Can't Get Contact In Eye?!
Question: I can't get my contact in my eye. This is my first time (at home) trying to get them in by myself but it won't come off my finger. I'm tried putting it onto my eye but it won't come off. I've tried three consectutive times, but it won't work, adn my eye is burning. Why won't it ocme off?!
Answers: I can't get my contact in my eye. This is my first time (at home) trying to get them in by myself but it won't come off my finger. I'm tried putting it onto my eye but it won't come off. I've tried three consectutive times, but it won't work, adn my eye is burning. Why won't it ocme off?!
Let your eye rest awhile until the burning and redness goes away to begin with.
Then make sure your lens is very moist, and your finger also, with your solution...
Make sure you are holding your eye open wide enough for the whole lens to be able to fit. Keep your bottom lid held down as far as you can.
Try to look straight ahead and place the lens right over the iris... (the colored part )
If you are rolling your eye around , it won't stick either.
The reason it isn't coming off your finger is probably because you aren't getting the right angle when you are touching your cornea with it.
The lens has to touch evenly all around it, then it will create a suction, and come off your finger. If you are at too much of an angle, just one edge is touching , and it will never stick like that.
Just have patience, don't apply too much pressure, and practice some more until you get the angle of insertion right.
After you have done it a few times, it will get a lot easier.
Good luck
Remember to use one hand to lift the eyelid and your middle finger from your other hand to pull down on your bottom lid. With the contact resting lightly on your index finger, gently touch it to your eye. Don't push it into your eye. The moisture from the contact and your eye should stick together without much pressure. Just RELAX. It takes a little practice. It took me weeks before I could do it comfortably. Remember to stare straight ahead at the mirror and not at the contact on your finger.
It'll get easier with time. Good Luck