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Originally posted by Shooter
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.
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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.
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What kind of contacts do you lovely gamers believe I should get?
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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?).
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Oh, and one other question, what is the difference between soft and hard, and which ones should I get?
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 :(