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Exploring Contact lenses

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Bateluer

Lifer
I've been wearing glasses since I was around 10 years old. Current frames and lenses are about 2 years old, my near sightedness has more or less stabilized. I haven't had any issues with glasses until recently, really, which has prompted me to explore the idea more thoroughly.

My main concern is how well they stay put in the eyes. I am currently training in Shaolin Kung Fu and we do a lot of exercises, movements, throws, stances, sparring, drills, etc. Can anyone offer any input on how well contact lenses would stay in? It'd really suck to have a contact lense fall out during class or a rank test. I'm currently using a strap to hold my glasses to my face, however they still get sweat streams on them from our workouts, which is a bit of an inconvenience. Also, they interfere with both the fit and my vision when wearing a sparring helmet.

I've also just read an article on something called Ortho-K or CRT. It involved the reshaping of the cornea by wearing special contact lenses at night. The website I was reading it on said there were side effects, such as eye irritation and headaches, but nothing super serious. Its also reverisble, unlike LASIK, provided you stop wearing the reshaping lenses. Something to explore further, I think.

But for now, my question is how well regular contact lenses would stay in my eyes during intense workouts and sparring sessions?
 
Uh, contacts don't fall out of your eyes. They're pretty much vacuumed onto your eyes. I've had them for about 20 years. Contacts today are MUCH better than they used to be. Soft contacts will stay in better and be more comfortable, but are easier to destroy, and can't correct for extremely bad vision.

Seriously though, contacts aren't going to fly out of your eyes. Try them on once, and you'll understand.
 
I've worn Acuvue 2's and Acuvue Advance's.

They stay in pretty darn well. You can have a nice wind blowing into your eyes and not even budge them.
 
as long as your sparring doesn't include eye gouging, you should be fine with contacts. They won't pop out.

KK
 
Thanks for the input guys, I'll probably pop into some vision stores saturday, see what I can dig up concerning prices and such.

Thanks again.
 
The only time I've ever had a contact pop out is once when I got a right hook right in the eye during a fight in a locker room in high school.

Once you place them on your eye, the absence of air between the lense and your cornea keeps it sucked on there. After a couple weeks of getting used to them, you can't even feel them. Kinda becomes part of your eyeball. When you take them out, you just kinda press in on the sides and air gets sucked in making it pop off.

So nothing short of getting gouged in the eye is gonna knock them out.
 
They won't come out if you're doing anything other than freefall skydiving. 🙂
Your eyes will be dry for the first week or two, but after that they'll adapt. The only annoyance is remembering to take them out at night and clean them, etc.
If your eyes get really dry, then you might have problem removing them- I certainly did if I left it a few hours too long. At that point, the only options you have are to squirt sterile water in your eye to get them to move, or to prise them out, and give yourself red eyes until next morning. As long as you move them away from your pupils though, you should be okay.

I forgot to renew my subscription when I moved, and I'm debating whether or not to have them again because I just found it irritating to take them out, clean, rinse and store them each night.
 
Bear in mind there are two main types of contact lenses: gas permeable (known as hard) and soft.

Everyone has so far referred to the soft ones. They are comfortable but your number may increase a bit more than usual over time, especially if you are not 18 yet. I've got the gas permeable ones. They can be a bitch to wear, can come out pretty easily and are more expensive. Benefits are that your number may actually decrease with proper prescriptions and its an advantage to wear them for upto 18hrs per day.

There are a special type of soft lenses made for sports wear. I forget the correct term for them, but my optician brought them to my attention when I first got my lenses. They are massive compared to normal lenses, but are designed to fit like a glove and are pretty much impossible to accidently remove. They're hard to put into your eye if your a first-timer though!

Hope this helps.
 
Originally posted by: chilled
Bear in mind there are two main types of contact lenses: gas permeable (known as hard) and soft.

Everyone has so far referred to the soft ones. They are comfortable but your number may increase a bit more than usual over time, especially if you are not 18 yet. I've got the gas permeable ones. They can be a bitch to wear, can come out pretty easily and are more expensive. Benefits are that your number may actually decrease with proper prescriptions and its an advantage to wear them for upto 18hrs per day.

There are a special type of soft lenses made for sports wear. I forget the correct term for them, but my optician brought them to my attention when I first got my lenses. They are massive compared to normal lenses, but are designed to fit like a glove and are pretty much impossible to accidently remove. They're hard to put into your eye if your a first-timer though!

Hope this helps.
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I'll be 22 this coming January, and have never had contacts before. Thanks for the help.
 
I've had hard and gas permeable contacts since for 14 years (since I was 10). I played football with no problems. For very physical activities, I'd probably recommend Rec-Specs.

I wouldn't go w/o my contacts though.
 
I would like to clarify what someone had said earlier. Soft contact lenses don't make your eyes worse. Whether you're wearing glasses or soft contact lenses, your eyes will get worse in time. Gas permeable contact lenses will prevent your eyes from getting worse and that is the difference. I tried both and I wasn't able to wear hard contact lenses because it made my eyes water. Most people should be able to wear soft contact lenses without a problem. I would recommend Proclear Compatibles for soft contact lenses. I used to wear Frequency 55 and it dried out my eyes and made my eyes really really red.
 
Martial arts may be slightly more risky but I don't think it would be a major concern. I have also read about CRT and think it might be worth considering. The thing about contacts is that it can feel like such a burden to have to constantly buy new ones.
 
Originally posted by: Ranger X
I would like to clarify what someone had said earlier. Soft contact lenses don't make your eyes worse. Whether you're wearing glasses or soft contact lenses, your eyes will get worse in time. Gas permeable contact lenses will prevent your eyes from getting worse and that is the difference. I tried both and I wasn't able to wear hard contact lenses because it made my eyes water. Most people should be able to wear soft contact lenses without a problem. I would recommend Proclear Compatibles for soft contact lenses. I used to wear Frequency 55 and it dried out my eyes and made my eyes really really red.
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this pretty interesting..so what is the reason that hard contacts can prevent your eyes from getting worse?
 
I was trying to get contacts once, but the assistant at the eye doctor's place couldn't get the contact in. So I basically said "Screw this" (ok, more politely) since if it's that hard there's no way I'd do it myself.
 
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