Contact lenses

[Gail T AGAIN]

I am just trying contacts. I have 2 different perscriptions for each eye. Well yesterday I think I put the left in the right and the right in the left and that was only day 5 of getting use to them. Soo today off I go to the eye doctors and she told me to switch them and see how they are. Guess what, I dropped the left eye contact and couldnt find it so back to ordering trials to try again. has anyone else who wears conacts. I felt so foolish then to boot she is younger then me and thinks she is talking to her little kids the way she talks to me.

 

[CamColt]

LOL!
I havent done that, but my worst contact incident was when DS(then 2 1/2) decided to dump mine down the bathroom sink on a holiday weekend. I was blind for days. Back then I wasnt used to wearing glasses, even around the house so I was hot(it was a heatwave), pregnant, nauseous and blind, for a few days. But Ive smartened up and started with disposable lenses.
Good luck with yours!

 

[FOJMO]

Originally posted by Gail T AGAIN
I felt so foolish ten to boat

Trying to figure out what you're saying here...

 

[mowsie dreamer]

LOL, don't feel bad--one morning I was so tired I put both contacts in the same eye and then couldn't figure out why I couldn't see right. You would have thought I could have felt the difference!

 

[Gail T AGAIN]

FOJMO< sorry about that. This morning I spilt my coffee on my keyboard so that isn't working but lucky for me I had this extra old one that works but I make more mistakes that before I had this one. I think I was trying to say " Then to boot" either way you look at it I have had a bad day and I don't start work until 4pm.

 

[FOJMO]

No problem, Gail! Sounds like a pretty bad day for you!

I have had contact lenses for over 30 years. I started, way back when, with the hard lenses. I have worn the soft ones for over 20 years.

About 3 years ago, I started with the "bifocal" contacts -- my right eye for close reading and the left eye for distance. Took a little getting used to.

After you lost the one lens, why did she have to "order" a trial pair for you. They usually have them right there for you to try and keep for a week or so. Unless you have other things going on like astigmatism or toric lenses.

Keep trying -- it'll get better. Just be very careful when putting them in and taking them out. Good luck!

 

[Gail T AGAIN]

FOJMO
After you lost the one lens, why did she have to "order" a trial pair for you. They usually have them right there for you to try and keep for a week or so. Unless you have other things going on like astigmatism or toric lenses.



You hit the nail on the head, I use the ones for astigmatism or toric lenses. Argh, it has to get better

 

[Tink42]

Gail,

I also wear different prescriptions in each eye. I have mixed them up before also. If I don't pay attention when I take them out to make sure they get put in the correct side at night, then the next day I put them in wrong. Usually I can just tell something is a little off. If I notice this before I leave the house, I change them, if not I spend the day with them like that.

 

[RUDisney]

I've had contact blindness before, too.

Several years ago, we decided to meet my parents in Ocean City, MD during their vacation (free vacation for us.) I was in the shower and washed out one of my lenses. I'm usually very good about travelling with a spare pair, but not that time. I walked around with one eye closed because the vision difference was giving me a headache.

Finally, I called someone at work and asked them to call my optician for me. She faxed my prescription to a vision center in OC, MD, and I was able to see again.

Talk about feeling stupid....

I hope your day is getting better, Gail!

 

[christinou]

I have done all of the above, switched the eyes, put 2 in one eye, the worst one was when I lost one while skiing, I had to finish the day with 1 eye close, that gave me an excuse for what a bad skiier I am for that day Now I wear the disposable contacts, and always keep an extra pair with me at all times, they are terrific.

 

[Otimon]

Have been wearing contacts for many years. You'll get used to them - just takes a little time. I now have monovision with mine so I don't have to wear reading glasses anymore.

PS: I find just about every doctor is younger than me!

 

[Rajah]

DH is notorious for dropping and losing his contacts. I don't know how he loses so many, but I keep saying he should go to disposable with how many he loses.

 

[SideshowBob]

SSB only been wearing less than a year now... but just LOVE them....

For the longest time I looked like the lead in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" when she was trying to get her lenses in for the first time... OY! SSB had quite a many long morning doing that... but eventually you start to get the hang of it, as well as you become less sensitive about touching your eyes.

Best of luck, and if she keeps treating you like a child, you just put HER in a "Time Out"....

 

[browneyes]

I've worn contacts for 19 years now. Just recently, my eyes FINALLY are the exact same blurredness, so I can interchange my contacts by mistake anytime. I still freak out when I put the L lens in my right eye though.

 

[Buz]

SSB, your siggy is carrying a bucket of Corona? Say it isn't so! I would have thought a bucket of Black Voodoo or something else palatable.

Buz

 

[SilverLily]

Don't worry, it will soon be second nature for you. I have worn contacts for so long, that even during my wild college days, I still managed to be able to take my contacts out and put them neatly in their case while drunk off my butt!

 

[lmj]

My biggest problem is with my left eye. The lens constantly falls out, rips, or gets stuck up in my eyelid. I though I was doing something wrong because I was new at putting them in. I finally gave up and am wearing my glasses again. Unfortunately I had already bought a six month supply of disposables.

 

[browneyes]

LMJ, if one of my contacts bothers me, it's always my left eye. I can switch the contacts around from the left to the right and the left one doesn't bother me in my right eye. I think my left eye is my dominant eye (yes, I'm left-eyed ). Maybe your left eye is your dominant eye too?

 

[lmj]

Browneyes - I actually think my right eye is dominant. When the doctor was trying to get the right prescription for me he tried me wearing a stronger lens in my right eye. I just never got used to seeing with them. I could see great when I was outside but inside I just couldn't see right and I had trouble on the computer with them on. I really did give it a good try but after having to go fishing in my left eye so many times for a wayward contact I just gave up. One time I had a problem on the monorail on the way to MNSSHP. I didn't have my glasses with me and my left lens tore. I had to take them both out and walked around seeing blurrry for the rest of the night with a puffy and red left eye.