Can you put in contact lenses? i cant.

nevaeh-2die-4

I have been to like 3 "teaches" in specsavers & i still can’t put in contact lenses.


Has anybody else had similar difficulty??

Lockstep

You'll get used to it.

I remember when I first started wearing them. it was absolute hell. I felt like I'd never get used to them. Just keep at it and it'll become second nature.

Now, if I put a contact lens near the eyeball it will be easily absorbed into it.


Trust me mate, you'll be fine.

mikemac

Ah I remember the “teaches”

I was hopeless at the start. Took two sessions before I got the contact lenses in.
And then my first night with them I was touching my eye too hard and too often as I struggled and had to go to A&E as my eye was bloodshot

It’s entirely down to practice and a wise tip is to look up as you do it. You were probably told that already but it’s realy the key imo.
And you might find it far harder with one eye more than the other. Entirely normal

Is there a forum for this kind of thing somewhere

And don’t come home from the pub and fall asleep with them in.
Yes, you’ll do it and yes, you will regret it! :eek:

c - 13

Yeah I had a tiny amount of trouble at the start, used to take a minute or two to get them in place. Three years later now and I have it down to roughly 10 seconds for the two eyes.

Some people have a complex about touching their eyeballs which prevents them from putting lenses in properly becasue theyre afraid they'll poke themselves in the eye.

AH Reply:
Think of it like anal sex, grit your teeth and just do it until you get used to it.

beerbaron

micmclo wrote: »

And don’t come home from the pub and fall asleep with them in.
Yes, you’ll do it and yes, you will regret it! :eek:

+1 million Ive done it twice (in my defence I was drunk :rolleyes:)

I wear my contacts from time to time and it sometimes takes 2 goes to get them in.

nevaeh-2die-4

c - 13 wrote: »

AH Reply:
Think of it like anal sex, grit your teeth and just do it until you get used to it.

Ha ha ha thast a good1.

thats what i tell the misses, it will be over in a min.

MistyCheese

I wouldn't trust Specsavers as far as I could throw them! But yeah, I had difficulty at the start. I was 14 (and a half) when I got lenses.

I can't even tell you how long it took to get used to them, you just do after a while. Nowadays I can pop them in and out without thinking about it. I often do it at parties to show people my natural eye colour (I wear coloured contacts);)

badolepuddytat

Back to the contact lens question yeah, learning to put them in is tortuous, I wore gas permeables for over 10 years before switching to softs and getting used to putting in the softs was so painful. Not to mention taking them out without ripping them! Once you get the knack it's fine though.

Defenestrate

I struggled with mine initially too. I'm far too vain to wear specs though, so I kept trying and it's just something you get used to. It's so hard not to blink at first though!

nevaeh-2die-4

i went the other day & this artard was not helpful whats so ever.

she had am i bovvered additude.

i will keep trying im sick of wearing glasses

Defenestrate

Try putting them in on the white part of your eye, it's not as sensitive as the pupil or the iris and you can always tuck it in behind the lid if it wont stick.

swingking

Is there a problem with sleeping with contact lenses in.

I was told never to do it but after wearing them for a year, I just keep them in for about 4 days.

It's probably not doing my eyes any good but I've never had an eye infection.

In fact it's laughable the amount of things I was originally told not to do with them in like

-showering
-swimming
-sleeping
-sex

How many of you fellow contact lens users have followed these rules

Jigsaw

I feel for you OP. It took me ages to get used to the damn things when I started wearing them but as others have said, it progressively gets easier and easier.

What I would say is listen to what the opticians say and take it seriously with regard to the length of time the lenses should be worn on a daily basis. I wore mine too long and you get a bit inflamed under the eyelid and then have to stop wearing the lenses altogether until this settles down.

Agreed also with what someone said above about falling asleep with the lenses in - avoid this. If you do, wait a little while after you wake before trying to take the lenses out. Your eyes will be very dry as your tear ducts will have been inactive during your sleep and you won't have been blinking therefore not spreading any tears over your eyeball. When this happens the lens can get kinda stuck to your eye and if you try removing it you can damage you can damage the outer front surface of the eye (cornea I believe). Wait until you've been up for a bit and your eye "juices up".

The lenses are also hell to put in the morning after a feed of drink or if you have had no sleep, both causing dry eyes, but if you are neither an alcoholic or an insomniac then should be grand given time.

Sherifu

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Jigsaw

swingking wrote: »

Is there a problem with sleeping with contact lenses in.

I was told never to do it but after wearing them for a year, I just keep them in for about 4 days.

