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Trouble Removing Daily Disposable Contacts

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Old 05-07-2008, 04:01 PM
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Default Trouble Removing Daily Disposable Contacts

I read an interesting post by a guy who had worn contact lenses for years (He didn't specify which kind.) and then switched to daily disposable contacts. He said that he had a lot of difficulty removing the dailies, probably because they were so thin.

Anyone else here a veteran contact lens wearer that had trouble with daily disposable contacts?
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Old 05-23-2008, 08:24 AM
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I hate sticking my finger in my eye!
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Old 05-27-2008, 05:54 PM
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i do too! try rubbing them into the corners and they should be grippable.
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Old 04-28-2009, 03:28 PM
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Default Trouble Removing Daily Disposable Contacts

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i do too! try rubbing them into the corners and they should be grippable.
By "corners" do you mean the sides of your eyes, as in by your nose? That would make sense. Thanks for the tip, ebonyeyez. Did you get your name from that song by Bob Welch in the seventies? That's the song that's stuck in my head right now.
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Old 04-30-2009, 11:44 AM
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I've tried moving mine to the side of my eye before and then lost the things behind my eyeball. I HATE when that happens. It's so... creepy.
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Old 04-30-2009, 01:08 PM
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I've tried moving mine to the side of my eye before and then lost the things behind my eyeball. I HATE when that happens. It's so... creepy.
I hate to go all Corrector Person on you, SLTE, but it's not possible for your contacts to literally go "behind your eyeball." You can get them in there pretty deep, but there's a membrane that keeps you from losing things behind your eyes.

I just don't want some newbie thinking about getting contacts for the first time and going "I read that post on Lens 101 where that guy lost his contact lens behind his eye. I don't want that to happen to me! I'm not getting contacts!"
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Old 05-02-2009, 11:11 AM
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I hate sticking my finger in my eye!
I really think that is the hardest thing for me to get used to. It doesn't matter if I wear dailies or regular lens, it is always difficult for the first couple of seconds to put my finger in my eye. After the first try it is usually easier
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Old 05-12-2009, 11:51 AM
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Default Trouble Removing Daily Disposable Contacts

Five answers to my question. That's great. Thanks a lot everybody. I think we got off on a bit of a tangent, though. My question was about switching to daily disposables after wearing something else for a while first. Has anyone here gone to daily disposables?
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Old 04-11-2010, 11:14 AM
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I read an interesting post by a guy who had worn contact lenses for years (He didn't specify which kind.) and then switched to daily disposable contacts. He said that he had a lot of difficulty removing the dailies, probably because they were so thin.

Anyone else here a veteran contact lens wearer that had trouble with daily disposable contacts?
Well I am a veteran of vial/yearly soft contact lenses and although I don't wear daily lenses, I have worn them for a 10 week period.

The biggest difference I found was in putting them into my eye. I like to put a couple of drops of lens solution onto the lens before insertion, but sometimes they are so flexible/thin that they fold in on themselves.

I never had any problems removing them though. Just a simple pinch the lens off the cornea technique.

Some of the monthly disposable lenses can be thinner than dailies. It also depends on the flexibility/modulus of the lens.

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Old 04-12-2010, 01:22 PM
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The biggest difference I found was in putting them into my eye. I like to put a couple of drops of lens solution onto the lens before insertion, but sometimes they are so flexible/thin that they fold in on themselves.

knotlob
What do you mean by "lens solution." Not the stuff you clean your lenses with, right?
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What do you mean by "lens solution." Not the stuff you clean your lenses with, right?
Well not Clear Care or the self made up Hydrogen Peroxide solution of course. But I would normally use a peroxide neutralising solution or perhaps saline solution from the optician.

(Now that I am using RGP lenses I would use the Multi Purpose Disinfecting Solution as an alternative, or maybe Eye Wetting Drops, but these are relatively expensive).

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Well not Clear Care or the self made up Hydrogen Peroxide solution of course. But I would normally use a peroxide neutralising solution or perhaps saline solution from the optician.

(Now that I am using RGP lenses I would use the Multi Purpose Disinfecting Solution as an alternative, or maybe Eye Wetting Drops, but these are relatively expensive).

knotlob
You said earlier that "I like to put a couple of drops of lens solution onto the lens before insertion."

So you like to put a couple of drops of peroxide neutralizing solution onto the lens before insertion? Is that what you mean? Or have you stopped doing that and you now use Multi-Purpose solution with your RGP contacts?
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Old 04-12-2010, 05:23 PM
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You said earlier that "I like to put a couple of drops of lens solution onto the lens before insertion."

