How can you guys stand to remove contact lenses?

[Chaotic42]

I got some extended wear contacts, but my eyes are dry and I thought I'd take them out. I cannot freaking do it. Just thinking about getting my fingers that close to my eyes makes me queasy. Not that I can get my eyes to stay open anyway.

Is there some trick to this? The nurse at the eye doctor could take hers off and on like it was nothing. I feel like I need a bottle of vodka before I try that.

 

[Dirigible]

I've worn contacts for thirty years. You get used to touching your eyeballs.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I could not do it. My eyes are watering just thinking about having to put/remove something from my eyes. I cannot do eye drops, either. I'd love to go for laser surgery but they'd have to put me under for that which is not really possible.

My mom has contacts and she even says sometimes it rolls behind the eyeball. I'm queasy just thinking of that. Maybe eye related stuff like that is something you just get used to after some time when wearing contacts? I'd almost have to try it, the thought of no glasses would be awesome. On the other hand rather just go through the surgery and tough it out for the half hour or w/e it takes. It would be better off if I had never watched videos of how it's done...

What's funny is anything else I'm not really queasy about. I even watch the needle go in my skin when I donate blood. That thing is huge... Nurse thinks I'm a little crazy for actually wanting to look.

 

[ManBearPig]

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[Poulsonator]

I wore contacts for 8 years before having Lasik in 2000, but I've also never had an issue with touching my eyes, eye drops, etc. The only advice I can offer is to wash your hands, then put saline in your eyes and on your fingers, and grab that contact lens.

By the way, Lasik has been the best elective surgery ever. Almost 13 years later, and still see 20/20.

 

[JMapleton]

If your fingers slip on the lens, try grabbing from the edges of the lens and pinching just a little (don't pinch your eye). Takes practice.

I recently switched to dailies and they're much harder than my 2 week lenses.

 

[Rumpltzer]

I think I've been in contacts for about 18 years now. The first try didn't take; could never master getting them in and out, and there was no ATOT to help me.

I wear contact that come out every night and I put them in in the morning. They get tossed every 3 months... or 6 months... or whatever.

The key for all you virgins is that you need lubrication. If you're all dried out, it'll be harder to get in (or out). If I sleep or nap in my contacts, it's harder to get out. Eye drops would help, but I've done it enough to muddle through it.

 

[coldmeat]

Been wearing contacts for 9 years now I think. At first touching my eyes bothered me, but I just manned up and did it. Now it's nothing, I just stick my fingers right in there. Watching an eye get stabbed by a needle or something still grosses me out, but touching is nothing.

I want to get laser correction, but it's still too much for me.

 

[Schfifty Five]

I got some extended wear contacts, but my eyes are dry and I thought I'd take them out. I cannot freaking do it. Just thinking about getting my fingers that close to my eyes makes me queasy. Not that I can get my eyes to stay open anyway.

Is there some trick to this? The nurse at the eye doctor could take hers off and on like it was nothing. I feel like I need a bottle of vodka before I try that.

Trick? yes.

Slide the contact down some and then "pinch" the part of the contact that is over the white part of your eye. That area is far less sensitive than your pupil/cornea/colored area/whatever it's called area.

 

[zanemoseley]

I wore contacts for years and don't care to touch my eyes. What freaks me out is getting lasic while you're awake. Totally weirds me out. A girl I work with described it and it sounds creepy but I'm sure you're doped up a bit. Touching your eye with your own fingers is one thing but someone cutting it with a scalpel and digging around is different thing all together.

 

[Fenixgoon]

I've worn contacts for twelve years. You get used to touching your eyeballs.

fixed for me. rigid gas permeable lenses, too, not pansy-ass soft lenses

 

[clamum]

You just get used to it. When I first got contacts, it took me about a half hour to get them in cause I hated touching my eyes. Hell, I couldn't even stand taking eye drops (for like pink eye, or Visine). But it didn't take too long, a couple months maybe, and I didn't even think before reaching in there and grabbin the things out.

 

[TridenT]

I wear ones that last a month, but you don't wear them 24/7. When I was at the ophthalmologist (Not how I imagined that was spelt at all...) and got them for the first time it took a bit longer than maybe some other candidates... However, now, it's no big deal.

After the first couple months it becomes pretty easy. And taking contacts out was never the hard part for me... getting them in was. I have long eye lashes (which easily fall off... Those aren't comfortable on your eye!), dry eyes, and blahblahblah...

Anyway, stop your bitchin'. Stop being a puss.

 

[CA19100]

My mom has contacts and she even says sometimes it rolls behind the eyeball.

That's simply not physically possible.


I found that the more I worked with contacts, the easier it got. I remove them by a gentle pinch on the bottom part, and they come right out. I'm not really touching my eye, just the lens.

