Contact help?!
Question: Okay so, im getting contacts tommorow the prescription is in can anyone give me some tips on wearing/care of them?
Answers: Okay so, im getting contacts tommorow the prescription is in can anyone give me some tips on wearing/care of them?
The first week they are going to be unconfible as you eyes get used to them. And even after that the first 20-30 mins after you put them in you will notic them. I notic mine for a little while after I put them in but I dont wear contacts every day. (2nd time in a month to put them on today).
Like others have for the first week or so you should allow youself a lot of time to put them in (30min-45 min is pretty common). It take you a while to get the technegt down on how to role them into your eye. Also to over come you body natural reaction to just want to blink. the other hard part is not focusing on you finger putting them but on the mirror. And even then it learning how to do it. One trick it to tilt you head down a little so you are looking out the top of you eye in the mirror so the contact will go lower on the eye and float into place like it should. Also you will need to allow for about 30-45 mins the first week trying to take them out. It just take practic. now I semi use a mirror when I put mine in and dont use it at all taking them out (something I strongely recomend agaist for the first month or 2).
Also another good practic to get into is put them on in the same order every day. I always put my right lens on first then my left. Good practic and become even more imporant if you persiption is different for each eye. For example my right eye is -3.00 and my left is -3.25 and it can give me a head ach really quickly if I have one of them mixed up. Also since you contact are soft (like most people including mine) something that takes some time to learn is how to tell if inside out or not (they explain it at the eye doctor). it just takes some time to learn it. Put one in the wrong way and it just will float all over you eye and just not feel right.
Another tip is put a drop of selin solution in each lens before you put it in your eye. It will make it go on a lot easier and it will not suck the moister out of your eye right off the bat. Also try to get your eye wet with the stuff before hand. Makes things easier.
Oh and like other have said always keep you glass persision up to date. Some days you just will not want to put them on and it so much easier to just wear you glasses or if your eyes are bothering you can take out the contacts and go to glasses. Now some people like me can not funtion with our correct lens (I can see about 12 inchs clearly with out corretive lens, Basicly I cannt read a book with out correct lens any more I am so near sighted.) Plus you mind find yourself at times that glass just look better. Anything that I need to go to where I need to look my best I tend to with my glasses because I think I look better with them on.
Also do not sleep in those daily contacts. You will pay for the next day. I learn that lesson the hard way several times over with my dailies when I fell asleep with them on.
I got used to them the first day I got it.
Just make sure to open your eyes wide so no eyelash, dust, or any other particle gets inside your contacts and just simply put them in.