New eyes
So yesterday I finally bit the bullet and got contacts. I don't know what possessed me to do it. I don't even like touching my eyes. So the fact that I have to touch my eyeball literally to put these lenses on and take them off, really bugs me out. It's like, I wonder who came up with this idea. Ok, I'm going to put a little lens in your eye, and you have to take your fingers to pinch it out. Gross. I also can't get over the feeling of there's something in my eye. It's very strange. It's going to take some time to get used to. I hope not too long however. I'm using the soft contact lens because I have a stigmatism in my eye. The lens are a lot softer and thinner than what I was expecting. It feels like I'm putting a piece of plastic in my eye. Very strange indeed.
posted by meemsnyc @ 2:15 PM
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It is a piece of plastic you are putting in your eye. I know this for a fact, because I used to make contact lenses. They all start out as a button of hard plastic. Different types of plastic makes hard or soft lenses. I personally prefer the RGP(rigid gas permeable). Better visual acquity(sic-don't want to look it up) for astigmatism and you don't have to clean them every day. I don't think I've cleaned mine for about a month. Found your post through your cats. They are adorable, mine are just able. Able to open doors etc...
Pete & Lucky's Mom
It feels strange at first but the analogy is that when you first wear a watch you feel it on your wrist until your brain gets used to it. Same with contacts. When your brain gets used to them being there you don't feel them. The bad part about that is if you get an eye infection it takes longer to figure out you have one because your eyes become desensitized. Just be careful and keep em clean.
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I hope you are doing fine now!
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Our momma has worn contacts since she was 17 years old, and she really loves them. She just got multifocal contacts, which are for distance and reading, because she is old now (hee hee) and needs them for work. Hang in there, you will get used to them!
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Gosh my mommy wears glasses and just bought some real cool ones on the internets all by her self! Very inexpensive. One can buy anythings now on the internets. Somedays it is a cool world!
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Good luck with your contacts. I wish I'd switched to them years ago when I had the opportunity. At least you know if you end up not liking them that you can switch back to glasses.
So what is blooming in Central Park now? it must be getting Spring like in New York.
Thank you for your visit today...I wish I could really come and see New York...must be wonderful places to eat on every street corner!
Purrr Miss Peach
Hi, I hope your eyes are alright now?
I had the same problem the first time I have put my lenses in. I thought I would never get used to it. But actually it has worked out very quickly until I didn't feel anything strange anymore. The only problem I have always had was dust in my eye. As we have lots of sand in Egypt I have no glasses again although I hate them.
how're you doin' now.....
I have worn contacts for 50 years, since I was a teenager, and the new hard ones had just come out. I can't imagine life without them, hated glasses. It never bothered me putting them in my eye. I have switched to the gas permeable ones now, the hard ones aren't that great for your eyes, and I think they are discontinuing use. Hang in there!!
Toni
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Thanks for the visit! I can't say I would look forward to sticking something in my eye!
Tara
I bet it will, I wear reading glasses and cannot immagine having to pinch my eyes and putting something in them...good luck with it...I hope it gets easier
Oh goodness! I wouldz not likes plas-teek in my eye ballzez either!
MEW!!! Thank you for visiting my blog! I really got to do a new post.
Mummy the same way with her eyes. Can't stand touching em. ewwww!
The eye doctor usually uses a "puff" test for glaucoma. One time that machine was broken and she attempted to touch my eye with something. I winced away. I couldn't bear my eye being touched...
The Big Thing
Hey, thanks fer visitin our blog so often... Skeeter, LC, and Ayla
It was nice to see you at my blog. Are you still putting posts on your blog as these seem very old?
Good luck wif the lenses
Mommi used to use them, then just got sick of the whole thing and just wevewted to glasses
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Asta
Hey there!
Congrats on moving up to contacts! You will get used to putting them in and out. Just don't sleep in them, no matter what the box says!! I'm an ophthalmologist and I have see SO many problems after people have slept in their contacts!!
We are moving to NYC in a couple months and very happy about it. I wonder how Tanya and Chanel will do switching toilets a couple times....
You're very brave as far as I'm concerned! I just started wearing glasses at 45, and that's bad enough...I would HATE contacts! Good luck!
I hope you are doing fine now!
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Oh tanks fur cumin by ta see Leo!! Fur sum reazon weze cud not clik on your linkee in da commentz... sohz da Cat blogosphere ladee gave us your website!!
Bout contacts... Mawmee says shez gotz allurgeez to just bout evfurry ting!! Sohz shez just gonna wear dark glassus likes hur big brudder uv comedy...
