Contacts

[vshah]

thats insane. take out your contacts. i have the kind you can wear for 30 days and i still take them out every night.

 

[Allio]

Listen to TreyRandom. Get them out of there.

 

[ohtwell]

I think protein deposits start to build up on them, the longer you leave them in. My doctor told me that could cause problems.

I wear my one month contacts for about 4-5 months, depending on the contact. I keep them very clean though, and I take them out everynight.


: ) Amanda

 

[oboeguy]

Your eyes may also dry out sooner so you won't be able to wear contact lenses as long as you otherwise might (I don't know this to be true for certain).

TAKE THEM OUT, FOO'!!!

 

[Viper GTS]

That is an EXTREMELY unsafe practice.

Your cornea needs oxygen, & soft contact lenses are not very permeable. Your cornea will actually develop its own blood supply if you deprive it long enough, leaving you with visible blood paths in your cornea.

You also stand a chance of damaging your cornea when you finally do remove the lens.

You are a fool to treat your eyes like that. You should be thankful that your vision is correctable with contacts & take proper care of them.

Viper GTS

 

[Paulson]

I can't leave my contacts in... I've only left them in about 5 times in my 3 years of wearing them... for me they hurt so bad if I leave them in...

 

[CraigRT]

dude, your eyeballs need air sometimes, you must take the lenses out each night, and replace in the morning... i can't stand sleeping with my lenses in... my eyes feel awful the next day. As per the how long can you wear them question.... until they become uncomfortable. I sometimes go 4 months on my 1 month lenses.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Yea. If you leave contacts in that are not designed for it, and you starve your eyeballs of air, your eyes will actually start growing more veins in search of it and can actually screw up your eyes enough to need corneal transplants. Have fun.

 

[Howard]

I have 1 month disposable soft contact lenses that I am supposed to take out each night

So you think doctors give you advice for fun?

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: Antisocial-Virge
Yea. If you leave contacts in that are not designed for it, and you starve your eyeballs of air, your eyes will actually start growing more veins in search of it and can actually screw up your eyes enough to need corneal transplants. Have fun.

I know far more than I want to about corneal transplants, I will need them eventually in both eyes (probably pretty soon in one). Mine is due to KC, not stupidity. If the concept of a transplant doesn't scare him enough maybe this will:

http://www.zombie.org/gallery/transplant

Check out the video.

And take out your damn contacts.

Viper GTS

 

[shopbruin]

i wonder if he's listening.

i'm so glad i can wear contacts. i'm so tired of my big head not fitting the "cute" glasses. yet i still get the lenses in my glasses updated so that i can wear them if need be (i.e. at night after i've taken my lenses out.)

i mean... just look at your lenses when you take them out and give them that first swish of solution. there's all that protein and whatever that comes off of it... just think about leaving that in your eye day in and out.

 

[watek]

I do it too. Bad habit!

 

[Juice Box]

yaeh, I realize I am stupid for doing this... I have just never had any problems with it. Im going to the eye doctor in a week or so, so Ill see what he says about it. I guess Ill try starting to take them out every night, but like I said, I have had no issues leaving them in

 

[Beau]

If you leave them in for extended periods of time, protein will build up in the surface, cutting the oxygen supply to your cornea. This will cause blood vessicle growth on your cornea. Long term effects of this are not fully know yet, but it can decrease your candidacy for Lasik and potentially dim your eyesight.

Edit: as usual... I'm a little late to this party.

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: Beau
If you leave them in for extended periods of time, protein will build up in the surface, cutting the oxygen supply to your cornea. This will cause blood vessicle growth on your cornea. Long term effects of this are not fully know yet, but it can decrease your candidacy for Lasik and potentially dim your eyesight.

shouldnt I notice these things happening though... or notice a side effect or two?

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: digitalsnare

Originally posted by: Beau
If you leave them in for extended periods of time, protein will build up in the surface, cutting the oxygen supply to your cornea. This will cause blood vessicle growth on your cornea. Long term effects of this are not fully know yet, but it can decrease your candidacy for Lasik and potentially dim your eyesight.

shouldnt I notice these things happening though... or notice a side effect or two?

It wouldn't happen in two months, but if you consistantly make a habit of this, you could start to notice it after a long while. It likely will start as the appearance of halos while night-driving.

 

[Frosty3799]

Originally posted by: TreyRandom

Originally posted by: VanillaH
being a captain obvious here... but here is my plug : constant wear of contacts blocks off air from retina resulting in severe oxygen deprivation. my sister had it bad at one time and i was told she almost went blind from that. proabably a huge YMMV, but certainly not advisable to anyone

Exactly right.

