Jason -- some tips for you:

» Don't give up. Your eyes are going to KILL. I mean, you keep poking them, but eventually they will go in.
» It takes time. It took me 30 minutes to put my contacts in today.
» Try not to blink, just old your eyes open and try your hardest not to blink
» With time, it gets easier. It's hard for everyone when they start out.
» Your vision might not be too good the first day or so that you have them in, your eye tries to fight the correction. Give it time, if after a week it's still bad, so back to the eye doctors.
» Just take your time, everyone has their own rate of learning.

30 minutes? How the hell will I be able to do that? I get up and i eat breakfast, do all the things I need to get ready for school, and it only takes about 30 minutes. Are you saying I will have to get up 30 mins earlier just to get my contacts in? Oh, and one other question, what is the difference between soft and hard, and which ones should I get?

My eye doctor says I'll be needing glasses soon. My apointment is coming up too. I loathe seeing the outside of the frame though. In my oppinion, it is extremely annoying. It may affect how I play video games also. I have decided to get contacts(if I am able to) if my eyes are bad. What kind of contacts do you lovely gamers believe I should get? Thanks for all of your fantastic help.:)

30 minutes putting them in ym second time.. and yes, you'll have to get up earlier.. but you might take even longer, you never know.. it might take you 45 minutes the first time or two, but keep at it.

Acuvue 2. They have a reduce glare coting on them, so it's good for lights, computer and TV screens as well as night driving.

I read in my bio book that there is a new laser technique to heal your eyes. It scrapes a bit from the lense so the light gets more or less bent.

It's probably too expensive though... :(

But I don't need glases. Not yet.

LOL... I left mine in for a month once... cuz I forgot I actually had them. They were glued to my eyes and I had to go to the Hospital.

... :D

Are you serious? It takes me two seconds to put mine it.

30 minutes? I can go mine in 2 seconds. Took me like 10 when i started.

1) If your contacts are clean, they should not hurt your eyes at all.
2) Try pulling your eye lids back, looking up, and putting the contact on your eye. It will be on the white part below your eye, then slowly push it with the bottom eyelid until it's on your eye. You can wiggle your eye around and make sure it's on good, then blink (or slowly close your eyelids so you don't blink too fast and knock it off). That's how I do it and it doesn't hurt, and works like a charm because when it touches the white part you tend not to blink as easily as if you put it directly onto the lens of your eye.

Ask your doctor man. I use Polysoft 55 UV. It's what my doc gave me, and I never had problems. I also don't car for colored contacts, or have to deal with certain problems, like astighmatism (sp?).

Hard lenses are hard as hell, also hard as hell to use. It's essentially putting a piece of glass on your eye. Extremely hard to get in your eye, and you blink like crazy. Also hard to get out, I had to use a little suction cup to pull it off my eye. Great vision, yes. But i was blinking constantly and couldn't get them in for 2 hours once.

Then I switched to soft. It's a little bigger (the hard is just really small), but it's like a soft, almost rubbery gel-like feel to it. Don't blink more than normal, can't even feel them on your eye. They're very easy to get it and out, confortable. Basically, get soft, or prepare to wear glasses :D

Did you have hard contacts? I used soft, and the only problem that I have had (still today, years after only having them out for mere minutes) is slight lead buildup on my eye, which goes away.

Also, to anyone looking to get contacts, use the No Rub solutions. I used to use Renu's solution, and it sucked. As much as you try to clean them, it's never perfect. You wake up the next morning, stick them in and your eye burns like hell. Plus taking the time to clean them all lead to me not taking out my contacts, ever.

Then I saw Renu No-Rub solution on a TV commercial. Went to the store the next day, picked up a bottle. That night, I took out my contacts that have been in for about 3 months (can we say dirty?), stuck them in a case, filled it with solution and went to bed. Woke up the next morning, stuck in the contacts, and they felt like a brand new pair :) You don't need to put out work to clean them when you want to go to sleep, don't have problems with eye burning when you put them in, and all in all, you'll like contacts more.

That's all glasses and contacts do, bend the light into your eye correctly. So it makes perfect sense. And yes, laser surgery is pricey as hell. It's also not recommended until you're 20, and your eyes have stopped changing. But by the time you get that old, it comes out of your own poicket :(

I wear both actually, usually contacts during school and most social events, but when i'm like laying around doing pretty much nothing or perhaps studying, it's glasses all the way. Easier on the eyes after a while.

Without em, everything gets WAY too blurry. I'm not sure what my prescription is though. It might be like 20/100, at least.

I wear glasses. My brother does, My mom does, and my dad had laser-eye surgery.

If I had a vision problem, I'd get glasses. Why you ask?

1. Because I don't like the idea of putting something directly on my eyeballs
2. I'm not self concious. It doesn't bother me knowing others know I had a vision problem.


People with contacts act like nobody knows they have a vision problem. Well, just for the record, I can clearly see (no pun intended) someone who's wearing glasses from someone who isn't. Some people open their eyes farther and you also clearly define the edge of the contacts around the users retina or whatever it is. Not that I'm saying everyone that wears contacts is self concious. Most of you wear 'em just for the convience factor, am I right?

My brother wears contacts so that he can play sports without smashing his glasses up. I don't wear contacts, and yes, I do train in the martial arts. For those classes, I just take my glasses off. My eyes are still plenty good enough that I can see a punch coming. Catching a baseball in the outfield would give me trouble, though.

I had glasses when I was 7 and had them till I was 10. Then I got contacts they were kind of uncomfortable for a month and the cleaner for them burned my eyes. But after I got used to the tingling feeling, It was good. Then for my 13th B-Day I got lazer eye surgery, and now today I have perfect vision.

Wha-? There's laser eye surgery for 13 year olds? When was this? All the surgeons I've heard of require the patient to be 18 years old or older. At 13, your eyes are still developing and changing, so fixing them now would only mean that they'd get warped again or perhaps be even worse off in the long run.

Oh well, if you see perfectly, more power to you, GameKinG. I just hope you don't regress by the time you're 20.