 

[coldmeat]

I wore contacts for years and don't care to touch my eyes. What freaks me out is getting lasic while you're awake. Totally weirds me out. A girl I work with described it and it sounds creepy but I'm sure you're doped up a bit. Touching your eye with your own fingers is one thing but someone cutting it with a scalpel and digging around is different thing all together.

I don't think any laser procedures nowadays include a scalpel.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's simply not physically possible.

Well not completely behind, but more to the side. Where it can't be reached. Not a common occurrence but it can happen.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

I wear gas permeable contact lenses. I never have to touch my eye to take them out. I put my finger on the outsides of my eye and then open wide, pull my eye towards the outside and then blink and then it comes straight out.

 

[Udgnim]

used to wear rigid gas permeable contact lenses

I got used to putting pressure on side of the lense then lift the other side of the lense off of my eye

 

[Braznor]

I had a doctor stick a syringe into my eye for general anesthesia before my own surgery! D:

You guys are pussies, I'm sorry!

 

[Chaotic42]

I had a doctor stick a syringe into my eye for general anesthesia before my own surgery! D:

You guys are pussies, I'm sorry!

When it comes to eyes, yes. I've broken 16 bones. I've thrown up so hard I tore my esophagus. I've had dental work done with no novocain. I get freaked out about eyes though.

When I was a kid I was riding my bike in the woods. I slid off of a slope and tumbled. When I opened my eyes, I had a piece of metal about 1 inch from my eye. Ever since then eye stuff just gets to me.

I notice these things like to slip during REM. I'll give it another shot once I'm more awake and they're hydrated. I can put the contact solution stuff right on my eyes with the lenses in, right?

 

[marvdmartian]

Go get a testosterone shot. Then you'll just pluck your eyeball out, rip off the contact, and stuff the eyeball back in again, with no whining!

 

[Uppsala9496]

Make sure they're lubricated before you take them out. It'll make them much easier to remove plus I'm pretty sure it's not good for your eyes if you remove them while they're dry and stuck on your eyeballs.

Put some drops in and then remove them.
I once sat on an hour flight with the little air nozzle thing blowing on me the whole time and then removed my contacts about 45 minutes afterwards. I managed to remove my cornea along with the contact lens.
It was kind of cool because my eyeball was flat in the front as a result. Not cool because it hurt like hell...and well, I ripped my cornea out. It starts growing back right away and 6 months later I was wearing contacts again (this had to be some 8 year ago).

 

[Chaotic42]

Put some drops in and then remove them.
I once sat on an hour flight with the little air nozzle thing blowing on me the whole time and then removed my contacts about 45 minutes afterwards. I managed to remove my cornea along with the contact lens.
It was kind of cool because my eyeball was flat in the front as a result. Not cool because it hurt like hell...and well, I ripped my cornea out. It starts growing back right away and 6 months later I was wearing contacts again (this had to be some 8 year ago).

Don't tell me stuff like that, man!

 

[Braznor]

When it comes to eyes, yes. I've broken 16 bones. I've thrown up so hard I tore my esophagus. I've had dental work done with no novocain. I get freaked out about eyes though.

When I was a kid I was riding my bike in the woods. I slid off of a slope and tumbled. When I opened my eyes, I had a piece of metal about 1 inch from my eye. Ever since then eye stuff just gets to me.

I notice these things like to slip during REM. I'll give it another shot once I'm more awake and they're hydrated. I can put the contact solution stuff right on my eyes with the lenses in, right?

To be frank, I agree with your original problem, ripping a dry lens off your eyes is a real sucky thing to undergo on a regular basis.

Here is the very process I underwent when it came to lenses themselves.

1. You reach for the lens inside your eyes.
2. The dry lens seems to be stuck upon your cornea.
3. You have to almost physically scratch your eyeballs until getting the grip on the lens to pry it off your cornea.

I agree the process of trying to scratch off the lens from your dry eyeball is quite a traumatic thing to do so, especially on a routine basis. All of us come to dread it no matter how routine or simple it sounds. I always hated it myself.

 

[Murloc]

I just roll the eyes down (or up, I don't remember, has been long since I used them, and they were soft lenses), insert thumb and index on the sclera, at this point I can't keep the eye open anymore, and then I roll the eye in the opposite direction so the edges of the contact lens touch my fingers and it sticks there and I just pinch it.

Well not completely behind, but more to the side. Where it can't be reached. Not a common occurrence but it can happen.

it goes under the eyelid on a part of the sclera that you can't really uncover by opening your eyes.
Anyway you just need to mess a bit with it and it goes back in place, or maybe I was lucky since it only happened once.