Contact Lenses

[discoflamingo]

I had my every-other-year optometrist visit yesterday (yay new prescriptions!), which included a fitting for contact lenses. I have never worn them before, and sometimes I feel like they would be more convenient than glasses. This may have been a lie I told myself

Comments

[cloudscudding]

You have to pin back your eyelid and pull down the bottom while you're putting the lens in--no way can you do it just with your eyes open normally. The other posters pretty much have the method covered.

Additional tips:

1. Having a mirror helps because then you can navigate by looking at something past your hands--try not to focus on the contact lens as it approaches.

2. To help get the contacts properly seated, after putting in the lens, without blinking, look a little bit left, right, up, and down. That helps get it centered and keep you from blinking it out.

3. Contacts can get inside-out. Make sure the contact lens is a bowl shape. If it is more of a ufo-shape, it is inside-out.

[prof_vencire]

If the eye-touching is a problem, try doing it in the shower every day, softly. Worked for me. Otherwise, I tend to have the bottom of the contact be the part most on my finger with the upper part sticking up. Then I get the bottom near/on the eye and flip the rest onto the eye. There's usually a fold, so I close eyelid, push, blink a lot, then move the contact through lids again if still a problem. Usually, just blinking a lot should do the trick.

[prof_vencire]

If this fails, use the "catching a piece of popcorn in your mouth" methodology. Just toss it up in the air and try to get it to land right-side down on your cornea. It takes some practice, but then you never have to actually touch your eye.