It's probably not doing my eyes any good but I've never had an eye infection.

In fact it's laughable the amount of things I was originally told not to do with them in like

-showering
-swimming
-sleeping
-sex

How many of you fellow contact lens users have followed these rules

I've only slept with lenses in accidentally due to being p1ssed. However I have shagged, swam and showered with them in.

c - 13

swingking wrote: »

Is there a problem with sleeping with contact lenses in.

I was told never to do it but after wearing them for a year, I just keep them in for about 4 days.

It's probably not doing my eyes any good but I've never had an eye infection.

In fact it's laughable the amount of things I was originally told not to do with them in like

-showering
-swimming
-sleeping
-sex

How many of you fellow contact lens users have followed these rules

-showering - All the time

-swimming - Not in a pool but in the sea, no problem

-sleeping - Only when drunk, dont recommend it

-sex - I really dont understand why you'd want them out for sex unless someone is planning to lick your eyeballs or something

Lockstep

Wearing them overnight CAN give an eye infection but with a soft you should be ok. The problem is if it rolls around to the back of the guy which can be murder to get out. My old man looked like a pirate on his wedding day as he fell asleep in lenses resulting in needing an eyepatch. This coupled with long hair and a beard made him look like a realy jack tar.


Hard contact lenses are a BIG nono overnight. AFAIK theyh can do a whole load of damage if worn too long.

dangerman

it helps a lot if the person teaching you how to put them in is very good looking.

I just repeatedly stabbed myself in the eye with a finger cause she told me too until i figured it out.

markesmith

First time I went for the 'teach', I made a holy show of myself. No real probs getting them in, but actually taking them out was a 'mare. God, I made a holy show...and my two eyeballs looked like hell.

Second time, holy show again. But the lovely assistant told me I could take them home with me anyway, 'to get the hang of them'. I needed a shot of whiskey to take them out the first few times, but now it's no probs at all.

The only time I ever need to take them out is when I'm going to sleep. No probs wearing them in the showers, etc. They're great!

Rob_l

what seems to be the problem OP are you blinking when you try to put them in, if so look upwards and open your mouth it seems to lessen the blink reflex, or alternately just get the thirty day continuous wear and you only have to put them in once a month.

PrettyInPunk

There Such A Pain In The Ass!

phreneticus

forget leaving them in when you're drunk, what's WAY worse is coming home so ****faced you spend half an hour trying to get the bastard yokes out and when you're basically crying blood realise "oh yeah, i wore glasses tonight"......

Susannahmia

nevaeh-2die-4 wrote: »

I have been to like 3 "teaches" in specsavers & i still can’t put in contact lenses.


Has anybody else had similar difficulty??

Cant put them in, they scare the crap out of me.:eek: I'm too vain to wear my glasses too so most of the time I just walk around half blind.:o

Defenestrate

Susannahmia wrote: »

Cant put them in, they scare the crap out of me.:eek: I'm too vain to wear my glasses too so most of the time I just walk around half blind.:o

Was exactly the same with me, I really couldn't stand touching my eyeball, and was fighting a losing battle against the blink reflex.

Just keep at it, it just clicked with me one day and I haven't looked back since.

Susannahmia

Defenestrate wrote: »

Was exactly the same with me, I really couldn't stand touching my eyeball, and was fighting a losing battle against the blink reflex.

Just keep at it, it just clicked with me one day and I haven't looked back since.

I cant even think about it without my eyes watering:D. What scares me most is not being able to get them out.:eek: I think I might just save up for the laser, at least then all the eyeball poking will be done in one go.

Faith

It's a bit tough at the start but you get used to it really quickly. If they're in the wrong way, you know about it because it hurts. You need to learn what they look like when they're the right way up.

Taking them out, now that's where I fall down, even after 7 years. I always manage to move them and get them stuck behind my eyelid, so I have to massage my eye for ages trying to coax them back down. Or else I think I've taken it out, but I can't see where it fell (dailies) and then I'm not sure I actually have taken them out. I usually spend another 10 mins trying to get them out again until I give up. I feel like there's probably a collection of old contacts stuck on my eye somewhere...

Susannahmia

Faith wrote: »

It's a bit tough at the start but you get used to it really quickly. If they're in the wrong way, you know about it because it hurts. You need to learn what they look like when they're the right way up.

Taking them out, now that's where I fall down, even after 7 years. I always manage to move them and get them stuck behind my eyelid, so I have to massage my eye for ages trying to coax them back down. Or else I think I've taken it out, but I can't see where it fell (dailies) and then I'm not sure I actually have taken them out. I usually spend another 10 mins trying to get them out again until I give up. I feel like there's probably a collection of old contacts stuck on my eye somewhere...

