Do you sleep in your contacts?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:03 am

Hell no, but I've heard some people did sleep in daily (12 hour max) contacts and they were fine. There are monthly contacts available, that you wear all the time. The thing is, they are expensive and you need perfect eye health in order to wear them.

Post by **glossy** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:11 am

i can hardly stand my contacts when i'm awake

Post by **chiQ** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:25 am

I wear Bausch & Lomb PureVision lenses - you're meant to wear them day and night for 30 days and then chuck them. I take them out once a week or so for a soak, as my tears are high-protein, but for most people they're comfortable for the whole month.

If you want you can take them out every night. The extra-high oxygen permeability means they're comfortable however you use them.

They do suck if it's windy, as they're uncomfortable if you get something in your eye; worse than regular lenses, but most of the time they rock. I'll never go back to ordinary lenses.

Post by **Canidae** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:36 am

I stopped 6 years ago wearing contacts day and night and only taking them out to clean them every few weeks and my eyes got used to them. Only if they got torn cleaning would I put in a new one. The ones back then were not as thin as the current ones.

Post by **chiQ** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:56 am

Canidae wrote:I stopped 6 years ago wearing contacts day and night and only taking them out to clean them every few weeks and my eyes got used to them. Only if they got torn cleaning would I put in a new one. The ones back then were not as thin as the current ones.

Yeah you're not supposed to wear regular contacts day and night. Your eyes suffer from oxygen deprivation and that can do permanent harm, aside from risk of infection.

Post by **bitWISE** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:26 am

chiQ wrote:
Canidae wrote:I stopped 6 years ago wearing contacts day and night and only taking them out to clean them every few weeks and my eyes got used to them. Only if they got torn cleaning would I put in a new one. The ones back then were not as thin as the current ones.
Yeah you're not supposed to wear regular contacts day and night. Your eyes suffer from oxygen deprivation and that can do permanent harm, aside from risk of infection.

I can atest to that. I used to sleep in mine for months straight and now my eyes are pretty crappy. It took around a year for me to actually notice but now I have to wear high-breathing contacts and even then I can barely keep them in long. I get protein build-up pretty easily and sometimes my eyes will gloss over for no reason.

Post by **Grandpa Stu** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:58 am

i use daily contacts so i dont have to worry about cleaning or anything. i've slept in my contacts before but it's not something i regularly do. on the rare occasions that i do sleep in them i really don't notice much of a difference the next day, except for the first 20 mins or so from waking up.

Post by **MKJ** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:07 am

i dont. sometimes i fall asleep with them in and its a bitch to get them out then. itches like hell

Post by **SplishSplash** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:26 am

sometimes, but it doesn't feel good.

I have hard contacts, forgot the brand

Post by **mjrpes** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:27 am

I used to wear my contacts all the time when I was using the Accuvue originals. I would go a month or two before I took them out. Last spring I was forced to switch to Accuvue Advanced because my optometrist said the regulars were being phased out. The first night I wore accuvue advanced I woke up with the feeling that someone was stabbing my eyes with forks. I was forced at that point to take them out every night, and have done so to this day.

Funny thing, for a couple months after the switch my eyes had to "physically" adjust to the new contacts. I could not wear the new ones in for more than eight or so hours at a time before my vision became blurry and scattered. And I totally believed back then that the problem was with the new contacts, not my eyes being fucked up from wearing a different type of contact all the time for nine years. The worst when I was driving down to San Diego on vacation (without a backup pair of glasses, the idiot I am) and my vision became scattered and blurry while driving through the fucking San Gabriel mountains. I barely made it down there alive... in some places I was steering just based on the glob of scattered red light that I knew was the taillight of the car in front of me.

Post by **Ryoki** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:37 am

I always take them out when i go to sleep, lest i wake up in a very foggy (but strangely sharp) world of hurt.

PS mjerpes i have that 8 hour thing too. Always had that actually, i thought it was normal...

Post by **mjrpes** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:56 am

I can wear them for 18+ hours now. In fact, they only get bad if I am up very late and my eyes become dry because they think they're in sleep mode.

Post by **MKJ** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 10:02 am

Ryoki wrote: PS mjerpes i have that 8 hour thing too. Always had that actually, i thought it was normal...

word, me too.
sometimes it happens in the early morning even though. i put in my contact and its all a little bit blurry, like theres a tear stuck in the corner of my eye or summat

my remedy: take out the contact and wear glasses

Post by **Fender** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:33 pm

No. I sleep in my bed.

Post by **zewulf** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:03 pm

I still wear (and prefer) good old fashion glasses :icon32: In fact, that reminds me that I need to get a new pair, because I've had my current pair for 7 years now :icon30: I've never had contacts before. I just don't think I will ever like or get used to them. I thought about having LASIK surgery, but my eye sight is really screwed up (I have both myopia and astigmatism), so I don't think LASIK will totally fix it

Post by **chopov** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:09 pm

Kaziganthe wrote:Topic: Do you sleep in your contacts?

No but with them, at least with the female ones.... :icon26:

Post by **bitWISE** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:42 pm

I still wear these for up to a couple weeks straight. I never experience any pain I just take them out when they get too dirty to see through.

Those of you who have worn them for more than a day or two, would you agree with me that scratching your eyes afterwords is almost orgasmic?

Post by **seremtan** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:56 pm

my eyes used to belong to chuck norris so any contacts still in there at bedtime get roundhouse kicked into the little plastic holder thingy whether they like it or not

Post by **ScooterG** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:58 pm

bitWISE wrote:I still wear these for up to a couple weeks straight. I never experience any pain I just take them out when they get too dirty to see through.

Those of you who have worn them for more than a day or two, would you agree with me that scratching your eyes afterwords is almost orgasmic?

Yeah, 'cuz I'm so afraid to do it when they're in my eyes 'cuz they might crawl up in a little ball under my eyelid and that SUX!

Post by **Foo** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:34 pm

I don't get this.... In the UK there really aren't many contacts options that you are advised to wear overnight.. in fact in my experience D&A here in the UK don't carry any contacts that they will advise you can wear overnight.

Yet in the US it seems to be a more common thing to wear them overnight. But all the reading I've done indicates they're the exact same brands/types of contacts that we wear over here in the UK.

I don't get it. Are people in the US just taking a bigger risk or wha?

Post by **Ryoki** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:21 pm

Like a year ago i heard about these funky new lenses that you had to wear at night. They'd then work their magic whilst you are asleep, and when you take them out in the morning you'd have like 20/20 vision for the rest of the day...

Oh and i'm thinking of getting the laser thing done too, but someone recently told me some of bad things about that so i'm all doubtful about it.

Post by **Foo** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:36 pm

The point my optician made today (had an eye checkup today... they've got better \o/) is that laser eye surgery might be A-OK, but noone's yet made it to 70 years old who's had it. So there's no hard evidence of the long-term effects.

Post by **Jackal** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:41 pm

Must suck to not have rockingly perfect vision. 20/10 all of my life.

Post by **Foo** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:46 pm

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Post by **Jackal** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:48 pm

My visions so good I can literally SEE the nerd in you.

Do you sleep in your contacts?

aragha

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