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[lilhams~uwu]

Oh, really? This is really interesting because I've never heard of them out in Canada ( Coughs in out of country xD ) so I assumed it would be the same in the USA, but it's cool that it exists there too and is somewhat common.

 

Oop xD. Apparently you have to be really careful with them because if dust/germs get in you can get infected so you have to cleanse it and put it in immediately without the inside touching anything else.

 

( I actually ran into a few incidents too consisting of the lens almost.. scratching? My eyeball. It's because I move a lot in my sleep, but so far it's been going good because I don't think I move as much as I used to anymore. Hopefully. )

 

I didn't know that they had them in Canada either, haha. Yeah, I don't think little me was that careful..

(Oh, I see, I think I understand what you mean by that. Hope nothing goes too bad!!)

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[Alis]

I didn't know that they had them in Canada either, haha. Yeah, I don't think little me was that careful..

(Oh, I see, I think I understand what you mean by that. Hope nothing goes too bad!!)

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I've actually never heard of them in Canada, and none of my friends there seemed to know about them either. I actually got them while I was out of country a few years ago, I'm in that country now. It's complicated xD! ( Thanks! )

 

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[IsAnyoneThere]

Basically with contact lenses, they're made of a material that is a *perfect* food for bacteria, which is why you only ever wash them/put them in/handle them with the special contact lens solution, which is sterile. If you wash them in normal water the tiny microbes that are totally harmless to drink can settle in on the lens and breed, which can then start to eat away at your cornea. It's not nice. 

 

Just to be clear: getting water in your eyes while wearing contacts = fine. Normal water = fine to drink. WASHING your contact lenses in normal water =  more chance that the bacteria will set up home there and eat your eyeballs. Literally. 

 

So it's fine to wear contacts when swimming, but generally if I get water in my eyes I'll change my contacts and also wash my eyes out with the sterile saline solution afterwards. The horror stories of people who've had their corneas eaten by bacteria because they got water on their contacts are idiots who washed them EVERY DAY in normal water then put them back in their eyes. Not a one-off splash

[Poppythehammy]

Basically with contact lenses, they're made of a material that is a *perfect* food for bacteria, which is why you only ever wash them/put them in/handle them with the special contact lens solution, which is sterile. If you wash them in normal water the tiny microbes that are totally harmless to drink can settle in on the lens and breed, which can then start to eat away at your cornea. It's not nice. 

 

Just to be clear: getting water in your eyes while wearing contacts = fine. Normal water = fine to drink. WASHING your contact lenses in normal water =  more chance that the bacteria will set up home there and eat your eyeballs. Literally. 

 

So it's fine to wear contacts when swimming, but generally if I get water in my eyes I'll change my contacts and also wash my eyes out with the sterile saline solution afterwards. The horror stories of people who've had their corneas eaten by bacteria because they got water on their contacts are idiots who washed them EVERY DAY in normal water then put them back in their eyes. Not a one-off splash

THANK YOU! You give more info than my optometrist lol.

[Tiny Ball Of Fuzz]

Oh, cool! I've never worn daytime lenses before, so I'm just curious- can you feel the lenses when you put them on, and does it feel uncomfortable? ( I'm assuming the ones you have are soft lenses? ).

Well, if you put them in correctly, you don't feel them any more than you can feel your eye, (not at all), but if you get them in wrong, (they are inside out, etc.) then you can definitely feel them. It isn't painful, exactly, but you can just feel a little line around your iris, for me at least. Then if there's something on the lens when it goes into your eye, like a tiny piece of lint from the towel you used or something, then it can ​be big enough that I scramble to get it out because it's painful. I'm not sure what soft lenses are, sorry. I looked it up but didn't get a straight answer... the ones I have are just dailies, though, (a different contact everyday, so no washing them is needed).

[Alis]

 

Oh, cool! I've never worn daytime lenses before, so I'm just curious- can you feel the lenses when you put them on, and does it feel uncomfortable? ( I'm assuming the ones you have are soft lenses? ).

Well, if you put them in correctly, you don't feel them any more than you can feel your eye, (not at all), but if you get them in wrong, (they are inside out, etc.) then you can definitely feel them. It isn't painful, exactly, but you can just feel a little line around your iris, for me at least. Then if there's something on the lens when it goes into your eye, like a tiny piece of lint from the towel you used or something, then it can ​be big enough that I scramble to get it out because it's painful. I'm not sure what soft lenses are, sorry. I looked it up but didn't get a straight answer... the ones I have are just dailies, though, (a different contact everyday, so no washing them is needed).

 

By soft lenses I mean flexible lenses, that can be folded if that makes sense? And hard lenses would be lenses that feel like glass and could not be folded

[Tiny Ball Of Fuzz]

By soft lenses I mean flexible lenses, that can be folded if that makes sense? And hard lenses would be lenses that feel like glass and could not be folded

Oh, then yes I do have soft lenses! Hard lenses sound like they'd just be painful...