Hello Sevateem1

In Hamburg Thursday morning about -10 deg C, but it has warmed to about -4.5 Deg C now. Expect to get a dump of snow (like the UK) on Saturday. But much colder in the south of Germany at present I think.

Re the time to suppress the eye closure reaction, it's about 33-35 years since I started wearing soft lenses and I started with hard lenses 2 years before so I cannot remember. But I think the getting used to the hard lenses in my eye took much longer than the actual putting them into my eye - so maybe 2-4 weeks would see a much reduced reflexive eye closure reaction I think.

I always used the pinch the lens in the middle of the cornea method and never used the side slide.

However, this week I had an appointment for RGP lenses and asked the optician about my Biofinity lenses, which I seemed to damage on their perimeter relatively easily. She said it was because I was pinching the lens off the cornea and if the lens was dryish (say after 17 hours wear) then I would crease the lens and that would lead to damage. I could add some lens solution or saline drops to moisten the lens before removing it and that would reduce damage.

She was to show me an alternative method to remove the soft lenses, but I was asking so many questions about lenses generally, she slung me out as there was another patient waiting. So will ask next week when I go for the fitting. It may be the sliding to the side method, but I'm not sure this will stop creasing.

knotlob