| Hi All, Contact lenses, Jeez what a mission!. I feel your pain. Getting them in seem uncomfortable but no probs, but spent hours to a couple of days trying to figure out how to get them out. Some tips: Getting them in: - keep calm, rest for five mins after an attempt. It doesn't help giving your eyes a good poking until they're red. - get used to gently touching your eyes a couple of times 1st without the contact - avoid touching the eyelashes, I find them like a trigger to shut the eyelids. Push them back with your finger if poss. - put the contact on the tip of your index finger. hold open your eyelids and look up slightly, then gently and calmly put in the contact on the surface of your eyball slightly off center on the whites and pupil. - When they are on the surface blink a couple of times, and roll your eyes around a little. The contacts should automatically position themselves over the center of your eye. (as the lens part sticks out a bit and it is shaped differently to the whites). Getting them out: Argg need more practice. Still Freaks me out pinching them out. One technique that I am trying to use is similar to another mentioned in this forum, you can shift the contact without actually directly touching the surface of your eyeball, but through your eyelid. - Hold your bottom eyelid open. - Touch your top part of your eye with the "top eyelid closed", try and push down the lens "through the surface of your closed top eyelid" - It should get blurry and feel different when the position has moved. Make sure you hold the contact in place when it has moved off center. - Pinch out with index and thumb when contact has been position in the lower white of your eye (the different curvature of the contact should allow for this) Hope this helps, keep trying, it is definitely unnatural to touch the eye, I know and frustrating as heck but practise practise and don't give up. It will finally get easier once you figure it out. :) |
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