely. If the rim is curving out (like a saucer) then it is inside out. If the rim is curving in (like a cup) then it is the right way around.

Thats what I was told as well but I've never actually been able to tell the difference. I just end up throwing it out and getting a new one if I cannot figure it out.

xebec

robinph wrote:

Thats what I was told as well but I've never actually been able to tell the difference. I just end up throwing it out and getting a new one if I cannot figure it out.

That's expensive, just stick it in your eye!! If it feels uncomfortable take it out and then get a new one!

robinph

xebec wrote:

That's expensive, just stick it in your eye!! If it feels uncomfortable take it out and then get a new one!

Well that all depends on what price you are paying for them.

Agamemnon

Fraggle Rocks wrote:

Daily disposables are the right way up in their little container so if you take them out without bending them they'll be the right way up.

While they're usually the right way up, sometimes they're curled up when you open them.

xebec wrote:

Hasn't really been an issue for me, never bother about which way I put them in and it doesn't usually affect my eyes.

What kind of lenses do you use? If I put one in the wrong way around, it hurts like hell.

Wertz

So do you's not get that visual effect that looking down the wrong end of a pair of binoculars gets you?

20/10 vision ftw.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

when I put mine in backwards, things would look a tiny bit fuzzy around the edges but most would be fine.

from time to time it might get a little uncomfortable, but some eye drops or a small rub would put it well

i had daily disposables um.. can't remember the type, but I have monthly optix o2's now.. i can leave them in for days at a time, 6 hours soaking every now and again cleans them well and they let plenty of oxygen in. i'd forgotten how nice it was to wake up being able to see.

ChippingSodbury

Used to work in a place that made lenses. We often tested lenses over and over again and they would always get turned inside out. The only reliable way to check is to do what Gandhi said. Put the lens upside down on top of one of your fingers. Then look at the edges: if the edges make the lens look like its flattening out (instead of looking like they'd form a bubble if they continued on), the lens is inside out. If you can't see that the edges are flattening, chances are that it's not inside out.

deise gal

i find that when u put them in they feel as if they are scatching your eye !! they are inside out:p

Peanut

Actually there is a bit of print on the disponsables I have (Acuvue), a bit like a watermark. I guess you could use it to check way-roundness first.

Tusky

How long does it generally take to get used to putting them in and out ? Do you have to wear glasses for a certain amount of time first?

Tusky

Tusky wrote:

How long does it generally take to get used to putting them in and out ? Do you have to wear glasses for a certain amount of time first?

Week or two. Both for getting used to putting them and taking them out and before you can wear them all day. That was my experience anyway.