My contacts have pretty much been glued to my eyeballs. I have a weird sleeping schedule so I sleep in them most of the week. Sometimes I can go a week without taking them out. I've been doing this for about a year. What could this potentially hurt my eyes?
2006-12-23 02:57:12 · 3 answers · asked by PlasticTrees 2 in Health ➔ Other - Health
unfortunately, you are screwing up your eyes. i did this for years, and finally had a doctor who didn't just yell at me, but explained that i had done serious damage to my eyes. i have extremely bad vision, so i always had thick glasses, etc. i hated waking up blind in the a.m., so i would sleep with them in. you dry out your eyes, and they never get clean like they need to be. i now have tiny blood vessels in my eyes, and cauliflower-like bumps under my eyelids (you can't see them, but they never go away). i permanently did this to my eyes, and have been taking out my lenses every night for the past 2 years. i also clean them with hydrogen peroxide in a special container, not the flat ones. the peroxide is made to clean contacts, just ask your eye doctor. i also found some cute plastic framed glasses (hides the thickness). please take better care of your eyes, i learned the hard way, and they're not really replacable.
2006-12-23 03:00:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are just a taste of what could be happening to your eyes: you're messing up your corneas, there is severe protein build up because you haven't removed your contacts for cleaning, you are setting yourself up for an eye infection because of the protein and dirt, you're suffocating your eyes because the contacts cut down oxygen flow.
2006-12-23 11:02:15 · answer #2 · answered by BlytheLyssa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont use those anymore because they caused many scars on my cornea. I use the regulars now.
2006-12-23 13:21:10 · answer #3 · answered by Baphomet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