Red eyes with contacts. Best course of action?!

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Why don't you get some glasses, then you don't have to wear your contacts so much, it would give your eyes a break from contacts. If you hate glasses, you can just use them evenings & weekends.

Artificial tears dont' help red eye and if you have this then really you need to stop wearing contacts completely. Also go to your optician and get your eyes checked. This is teh sort of thing for which time is critical. You do need a backup set of glasses so you can leave your contacts out completely.

Whilst red eyes are the characteristic overwear thing, self diagnosing and treatment is not the best of ideas.

I have the same problem. I normally wear my contact lenses every single day from when I wake up and take them out only to sleep. My eyes are red and dry and veiny. I saw my optometrist recently and he said that my contact lenses are scratching my eyes and that, basically, if I don't switch to glasses I have a chance of doing some real damage/even going blind in the future. Glasses here I come :: sigh ::