Author Topic: Contacts (Read 12637 times)

DQ12 · « **on:** January 31, 2013, 02:05:11 PM »

Hey guys, Dlew12 here. Got contact lenses today. I have kind of small eye openings and it took me prolly an hour to get them in the first time. It was a pretty miserable experience. Eyes watering everywhere.

Will it get better or is this whole little project doomed to fail? Can't spend an hour every morning shoving these damn things in my face. Some one tell me it's all going to be okay.

steve dave · « **Reply #1 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:07:17 PM »

hey dlew, steve dave here. how are things with you? I got contacts last year for the first time. at first it sucked and I was awful at getting them into and out of my eyes. I also was convinced about 5 times that the contact was in the back of my eye and lost but it probably just fell out or something. now I am good at it and it is very pud. you will be happy you got them once you get the hang of them.

steve dave · « **Reply #2 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:07:59 PM »

also one time my eye hurt and entire day and turned bright red and it turns out my contact was folded in half all day. that sucks, but doesn't happen now.

DQ12 · « **Reply #3 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:09:36 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on January 31, 2013, 02:07:17 PM

hey dlew, steve dave here. how are things with you? I got contacts last year for the first time. at first it sucked and I was awful at getting them into and out of my eyes. I also was convinced about 5 times that the contact was in the back of my eye and lost but it probably just fell out or something. now I am good at it and it is very pud. you will be happy you got them once you get the hang of them.

what a relief. this is basically the exact response i was hoping for. thanks.

nobody else needs to say anything and mods can lock the thread if they feel like. if they don't want to they don't have to. Either way, really.

Emo EMAW · « **Reply #4 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:10:14 PM »

Hey dlew. Did you ever ask yourself when they put those wires between all the telephone poles?

bubbles4ksu · « **Reply #5 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:10:54 PM »

i had contacts for a while. it was very hard to get them in and never got easier. also no one ever complemented me on them. instead people asked why i blinked so much. you will be very happy when you give them up and stick with a nice pair of spectacles.

Cire · « **Reply #6 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:10:54 PM »

Make sure it's not inside out.

DQ12 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:13:23 PM »

Quote from: bubbles4ksu on January 31, 2013, 02:10:54 PM

i had contacts for a while. it was very hard to get them in and never got easier. also no one ever complemented me on them. instead people asked why i blinked so much. you will be very happy when you give them up and stick with a nice pair of spectacles.

lol

yeah okay, dr. tyler hughes.

Quote from: Emo EMAW on January 31, 2013, 02:10:14 PM

Hey dlew. Did you ever ask yourself when they put those wires between all the telephone poles?

i don't really know what you're getting at, but on a related note, i was talking about telephone wire installation with my dad over break and i told him that i think universal wireless internet will be our generation's telephone wire installation.

Emo EMAW · « **Reply #8 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:16:30 PM »

Well one time a friend of mine got glasses and on the way home he asked "hey when did they string those wires up on the telephone poles?" He could never see the wires before.

DQ12 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:17:27 PM »

oh.

well i could pretty much always see those. my eyes weren't ever that bad. just have a hard time seeing this far away.

ben ji · « **Reply #10 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:17:51 PM »

Hey Dlew!

I've had contacts since 7th grade and although it looks like our good friend Steven David already answered your first question i am confident you will have ALOT more.

Once your eyes get used to contacts I would recommend getting the disposable contacts that you can sleep in and last 30 days. I've been rocking these since college and most of the time I forget I even have them in! After a while they can get pretty dry in the mornings so I usually take them out about once a week and wear glasses for the day.

If you have any other questions let us know!

DQ12 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:20:15 PM »

I got the daily disposables. Seems like that is going to be the most convenient way once i learn to get the damn things in my eyes. The learning curve could be pretty steep, but hey, that's life. That's life.

mocat · « **Reply #12 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:24:21 PM »

I pretty much never ever take my contacts out. Probably the weirdest thing about me actually. I will wear a single pair of contact lenses for pretty much ever, or until they get really unbearable. I have really great lenses though and I am used to wearing them.

bubbles4ksu · « **Reply #13 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:25:54 PM »

Quote from: Dlew12 on January 31, 2013, 02:13:23 PM

Quote from: bubbles4ksu on January 31, 2013, 02:10:54 PM
i had contacts for a while. it was very hard to get them in and never got easier. also no one ever complemented me on them. instead people asked why i blinked so much. you will be very happy when you give them up and stick with a nice pair of spectacles.
lol

yeah okay, dr. tyler hughes.

all of our friends think it sucks when you get cocky on gE.com

DQ12 · « **Reply #14 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:28:29 PM »

Quote from: bubbles4ksu on January 31, 2013, 02:25:54 PM

Quote from: Dlew12 on January 31, 2013, 02:13:23 PM
Quote from: bubbles4ksu on January 31, 2013, 02:10:54 PM
i had contacts for a while. it was very hard to get them in and never got easier. also no one ever complemented me on them. instead people asked why i blinked so much. you will be very happy when you give them up and stick with a nice pair of spectacles.
lol

yeah okay, dr. tyler hughes.

all of our friends think it sucks when you get cocky on gE.com

i would've said that exact same thing to you in person (except i wouldn't have called you "Dr. T-H") and you would've thought it was pretty darn funny.

