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Does anybody here wear contacts? I just got some from my doctor, but whenever i touch my eye, i flinch just enough so that may eyelashes get in the way. Any tips for getting them in? Would it help to have someone else put them in for me a couple times?
GCHSLax04
11-27-2004, 06:12 PM
DO it yourself or it'll be a pain in the arse when they fall out and no one is around to put 'em in for you. I take my middle finger and index finger, put the middle finger on the bottom eyelid and the index on the top eyelid and slowly push it onto my eye with the other hand (make sense at all?). After a while its easy as cake.
Thats basically what I do, I just have to get over this whole flinching thing.
SullyLax
11-27-2004, 06:19 PM
There's not much you can do, it just comes with time. It used to take me forever to get mine in now I do it naturally.
GCHSLax04
11-27-2004, 06:20 PM
Yeah thats the final line, a few of my friends just got em and about a month later they are getting used to it. I myself have been wearing them since I was seven...
anjang86
11-27-2004, 06:20 PM
they shoulda showed you at the doctors but anyways
if you are right handed:
take the middle finger of your right hand and push down on your lower eyelid, take the middle finger of your left hand and push up your upper eyelid. The contact will be on the index finger of your right hand (next to the middle finger that is pushing down on your lower eyelid).
Show the eyelashes who's boss, you want to be able to force those eyelids open so you can get the lens in. Do it close up in front of a mirror.
lzlax09
11-27-2004, 06:36 PM
Cut your eyelashes off. That should do the trick:thumbsup:
enjoi
11-27-2004, 06:52 PM
I don't even hold my eye even anymore, i just wet my hands, put the right contact in my right hand, and hold it on my index finger, and in the mirror put it in.
Hope that made sense.
Lax101
11-27-2004, 07:48 PM
the first week with contacts is hell. you just need to keep practicing pretty much poking your eye (with the contacts of course). once you develop that tolerance, it should be easy. Like said before, I stretch out my lids with my middle fingers and put the contacts in with my index finger.
This might help though...
At first, wasnt opening my lids enough so that I could put them on RIGHT on my pupils. So instead, I just plopped em on where ever on my eye, with like half of them touching my pupils, and I just moved the contacts onto my pupils with my index finger. If you have trouble stretching your lids really open then that might help...But the thing to remember is that yes, its really frustrating the first week or two, but it will come in time.
anjang86
11-27-2004, 08:09 PM
try putting them on wherever and closing your eyes and moving your eyeball around
LatinBabe
11-27-2004, 09:07 PM
soon enough you'll be able to flick your contact up in the air and catch it on your eye... eye:eye coordination is essential.
yeah, practice makes perfect on the flinching part... it really aint so bad. except when you forget to take them out and then they fal out the next day during class and you try to put them back in. the proteins that build up on the lense during your sleep comes back to give you some crazy red eyes without solution... and stinging sensations that cannot be ignored.
GCHSLax04
11-27-2004, 09:22 PM
I leave mine in for a good 3 months at a time. Don't do what I do. Eye doctor says my eyes have adapted to the contact now. I have no Idea what that means but my eyesight has actually gotten better.
RockStar
11-27-2004, 10:15 PM
Best thing - roll your eyes up into your head just before you place the contact on the eyeball. That way, you're not looking, so you don't flinch.
As far as holding the lid open, I use the middle fingers with the lens on one of my index fingers. Sure there's other ways, but that works good for me.
livin4lax09
11-27-2004, 11:08 PM
get used to it. After you do it for about a week you'll have no problem
shtbrkd00
11-27-2004, 11:47 PM
yea, it just takes time
it comes automatic to me know
Thanks for the help, i can put them in now. I problably should have figured out how to take them out too though, because it looks like i'm sleeping in them for at least tonight.
Lax101
11-28-2004, 05:29 PM
taking them out is easy. open up your lids with your middle fingers as usual, then use your index and thumb finger to go in your eye and just pinch them out. dont worry, they wont break. its key to look straight ahead when you do it. if that doesnt work, look up, use your index finger and tap the contacts down off of your pupils. then taking them out will be a piece of cake.