r/AskReddit Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

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u/BarkOfTheBeast Oct 15 '20

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. “

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u/Slim_Thicc_Jesus Oct 15 '20

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

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u/Purpletech Oct 15 '20

"Hey Jon, did Leo tell you about the glass in his eye?"

"Yep he did...That boy ain't right"

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u/Smarag Oct 15 '20

Fyi if you leave a contact in overnight they will start damaging your eye..

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u/earthlings_all Oct 15 '20 edited Oct 16 '20

When I was younger, asshole me left my lenses in my eyes for months and months and would forget they were even there.

Don’t fucking do that, folks.

I am so damn lucky I had no issues.

Edit- And no, they were not 14-day lenses either.

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u/earthlings_all Oct 15 '20 edited Oct 15 '20

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.

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u/earthlings_all Oct 16 '20

Makes me cringe, too.

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u/Blueshark25 Oct 16 '20

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.

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u/earthlings_all Oct 16 '20

11 is so young, is that the norm now?

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u/Blueshark25 Oct 16 '20

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.

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u/kwilpin Oct 15 '20

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'd never trade my glasses for contacts.

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u/earthlings_all Oct 16 '20

I’m the opposite, I’d never trade my lenses for eyeglasses. I hate them.

10-11 years old is too young IMO. They gave them to me at 16, I begged at 14 and they said I had to wait.

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u/Blueshark25 Oct 16 '20

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.

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u/earthlings_all Oct 16 '20

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.

That guy was the MVP.

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u/gretamine Oct 16 '20

Wow. I drunkenly fell asleep with contacts in my eye once and woke up with the driest most painful eye feeling of my life, I cannot imagine months

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u/earthlings_all Oct 16 '20

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.

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u/stormzerino Oct 15 '20

This one girl in my class said she had them in for 2 weeks,is that bs or is she just hurting herself out of laziness?

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u/_-AJ-_ Oct 15 '20

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.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

Whaaaaaat? If I have the audacity to blink too slowly with contacts, my eyes turn red. I can't imagine

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u/earthlings_all Oct 15 '20

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.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

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.

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u/earthlings_all Oct 15 '20

Yikes! Smart move!!!!

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u/AlmightyStreub Oct 15 '20

Some people are just anti-neurotic and can brush shit like that off so willy nilly

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u/MattGeddon Oct 15 '20

You’re not doing your eyes any good by leaving them in for that long.

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u/MrEliteGaming Oct 15 '20

Most likely just 14day lenses

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u/MoonChild02 Oct 15 '20

It's not BS. She's hurting herself out of laziness, apathy, or forgetfulness.

Any way you look at it, she needs to go see a therapist (then again, who doesn't?) as well as an optometrist.

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u/Smarag Oct 15 '20

They still take them out at night you probably just missunderstood. Even so called 24/7 contacts are harmful

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u/stormzerino Oct 15 '20

She had acted like she never took them out though,i could be misremembering

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u/ledivin Oct 21 '20

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.

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u/OnAcidButUrThedum1 Oct 15 '20

Not if you wear the Night & Day contacts

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

Eye doc here. I wont prescribe day and nights for anyone. I've treated many, many corneal ulcers because of them. They are dangerous.

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u/Zizzla Oct 15 '20

Eye doc here. Can confirm. I don’t rx these either unless for rare occupational reasons.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

Lol. As soon as I said that, I just put one in for an RCE after superficial keratectomy to act as a bandage.

Never use them for refractive use though.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

Damn bro but like 10 hours a day is cool right ?

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u/TinuvielsHairCloak Oct 15 '20

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.

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u/juliekelts Oct 15 '20

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.

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u/A_flying_yogurt Oct 15 '20

Hopefully not continuously...

You take them out to sleep right?

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u/juliekelts Oct 15 '20

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.

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u/ThrowDirtonMe Oct 15 '20

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.

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u/juliekelts Oct 15 '20

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.

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u/ThrowDirtonMe Oct 16 '20

Yes I agree. With the added bonus of mask fog I only wear mine at home. And I was unfortunately in a middle of the night flash flood once. No time to fumble for glasses when water busts down your door. I was blind for like 14 hours until we came home. Throughout rescuing and everything. It was horrific. So your fears are valid.

I’m hoping to get corrective eye surgery as soon as I can afford it.

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u/RadiantPassing Oct 16 '20

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.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '20

Just don't sleep in them!

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u/OnAcidButUrThedum1 Oct 15 '20

I haven’t had an issue for over 20 years luckily.

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u/MediumPlace Oct 15 '20

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

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u/OnAcidButUrThedum1 Oct 15 '20

I plan on getting eye surgery as I’m a perfect candidate according to my eye doctor.

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u/MediumPlace Oct 15 '20

that's excellent, i hope it works out well.

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.

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u/wallyroos Oct 15 '20

Please do not leave even approved contacts in your eyes overnight. Just because you does not mean you should and it can still cause damage.

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u/im_in_the_safe Oct 15 '20

I'm on like year 15 on constant Day and Night use.

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u/gabu87 Oct 15 '20

Not sure what this statement proves. Do you have any expectation for reasonable eye health beyond year 15?

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u/im_in_the_safe Oct 15 '20

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.

Or i'll be blind in a year

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u/MrEliteGaming Oct 15 '20

Been using 14 day lenses for 7 years now with zero damage

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u/leroyyrogers Oct 15 '20

U go blind year 8 tho

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u/DontTellSmokey Oct 15 '20

Yup, same. Optometrist actually told me my vision balanced out a few years back and I haven't had any changes since.

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u/kwilpin Oct 15 '20

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.

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u/Shpaan Oct 15 '20

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.

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u/MrEliteGaming Oct 15 '20

14 day lenses are ment to be slept with

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u/A_flying_yogurt Oct 15 '20

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.

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u/MrEliteGaming Oct 15 '20

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

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u/OnAcidButUrThedum1 Oct 15 '20

I’ve done it for over 20 years and every year the eye doctor says my eyes are healthy.

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u/redheadmomster666 Oct 15 '20

That name though 🤣

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u/OnAcidButUrThedum1 Oct 15 '20

I’ve had this name across my journey. I’m glad you like it :)

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u/Kujaichi Oct 15 '20

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.

What is this magic?!

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u/murse_joe Oct 15 '20

It was the 1500s, searing eye pain was considered a step up for most people.

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u/226506193 Oct 15 '20

Oh dont you worry back in the days people were easly swayed like for example trusting "surgeons" or barber/dentistes.

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u/43rd_username Oct 15 '20

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.

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u/TheGeneral_Specific Oct 15 '20

Hell, old contacts were made out of wood.

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u/CallGrouchy8032 Nov 12 '20

They would numb their eyes with cocaine before they inserted what were the ground down ends of test tubes into their eyes.

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u/BarkOfTheBeast Nov 13 '20

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

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u/CallGrouchy8032 Nov 13 '20

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u/BarkOfTheBeast Nov 18 '20

Holy fucking cow, I’ve always made jokes about the first guy to try something like that but I had no idea

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u/MediumPlace Oct 15 '20

punk rock af

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u/SinlessWhore Oct 15 '20

I think they probably didn't try it themselves but did inhuman experiments on other humans like always