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Post by joanne28 on Jul 22, 2012 19:04:25 GMT
Get it checked out but put drops in routinely during the day, not just when your eyes feel gritty. TBH, when I had to quit using contacts it was because my eyes were too dry. They looked like road maps of Manhattan and felt dry, gritty and sore. Even drops didn't help me in the end, although they may well help you.
Just to let you know, I use drops now and wear glasses. Apparently my eyes are like the Sahara.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 23, 2012 1:13:27 GMT
Gad ~~ it makes you wonder if it was the contacts that caused the problem. Here's a big clue. I did an experiment. I took my naked eyes into the bathroom & got out the case with the contacts reposing in their little pools of Opti-Free Replenish. I then spritzed my eyes with saline solution. I put some of the saline solution into the palm of my hand, then dropped a lens into it in order to rinse off the Opti-Free before putting the lens into my eye. Did this for both eyes, then proceeded to wear the contacts for @8 hours comfortably. I put saline solution into my eyes before removing the contacts, but put the lenses back into fresh reservoirs of Opti-Free. The right eye was somewhat irritated, but not nearly as dramatically as has been the case recently.
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Post by htmb on Jul 23, 2012 2:21:06 GMT
That sounds pretty encouraging, bixa. I hope this continues to work. What brand of lenses do you use?
(I've decided my right eye is also getting dryer than my left partially because my car air conditioning vent blows in my face. I think it may be drying out my eye.)
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 23, 2012 5:28:47 GMT
This is the brand I use. There was no selection process on my part. I said, "I want contacts" & this is what I got. You can click the picture for more details.
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Post by htmb on Jul 23, 2012 6:11:41 GMT
I was switched to Acuvu Oasys several months ago. They are supposed to be thinner and more "breatheable." Was also switched from Renu to Bio true lens solution.
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Post by htmb on Mar 17, 2013 21:02:52 GMT
So, I think I should have replaced my contact lens with a new one. I've kind of lost track of how long I've used this one. It's a two week lasting soft lens, and now I cannot get it out of my eye. It seems almost glued on. I've been putting solution, as well as eye drops, in my eye off and on for the past three hours. I've also tried lots of little tricks to get the lens to come away from my eye, but nothing works. I know it's still there or I wouldn't be able to read these words as I type.
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Two hours later....got it!
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 20, 2013 2:56:17 GMT
Thank goodness!
The last time I got contacts, several months ago, I was given a brand that was tons more comfortable. Naturally I didn't save a box & now can't remember the name. They are very, very thin which leads me to something that touches on Htmb's lost-in-the-eye problem.
In order to put on & take out my lens, I utilize Q-tips. I wet a tip very well & use it to get the lens out of the case & place it on my index finger, which then sticks it into my eye. To take out a contact, I wet a tip & gently drag the lens toward the inner corner of the eye. That makes the lens crumple slightly so that I can use the Q-tip to pick it up out of my eye & deposit it in the lens well. Oh yeah, I also use a strong magnifying mirror.
Now, when I shared a hotel room with my longtime lens-wearing sister in October, she mocked my method, particularly because I was having so much trouble without my mirror mounted where I needed it. She then proceeded to show me how to put on & take out contact lens, pointing out that she'd shown zillions of middle-schoolers how to do it. (she's a school nurse)
She demonstrated once, then began again, starting with that apcray about "tulip and lily shapes". That's when I lost it & jabbed a contact-laden finger at her, snarlingly defying her to tell me where the #@$%&^! tulip or lily shape was on my lens.
She stopped calling me stooopid & goggled at the lens, exclaiming at its delicacy. Her actual words were "it's finer than the gossamer wings of a fairy hummingbird".
Well, I was vindicated, but still stuck with my over-elaborate method of insertion & extraction.
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Post by spindrift1 on Jun 22, 2013 18:39:18 GMT
oh goodness Bixa....I have never thought of using Qtips! I could never get to grips with removing lenses the way the optician told me to i.e. picking them out with my thumb and finger. Instead I tilt my head back a little, then I lift my eyelid with the fingers of one hand and move the lens from the centre of my eye to the inside corner with the middle finger of my other hand and out it pops! I don't look into a mirror for this.
I use Johnsons Dailies Acuvue Moist. Excellent. I have only good things to say about them.
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