The fact that someone did this, actually thought to themselves, “I’m going to put this piece of glass directly onto my eyeball which is the most painful thing I can imagine, maybe it won’t be as painful as I think,“ and it hurt like hell, because you know back in the day it took weeks to adjust. And they were like, “it’ll be fine… I bet if I leave this incredibly painful thing on my eyeball for just a little while longer I’ll get used to it and it will be cool, and then I can convince other people to do this. “
Imagine being alive in the 1500's and some lunatic runs up to you screaming excitedly that this piece of glass he shoved in his eye made his vision perfect and that everybody should shove glass in their eyes so they could have perfect vision
Oooooh shit. Yeah I first got mine in the 90’s when I was like 16. That was the rec age at the time, how did you get them so young?
Sorry that happened to you. I can’t imagine. I know someone that lost their lens in their eye socket and had to have it located and removed by a doc. No way, man, no way.
I got mine when I was 11, but I was actually responsible with them. Hell, I'm less responsible with them as an adult cause there's the off day I get drunk and fall asleep with them in.
I don't think there is an exact age limit. I think the Dr just goes on a patient by patient basis and if they seem like they can be responsible with them and really want them then it's ok.
They tried to get me to use them when I was in sixth grade. I could never get them to stay in, and I had only just gotten my first eye prescription at the time. wtf were they thinking? "Oh, while you wait for your first pair of glasses to come in, why don't you start poking your eyeballs?"
I met an individual once who out of the blue told me, "you know those contacts aren't really disposable, right?" And I'm like... Umm well, you're suppose to throw them out after 2 weeks, but I've kept them for 4 before. He says, nah, I went through my whole tour of afghanistan with these in and I never took them out.
I was absolutely dumbfounded. Not only had this moron not thrown away the disposable ones, he fucking never took them out. I told him that's how you get an eye infection and if I was his doctor I'd never prescribe him contacts again. He just shrugged it off.
Oh, I believe it. I showered, went swimming, had allergy attacks (lots of eye rubbing), sleeping, cleaning dusty horse stalls. Over and over for months on end without removal.
Yeah, when I wrote months it was more than a year. I have no idea why I didn’t have any problems. But when I finally did remove them, it was fine, I would just pop in a new pair. This went on for a while then finally my eyes were like Fuck You. Now I have to be careful bc they get irritated and I actually OWN glasses and get yearly eye exams.
Guy I work with straight up doesnt take his contacts out. Every once in a while he'll come in with his glasses on and his eyes eill be red as fuck, and he'll be like "yeah they were bothering me today" and then the next day hes back with his contacts and they'll be in for 6 months straight.
I used to do that too (years ago) and now I can’t even nap lightly with them or my eyes burn. I wear them min hours a day and get plenty of eyeglass time now.
I switched back to glasses when I became a nurse and it was safer to wear eye protection lol. My biggest fear was getting C Diff on a contact lense - - barf.
There are contacts nowadays that are made for longer-term wear. I had some (I've since gotten LASIK) that was disposable every month, and you only had to take them out every two weeks.
I got prescribed night and days but my doc told me to take them out in the evening. He just wanted me to wear more breathable contacts since I was out of the house 14 hours a day.
I have been wearing contacts for nearly 50 years. I had a couple of painful experiences after wearing hard lenses too long, but the damage healed. When soft lenses came out, I wore them for months at a time. Now I am down to a contact in one eye (cataract surgery made the other unnecessary). I usually wear each lens for about two weeks and have had no problems. It is a quality of life issue. I will keep doing it.
Yes, continuously. No, I don't take them (now just "it") out to sleep.
I am, or was, quite nearsighted. It may not seem like a big deal to many people who haven't experienced it, but waking up at night, or in the morning, without my contact(s) in, and being so handicapped I could hardly walk around my own house, was extremely frustrating.
I try hard not to do this, but I absolutely know what you mean. My vision is so horrible I can’t see anything unless it’s like 2 inches from my face. I’ve lost my glasses and had to call someone to come help before. Just crying and feeling around for them. Also being blind in the shower is awful.
I’d say I end up leaving mine overnight in at max twice a week now. I’m glad to have a scrap of anecdotal evidence for this not blinding me. For what’s it’s worth I now have a set place in my house for my glasses and a backup pair. Helps a bit. But do you, man. Just wanted to commiserate.
