How do you know if your contact lenses are in correctly?

the_syco

Hello all,
Got contact lens there recently, and got around to wearing them today. Will only be wearing them for two hours, but I'm unsure if the lens on the right eye is on incorrectly (back to front?), or if the lens is not adjusted around yet (upside down), or if it's maybe just the wrong prescription (these are mostly just to get used to wearing them for long periods).

I know it's in, as when I put on my glasses, my sight goes from kind of alright to holy sweet f**k I'm blind :P

It's been in for about 10 minutes so far, and is comfortable. I find the left eye (also has a contact lens in) is "taking over" for the sight, allowing me to read, but writing still appears a bit blurred as my right eye sees the text as a bt blurred.

So, is there any way to tell if it's in wrongly? It's not uncomfortable - feck; I don't feel it there, and I can see a lot better than without it.

Any opinions would be great.

/edit
Seems I just have to open the eyes a bit wider, and they'll auto-rotate (bottom is slightly heavier). Still a little blurred, but a lot better. It's... weird looking around, though.

PauloMN

Just got contacts myself, but I do know when I have one in the wrong way around as it's quite uncomfortable and doesn't "sit" on the eye properly. Has only happened a couple of times, when I open my lenses, they seem to be the correct way around 90% of the time. Don't know if that's normal or if I'm just lucky, but that's what I have found.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any way to tell if they are the right way around before putting them in. I've read stuff on different websites saying you can see the edge sticking out if they are the wrong way around, but my lenses look the same no matter what way they are.

As for them being weird to look through - they take a bit of getting used to, especially when putting them in first - to me it's kinda like when you get new glasses and how they feel a bit strange for a while, but then you get used to them. Give it a couple of weeks and I'm sure you'll be fine with them. It sounds like you have toric lenses also, rather than the ones I have, I'm not sure if you need to do anything different when inserting them over standard lenses - I presume your optician will have told you that though!

the_syco

PauloMN wrote: »

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any way to tell if they are the right way around before putting them in. I've read stuff on different websites saying you can see the edge sticking out if they are the wrong way around, but my lenses look the same no matter what way they are.

I vaguely recall something about being able to see a saucer at the bottom of the lens if it's in the correct shape, but I'm not sure if it's saucer shape if the shape is correct, of if it's wrong.

PauloMN wrote: »

As for them being weird to look through - they take a bit of getting used to, especially when putting them in first - to me it's kinda like when you get new glasses and how they feel a bit strange for a while, but then you get used to them. Give it a couple of weeks and I'm sure you'll be fine with them. It sounds like you have toric lenses also, rather than the ones I have, I'm not sure if you need to do anything different when inserting them over standard lenses - I presume your optician will have told you that though!

I'll be changing these. Anything closer than a foot (writing, for example), and anything more than 8 feet away tends to be fairly blurred. Will be trying other lenses. My astigmatism is a bit high, thus the other lens works out at €50 for the pair per month, I think. Will find out soon, hopefully.

Opinicus

Look at the rim of the contact lens when it's on your finger tip. If it doesn't continue the natural spherical shape of the lens or seems to be turning outwards then it's inside out.

Example:





Exaggerated Example:

Correct:



Incorrect:

I'm still getting used to contacts myself and only got them in the last 2 weeks.

I was out walking in St Stephen's Green last week when the lens in my right eye randomly fell out! It was only then that I realised I must have had it in backwards as it felt a bit uncomfortable and I was blinking more than usual.