Any advice on putting contact lenses in and out of my eye?!
Question: I am 14 and my doctor just told me I'm legally blind and my eyes are getting worse. So, i don't want to wear glasses because of vanity. I went to get contacts and i couldn't put them in my eye. After much struggling, my eye doctor, who is a very good eye doctor, put them in for me. He said taking them out is the easy part. I couldn't do that either. Any advice?
Answers: I am 14 and my doctor just told me I'm legally blind and my eyes are getting worse. So, i don't want to wear glasses because of vanity. I went to get contacts and i couldn't put them in my eye. After much struggling, my eye doctor, who is a very good eye doctor, put them in for me. He said taking them out is the easy part. I couldn't do that either. Any advice?
When putting them in or taking them out, look in the mirror, but DO NOT concentrate on what you are seeing--that is your hand coming in toward your eye. Instead try to focus as much as you can on your image in the mirror, as if it is not your eye that you are working on. Sounds odd, but it can really help. Also, relax first and work slowly, telling yourself that everything is F I N E. And that, T H I S W I L L W O R K...
As for taking them out, it's best to hold the eye open with the opposite hand (right hand for right contact, etc..) and then gently squeeze the contact with your forefinger and thumb, using the soft pads, and just let the contact get caught between your finger and thumb before removing. Some say to move the contact to the white part of your eye first, off of the iris, but that never worked well for me.
Putting them is just a matter of opening your eyes wide, putting a drop of re-wetting fluid in the contact first, and then gently pressing the contact onto your eye, holding your eye open to discourage blinking. Again, try not to watch the finger coming toward you, instead watch in the mirror. After it's on your eyeball, blink a few times and it should be seated perfectly.
Remember in the end the choice is yours--you can take a deep breath and calmly proceed telling yourself you can and will do this, or you can freak out and make it too hard and resort to wearing glasses instead... Honestly, the choice is always yours...
With a deep breath each time, and a little practice, you can succeed with contacts. It's scary at first, but soon becomes almost automatic. Hang in there and stay calm!
yea i suggest u wash your hands while removing and putting them in and make sure you change the solution water a lot because it gets dirty so easilyy...i wear contacts everyday
it took me like two months for me to get truly comfortable with putting them in and out.
when you put them in, hold open your eye for a couple seconds and kinda look around so it gets settled in the right spot. make sure u do this before any makeup whatsoever.
then when you take them out, just have patience. sometimes it helps if you have a little solution on your finger to begin with so it doesnt hurt
Looking upwards has helped me. It gets the contacts in a better position, and it's nice not seeing my fingers heading straight towards my eye.
If you are new to contact lenses, there are two things that you will need to learn - putting your contacts in and taking them out. Even if you may have got in some practice with your optician during your fitting exam, you will find things to be totally different once you step in front of your mirror at home and try to do it by yourself.
The first thing you will become aware of is that it can be difficult to put your contacts in. If you are putting them in for the first time, it can be a little tricky getting them in your eye. With a few days or a few weeks to practice, you