Air Optix Aqua - Relax, You're Fine

Pudgefisk · #1 (**permalink**) 09-04-2008, 03:34 PM

There are probably lots of people who are exploring this site because they're thinking about getting contact lenses.

Hello out there.

Now for those of you who have worn contact lenses for years, can you please assure these nice people that nothing bad is going to happen when that Air Optix Aqua contact lens touches their eyeball?

pkim · #2 (**permalink**) 09-25-2008, 07:51 AM

what if..like i accidentally wore them in my sleep..and when i woke up. it's gone..?? T.T
i'm very worried..

Pudgefisk · #3 (**permalink**) 09-25-2008, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by pkim

what if..like i accidentally wore them in my sleep..and when i woke up. it's gone..?? T.T
i'm very worried..

Hi pkim.

Relax, you're fine.

Air Optix Aqua are 1-2 week contact lenses, which means that if you don't sleep in them, they'll last for two weeks. If you DO sleep in them, they'll only last a week, so for one, it's fine to sleep in these as long as you don't sleep in the same pair for more than six nights.

Secondly, if for some reason you woke up and your contacts were gone, they very probably fell out; because of the way your eyes and eye sockets were put together, it's completely 100% impossible for your contacts to go behind your eyes. The only way it could happen would be for your contacts to somehow get forced through the membrane that surrounds you eyes, and I doubt if you would sleep through that. They probably just fell out.

If you can't find your contacts on your pillow or someplace nearby, they may have worked their way under your eyelids, in which case a sympathetic friend or parent can help you find it and fish it out. Worst case scenario, you go to the Emergency Room and an eye doctor will probably get it out in about five minutes.

Feel better?

pkim · #4 (**permalink**) 09-25-2008, 06:22 PM

gee thanks so much... i was freaking out the whole day =.=
haha it's my first time with contact lenses...
i guess i'll look for them now
thank you so much (:

Pudgefisk · #5 (**permalink**) 09-26-2008, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by pkim

gee thanks so much... i was freaking out the whole day =.=
haha it's my first time with contact lenses...
I guess I'll look for them now
thank you so much (:

So this was not a theoretical question? You really did wake up with missing contacts?

I'm glad I could help ease your mind. That's why Lens 101 is here. If you have any more questions, please don't hesitate to log on.

Pudgefisk

Christine · #6 (**permalink**) 11-20-2008, 03:46 PM

I thought that I read on ciba.com that the air optix aqua lenses could be worn for up to 4 weeks, not continusuly.

you take them out and night and put them in solution.

anyone know anything about this??

Ryan · #7 (**permalink**) 12-11-2008, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Christine

I thought that I read on ciba.com that the air optix aqua lenses could be worn for up to 4 weeks, not continusuly.

you take them out and night and put them in solution.

anyone know anything about this??

It does say 4 weeks on their site.

I recently got these contacts, and my eye doctor told me I could wear them for 4 weeks. Maybe they improved the contacts for longer wear?