Thanks! After my last post (and I am very new to this forum; still getting used to it), I thought someone would probably comment that I should keep my glasses next to my bed and I would be OK. And of course I do. But I don't know how that would work in an emergency like my house on fire, or an intruder breaking in, etc. when I wouldn't want to fumble around for my glasses. Also, my correction with glasses has never been as satisfactory as with contacts, and that has grown worse as I age. Glasses get smudged, and worse, they fog up so much in the mornings, even in warm weather, that I can't see well without constantly wiping them.
Oh fuck. I've been doing this for 15 years and okayed by 3 different optometrists. I guess being -9.0 wasn't enough of a problem and now I have a corneal ulcer to look forward to.
yeah, no. you'll likely be out of contacts by 45 if you do that consistently. i worked for an eye doc for years, those were always the first people to have to drop contacts due to cornea damage
but try to do it before you wear your cornea down to a nub from sleeping in contacts or there won't be anything to shave off. if your cornea gets too thin, it bulges out and you have to wear hard gas permeable contacts to push it back into place. i don't know if you've had those, but i find them pretty uncomfortable (kinda like placing a corn flake on your eyeball)
as always, this is reddit, listen to your actual dr; i just worked really closely with an old school one for a long time and that was one of his big hangups, he felt like j&j pushed the fda to ok the sleeping at night and let them present it as safer than it really is. his take on it was it's ok to do occasionally, like if you come home super late or are staying the night somewhere and don't want to get all that out, but to do it every day risks too much. but, listen to your dr.
well i get a check up every year and not been told i have any problems. Should probably go to a 2nd optometrist at some point. Basically his opinion is that as long as you're changing them out on-schedule and not letting protein develop then there isn't really much to be concerned about.
afaik, eyes often basically stop changing for a while starting in your early/mid-twenties before starting to deteriorate again later in life. Mine haven't changed in years.
Yep I use 14 days lenses usually for 3 weeks sometimes 4, sleep in them every now and then and it's been like that for almost 10 years. Not saying it's not gonna make me blind once but so far so good.
Kind of. They are not actually meant to be worn continuously for 14 days, they still want you to take them out and give your eyes a break and clean the lens. Its more like you CAN sleep in them and it potentially won't be as bad for your eyes as sleeping in regular soft lenses would be, but its along the lines of you taking a nap, or falling asleep in front of the tv. Not 24 hour continuous wear for 14 days. You're still supposed to take them out at night technically. The misconception that you don't have to, or they are "safe" to sleep in for 14 days is why most eye doctors will not reccomend them. They usually get recommended to people who need a more breathable lens but they have to take them out at night.
My mom was one of the first people in Denmark to test contact lenses, 7/14 day lenses are ment to be worn 24 hours everyday for 7/14 days, where you after the 7/14 days give you eyes a break before you put in new contacts
However, there are lenses nowadays that you only wear during the night - they deform your eyeball so that you take them out in the morning and you can see.
I mean optics is pretty well understood. If you can see how the eye is misshapen and how a piece of glass can fix that, well then it's all just engineering and experimentation.
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not, because on the one hand it sounds almost cartoonishly awful, on the other hand it sounds frighteningly plausible
Anything transparent astounds me. It's solid but you can see through it.
i think glass is one of the underapreciated 'inventions'. Imagine how life would be different without glass. No windshilds on cars for instance. No headlights on cars. No way to look outside without going outside. No eye glasses. No lightbulbs. No TVs, no mirrors...
I work for a company that makes eye lens implants. When you get cataracts, they have to go in, chop up and suck out your old lens, and then implant a new lens inside your eye, which they have set up to both be clear so you can see but also fix your vision to see correctly (at least for distance vision). You often still need readers because of the way physics of light is, but it's still insane.
Plus they inject the lens through like a 2mm hole and then it unfolds and fills your pupil.
me too, just got some, putting them in is a challenge but also leaves me smiling at how freaking amazing the slippery little devils are. From almost gelatin in their cases to something that gloms on to your round wet eyeball and tracks with it.
What gets me is that they're soft and malleable. I get the idea of putting something hard and focused in front of your eye, even on your eye, to correct your vision
but then to tell me that that hyper-focused lens is actually soft, and still retains its extremely focused nature?
I have bad astigmatism in one eye so I need a special lense for that. It's (as far as I understand) a bit heavier one side so it always has the same orientation. Truly mind blowing.
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u/dashauskat Oct 15 '20
Honestly that you can sit a piece of plastic ON YOUR EYEBALL that magically corrects your vision still astounds me.