I need help with my contacts to put them in and take them out?

Answer 1

Make sure they are "right side out" and rinse it with solution. Make sure your hands have been washed. then Start with whatever eye, your dominant in your hands (ie: right eye, if you are right-handed, etc). Pull your lower lid down with your left hand and put in with your right hand. Then just pop em in. To take out. Wash hands, and pull lower lid down, then pull it over to the outer corner of your eye. And hold it, with your middle finger, and grab the end with your thumb (of the same hand). Good luck. It takes practice. If you have toric lenses, it will take a while for them to 'focus' properly on your cornea

Answer 2

I had the same problem. The 1st time took me over an hour in the doctor's office and then it slowly became easier. Obviously you have to hold the eye open with one hand and insert with the other. I find it easier if I wet my finger holding the contact 1st then it comes off easier on the eye. Believe me, everyone goes through the transition period. Good Luck!!!

Answer 3

First of all, wash your hands first, and shake them dry.

Sometimes, if your eyes are dry (and they tend to be when you first start to wear them) it helps to squirt a little bit of your storage solution onto your fingers before you try to squeeze the contact lens on your eyeball, ever so gently, just enough so that the lens pops out. This is especially important if you have accidentally slept with your contacts in, a situation that should be avoided. You will find out exactly why this should be avoided the first time it happens to you!

To put a lens in my eye (wash your hands first), I stick the end of my pinky (I'm right-handed, so I use my right hand for this) into the container so that the contact lens sticks to my finger. Then I bring it over to the palm of the other hand (which just happens to be my left). I squeeze my left hand so that the lens comes off my finger into my palm. I might squirt it with storage/cleaning solution at this point, if I feel like it needs it. I use the all-in-one kind, Opti-Free, I think.

Next, I take the index finger (pointy finger, first finger) of my right hand and push it under the lens until the lens is stuck to the end of my finger, bowl-side up. If the soft lens looks like a bowl with a rim that sticks out, you've got it inside out. Take it back to the palm if that happens, and get it on your index finger the other way.

I use one finger of my left hand to hold down my top eyelashes, and the middle finger of my right hand to hold down the bottom lashes. I've just noticed that I use the middle finger of my left hand to hold down the top lashes of my left eye, but my left ring finger (third finger) to hold down the top lashes of my right eye. Huh!Never realized that before.

Finally, I just touch my contact lens to my eyeball. It usually sticks to the eye and comes off my finger. After I blink a couple of times, it aligns itself to fit on my cornea and stays put all day.

When I was a teenager with my first brand-new soft contact lenses (and in those days they were very expensive, so you only got one pair that better last you the whole year), my lens folded up like a little, clear taco, and I could not get the halves unstuck from each other no matter how I rubbed it.

Finally, my Grandma held one edge down with her fingernail and pried the other one up with her other fingernail. I had just sworn I would never do anything like that to my lens, and I just about threw a Teenage Girl Fit. But Grandma's approach did work. I rinsed it off very carefully, and it was fine. There is such a thing as being too careful.