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Kelly · Hermes

question about contacts

wetbandit42 · Marc Jacobs

Can you feel them in a painful or irritating way? Or can you just tell they're in your eyes? I've been wearing contacts for about 6 years now, and I've tried about 5 different kinds/brands of contacts, and I can always tell when they're in my eyes. Sometimes I just know they're there, and sometimes I can feel them and they irritate my eyes.

Also, you might need some time to adjust to them. You might not be able to feel them after you've become accustomed to your contacts.

Boots · Gucci

wetbandit42 wrote:

Can you feel them in a painful or irritating way? Or can you just tell they're in your eyes? I've been wearing contacts for about 6 years now, and I've tried about 5 different kinds/brands of contacts, and I can always tell when they're in my eyes. Sometimes I just know they're there, and sometimes I can feel them and they irritate my eyes.

Also, you might need some time to adjust to them. You might not be able to feel them after you've become accustomed to your contacts.

Very true. And the weather can affect them too. Right now my eyes are all irritated from sinus problems and my contacts are very uncomfortable.

Sometimes they accidentally get turned inside out before I put them in and they feel different in my eye. Taking them out and turning them back to the right side works.

If they hurt at all or turn your eyes red, you should take them out.

When I got my contacts (freshman year of college so we're talking awhile ago) it took me a few months to get used to them.

Kelly · Hermes

wetbandit42 wrote:

Can you feel them in a painful or irritating way? Or can you just tell they're in your eyes?

They aren't painful, just annoying

Thanks guys - I guess I just need to get used to them, I just got so hopefully when the dr said I wouldn't be able to feel them! sigh.

Boots · Gucci

You feel them like you do clothes (in a weird metaphor sort of way.) You're aware that you have pants on, but they don't bother you. Does that make sense?

Kelly · Hermes

Boots wrote:

You feel them like you do clothes (in a weird metaphor sort of way.) You're aware that you have pants on, but they don't bother you. Does that make sense?

hahaha that definitely makes sense biggrin

Suasoria · Chanel

Imagine the world's thinnest calluses building up on the surface of your eyeballs. No? Okay, never mind.

When I got contacts a million years ago, before some of you were even born (she said toothlessly), there were only the hard plastic ones. We were supposed to wear them for a few hours the first day, then a few hours more, and work up to full day wear. I'm surprised they don't still advise that. No matter how far the technology has come, it's still odd to stick something in your eye.

jrhampt · Kenneth Cole

Have you tried a couple of different brands? I've noticed a HUGE difference when I switch between older brands and the newer more oxygen permeable ones (Acuvue Advance and Acuvue Oasys).

XtinaStyles · Marc Jacobs

Are you sure they're not "inside out"? Mine feel like nothing but when I put them in the wrong way I "feel" them, not in a painful way but you can def feel it.

This explains it better than I can:
http://www.besteyeglasses.net/ContactLens_Tips/How-Lens-Inside-Out.htm

Kelly · Hermes

So far I've only tried one brand because I just got them this weekend, but they are soft & oxygen permeable (Air Optix Aqua). I'm probably being a big baby about something that doesn't both anyone else wink

Today has been much better. I triple-checked that they weren't inside out, and I also picked up some "long lasting comfort drops" in the contact lens section of the grocery store. So either I had them inside out before, my eyes were dry, or I'm just getting more used to them!

Also Suasoria - you almost made me barf all over my keyboard biggrin

-- Edited by Kelly on Wednesday 20th of January 2010 03:03:41 PM

wetbandit42 · Marc Jacobs

Kelly wrote:

So far I've only tried one brand because I just got them this weekend, but they are soft & oxygen permeable (Air Optix Aqua).

I have these contacts too. Mine irritate me a lot, but I have really dry/easily irritated eyes to begin with.

Also, I don't know if your doctor advised you about lens solution, but if you have dry eyes give Clear Care a try. Every eye doctor I've been to has suggested using this.

Boots - you described it perfectly! I couldn't figure out how to describe feeling your contacts.

Kelly · Hermes

wetbandit42 wrote:

Also, I don't know if your doctor advised you about lens solution, but if you have dry eyes give Clear Care a try. Every eye doctor I've been to has suggested using this.

