30 days extended wear lenses and washing my face?!

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Just wash your face and shower in them. I have done this for 40 years with my lenses although I dont' do extended wear. If you can't wash your face adn shower then how can you go out in the rain with contacts in etc. etc. Kind of removes teh whole point of using contacts doesn't it? I'd be careful not to get water in them if possible as it stings, adn if you get shampoo in your eye you'll need to take the contacts out or it'll really hurt, but its not dangerous.

There are a lot of people who seem to think that geting any water anywhere near your eyes with contacts in is a major disaster, but the odd drop doesn't really hurt. My optiican agrees with me on this one by the way. Where you have to be careful is if you swim - I use daily disposables for this now, however I used to swim in hard contacts which we used to keep for 3 years or more. I've never had an infection.