24-08-2003 08:02									#1
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Been trying to get contact lenses in for the past week or so. Every time I go to the optometrist, they try teaching me new little helpful tips, which result in me irritating my eyes until they're as red as a tomato but not in me getting the lenses in. I'm kind of panicky right now because got to go back to college in a few days and if I can't get them in by then I can't have them (and I am SICK of wearing glasses)

So do any Apolytoners have any special tricks for getting these things in (and out) that I could take advantage of? I'm counting on you guys - you've never failed me before in the random tips department.

I'm using normal soft lenses, btw.

	24-08-2003 08:02									#2
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I tried and gave up.

	24-08-2003 08:03									#3
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Don't ask me: I have a phobia about putting something like that right on my eye.

Get the surgery, then you don't have to deal with either.

	24-08-2003 08:04									#4
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Contacts scare me. I'd probably get panicky and shove it into my brain or something.

	24-08-2003 08:06									#5
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quote: Originally posted by GePap Don't ask me: I have a phobia about putting something like that right on my eye. Get the surgery, then you don't have to deal with either.

Surgery's even scarier

	24-08-2003 08:08									#6
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If you're ****ed up at surgery, at least you have someone to sue.

If you tear your retina or something while your fat fingers are slipping across your eye's surface, you're REALLY screwed then.

	24-08-2003 08:08									#7
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How? It happens one day, then its done (unless they screw up and then you get cash for your blindness). Walking around with a piece of plasti n your eye...eek.

	24-08-2003 08:09									#8
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i used them for a while then i changed back to glasses and use them for sports, although i can make a basket more often when i dont see anything. strange.

anyway whats the problem you have?

	24-08-2003 08:18									#9
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I too fear plucking some plastic in my eyes. I consider having an operation as soon as I have enough money for it, despite my myopia being a moderate one.

	24-08-2003 09:23									#10
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Contacts are very easy to put in, and don't irritate my eyes.

I put them in about 5s each eye usually, out in about 1s.

	24-08-2003 09:59									#11
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Why don't you tell us your current technqiue and we can help you out?

I've worn them for over 10 years.

0) put 3 drops of eye drops into both eyes to lube them up

1) Spray both side of the lens with saline to make sure there is nothing on them. Spray it while it's in your left hand. Usually I put it in my thumb and index finger.

2) Use tap water and wash off your right finger tips

3) Put the lens back on the index finger of the right hand

4) Prop open both of your eyelids with your left hand. Thumb goes on the bottom lid. Middle finger (**** you) goes on the top lid. Just put the fingers not actually on the eyelid, but the skin immediatley next to it. This will be your eyebrow for the top lid. And where those black circles appear, on the lower lid.

5) With your right hand, place the lens on the lower part of the eyeball.

6) As soon as you feel it in, look down.

7) Let go of your eyelids

8) Look up.

9) Make sure it's in all the way

10) Put 3 more drops in the eye and blink a few times and move your eyeball around to make sure it's in.

	24-08-2003 10:37									#12
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Wow, that's a lotta steps. I just hold the eye open with the pointer and middle fingers and put the damn thing in. My aim sucks so much with eyedrops I'd end up getting them in my nose, or something equally stupid.

PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE!

	24-08-2003 10:38									#13
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I've never used eyedrops...

	24-08-2003 10:42									#14
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They've helped me out alot.

My eyes don't tear up very well, especially in the morning.

	24-08-2003 11:03									#15
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I'm glade I don't have to wear glasses. My ex-girlfriend had laser surgury done to her eyes and she said she loved it.

	24-08-2003 12:08									#16
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I'm thinking about doing the laser surgery. I have the money. I may do it in a month or two. I just need to know how much healing time is needed. As my job comes first.

But there's many questions I need answered before I agree to do it.

	24-08-2003 12:57									#17
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I'm still considering laser for penile reduction surgery.

	24-08-2003 14:22									#18
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You will need to find out what technique works for you.

I don't currently use contacts but have in the past.

First point is that it is difficult if your eyes are dry. Either blink several times before you try to put the lenses in or use eyedrops.

The lense goes on the tip of your index finger. Right finger for right eye and, usually, left finger for left eye (I used to do both eyes with the lense on my right index finger but that isn't what most people find easiest).

Hold the eyelids open. Either thumb and index finger or index and middle finger. Tilt your head back slightly and look up. Place the lens in your eye. Close your eyelids as you take your finger away, blink gently a couple of times and the lense should slide into place.

A lot depends on the shape of your eye. I found it easiest to place the lense slightly towards the outside edge of my eye. I also found that I didn't need to move the lower eyelid much, mainly move the upper one so index finger on upper eyelid and middle finger on lower lid worked for me.

Any technique more complicated than that is probably a waste of time. Keep it simple and practice. If you can't get a lense in within two or three tries, take a break for a few minutes before you try again.

I used to need toric lenses (to correct astigmatism) and they had to go in with a mark on the lense at the bottom, so it was even more difficult.

The fun bit is when a lense gets stuck above your pupil and won't slide into place. Then you have to lift your upper eyelid and try and slide the lense into place with the tip of your little finger.

It is worth the trouble compared to glasses. Some people are OK and don't have problems but I found on each of the two periods I have worn contacts that after a couple of years my eyes start to react and I have to stop.

Laser surgery is great if it works. The success rate is a lot better now than when the technique first started but it still isn't as good as the clinics like to make out. I can cope with my eyesight as it is and I don't need to take the risk of being one of the small number of people who do have serious problems after surgery.

	24-08-2003 14:33									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Ted Striker I'm still considering laser for penile reduction surgery.

They do it with a laser nowadays? And I had to have it done with a meat cleaver and a sewing kit.

	24-08-2003 14:56									#20
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Mine stopped the chainsaw.

	24-08-2003 14:59									#21
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I wear glasses too and have considered laser surgery. However, it's way too expensive right now, and I don't mind too much these glasses.

They might mean I don't get a second look from half the girls in nightclubs but I think I can cope with that.. It's just a weeding out technique.