When I was young and irresponsible, I left my contacts in for weeks at a time. I rationalized that I "just didn't have the time" to mess with cleaning and enzyming them (this was back when enzyming took 3-4 hours). My eyes would get severely dry. After a while, I would even get bad photophobia (sensitivity to light - my eyes actually *hurt* when the sun was out). Once it hurt so bad, I couldn't even drive.

I went to my eye doctor for a routine exam and she told me that I had corneal ulcers. Additionally, the blood vessels in my eyeball were starting to grow into the iris (the colored part of my eye) due to oxygen deprivation (because I kept the contacts in all the time, my eyes couldn't get enough oxygen). She wouldn't write me a new prescription until the ulcers healed a bit.

After that experience, I rarely let my contacts go more than the two weeks I was supposed to wear them, and I'd let my eyes take a literal "breather" at *least* one full day a week.

If I had kept being irresponsible with my contacts, the blood vessels would continue to grow into my iris until they pass in front of my pupil (the dark area in the middle)... which causes blindness. And the blood vessels don't turn around and retreat from the iris after you start taking care of your eyes... once they're there, they're there.

You've only got one pair of eyes. Don't take them for granted.

I am going to have to second this one... at one point I also did not take them out every night, and had the blood vessels growing toward sthe cornea... My eye doctor told me to take some time off from them, and made me wear glases again for a year until my next exam. Ended up taking like 3 years off from them, but started again a year ago now.

Well, I also saw the contact brand thread and it made me think about my own contacts... Though I now take them out every night, I have been using the same bi-monthly replacement pair since last new years (somehow lost my other pair on new years... still don't know how that happened, but that's another story). I just went back to the eye doctor's a week ago, and even though I have been using the same pair for so long, it hasn't affected my vision at all, and he didn't note that they were any extra worn... Guess it pays to take care of them.

But seriously, get those things out... you are going to have to literally peel them off. Wear glasses for a while and give your eyes a break.

 

[Juice Box]

is it possible some ppl can just get away with this with no side effects? ever?

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: VanillaH
being a captain obvious here... but here is my plug : constant wear of contacts blocks off air from retina resulting in severe oxygen deprivation. my sister had it bad at one time and i was told she almost went blind from that. proabably a huge YMMV, but certainly not advisable to anyone

I think most soft contacts are gas-permiable to help with this, I know mine are. I keep the pair in until they don't feel comfortable, about 2-3 months. I take them out every night, except the rare case I fall asleep on the couch (read, pass the fvck out). Even then I generally take them out at 3AM when I wake up and move back to the bed.

 

[TreyRandom]

Originally posted by: digitalsnare
is it possible some ppl can just get away with this with no side effects? ever?

Two questions:

- Don't everyone's eyes need oxygen? When the eyes don't get enough oxygen, the blood vessels will grow into the cornea, period.
- Is it *truly* worth the risk for someone to lose their vision just because they are too lazy or poor to replace/clean them? Of course not. I learned my lesson.

 

[dafatha00]

Good God. These are your only eyes. Good luck if you go blind.

 

[LtPage1]

my eye doctor told me that if you leave them in, you can get an infection.

 

[Uppsala9496]

Be careful with taking them out. I had a pair that was old (2 week disposables that I had been using for about 2 months), and when I took them out, I removed the cornea in my eye. I always took out my contacts at night, but I was on a plane earlier that day, and since it is so dry on the plane, my old contacts dried out faster than normal. When I got home, I peeled the contact out, and removed my cornea in a perfect circumfrance of the contact.
Nothing like an emergencey room visit with an eye injury.

 

[Allio]

Originally posted by: Uppsala9496
I had a pair that was old (2 week disposables that I had been using for about 2 months), and when I took them out, I removed the cornea in my eye.

Oh dear god.

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: Uppsala9496
Be careful with taking them out. I had a pair that was old (2 week disposables that I had been using for about 2 months), and when I took them out, I removed the cornea in my eye. I always took out my contacts at night, but I was on a plane earlier that day, and since it is so dry on the plane, my old contacts dried out faster than normal. When I got home, I peeled the contact out, and removed my cornea in a perfect circumfrance of the contact.
Nothing like an emergencey room visit with an eye injury.

whoa dude. I guess you were blind in that eye? did it get fixed all the way?