The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep · « **Reply #15 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:29:23 PM »

Hey Dlew, KKK here.

Did you ever consider transition lenses instead of contacts? PM me if you need a recommendo.

pissclams · « **Reply #16 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:29:47 PM »

must suck to have such poor genes. oh well.

Emo EMAW · « **Reply #17 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:31:17 PM »

Good thing is if dlew can't figure them out he could probably just get these sweet Google glasses!

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2013/01/googles-project-glass-is-ready-but-for-developers-eyes-only/

bubbles4ksu · « **Reply #18 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:31:56 PM »

Quote from: Dlew12 on January 31, 2013, 02:28:29 PM

Quote from: bubbles4ksu on January 31, 2013, 02:25:54 PM
Quote from: Dlew12 on January 31, 2013, 02:13:23 PM
Quote from: bubbles4ksu on January 31, 2013, 02:10:54 PM
i had contacts for a while. it was very hard to get them in and never got easier. also no one ever complemented me on them. instead people asked why i blinked so much. you will be very happy when you give them up and stick with a nice pair of spectacles.
lol
yeah okay, dr. tyler hughes.
all of our friends think it sucks when you get cocky on gE.com
i would've said that exact same thing to you in person (except i wouldn't have called you "Dr. T-H") and you would've thought it was pretty darn funny.

o i totally knew it was coming, i just like the joke that much. nothing worse than being a Dr. tyler hughes.

Mikeyis4dcats · « **Reply #19 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:32:59 PM »

I used to wear some contacts that I liked a lot. Then they quit making them, so I had to switch. The new ones suck. I've got to go get something different this time.

DQ12 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:33:41 PM »

Quote from: bubbles4ksu on January 31, 2013, 02:31:56 PM

o i totally knew it was coming, i just like the joke that much. nothing worse than being a Dr. tyler hughes.

best to say it to joelcat, though.

Quote from: Kelly Klarkson Kreep on January 31, 2013, 02:29:23 PM

Hey Dlew, KKK here.

Did you ever consider transition lenses instead of contacts? PM me if you need a recommendo.

i forgot about those things.

The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep · « **Reply #21 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:36:47 PM »

I have never used daily contacts but I know I was frustrated the first few times I put them in and they definitely felt weird. I have sleepable contacts now, though. So I probably only put contacts in maybe 5 or 6 times a month...

Never knew you had bad eyes, Dlew. Thought those were reading glasses

steve dave · « **Reply #22 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:39:28 PM »

Quote from: Dlew12 on January 31, 2013, 02:20:15 PM

I got the daily disposables. Seems like that is going to be the most convenient way once i learn to get the damn things in my eyes. The learning curve could be pretty steep, but hey, that's life. That's life.

I also use daily disposables. if you go swimming or hiking or other things and one gets knocked out of your eye it's no big whoop. just throw in another one back at the hotel room since you brought like 15 extras. and losing 10 or 12 isn't going to really set you back like monthlys would.

DQ12 · « **Reply #23 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:43:07 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on January 31, 2013, 02:39:28 PM

Quote from: Dlew12 on January 31, 2013, 02:20:15 PM
I got the daily disposables. Seems like that is going to be the most convenient way once i learn to get the damn things in my eyes. The learning curve could be pretty steep, but hey, that's life. That's life.

I also use daily disposables. if you go swimming or hiking or other things and one gets knocked out of your eye it's no big whoop. just throw in another one back at the hotel room since you brought like 15 extras. and losing 10 or 12 isn't going to really set you back like monthlys would.

oh yeah. hiking was pretty much the number 1 factor in my contact selection.

steve dave · « **Reply #24 on:** January 31, 2013, 02:45:51 PM »

Quote from: Dlew12 on January 31, 2013, 02:43:07 PM

Quote from: steve dave on January 31, 2013, 02:39:28 PM
Quote from: Dlew12 on January 31, 2013, 02:20:15 PM
I got the daily disposables. Seems like that is going to be the most convenient way once i learn to get the damn things in my eyes. The learning curve could be pretty steep, but hey, that's life. That's life.

I also use daily disposables. if you go swimming or hiking or other things and one gets knocked out of your eye it's no big whoop. just throw in another one back at the hotel room since you brought like 15 extras. and losing 10 or 12 isn't going to really set you back like monthlys would.
oh yeah. hiking was pretty much the number 1 factor in my contact selection.

I only bring that up because during the first week of me having contacts I was hiking and one fell out and not a single eff was given.