Who wears Contact Lenses

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For the last two years I have been wearing contact lenses. But my problem with contact lenses is that I still have problems after two years of putting them in. On Sunday it took me 10 minutes to put one lenses in. The biggest problem I have is I lack paitence so I started shouting at my lense my mum always listens outside I'm sure she has a good laugh.

Do any of you wear contact lenses and has anyone had that problem

I wear glasses, but once considered contacts.

Tim

I wore them for years but wear glasses now.I never had a problem touching my eye to put them in but I was always ripping them while trying to wash them...always applied to much pressure,I think.I also hated how they would feel dry after a few hours and get stuff from the air built up on them,scratchy.I think they are just to much trouble and cost now,so I dont bother with them.

I wear glasses. Well, I usually don't wear them, I only need them to read stuff on black/whiteboards and roadsigns.

I wear only glasses and I wear my glasses ALWAYS, taking them off only when I want to wash my face and, of course, when I go to bed.

They are very decorative, the rim is pink and violet, adorned with small artificial sapphires. I like wearing glasses because this way my eyes seem more safe - before I got them I had a small obsession about my eyes that something could destroy them; eyeballs after all are extremely delicate. I was scared to death recalling a situation which happened to my grandma's sister when she was a child.

It was before the war; gran's little sis was sewing a dress for her doll and when she wanted to cut a thread her father gave her a knife and she stabbed herself straight in the eye Later that eye was blind.

I started wearing contacts about 3 years ago, having worn glasses for the previous 20 years. I was immediately impressed with the clarity and visual depth of the world. My glasses were always a bit smudged, and the lenses distort depth perception.

Aside from getting dry eyes late at night, I haven't had any problems with them. I do occasionally have weird dreams in which my contacts are enormous and thick, and I can't get them in.

I have experimented with contacts a few different times...from 1996-98 and again last year. I always had trouble with them drying out or being not very breatheable, so the second time, I tried RGP lenses. I had a better experience with them, but decided contacts on the whole weren't for me, as I like to keep my morning routine simple...this just added another unnecessary step. I can see just fine with the same glasses I've been wearing since 1999.

OK, TRUE STORY!! !! !! !

I am MIDDLE AGED!

I have tried to get my eyes checked DOZENS of times for glacoma, etc....

How many "Successful" attempts? THREE!! !! !

ONCE they gave up, and gave me a peripheral vision test!

ONCE they gave up, and gave me a subjective pressure test with EYES CLOSED!

ONCE they UNBELIEVABLE!! !! They actually DID IT! UNREAL! I didn't believe it!

And the OTHER times? They just GAVE UP!

I doubt I could handle contacts. 8-(

Yeah, I wear contacts. No problems.

u mean that matchine that blasts air into your eyes, Yes, i cant do that eather they get the nossle to close i feel like itll poke me, and i close my eyes, i cant do it and if they make me do it on spetember 5th (when i get new glasses) ill go somewhere else where they wont do that test cause i just cant do it.

I have tryed contacts, i cant put anything in my eye, i did it for a few days trying, never succeeded even doing it once, i feel so sensitive about my eyes, so i decided to stick with glasses.

I have worn contacts for 2 years.
I don't have much trouble putting them in. I used to poke myself in the white of my eye with my finger when I was younger so I don't have an aversion to sticking things in my eye. I noticed that wetting your fingers with solution so they don't stick to your finger and putting some solution in the cup of the lens helps to stick the lens to my eye. I think the liquid helps pull the contact on and seal the edges so that it sticks better. Also the feeling is wet and is more comfortable putting them in that way that if they are only moist.
I can never remember to change my monthly disposables until it starts getting hard to put them in as they dry up. So it is pretty much a clue that I will need to get out new ones if I have trouble for about a week of putting them in.

I still hate that puff of air machine. I have long eye lashes and they always are brushing against that thing causing me to start blinking even before they do the puffs.

I have trouble when the optician shines lights in my eyes I find it extremly irritating I can't focus on what I'm suppose to focus on.

Contact lenses ARE amazing ! !

I have had gas permeable lenses for over 25 years ! !

The modern GAS PERMEABLE ones are fantastic - as they let the EYES breath naturally - and should be considered.

They are comfy , hard wearing - you don't lose them or forget them or sit on them - they don't steam up either ! !

You csn lay ALL sports including swimming and snorkelling ! !!

I don't have the hand eye coordination to put them on my eyeballs.

Also glasses are easier for my lifestyle... I just put them down on a table when not in use... pick them up when I need them. Wipe them clean when they are dirty...

None of this remembering to take them out, cleaning thew with solution...

If I saved up some bucks I think I'll just go for that lasik treatment... in the long term it's a good value... and one less thing I have to worry about.

I wear contacts and have little difficulty putting them in my eyes, although when there is dust on the contacts they can become very itchy. Wearing contacts allows me to avoid answering awkward questions about my glasses, which are noticeably thick even with the special thin lenses that we paid for. (My eyesight is very poor.) However, I would not mind a different style of glasses that conveys an academic personality and has lenses that are not too thick.

i've worn contacts for a little under 9 years...since i was in middle school ~____^;;. the problems with taking an abnormally long time to put contacts in--those, for me, have usually been the result of the "wrong" brand or curve.
the only problem i have [aside from chronic eye infections as a kid when experimenting with different brands >______<] would be dryness and redness after prolonged use. i usually wear glasses for a couple hours before i go to bed.