One more tear?!
Question: Well..it happened again, I am the same person whose contact lens tore last week (beginner contact lens wearer). The one that tore that day was by right eye's contact lens. The one that tore this time was my left eye one. Do you think am I doing something wrong? This time, my left eye started feeling very bad and I put a couple of drops of Bausch and Lomb contact lens drops in and they still weren't feeling comfortable and when I pulled out the contact from my eye and put in my palm, put a bit of solution and lens immediately tore. I didn't even rub it or touch it. Was the lens defective to begin with? Why did it do this? Any ideas?
Answers: Well..it happened again, I am the same person whose contact lens tore last week (beginner contact lens wearer). The one that tore that day was by right eye's contact lens. The one that tore this time was my left eye one. Do you think am I doing something wrong? This time, my left eye started feeling very bad and I put a couple of drops of Bausch and Lomb contact lens drops in and they still weren't feeling comfortable and when I pulled out the contact from my eye and put in my palm, put a bit of solution and lens immediately tore. I didn't even rub it or touch it. Was the lens defective to begin with? Why did it do this? Any ideas?
Contact lenses resist tearing by stretching quite well. But they are much like cellophane in regard to tearing by piercing or ripping. Because of this, most contact lens tears occur from the following 1) females who use their fingernails as tools to pick up and manipulate contacts -- finger nails can EASILY pierce a lens leading to a tear expanding from the pierced hole. If this is the case you need to trim back your fingernails on the forefinger and thumb of the hand you handle the lens with so that you can handle the lens with the flesh of you fingertips rather than the nails. 2) Sometimes when handling a lens you will accidentally stick the two sides together. If you attempt to PULL the lens apart you can rip the lens by the shearing force of pulling them apart. Always RUB a lens in saline to get it to open. Never pull it apart. 3) A lens can develop an edge nick which will expand to a tear by closing the lens case when the lens edge is resting against the edge of the case. So make sure the lens is always floating freely away from the edge of the case before closing the case. Hopefully this knowledge will help you figure out what may be happening.
I have been wearing contacts for over 15 years and have only torn one in that time. I kept rubbing my eye and that is how it tore. You could be rubbing your eyes and not even noticing it. I would talk to my optometrist if that keeps happening, some people just can't wear contacts and you may be one of them. Either way, good luck and stick it out a little longer before you get discouraged!! Try really hard to notice if you keep rubbing your eyes.