Posted: 4/7/2009 2:01:22 PM EDT
| Granted I've only had them in for about 45 minutes total, but still. I've got hard contacts, feels like I've got rocks in my eyes. Anyone who has contacts, or had them, how long did it take to get comfortable with them? |
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I just got contacts about two months ago after wearing glasses for 16 years.
It took me a little less than a week to get used to them, and about a month to get proficient putting them in, and taking them out. My lenses are disposable soft contacts though so YMMV. |
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You get used to it.
I'll be going through what you're going through in a few months. The last 2 years I've been in a position where I periodically have to go into the Chemical Processing areas, so Contacts have been forbidden. I'm moving to a new position, though, and I'll get to relearn this all over again. 
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Hardest part about wearing contacts was just getting used to putting them in and taking them out. It's weird because you think you're touching your eye but you're not.
I've had them for about 4-5 years now. Whatever you do, make sure you take them out every night before you go to sleep. If you leave them in it can cause serious eye problems. 
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I've had contacts for ~4 years, after wearing glasses for 8 years I loved them. Peripheral vision, Factory lenses on sunglasses, being able to wear real shooting glasses, lack of black heads on my nose. Man contacts rock.
It took me about a day to get used to them, after that I was good to go. I use soft disposable contacts. My current brand I can keep in for a week, take them out for a night and then wear for an other week. And I have to change them every month. |
| Maybe I'm wrong, but I think regular contacts are bigger then the ones I have. The ones I got are only big enough to cover my iris, I guess, the colored part of my eye. I can barely see a little blue of the contact on the top of my eye. So every time I blink they move around a little. The lady at the eye place told me it would take a week or so to develop the calices on the inside of my eye lids... |
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I've been wearing disposable Acuvue lens since '91.
My doc even allows me to wear them day and night. I take them out one night a week and trash them after a month. My wife had LASIK done 1.5 yrs ago. I'm so jealous. No more messing with lens and solution. No more problems with the wind. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Get Lasik. Best decision of my life. Can't, it's not possible with what I've got. The only thing I can do is have a cornea transplant. I got evaluated for lasik, my cornea is thick enough for the initial treatment, but not a touch-up if needed afterward, I passed. |
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I slept with an eye dr last night....... (she is my wife) and this is what said - Can you see with them in? If so you will get use to them and they are your only solution if you dont want to wear glasses..
For the record - they are more than likely Rigid Gas Permeable lenses - they are hard lenses, but not the same hard lenses from many, many years ago.. Assuming your RX doesnt change these lenses will last you for years and years.. brian |
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I slept with an eye dr last night....... (she is my wife) and this is what said - Can you see with them in? If so you will get use to them and they are your only solution if you dont want to wear glasses.. For the record - they are more than likely Rigid Gas Permeable lenses - they are hard lenses, but not the same hard lenses from many, many years ago.. Assuming your RX doesnt change these lenses will last you for years and years.. brian I don't sleep my my opthamologist, but he dialed me into this obscure brand of soft contacts that work great for me. I am done using optomitrists. |
Have you considered maybe that it is you who sucks?
I love my contacts, I leave 'em in for 2 weeks, clean them and back in the next morn. I can see better than perfect now and they dont get scratched like glasses. So far everyone in this thread loves their contacts and you are the exception. |
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I had soft lenses for years and went back to glasses about 12 years ago. Extended wear, disposables the whole works. I can see better with glasses and no screwing around cleaning contacts.
Sooner or later I will have Lasik done, but glasses just arent that big of deal anymore. You do get used to contacts after a while, if you can put up with all the crap that comes with having them. |
| I tried hard contacts back in the 70's and hated them. Despite following the wear schedule for new users, I never got used to them. And I swear, having a couple beers would make me feel like I had marshmallows in my eyes. I finally gave up and went back to glasses till 1992 when I got soft contacts. I love 'em and have worn them ever since. |
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I have been wearing soft contacts for 30 years, why hard contacts? Because I've got keratonconus, or however the hell it's spelled. I've got to have hard contacts to correct an irregularity in my cornea. You should get used to them within a week. That said, if you have keratonconus, the odd shape of your eye might cause more pressure on your eye from the contacts. |
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Who the hell wears hard contacts nowadays?  I know more people that do than wear soft contacts. Several of them have had the same pair of contacts for nearly a decade so they're very cost effective. According to the annual report from Contact Lens Spectrum from January 2009 just over 20% of people that wear contacts wear rigid ones. I would have thought that number would have been much higher based upon the people I know. Also keep in mind that the new rigid contacts are much more comfortable than the original glass or later plexiglas ones.z |
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Soft contacts for me. Got them about 11 or so years ago after putting it off for several years. Took me something on the order of 2 seconds to get used to them being in my eyes.
