Contacts! Who wears them, and tell some stories about em'!

[SexEPid]

I wear them, they rule!
But, one day I had some problems, I popped in the right one easily, the left one was trouble from the start, I got it in after 10 minutes(yes, 10 minutes) and it fell out, I spent 20 minutes looking for it, coulnd't find it, so I decided to do the one contact thing and I was off to school. On the car there, I started rubbing my left eye like crazy, and guess what pops out? Yes, the left contact! So, I pour on some contact solution, and in the eye is goes. I walk into school, close my right eye, and noticed that I couldn't see out of the left eye! Dammit. I am now pi$$ed off furthur. I put my hands in my pocket, and low and behold, the left contact! I pour some solution on it, and put her in there, lots of people watching at this point. Nonetheless, a great pointless story I had to share, do you have one?

Pid, NEF

 

[ltk007]

Contacts can be a pain, but I haven't had any real problem with them for months. After 6 months its all smooth sailing. I hate doing the one contact thing, I'd rather just be blind all day.

 

[Robert01]

One time I thought I lost one of my contacts. No problem, I thought, I'll just use another one. Well, the next night I take my contacts out and there were two lenses stuck together.

 

[Yeeny]

When I was younger I decided to improve my looks, so I got contacts. Unfortunately for me, I was on tetracycline for my skin, and nobody told me it can make your eyes swell. My contact ended up going up inside my eye, beneath my eyelid. That was painful and took a long time to get out. :Q

 

[Total Refected Power]

Wore them on my wedding day and thats it. Don't like picking at my eyeballs.

 

[xero]

i wear em as well......you probably had the contact backwards SexE....LOL......dumbass
anyhoo...one day i was driving down the street..and an eyelash or something got in my eye...so i rubbed it and then AHHHHHH it was all blurry (im farsided)...i was like ahhhhh!!! i couldn't drive like that..so i pulled over, and the contact got pushed down under my eye lid, and after fighting w/ it in the parking lot of a bank, it finally popped out, and i had to put it back in w/ no solution that sucked...my eye was red the whole way home.....hehe

other than that, i love em! ....i would never go back to glasses

 

[Isla]

Ah....

Pointless stories about my lenses!

Well, my eyes are a very light olive green and the contacts I use are lightly tinted (blue) so I can find them... it's called visitint, and is not meant to change the color of your eyes.

However, they do change the color of my eyes, and this annoys me greatly!

Furthermore, it really sucks if I have one glass of wine too many and fall asleep with my lenses. I feel like I have Elmer's Glue in my sockets for days afterwards.

Pointmess enough?

 

[Viperoni]

No stories, but my hard lenses (very [H]ard ) are very very sensetive to smoke.
And my dad smokes (doesn't help when I drive).
My left one sits REALLY good, can rub my eyes and it stays put, but my right one is a lot looser.
Guess which one is h03 to take out?

BTW: I haven't started wearing them to school yet.

and is it just me, or is it a lot brighter outside with contacts?
I can't go outside without my foakley's, unless it's cloudy...
really strange.

 

[Viperoni]

Isla, I have the same color tint on mine!
the right ocntact also has a tiny dot right by the edge also....



BTW: do you guys use the all in one solution or the seperate cleaner/conditioner?

 

[SexEPid]

Xero, that must look good, go out for a drive, eyes perfectly fine, then come back w/ your eyes all red and bloodshot
Viperoni- Foakley's rule!

Pid, NEF

 

[Viperoni]

Foakley's Foreva!
Damm Neffer Pid

These Straight Jacket's are too big for my face and the lower edge hits my cheek, very annoying when driving, and especially when it's cold out, they fog like a madman!

 

[Slap]

Let's see.......I am 25 now and have been wearing nothing but contacts since I was 10. The first year I had contacts, I couldn't put them in so my mom would put them in and I would take them ou. After that, there hasn't been one single problem foe the remaining 14 years. I hope to get laser surgery soon. I have pretty bad eyesight, but I will not be cought in glasses. I haven't had glasses since I was about 15. Even then I only wore them watching TV at night in my bedroom. Anyway, contact lenses are the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Slap

 

[fake]

I wear semi-hard contacts .. i forgot exactly what they're called. Anyways, about twice a week something gets in my eye which results in madd eye rubbing and tearing. Most people know what's going on, but sometimes people look at me like I spontaneously started crying

 

[Viperoni]

Damm, that's a long time!