Goods lucks wit dem... hopes day wurks fur you!!
The "touching your own eyeball" part is one of the big reasons why Mom wears spectacles ...
DMM
Mom thinks she would feel the same way about wearing contacts. She just about goes nuts when fur gets in her eyes. We have lots of fur!
Hope you can get accustomed to them quick!
~ Noah
I have worn contacts since I was 15, now I am 64, so you do the math. I have always loved them, but I wore the hard, and you didn't touch your eye, just pulled it to the side to pop them out. Putting them in never bothered me. Now I have the gas permeable ones, and they get a protein buildup, which I hate, but the hard ones aren't used anymore. I think you will adjust to them.
CalicoMom Toni
wow that is a crazy thought.
That's got to be creepy! When my brother put his in the first time it took him and my mum a whole morning to get them out again!
Meow from Target and Au in Malaysia!
i remember the first time my hubs came home with his new contacts. it took him so long to put them in! it DOES get better.
hey - i'm coming to new york in october!!!
I hope they've gotten easier for you!
Contact lenses are very useful! I've been wearing them (the rigid ones) since a long time...
Cheers,
Rosa
I don't think I could do this unless I really, really had to!
Hi! Welcome to my blog. Please come by anytime. My mom couldn't get contacts because of her astigmitism, so she finally had the lasix eye surgery last year and loves it! Good luck.
The mom with the house doesn't like her eyes bothered with either. You are braver than she is because you went to the next step and got the glasses that go into the eye.
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Hello, thanks for dropping by my blog and your kind words. It really means a lot to me and the Js. J x
I have a stigmatism too - I tried for a while with contacts, but didn't get on with them at all - hope your experience is better than mine!
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Lynettea used to have contacts in the old days, long ago. She says to me that you can have an operation done so that you don't have to wear contacts or glasses either for a lot of eye problems. It is expensive though. She wears glasses again, so she sometimes can't see me and bits of me get trod on.
Thank you for your purrs for Timothy - he is at peace at the rainbow bridge now.
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I never had contacts, but I had a type of lasik eye surgery two years ago. That was really a scary thought, but things have been fine.
Good luck!
Thanks for stopping by and visiting Praline.
Thank you for coming to my blog. I think contact lenses are scary. Big sister has talked about getting some, but decided they would be too much bother.
Oh I don't think I could ever wear them.
Mom tried to use those contact things too but she just couldn't get used to them.. She has that stigmatism thing too and she just couldn't get them right.. Hope everything works out for your mom..
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Gus, Louie and Callie
Yay for you! I just love contacts. I always feel so constricted in glasses.
Hope you are used to your contacts now.
Good to be able to see things better. Don't think I would like to poke the thingies in my eyes. I hope that doesn't hurt or anything.
Thanks for stopping by today, it is always fun to visit with you.
Mom tried those contact things but she couldn't get used to them. She is kind of old you know..
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Gus, Louie and Callie
Thanks so much for stopping by today. This was a hard post for the moth to do but one that had to be done. It was great getting to know you, I treasure all of those that I met while blogging. You all forever will be in my heart.
Pray that I am safe and mooching off of someone else. Be sure to stop back tomorrow.
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I had the same feeling as you - couldn't stand anything near my face let alone touching my eye. I think it's been about 30 years ago when I first got them and back then they didn't make a soft contact for astigmatism so I had to wear hard. They were horrible so I insisted that if I could wear those old hard ones I could wear soft ones and made the Dr. give me soft. They were gas permeable and had to have holes drilled in them to get oxygen to my eyes - another problem. But they were so much better. Then I got soft and I love them. I really had to work on it because glasses hurt my ears and nose.
yeah, it's definitely weird. I have a new type now that is even thinner, so I think I'm basicallly scraping it off my eye. I know I am b/c when I cut my nails, it's a bitch to get them out!
Don't freak out if it's hard to get them either in or out at first. You'll get used to it.
It has got to be better than putting glasses on and off like I do....or my glasses at the tip of my nose. I'm going to break down and start wearing contacts one day. Also, thanks for visiting my blog.
I have thought about contacts for so, so long now meemsnyc. The glasses I have are about ten years out of date and I can see better without them. I think I wear them out of habit. Let me know how you get on as a newbie to the contact lens world...I might just follow suit. Eyes, bits of plastic/glass and fingers.....all very yucky!
Hello! I used to wear hard contacts...I have astigmatism also! Had to give up all contacts when I started having allergy problems. Now I am a progressive lenses wearer!!!
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