Goddamn, wadda great invention! See, and I'm sure this will surprise many of you, I have what is scientifically refered to as a "Fat Head". Yes, yes I know. You're all shocked that I'm a fathead. But, it's true. Not only that, but I have really not much of a bridge on my nose, so all the weight of glasses has to hang offa my ears and rest on my face just below my eyes. As you may imagine, this tends to be uncomfortable, so the only answer is to tighten up the frames so that they squeeze in on the sides of my noggin. This too becomes uncomfortable in short order. Now, the feeling of them actually being in my eyes (not to mention the not feeling of the vise like grip of my Spectacles of Horrific Pain and Dubious Appearance on me grape) as mentioned was nearly instantaneously gratifying. However, the feeling of stabbing myself in the eyes twice a day took considerably longer to adjust to. Something on the order of I'm just now really getting ready to think about being okay with it. You should store your contact cases open, and (this is important! Fucking Pay Attention!) inside a clean and reasonably well insulated area. Like, say, *INSIDE YOUR MEDICINE CABINET* and not outside on the counter top all day. If you do the opposite, your dearly beloved wife/girlfriend/sister/mother/granmother/daughter or other female type will destroy your life. Maybe you have a before now unknown weird stalker bag lady that rifles through your bathroom when at you're at work. Whatever it is, it matters not because inevitably one of these important women in your life will use what is today known as "Hair Product" while in the bathroom. See, "Hair Product" is purpotedly used to hold the hair in place so that the wimmenz always have that "Just Got The 'Do Done" look. In fact, it is used more like a tomcat uses urine. It is sprayed in an area to mark it as a territorial claim. Other women know this, which is why they always travel to the bathroom in groups. Just like competing animals will overspray a rivals scent mark, women are compelled to cover over each others "Hair Product" scent markings in a territory in dispute. It's in their nature to do this and it is pointless to attempt reason with any of them regarding this subject matter. In fact, it is foolish to the point of grave personal danger to attempt this, so just learn to live with it and around it. In the territorial tug of war, your open and exposed contacts case will recieve a generous coating of "Hair Product" in all of its invisible glory. You will then unwittingly make the mistake that your personal health and well being will take some sort of importance in the minds of these little chemical queens and simply use your case as directed. There will be no sizzling, hissing, popping, smoke, steam, multi or indeed any colored vapors rising and there will also be no smell. At least, not until the next morning when you innocently perform the equivalent of putting a toilet biscuit into your eyeball. At this point, even though denied by certain eyewitnesses to the event, I am positive that most if not all of the affore mentioned chemical reactions take place. This is acompanied by profusely inventive foul language and according to the same eyewitnesses "baseless accusations" stemming from the sensation of your sight organs swelling shut and dissolving. Ironically due to your use of corrective lenses. |
| Ok, I only kept them in for a few hours last night, but it did feel like the rocks in my eyes had gotten smaller LOL. Tonight I'll try to wear them for 3 hours, then 4, and so on. It is a semi scary feeling when you look in the mirror and that little contact has gone up under your eyelid. I know it's not like it's going to roll back in your head, but it's still unsettling at first. |
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I think regular contacts are bigger then the ones I have. The ones I got are only big enough to cover my iris, I guess, the colored part of my eye. I can barely see a little blue of the contact on the top of my eye. So every time I blink they move around a little. The lady at the eye place told me it would take a week or so to develop the calices on the inside of my eye lids... She would be correct, hard contacts are completely different from soft contacts. I had hard contacts in High School. You will get used to them, My Mom has had hers for over 20 years. As an added bonus, if you use hard contacts your prescription shouldn't change for a long time. My eye doc said it had to do with the hard lens covering your eye and that prevented your eyes from getting worse. |
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Have you considered maybe that it is you who sucks?
I love my contacts, I leave 'em in for 2 weeks, clean them and back in the next morn. I can see better than perfect now and they dont get scratched like glasses. So far everyone in this thread loves their contacts and you are the exception. different contacts, we love our soft contacts, the OP must use hard contacts to correct an eye issue. |
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Gonna go against the grain here. I ditched (soft) contacts and went back to glasses.
However, I have a slight and somewhat "unique" astigmatism as two different eye docs put it. As it was explained to me by both of them, it was corrected better with glasses than any of the contacts that were available. And it was true, I put up for too long looking at a slightly startburst AimPoint reticule, with my glasses it's perfectly crisp. It's actually rather funny, every year when I go to get my eyes checked, I bring the AP with me to look through when I try the contacts out. None of them have yet to come close. EDIT: Being able to see the moon clearly was also a bonus, instead of two ever so slightly misaligned images 
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| He has keratoconus. A patient with keratoconus should not have LASIK. Some patients with keratoconus can see with glasses, but most need rigid contact lenses. Special contact lenses are often required, along with a lot of patience. A minority of patients with keratoconus will eventually need a corneal transplant because the contact lenses don't fit well or the vision is not good enough with the contacts. However, corneal transplants for keratoconus are full-thickness and not partial-thickness (lamellar), so the recovery time is long (months or even a year or more). If I had keratoconus, I would try to avoid a corneal transplant as long as possible, in the hopes that lamellar keratoplasty will become a better option in the not-too-distant future. |
| The current set of hard contacts I'm trying don't have a prescription on them. I may not even need another set right now, but it will take a few days before I know for sure. I don't blink as much in a month as I did over about a 90 minute span last night when I had them in. At times it seemed like my vision was once again great, and at others, even my left eye(which I have no problem with) was messed up. It was like trying to see while crying really hard, just didn't work. |
| Putting them in really is not that bad. It will take a little practice but thats about it. The bitch of it is taking them out. Cause with those you've got to like open up your eye really wide, then pull your eyelids tight against your eye while blinking at the same time to pop them out. |