Contacts for too long?!
Question: Im should use the contacts for 1 month but i have used them for about 4, i clean them all the time wiht the replenish liquid, i dont sleep with them and i also use my glasses
is it really bad if i use them for too long??
are the effects of this serious?
thx
Answers: Im should use the contacts for 1 month but i have used them for about 4, i clean them all the time wiht the replenish liquid, i dont sleep with them and i also use my glasses
is it really bad if i use them for too long??
are the effects of this serious?
thx
The choice is yours, of course, but I agree with a previous post by Rae--too many people listen to every word that their OD's tell them as if it is gospel. While it's certainly unarguably safer to replace soft contacts more frequently, never forget that the lens manufacturers, and the doctors, and the internet CL dealers, are all counting on the revenues from more frequent sales of disposable CL's...
I hate to be blatantly cynical, but it's the truth. And I have known too many people that get 2-3 times the wear time out pairs of lenses with NO complications. Plus, my stepmother, up until last year, had to buy special order multifocal toric soft lenses that came in a vial and cost almost $200 EACH INDIVIDUAL LENS--and they were, a single pair, suppose to last her for a year! She has since switched to a "monthly" disposable multifocal toric soft lens (ProClear), and says that she can tell NO difference between them and the infinitely more expensive yearly ones she was being gouged for--they were not thicker or more durable or dramatically different.
If you keep your contacts clean and disinfected, and you get as crisp vision as when they were new, and they do not bother your eyes, I think it's fine to keep wearing them. Heck, it's what I am doing...!
I take everything my OD tells me with a grain of salt, and then do my own research on the internet. In the few weeks of research before first going to my OD, I learned enough that I have frequently been teaching her, my doctorated OD, new things about CL's. In the end I figure they are my eyes, and I should take responsibility for them...
As my eye doctor put it you can get an ulcer on your cornea resulting in a need for a cornea transplant. It also leaves you susceptible to other low grade eye infections.
Look, there can be side effects, but i have been wearing contacts for years and most of the time over-wearing them and have never had a problem, because i keep them clean. My mother also does the same and again, no problems.
Most people that answer this question are going to tell you that it's a terrible thing to do and that you will lose your eye (just about) but it's a personal choice. I've told my optometrist that my contacts were just a little too old (by a couple of weeks) when they were about 4.5 months old (on an 8 week change system) and he had a look at it and couldn't tell the difference!
However, if you are getting any pain or discomfort, then change them straight away and see the doctor. Don't put it off because it could be serious (ie blindness, infection etc) but as long as they are clean there should be no problems!
Oh, yes! It's definitely bad!
If you keep them clean and wash out your contact case with hot water regularly, then your contacts will be fine, as long as you're taking them out every night. As long as they're clean, you'll be okay, though the contacts can wear thin if they tend to fold in on themselves when soaking, so they might be less effective.
I see you don't sleep with them in- that's where most of the problems start. I kept mine in for two weeks at a time, and my eyeballs actually swelled in my skull, to the point of having headaches around the area and I couldn't even barely touch my eye area because it was so swollen it HURT. It sounds really disgusting, but the scary thing is that you couldn't really tell- my eyes were red, but that was it. Imagine trying to explain that kind of pain to your school nurse!
My mother in law did this and went blind in one eye. She got a really bad infection, she had to take eye drops like hourly for a week. She did get her sight back, but she says she will never overwear her contacts again. Her colored region of her eye turned white.
On the other hand my husband did this all the time and so did she for years before the problem started. Just be advised that problems do happen.
Slightly beyond like few days shouldnt be a problem. But if u do face discomfort pls do remove them immed. Monthly lenses are designed for wearing up to 30days regardless of whether the lenses is being wore everyday. Side effect might be in long term like eye heath being affect.
YES! That is BAD! Oh my God, I work as a optician at a Pearle Vision and me and my coworkers crack up all the time at the foolish people that come in complaining that they think their eyes are infected. When we ask if they've been wearing contact lenses over the 1 month (or 2 week) time period and they say yes, they seem surprised that this is a bad thing. Contact lenses are only made for a certain time period for a reason. Other than having disgusting infections in your eyes, the most extreme case was an older man that came to my job upset because we wouldn't order him more lenses. Why? Because he had already had his catarct ripped out in his left eye from when he tried to take the lens out after having them in/sleeping in them for over 7 months! Disgusting...