BTW: I heard Laser surgery makes your eyes a lot less sensetive to dark light; you can't see as good in night driving, up to 49% worse.
VERY BAD, especially for *cough* night racing

 

[Gage]

I have had contacts for over 15 years now. I have really bad astigmatism so I have to wear gas-permeable lenses (Those are the ones that are semi-hard)I hate them. They are itchy, hard to keep clean and it takes me about 10 minutes to get them out of my eyes. And No ONE sells contact solution for them. I go to walmart and see miles and miles of soft contact solution but have to hunt for the gas permeable solution. I am so sick of it.

Today I had the consultation for LASIK surgery. I will be getting the surgery on the 26th. WOOO HOOO. I came home from the doctors office and smashed my lenses with a hammer. It was the most satifying thing I have done in weeks.


And yes it does seem brighter outside with hard contact lenses. I thought it was just me.

 

[Pretender]

This girl I liked in the 9th grade suddenly changed from glasses to contacts one day, I guess to try to look better, although she already looked nice.

Damn, did I miss the topic again?

 

[apoppin]

I wear contact lenses most of the time.

While surfing I have to close my eyes at inopportune times when the spray blows in my face - that can and has lead to wipeouts.

One time, my contact blew off my eye but I continued surfing. Amazingly, I found the contact again - it stuck to my face! One of the hardest maneuvers is to put the contact lens back onto the eye without going to shore - especially if the wind is blowing strongly - but I have managed it.

 

[Gage]

I just thought of a story. Once when I was in high school, my friends and I decided to pull the old slip and slide out and play. I went down the slide and had some water from the hose spray in my face and my contact popped out! I spent about 45 minutes on my hands and knees searching in the grass for it. I did find it though. As a result I can now find anything no matter how small if I know the area in which it was dropped.

 

[jonnyjack]

the very first day i got them, one of them shifted under my eyelid, i thought i lost it and i was outside so i thought i was never going to find it...my eye kept itching so i keep rubbing...and lo and behold! it shifted back down...hehe

 

[unxpurg8d]

Gas-permeables SUCK.. I was doing PT back when I was in the Army, and you can't just stop and go fix your contacts when something gets in your eye, so I popped the darn thing out and stuck it in my mouth to rinse it (yeah, yeah, yeah... like YOU don't do it..hehe) Anyway, swallowed the darn thing by accident, and since my vision's 20/400 without 'em in it's a drastic difference. Spent the next few days really off-balance with one in and one out 'til I could go to the doctor and tell him I ..ummmm...LOST 'em.

Now I've got the disposables so I can eat as many as I ...errr...LOSE as many as I wanna.

 

[Gage]

Hey I did that once too, unxpurg8d! Except I was at the fair at the time and about to ride the gravitron (the ride that spins round and round and you stick to the sides) I got all strapped in and my contact popped out and I didnt have time to put it back in so I just popped it in my mouth for safekeeping until I got off the ride. When I started spinning I swallowed my contact. It came back up when I got off the ride but I didnt want it then. It was all covered with a half-digested elephant ear.

 

[THELAIR]

i got contacts, super duper sensitive to light as well...

 

[RossGr]

I have been wearing contacts for about 30yrs. Started in 1970 with the hard glass kind. In about 1980 I was sitting up playing Galaxians on my AppleII when it felt like someone stabbed me in the eye with a fork. Ever had a cornea abrasion? No fun. Any way started having trouble getting a fitting after that, turns out I had developed Keratoconus, A conical cornea. No way that glasses would work any more and it takes special spendy gas perms ($150 EACH) to get a surface I can see with. Then since these babes are not the same curvature as the rest of my eye when they slide off the cornea they would take a suction on the eye under my eye lid. This was a major pain event that I lived with for several years. Finally lost the damn thing, couldn't afford to replace it so went without for about 5yrs. Essentally Blind in one eye. Finally got Insurance and a corena transplant. Yeah, binocular vision! am now comfortablely wearing gas perms 16 to 20 hrs pre day.

Boston solutions are the only way to go for Gas Perms.

Sun glasses are rivited to my face all summer!

 

[radiocore]

i have been wearing contacts for about 2-3 years now, and guess what...i still can't tell the difference as to which side is in and which side is out...of course i don't wear them everyday and its been trial and error every single time i put them on. i really liked my color lens that had letters tattooed on them so i knew which side was suppose to face out.

 

[Viperoni]

<< really liked my color lens that had letters tattooed on them so i knew which side was suppose to face out. >>



Last time the side that goes out, always goes out
But seriously, keeping them in the right eye is hard.
I gotta get mine adjusted, cuz my right one is a little loose.