Experiment!

[windandwater]

I have started an experiment! Only, not really. I put my contacts in today and I'm gonna try wearing them for a week to see how I get used to them. Normally, I wear glasses for everyday, and only use my contacts for special occasions. But I do have like, a year's worth of contacts that are supposed to be for everyday use while the glasses were for

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[sleepydragon_26]

Hey! Your eyes are as bad as mine! (-8.5 for both, here) My contacts are the kind you can sleep with, so I learned a cool trick for keeping them under control without spending a fortune on re-wetting drops. I use the Renu Multiplus multipurpose solution as eyedrops. It keeps them from getting cloudy and it keeps them really comfortable for the entire day!
I love having peripheral vision and depth perception with my contacts, so good luck!

[windandwater]

I don't want to sleep with mine because they can't do that. :/ Plus, my friend told me scary stories about how her brother did that and contact somehow drifted to the back of his eye and got stuck and he had to keep flushing his eye with water to get it loose.

D:

Oh, but thanks for the tip about using the solution! I think mine is multipurpose too.

[sleepydragon_26]

Yeah, I definitely would not suggest sleeping with your contacts in if they aren't meant for that...it's rather uncomfortable, aside from the risks. Your eyes can even swell up from lack of oxygen. Scary!

I learned the solution trick by trying it out after a day of serious crying...My contacts became so blurry I could hardly see, and I didn't have glasses at the time. I figured, if you can rinse the contact and put it in your eye, why not put the stuff in your eye? (LOL desperation does weird things to my thought processes.) So I went to Wal-Mart, bought a big bottle and used it right there in the store. Worked like a charm, and it was way more wallet-friendly.

[windandwater]

The whole world is a blur without my glasses too! *high-five!*

And I'm just lazy. It's much easier to put on a pair of glasses than to stick something in my eye.

[chibi_faolan]

... You had contacts sitting around?? *facepalm*

[windandwater]

Yes, of course. :/ They're still in their prescription boxes. I opened up a new pair.

[chibi_faolan]

XD I'd just accepted your long-ago "I can't wear contacts," I think. Does this mean you're... like... trying something?? lol

[windandwater]

I never said that I can't wear contacts. Just that I don't like to. If I can't wear them at all, why would I buy a year's prescription-worth of them?

And I try plenty of things.

[chibi_faolan]

Wait... y'know, you're only considered blind at 20/200... wouldn't that be a -10.0 prescription?

[windandwater]

I don't know how prescription numbers work.