Thank you! I will try that. She didn't really say anything specific about solution, just sent me home with some Aquify....but I'm pretty sure that was just because that was what they had around in the office, because she didn't say I should stick with it or that it was her favorite or anything.

alb · Marc Jacobs

I think you need to switch lenses. You really should not feel them at all except for the first hour or so it takes to get used to them. I'd go back and try another pair - keep trying until you find some you like. the best analogy I can come with - and this is gross so sorry - is a tampon. You totally forget about them all day if they are the right pair for you.

If you have them in backwards, they would be driving you crazy, so it's probably not that. HTH some.

gossipgirl · Dooney & Bourke

Suasoria wrote:

Imagine the world's thinnest calluses building up on the surface of your eyeballs. No? Okay, never mind.

When I got contacts a million years ago, before some of you were even born (she said toothlessly), there were only the hard plastic ones. We were supposed to wear them for a few hours the first day, then a few hours more, and work up to full day wear. I'm surprised they don't still advise that. No matter how far the technology has come, it's still odd to stick something in your eye.

Ditto - my eye doctor still recommends this. It sounds like you got a pair that doesn't fit your eye well. You prolly need to try switching brands - you should NOT really feel them.

Kelly · Hermes

I'm going back to see her in a few weeks so I will ask her if there is another brand I could try. I was reading online about how when you get contacts your eye doctor is supposed to measure your eye or something. If she did that to me I didn't realize it - but after I got them in she did take me back and look at my eyes again with her gizmos to make sure it looked OK. Do they need to measure your eyes for soft lenses? I'm wondering if I should ask her if she did that.

alb wrote:

the best analogy I can come with - and this is gross so sorry - is a tampon. You totally forget about them all day if they are the right pair for you.

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ROFL You are not going to believe this but today I actually wondered if it was like that!!

-- Edited by Kelly on Thursday 21st of January 2010 01:38:59 PM

alb · Marc Jacobs

Kelly wrote:

I'm going back to see her in a few weeks so I will ask her if there is another brand I could try. I was reading online about how when you get contacts your eye doctor is supposed to measure your eye or something. If she did that to me I didn't realize it - but after I got them in she did take me back and look at my eyes again with her gizmos to make sure it looked OK. Do they need to measure your eyes for soft lenses? I'm wondering if I should ask her if she did that.

alb wrote:
the best analogy I can come with - and this is gross so sorry - is a tampon. You totally forget about them all day if they are the right pair for you.
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ROFL You are not going to believe this but today I actually wondered if it was like that!!

-- Edited by Kelly on Thursday 21st of January 2010 01:38:59 PM

Ha ha! It truly is!! She definitely needs to give you some other samples to try. I use Acuview I think now, and they're good. There are a lot of good ones out there, you just need to try them until you literally can't feel them in your eye. I'd make her give you more than one brand at a time - they get tons of samples from the pharm. reps.

Elle · Hermes

I just got contacts too, and have the Air Optix now as well. This is the fourth type I've tried, and while they're the best by far I can still feel them sometimes. What you can typically feel are the edges rolling up when you blink - that's what she was probably looking for when she looked at your eyes with your contacts in.

The Acuvue Oasys that everyone (here and IRL) rave about made me want to scratch my eyes out!

jrhampt · Kenneth Cole

Ha, Elle, I had the opposite issue. I've been using acuvue oasys for years but wanted to try the air optix since everyone raves about them, and they felt itchy and weird, so I went back to the acuvue ones.

Kelly · Hermes

oh my gosh, I just used Clear Care for the first time last night and it feels worlds different today! I had gotten a box of it but wanted to finish up all my Aquify first just to not waste it. But honestly I have only been wearing my contacts every few days because they bugged me so much. Yesterday at this time I was ready to claw my eyes out, so I just bit the bullet and used Clear Care and holy crap, I can barely tell they're in anymore!

I did get some Acuvue Oasys samples just to try out, but THANK YOU wetbandit for the suggestion!

wetbandit42 · Marc Jacobs

Kelly wrote:

oh my gosh, I just used Clear Care for the first time last night and it feels worlds different today! I had gotten a box of it but wanted to finish up all my Aquify first just to not waste it. But honestly I have only been wearing my contacts every few days because they bugged me so much. Yesterday at this time I was ready to claw my eyes out, so I just bit the bullet and used Clear Care and holy crap, I can barely tell they're in anymore!

I did get some Acuvue Oasys samples just to try out, but THANK YOU wetbandit for the suggestion!

No problem, Kelly! smile

Glad I could help!