Contact Lenses: You've Gotta Try Em'

You’ve Gotta To Try Em’

Areyou blind as a bat but still want to drive? Are you tired of lame face fur niture always cramping your style? Is having to wear big, bulky glasses ruining sports or always getting in the way of solving myster ies with your friends? Well then you need pre scription contact lenses!

With these bad boys you can have all the benefits of glasses without having to wear any. The lenses’ sleek design allows you to put them directly on your eyes and wear with all day comfort. And when its time for a fresh pair simply throw the old ones away and pop on some new ones. It’s like getting a new pair of eyes every month. So what’ya say, let’s investigate the process of getting you those new eyes!

Youwill need to go to your eye doctor and request contact lenses. If you hav en’t been into your doctor for a while you may need to update your prescription. My advice when they ask you “one or two?” for the twen tieth time say “three” just to make sure they’re listening. Once that’s taken care of its time for the install.

Find your box of contacts. Select how many contacts you will need. Sometimes you may only need one if you had lost the other one ap plying it, the wind blew it away, or if it somehow disappeared in your eye. It happens. Break open the contact container and find the lens. It may look as if you’ve been jipped but be assured the contact is in there somewhere.

found, rather than sticking the contact straight into your eye it’d be a good idea to wash it and moisturize it with some contact solution. There’s nothing that says putting a brand-new contact straight in your eye is a bad thing but, from personal experience it tends to make the process less painful. But you decide.

Now the fun part. Putting the little guy in your eye! If this is a first time for you or just a refresher the steps are the same, but the speed in which you do them varies.

STEP 1

Pinch the contact between your index and thumb of your dominant hand and take it out of the solution pond you’ve created to moisturize the contact in your non-dominant hand.

STEP 2

Position the contact on the tip of your index finger. The contact should look like a bowl.

STEP 3

Make sure the contact is on the correct side. Yes, there is a proper side and a non-proper side to each contact. If the contact is on the correct side the edges of the contact will bend slightly inward. If the contact lens is on the incorrect side the edges will bend outwards toward your finger. If the lens is positioned incorrectly, simply invert the lens. Do so gently to avoid tearing. . . . .

If you are still unsure whether the lens is position properly, placing it in the eye will help you know quickly if its right or not. Re fer to Step 4. Putting the lens in incorrectly will not damage the contact or your eye. Though you will most likely feel slight discomfort, a light scraping sensation, or feel the lens sliding over the surface of the eye. All of which sound awful. When the lens is correctly positioned it will settle over the pupil and is usually comfortable enough that you don’t notice it. Aw like a glove.

STEP 4

Placing the lens on the eye. This is where it gets tricky. Our eyes are very sensi tive and are normally great at making sure things don’t get in them. The body’s initial reaction will be to close the eye. Opening your eye as wide as possible will help curve this reaction. It is also highly recommended you use a mirror. Do your best to be soft and slow as you get closer to touching the lens to the eye. Once you make contact gently move your finger over the lens to make sure it is on your eye.

STEP 5

Fifth, blink and ensure the lens is positioned correctly. If there is extreme dis comfort there may be several issues such as the lens is on the incorrect side, the lens may have folded on itself, or sometimes upper or lower eyelashes get trapped and can irritate the eye. (More like acupuncture) Any number of things could cause initial discomfort. To resolve this, take the lens out and try again.

STEP 6

Taking the lens out. Like putting the lenses in, use a mirror. Open your eye as wide as possible and use slow, gentle movements to pinch the lens with your index finger and thumb. Lenses are very slippery so you may have to put a little pressure on your eye to secure it. Once out trouble shoot what could be caus ing the discomfort. Often applying more contact solution to the lens immediate ly before placing it in the eye helps with most discomfort.

STEP 7

Practice. The more you practice putting contact lenses in the faster and more comfortable you will get using them.

Andthere you have it! Your new eyes are in business. So the next time you forget your glasses at home and run over the neighbor’s cat thinking it was a tumble weed just remember you’ve got contacts now.