So you like to put a couple of drops of peroxide neutralizing solution onto the lens before insertion? Is that what you mean? Or have you stopped doing that and you now use Multi-Purpose solution with your RGP contacts?
Yes. When I wear soft lenses (Monthly or Daily), I use a Peroxide cleaning regime and when I insert these lenses, I place a couple of drops of neutralising solution onto the lens (after it has been neutralised of course) just as I put the lens into my eye. I ensures the lens is wet enough. I sometimes wear the Daily or Monthly lens if I am going to be in a very dry atmosphere where the RGP may irritate, or possibly go swimming as I don't want to loose the small diameter RGP lenses.

When I use RGP lenses I am using the Multi Purpose Solution (MPS) directly onto the lens. I have also used a Peroxide Cleaning system and neutraliser solution with these lenses and followed the same method, but the peroxide cleaning method tends to make the lens a little uncomfortable after time, as it lacks the wetting agent of the MPS.

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Old 04-12-2010, 05:59 PM
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Yes. When I wear soft lenses (Monthly or Daily), I use a Peroxide cleaning regime and when I insert these lenses, I place a couple of drops of neutralising solution onto the lens (after it has been neutralised of course) just as I put the lens into my eye. I ensures the lens is wet enough. I sometimes wear the Daily or Monthly lens if I am going to be in a very dry atmosphere where the RGP may irritate, or possibly go swimming as I don't want to loose the small diameter RGP lenses.

When I use RGP lenses I am using the Multi Purpose Solution (MPS) directly onto the lens. I have also used a Peroxide Cleaning system and neutraliser solution with these lenses and followed the same method, but the peroxide cleaning method tends to make the lens a little uncomfortable after time, as it lacks the wetting agent of the MPS.

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Wow, I didn't know you could put that stuff right in your eyes. That's quite interesting.
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Old 04-13-2010, 05:46 AM
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Wow, I didn't know you could put that stuff right in your eyes. That's quite interesting.
Well I can, but others may or may not have issues - depends on eye sensitivity.

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I hate to go all Corrector Person on you, SLTE, but it's not possible for your contacts to literally go "behind your eyeball." You can get them in there pretty deep, but there's a membrane that keeps you from losing things behind your eyes.

I just don't want some newbie thinking about getting contacts for the first time and going "I read that post on Lens 101 where that guy lost his contact lens behind his eye. I don't want that to happen to me! I'm not getting contacts!"
Bensica's right. The conjunctiva will prevent a contact lens from going behind your eyeball. See how at the bottom of the picture here if forms a kind of "pocket"?
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Bensica's right. The conjunctiva will prevent a contact lens from going behind your eyeball. See how at the bottom of the picture here if forms a kind of "pocket"?
Looking at this picture makes me wonder. Do contact lenses stay in place because of your eyelids, or because of surface tension in your tear layer? That's the same surface tension that keep those bugs from getting wet when the creep across the water, right?
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Looking at this picture makes me wonder. Do contact lenses stay in place because of your eyelids, or because of surface tension in your tear layer? That's the same surface tension that keep those bugs from getting wet when the creep across the water, right?
Contact lenses generally will not fall out of the eye, due to tear film surface tension, unless they become dry of course.

The lenses tend to self centre if fitted correctly, but they move when you blink, so the eye lids move the lens. This is OK, as the movement of the lens helps to change/pump the tear film and provide fresh oxygen to the cornea.

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Old 04-26-2010, 05:09 PM
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I hate sticking my finger in my eye!
Interesting statement on a site called "Lens 101." Do you wear contact lenses, pheinbaugh2?
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Contact lenses generally will not fall out of the eye, due to tear film surface tension, unless they become dry of course.

The lenses tend to self centre if fitted correctly, but they move when you blink, so the eye lids move the lens. This is OK, as the movement of the lens helps to change/pump the tear film and provide fresh oxygen to the cornea.

knotlob
Thanks Knotlob. So it's surface tension that keeps contact lenses in then. So if your eyes are dry, will the lenses tend to fall out more easily?
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Thanks Knotlob. So it's surface tension that keeps contact lenses in then. So if your eyes are dry, will the lenses tend to fall out more easily?
Yes, I have occasionally had yearly lenses fall out in a dry office environment. A rare event, but it occasionally happens.

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Bensica's right. The conjunctiva will prevent a contact lens from going behind your eyeball. See how at the bottom of the picture here if forms a kind of "pocket"?
Look, it even shows the orbicularis oculi!
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Look, it even shows the orbicularis oculi!
Why, yes it does, Teddi. You're right.
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Old 09-08-2010, 05:30 PM
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Yes, I have occasionally had yearly lenses fall out in a dry office environment. A rare event, but it occasionally happens.

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I thought so. Thank you knotlob.
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Look, it even shows the orbicularis oculi!
In case you're wondering, the orbicularis oculi is a muscle in the face that closes the eyelids. Here's a picture of the nearby structures. "Grays Anatomy" was around long before the TV show came on.
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I hate sticking my finger in my eye!
That's an interesting comment on a forum about contact lenses. So I take it you don't wear contacts then, pheinbaugh2?
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