You have just killed any desire I had left to ever wear contacts!:eek::D

Orlee

From experience - the teaches in Specsavers are crap!

I went to a smaller opticians and they were much better

But you'll get the hang of it in no time, I think ruined about 10 pairs of lenses before I got a pair in my eye!

Defenestrate

I've always found getting contacts out easy, the facts is that you're grabbing the lens not your eye, if your fingers touch the eyeball then it's not the sensitive pupil as the lens is covering it so it isn't a problem.

And there's no way you could have old lenses in your eye, you'd feel them there, trust me on that!

Loomis

It's easily. Just ram it in there. Found taking them out hard the first day. Scratches the eye off myself. It's easy now though; you find your own methods of doing it

Katja

Eeeek. :eek: The horror stories here have kinda put me off from getting lenses. Just one accidental poke and the vitreous humor might leak out...:eek:

Lasik, here I come...

nevaeh-2die-4

I will keep trying to put them in.

it will be worth it at the end of the day, the poon tang will take ya more seriously when you don’t wear glasses.

justhim

phreneticus wrote: »

forget leaving them in when you're drunk, what's WAY worse is coming home so ****faced you spend half an hour trying to get the bastard yokes out and when you're basically crying blood realise "oh yeah, i wore glasses tonight"......

haha done this soooo many times, except with me it usually take out one, forget which eye it came out of and spend half an hour scraping the eye ball raw trying to get the other lense out of the wrong eye!

5starpool

A girl I work with asked me one day if she still had her lenses in as she couldn't remember. She was so hungover she couldn't see properly either way. Trying to take out lenses that aren't in ftw!!!!

The thought of lenses is horrible to me, but then again, so far, I have never needed glasses.

Lockstep

they really arent that bad folks.

I never even needed "teaches" I just kept at it until they fitted properly.
Can take a few days to get.

carveone

swingking wrote: »

-swimming
-sex

I'd swim with contact lenses in but I'd use disposables and change them out after swimming. Amoebic keratitis is no fun.

As for sex, what are you shoving in your eye again???

The big problem with contact lenses is overcoming the blink reflex. Someone mentioned opening your mouth which does actually help (at least I've noticed myself doing it and I wasn't sure why!).

Personally I can't overcome the blink reflex so I have to hold my eye open. I don't grab anything, it's the same way you'd look to see if there was anything in your eye.

I have the lens on my right index finger, I use my left index and middle fingers to hold my eye open from above (just pulling up below the eyebrow, not grabbing the eyelid!!!) and I use the remaining three right hand fingers to pull the eye open from below. Then you are looking right at the lens. Then just place the lens carefully on the eye. Done.

Here's a (rather unpleasant looking) image. That's exactly what I do.

Except when I blink, the lens folds, so I just pull the eyelid up and over so the lens is flattened down.

Looks unpleasant and uncomfortable but it takes only a few seconds.

HTH!

ergonomics

I can get them in no problem but taking them out is a whole other problem. I often pinch my actual eyeball. Not nice, not nice at all.

mrsdewinter

You'll get the hang of it. Tis like reversing around a corner coming up to the driving test. You think you'll never pick up the knack, and next thing you know, you're an old pro.
Then you can move on to freaking out non-lens wearers by appearing to stick your finger in your eye when you go to adjust them...

Defenestrate

Just stop acting like big girl's blouses and shove the damn lenses in! You get used to lenses, there's been several posts here about people forgetting they have them in cos you cant even feel them on your eye.

Also, the lenses don't even touch your eyeball, they actually float on a film of water. So, the only time a lens ever stings is if a) it dries out or b) it's torn.

Here's how I use my lenses:

1) Get up in the morning have a shower, then stand in front of the mirror, take the lenses out the case and pop each one in (just takes a few secs cos I'm used to it).

2) Go about my day.

3) Go back to the mirror at the end of the day, take out the lenses and place them into the case, fill the little tub with the cleaning solution and screw the case into the tub and leave it fizzing away in the bathroom while I go to bed.

4) Repeat step 1.

It's a very, very easy routine to get into. I can even do it drunk with clumsy, heavy fingers. The only real problem I've had in over a year of lens wearing was when I accidently tore one without realising it when putting it in whilst in a rush one morning. I took it out because it was stining a little. Problem solved.

Limerick Dude

Im wearing monthlys but im finding them to be a serious pain in the ass.

