Another lens post...

[alexpgp]

I hate to make a saga of something like putting in contact lenses, but I cannot help but feel that it's affecting my overall sense of well-being.

When putting in the lenses, I have found that they seem to want to stick to my finger more than they do to my eyeball. As I found a simple expedient yesterday for taking them out (two fingers), I tried the same technique when putting them in this morning.

The right lens went in with no problems. The left lens more than made up for it. It took me two or three tries, but I finally got the lens onto the eyeball. The problem was, though, that my vision was fuzzy. I asked Drew to see if the lens had centered itself on the cornea, and he told me it was stuck in a corner.

I returned to the bathroom and eventually doped out that not only was the lens in the corner of my eye, but somehow, it had doubled up on itself.

I should have put the lens away then, but I persisted in trying to put it in, probably past the point of making sense. I finally got the lens in the proper position, but my left eye has been hurting ever since, and I suspect strongly it's because I kept poking it, trying to install the confounded lens.

Anyway, I just took it out, leaving me with just the right lens installed. The feeling of irritation in my left eye had been such as to keep it in the forefront of my consciousness, but not bad enough to make taking it out a high priority. I don't want to have to work tonight with the same feeling in my eyes as last night.

Cheers...

Comments

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

When you have the lens on the tip of your finger, you should have enough solution on your finger that the lens is held on by surface tension, not stuck to your finger. With a drop of solution in the lens, the solution will flow over your cornea when you put in on, and draw the lens on very smoothly. If you do it drier, it's harder and more irritating.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

I will follow your advice.

Cheers...

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Tried it.

Putting solution on the finger does not seem to help. The finger remains sticky as before.

Putting a drop of solution in the lens helps, I think.

The lens folding in my left eye may have introduced some sort of structural defect that I can't see that prevents it from lying flat, or something (what I know about contacts you could, you'll pardon the expression, stick in your eye and not feel a thing). At any rate, my awareness of the lens in the left eye is much higher than that for the lens in my right eye.

Cheers...

Re:

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

Usually if your awareness of a lens is greater, and assuming your eye isn't irritated, it's because the lens isn't totally clean. Sometimes, a bit of protein can dry and resist cleaning. It's almost impossible to see, but your eye can feel it.

Sometimes more cleaning helps, but sometimes you just have to replace it. I'm assuming you're using disposables, which don't have the build-up problem because of their short lifetime. Disposables worked better for me than "permanent" ones, and I ended up using them like "permanent" ones, just tossing them when they started giving me problems.