Any funny, embarassing, or helpful contact stories?

Question

I'm really bad at putting my contacts in. I can take them out really easy, but when I put them in, I get squeemish and mess up. I thought some contact stories would make me feel better, or if anybody has anything helpful to say.

Thanks everybody!

Answer 1

I wore soft lenses for over 25 years...and the most embarrassing story is that I had put both of my contacts in the same eye once (ok...I was half asleep and late for work!!).

Of course, there were many times they'd fall off my finger and into the sink...and yes...down the drain when I was trying to put them in when I was just starting in them. Think my mom spent a fortune in contacts for the first 6 months (didn't have disposables back then)...til she finally got a stopper for the sink lol

This is what my optometrist had told me was ok for putting contacts in...look up and towards the middle of your nose...put the contact on the white part of your eye while holding the lid down with your other hand. Blink a few times and carefully 'move' the contact into place with your eye closed through the lid if blinking isn't enough. He also had suggested using a couple of rewetting drops or plain saline solution prior to putting in the lens to help it into place better. I was 10 at that time and did that for the next 25 years.

Answer 2

I did have this theory that contact lenses had an as-yet undetected side effect, damaging the commonsense gland, because (some) contact lens wearers seemed able to do things that would never occur to normal meMbers of the public.

Try your logical skills on this one, which came up more than once:
"I've lost one of my contact lenses, and the vision is all blurry with the other one." *

Others:
"I've torn the lens and I going to have to get a replacement.
I tried putting the two halves in in the right positions but it didn't work."

"I can see much better without my contact lenses in, what should I do?"

The most frightening patient I ever had however was a surgeon. He had no sense of self preservation whatsoever.
When asked to remove his contact lenses, he would just stick his fingers in his eyes, rummage around for a bit and then grab. I just hoped he always got the contact lens.
(If he was like that on himself, I hate to think what he was like with anaesthetised patients)



*yes, two lenses put in the same eye, leaving a shortage of lens for the second eye!

Answer 3

I no longer wear hard lenses, but I did for years. I, too, was squeamish about putting them in, early on. Several times, I couldn't stop myself from turning my eye away as the lens was headed straight for it, even though I managed not to turn my head. So I'd jam the lens onto the white of my eye. If I'd turned my eyes really far, when I looked straight ahead again, the lens would be behind the bony eye socket, and really hard to get out. At least once, I had to go to the eye doctor to get it removed. I felt like a total moron.

Answer 4

I was at a lacrosse game watching my nephew play, sitting in the stands with his brother and got an itch in one eye. I rubbed my eye, then after something did not feel right, and my vision was different. I asked my nephew to look in my eye, and I asked if he could see my contact. He couldnt, and I knew I had rubbed my contact up high under my lid. I couldnt get it out, and I was sitting outside in the wind without a mirror. I was freaking out and took off to the parking lot which was a good walk away, covering one eye looking all panicked. I ended up stopping at the closest car I came up to and used their mirror to find my contact. Its funny, because if I had just calmed down and closed my eye, it would have come down on its own. I thought I had lost it into my brain or something, which is ridiculous!

Answer 5

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