Everytime i put them in in the morningi have to clean them for ages because they get dirty so easily, and a dirty lens in your eye is not fun at all, half the time when i put them in it kills which means i have to clean them for another 5 minutes.

I might just get dailys from now on as i will be putting in a nice fresh set of lenses each day even if it is more expensive.

snickerpuss

I got hard lenses and just couldn't wear them. I couldn't see anything properly, my vision was blurred, they hurt. Disaster.

Then a few years later i got dailies and they're great. No probs putting them in and out. Putting eye make up on while wearing them is interesting. The new dailies specsavers have are teeny, can hardly feel them.

Lockstep

I'll just advise people who are considering lenses to be careful in water.

Lenses come out extremely easily in water so you'd be advised to either wear some near the end of their tether or to just wear a daily pair.

Losing the monthly lens you'd just got that morning is no joke.

Toots

I was trying to get my lenses out the other night (they're the soft disposable ones) and I managed to fold the lens in half and get it stuck under my eyelid!! I thought I'd gone blind with the pain! I've been wearing contacts for two years now and I'm still having little accidents with them! Totally getting Laser surgery this year!

razorblunt

I found the teaches very helpful in Specsavers, do what they say and you'll find a better and quicker way of doing it yourself.

I wear daily disposables but not every day, only if Im going out at night time so Im still not fully comfortable sometimes it takes a few mins to put them in.

I'd follow the same procedure as Carveone except I put them on the very tip of my finger and drop it in if it doesnt stick to the eyeball, if it looks a little wrinkly on the air look left, right up and down and the air is removed close your eye, open again and voila its done.

Never had any hassle removing them.

If it goes up inside the eyelid dont worry if its dailies I found that they drop out in a few mins.


It is sore when you try to take them out when theyre not there! thought I was the only on!ha ha!

unreggd

swingking wrote: »

Is there a problem with sleeping with contact lenses in.

I was told never to do it but after wearing them for a year, I just keep them in for about 4 days.

It's probably not doing my eyes any good but I've never had an eye infection.

In fact it's laughable the amount of things I was originally told not to do with them in like

-showering
-swimming
-sleeping
-sex

How many of you fellow contact lens users have followed these rules

yeah! me arse they fall out durin sex, they're hard enough to pinch out some times as it is

I always shower in them, and ive fell asleep a good few times, although ive monthlys which can be worn for 2 weeks continuous so they wouldnt be so bad

Wouldnt swim in them tho

Lirange

I had Lasik surgery and highly recommend it.

I take it that's not an option for you?

FruitLover

Your eyes eventually become desensitised enough that you can literally put the lens directly on your cornea (instead of faffing about putting it on the sclera (white part), then rolling and blinking your eye etc).
Contacts are a pain in the ass, but Jesus, I'd never go back to glasses. Roll on the laser surgery!

swingking wrote: »

Is there a problem with sleeping with contact lenses in.

I was told never to do it but after wearing them for a year, I just keep them in for about 4 days.

It's probably not doing my eyes any good but I've never had an eye infection.

It deprives your corneas of oxygen. Normally your corneas' only source of oxygen is that which is dissolved in tears while your eyes are open, and eyelid capillaries when they're closed (normal, healthy corneas don't have blood vessels, as they (obviously) need to be transparent). When you sleep with contact lenses in, unless the lenses are specifically designed for sleeping in (i.e. have high gas permeability) your corneas can't get enough oxygen from your eyelids, and it promotes the migration of capillaries from the sclera to the cornea. You DON'T want blood vessels growing on your corneas (blood vessels aren't transparent).

Katja wrote: »

Just one accidental poke and the vitreous humor might leak out...:eek:

a) That's not going to happen, unless you have talons for nails
b) Your vitreous humour (although presumably you mean aqueous humour?) grows back (e.g. after retinal surgery)

The_Minister

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Eyeglasses&ContactLenses&Eyecare Forum FTW.

Lil' Smiler

Nyih, have never had a problem. Got them when i was 9 for sport and am now 21... can put them in in the dark, whilst in motion (driving/walking)

Must be really really frustrating not being able to put them in

AlmightyCushion

Moved from After Hours.

Moonbeam

After years of no contacts I decided I wanted them again.

I went to specsavers and they gave me their own brand lenses,I found them impossible to put in and take out and sometimes they tore on my eye so would only get 1/2 out.My eyes were red and puffy and it was an ordeal so i just stopped wearing them.

Recently I got the Acuvue moist ones,they are so easy to put in,I can take them out walking down the road while having a conversation,they never tear and are really comfie.

Maybe try different lenses,it might help.