Im 13 And Just Got Contacts And Cant Get Them In!?
February 13, 2010 by admin
Filed under FAQ on advance for astigmatism
So i went to the eye doctors and got fitted for contacts, or whatever they call it.
so they made me go through a little how-to course. When it came time to put the contacts in, i got pretty excited. i wasn’t expecting to get them in on my first try… but in the hour i was there, i couldn’t get them in at all. i couldn’t even get one in. my eye started turning red and every time i put my finger near my eye i would blink and the contact would fold up. i just COULDN’T get it onto my eye no matter how many times i tried. i have a small amount of astigmatism (sp?) in my right eye, but the doctor said that i didnt need special contacts for that. could it be the reason i couldn’t get the contact in?
what was your first attempt at contacts like?
im scared ill never be able to put them in. i left the office crying because i was just so determined to get it in.
please share some advice/knowledge?
thanks
–Ellz
I had this same problem. It sucks. what you need to is wash your hands. sit down and RELAX! if you don’t your never going to get them in your eye. then if you write with your left hand start with your right or vise virsa. Tilt you head back a bit. pull you lower lid and upper lid up and gently place the contact in your eye while looking up and push slightly. then close your eye and open and ta-la! yeah it will sting at first but it will gradually fade. and it will take like a week to get used to.
-hope this helps
i got my contacts in third grade and in 12 now and i still have that problem. make sure you hand is not that wet and make sure your eyelashes are out of the way
I got my contacts 3 years ago..and that SAME thing happened to me. Relax & give your eyes a breather…don’t worry!
try putting the contact a little bit further down on your finger. i would always put it too close to the tip so it would fold.
what i did was i sat on my counter and pretty much had my face up to the mirror. make sure with your other fingers on your other hand are used to keep your eyebrows up and eyelashed up out of the way. pin back your hair so you aren’t concentrating on that getting in your way.
honestly, don’t think about it. just put it in. or try to put it in the side of your eye for right now, then close your eye and blink a few times and it’ll move to the middle of your eye.
oh & if you’re doing it over the sink, put a towl or something over it, so when your contact falls out of your hands (like it will…at some point =) ) it will fall onto the tow and you can find it, clean it and use it….not lose it and find it hardened up the next day!
make sure you keep on rewetting it…because it could get too dry in your hand.
GOOD LUCK!
and remember, RELAX.
you open your top eyelid with your index finger. (left) and the bottom eyeid with the third finger. stretch the eye so its nice and big,(big circle) then place the contact on your index finger. look straight ahead, and place it into your eye. (make sure the curve matches the curve of the eye. then hold the ye for a whiele open until the contact clicks to the eye like a magnet kinda, then close your eye
It helps a lot for the contact to go on your eye smoothly, if you put a fresh drop of wetting solution in the cup of the contact, before each attempt. It’s also good to begin by putting a couple drops of artificial tears (the kind for contacts) in each eye before you start. Everything works better for contacts when it is wet!
It also helps to keep breathing normally. A lot of people stop breathing, or even hold their breath when they tense up, and most people will tense up trying to put anything near their own eye. Breathing slowly and deeply helps to counteract this tendency to tense up. I find it is easiest to hum a little tune when I do this, to let my ears check that I am inhaling and exhaling the whole time. Really cuts down on hand shaking and overall nervousness.
I also find that it is easiest to use my opposite hand to hold my eyelid open, and the hand on the same side as the eye I’m doing, to put my contacts in, or take them out. Don’t try to hold your eye open with the same hand that you are using to insert or remove your contact lens.
Mirrors don’t really help, although you may want to have one handy to find lenses that “wander off” into the whites of your eyes, while you are new to contacts.
I got my contacts around your age too, and although it was really easy for me to put my contact in, taking it out was so hard for me. My agstigmatism in both eyes are really insignificant , so I don’t need special contacts for my eyes.
But the thing is, I think you should just practice more in front of the mirror without actually having the contacts there and not actually touching your eyes. Just practice the notion of holding your eyes open, and using the index finger to insert the contact.
Make sure to wash your hands before having your hands go near your eyes, just to keep the bacterias to a minimum, that could be one of the reason why your eyes turned red.
If your doctor said that you don’t need special contacts then he’s probably right, as obviously said I have a slight agstimatism also, and I get mine in just fine with ALOT of patience and practice lol.
Just keep practicing, look up videos of how you can put in your contacts and take them out.
Here is the link to a video of how to put in your contacts and take it out:
http://www.acuvue.com/getstarted/