Egad, I just took my contacts out for the first time in a month!

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Holy crap, what an odd feeling. My vision isn't bad at all, but the ever-so-slight fuzz on everything is annoying the bejeezus out of me.

I want LASIK so badly

cavete terrae.

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I want LASIK so badly

You and me both brother

[Rebecca 0]

I feel your pain. I too am lax about my eye-care routine. I usually have to become very aware of my contacts before I remove them. I do maintain good eye cleanliness though.

As long as you're comfortable, you'll be fine. Your eyes have a way of telling you when something's wrong. Don't go much longer than a month though.

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That program on the radio "see clearly method" does actually work. It's worth an attempt, and I think there's a money back gaurantee.

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Seriously, W.T.F. mate?

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I feel your pain. I too am lax about my eye-care routine. I usually have to become very aware of my contacts before I remove them. I do maintain good eye cleanliness though.

As long as you're comfortable, you'll be fine. Your eyes have a way of telling you when something's wrong. Don't go much longer than a month though.

Yeah, usually they come out on the last day of the month, and I put in a fresh pair the next day, but normally I take 'em out and go RIGHT to bed, so I'm not used to actually looking at things. So now that I'm actually doing stuff, it's like "erm... yar?"

cavete terrae.

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As long as you're comfortable, you'll be fine. Your eyes have a way of telling you when something's wrong. Don't go much longer than a month though.

Not true, talk to an opthamologist and see what they say

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As long as you're comfortable, you'll be fine. Your eyes have a way of telling you when something's wrong. Don't go much longer than a month though.

Not true, talk to an opthamologist and see what they say

Mine are actually the one-month wear ones, at least

cavete terrae.

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i'm supposed to take mine out every day, but i usually do 2 or 3 week stretch, then leave em out for a day or two.

yyeah its risky but much less hassle

MB 3528, RB 1182

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I wore my contact lenses too long when I was in school (about 8 years ago) and ended up with an ulcer on my cornea. Talk about pain and irritation!

Those lenses werent supposed to be worn as often and long as I was wearing them though (10-20 hours a day 6 days a week). I learnt my lesson.

I can wear contacts again now but I'm really careful. Just remember no matter what type of contact lense you wear, they all restrict the amount of oxygen your eye is getting which is not a good thing.

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I'm an eye doc, and you're just plain not all that smart about contact lens care.

Contacts are primarily water. The water is a sponge sucking up everything in your tear film and the air around you. The more builds up, the less oxygen your eyes get.

The less oxygen your eyes get, the less they can fight off infection and the more swollen they get. That slight haze to your vision is called corneal edema, the cornea's response to hypoxia.

When the cornea responds to hypoxia, it grows blood vessels in that are not supposed to be there since that's the only way to get the oxygen it needs. This is called neovascularization. If you have LASIK with neo, you will bleed, this is a bad idea, you have to wait until the blood vessels drain of blood. There are no symptoms of these new blood vessels until they cross your pupil, at that point, you have permanent vision loss. The blood will drain out, but the walls of the vessel remain.

If you wait until contacts are bothering you, you have already damaged your corneas, that irritation you feel is all the crud on the contact scratching the cornea.

Would you sleep in your underwear for a month at a time without cleaning them? Then why the hell would you do it to your eyes? Even with the 30 day extended wear lenses I recommend taking them out weekly overnight to clean, disinfect, and give your eyes a break. There are only 2 lenses approved for this, Focus Night and Day and Purevision. If you are doing this with any other lens, your risk is dramatically increased. Even with these lenses the risk is 1 in 20 having significant complications.

It only takes one corneal ulcer for you to truly understand what I'm talking about, but I get sick of trying to clean up corneas that are diseased purely due to lack of contact lens care (aka stupidity, I just can't say that flat out in the exam room )

Jennifer Galbraith, OD, MS

Do or do not, there is no try -Yoda

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I always encourage people to spend their money on this, simply because it does not work at all but it won't hurt them. All this does is improve blur interpretation.

If you don't wear your correction starting in the morning, you will feel like your vision is better by evening. This isn't that your Rx changed, it is that you have gotten better at estimating blurry objects.

Prescriptions are based on the size/shape of the eye, only changing that can change prescription... That's how refractive surgery and orthokeratology (using RGP contact lenses to mold the cornea) work.

The eye changes your entire life, it grows, the lens inside changes shape slightly, and that is why prescriptions change.

Jen

Do or do not, there is no try -Yoda

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See I told ya so

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