The Energon Pub

[Neko]

Yesterday (saturday) My mom took me to Lensecrafters and I got contacts. I use to wear glasses and have had them since 7th grade.

It took me roughly 30 minutes to finally get them in and then they wanted me to take them out and put them back in to see that I could (I was at the edge of tears). I never realized how painful it is getting use to wearing contacts is. Stretching your eye lids open over and over trying to get the darn lense in leaves my eye lids red and stinging. It's especial hard for me because I had very thick long eye lashes so it's difficult to get a good hold of them.

And for the first day or so you feel them and it's kind of annoying...

I've worn mine for about 23 hours so far and I'm glad I got them. My Dad's always trying to get me to dress/look more girly and he was pretty happy with me getting contacts. He says I don't look good in them.




Anyone else with Contacts and/or have had trouble getting use to them?

[GrimSqueaker]

I am blessed with 20/20 vivion, but hay hay good for u-

And ur dad is right, u should definatly go more toward a girl tang! I f i remember ur vids, u got a real sweet voice may aswell work with it.

[Neko]

I am blessed with 20/20 vivion, but hay hay good for u-

And ur dad is right, u should definatly go more toward a girl tang! I f i remember ur vids, u got a real sweet voice may aswell work with it.

Thank you.

[The Happy Locust]

My vision isn't quite 20/20 but I'm okay with my glasses, mainly because my health insurance doesn't cover them.

My sister, on the other hand, can never wear contacts. She tried on a friend's pair, not understanding that contacts can expire, and ended up damaging her corneas. She's fine now but for a few days her eyes were incredibly light sensitive. ouchie.

[CyberTooth]

I remember my eye doctor had written me up for special contacts with weighted ends that pulled them into correct focus. It was all good and swell but when I was taking turns racing, I'd blink and the weights would pull to the right throwing everything outta focus.

Anyway, that burning sting will pass in a day or two. And you'll be good till that first eye lash gets in there or the contact rolls up under your eyelid and you think you've lost your contact to the backside of your eye forever... ever... ever...

[Neko]

Anyway, that burning sting will pass in a day or two. And you'll be good till that first eye lash gets in there or the contact rolls up under your eyelid and you think you've lost your contact to the backside of your eye forever... ever... ever...

That's the reason I didn't want contacts in the first place. I didn't want one stuck to my eye.


Right now I have temporary/training contacts. I'll have them for a week and next saturday I go back for my real ones.


The biggest problem I'm having is getting them on in the morning. During the day I get use to the feeling of them going on, but in the mornign I get skidish and it takes me like 10-20 minutes to put them on after trying over and over.

The worse part is when they go partially in but the top gets stuck to the eyelashes.

[Shadowman]

I wear glasses. Not contacts, because they're too much trouble.

And I won't get lazik. You know why? Because there's just soemthign weird about having a HIGH POWERED LASER CUT YOUR EYE OPEN.

[Tweezy]

I wear glasses. Not contacts, because they're too much trouble.

And I won't get lazik. You know why? Because there's just soemthign weird about having a HIGH POWERED LASER CUT YOUR EYE OPEN.

Meet BLADE... LASER... BLAZER

What if it's a high powered "maser"?

[Burn]

I'll stick with my glasses.

Why? Because I have a phobia of things going into eyes.

I can handle most horror movies, but if an eye gets gouged out, that makes me look the other way.

So i've never tried contacts, nor do I have any desire to. The glasses can be annoying at times but there's just no way i'd be able to handle to put contacts in my eyes. As it is I normally have to have someone hold me down and give me eye drops.

[Neko]

I'll stick with my glasses.

Why? Because I have a phobia of things going into eyes.

I can handle most horror movies, but if an eye gets gouged out, that makes me look the other way.

So i've never tried contacts, nor do I have any desire to. The glasses can be annoying at times but there's just no way i'd be able to handle to put contacts in my eyes. As it is I normally have to have someone hold me down and give me eye drops.

I don't have an eye phobia but I'm a hypochondriac. So if I get stressed over something I'll start thinking my contacts are giving me Cancer or something stupid like that.

The human Psychy is great ain't it?

[TheMuffin]

I'll stick with my glasses.

Why? Because I have a phobia of things going into eyes.

I can handle most horror movies, but if an eye gets gouged out, that makes me look the other way.

So i've never tried contacts, nor do I have any desire to. The glasses can be annoying at times but there's just no way i'd be able to handle to put contacts in my eyes. As it is I normally have to have someone hold me down and give me eye drops.

Same here. I look dead sexy without my glasses but I can't bring myself to wear contacts. It freaks me out way too much to be placing something on my eyeball. That and I'm constantly taking my glasses off when I sit down at a computer. If I have them on my eyes tend to glaze over and unfocus. Doesn't help that this prescription is.... 8 years old now. Yeesh.

[Nightracer GT]

Neko, I've been wearing contacts for almost 7 years straight now, and one thing I've noticed that you might want to try, is that you really don't need a mirror. Mirrors make it way more complicated. After all, it's your eye and it's not like you can't see it coming in. I dunno, I guess some people flinch if they aren't looking at something else.

I probably don't have to say this now, but in a few months it might be more applicable: Don't falter on the hygiene. What's the worst that can happen, you ask? Well, yes there is such a thing as ocular herpes. You really don't want that.

Are they soft lenses or rigid gas permeable? I have an eye condition and can only be corrected with hard lenses. I use a little plunger-looking thing to take them out.

My eyes are so used to the hard lenses inside them that one time I put the plunger right onto my eye, it wagged from side to side as I looked around. I just slid it to the side to get it out. Don't try that at home kids, but my buddy's reaction was priceless.

My Dad's always trying to get me to dress/look more girly and he was pretty happy with me getting contacts. He says I don't look good in them.

He actually says that? But wait, he was happy about you getting them, and now doesn't like it?

there's just soemthign weird about having a HIGH POWERED LASER CUT YOUR EYE OPEN.

It doesn't. It shaves off very very fine bits to make it shaped right.

[Baseball Tonight]

I started wearing glasses in the 8th grade (but probably needed them a year or two earlier). Then in my second year of university, I decided to get contacts.

First time I tried into them on at the store, it took forever. They made me do it three times!

I never really got that good at putting them in and taking them out. To this day (about ten years later), it still takes me several minutes to put them in.

I had a real scare one time though. I was taking them off at home. Got the first one off, but couldn't get the second one off. After struggling for about half an hour, the darn contact broke into pieces while still in my eye!

I called the emergency line, got a call back about an hour later. I think I managed to get all the pieces out though.

But he told me to go see my eye doctor because there might be an infection, which totally freaked me out.

The next day when I went to see my eye doctor and she told me I didn't have an infection, I breathed one of my deepest sighs of relief.

I thought about quitting contacts, but kept with it. No big problems ever since.

[Bombus distinguendus]

it hurt to put in your contacts??? thats no right.....it shouldnt hurt unless there crappy and the hard kind. there a bit weird and uncomfortable at first but should never hurt. i wear contacts also.

[Tammuz]

while i have no good reason not to wear contacts, i really wouldn't if simply becuase my glasses are part of who i am, without them i wouldn't be me anymore.

[Brakethrough]

Sticking with my glasses because the ease of use is better for me right now (I'm one of those wake-up-ten-minutes-before-I-go-to-work people). Eventually I may spring for the laser surgery, but mostly only for the sake of being able to wear sunglasses. I'm told I look good in shades. Too bad I can't see a thing with them. Also, skiing might be easier if I didn't have my specs jabbing up into my face behind the goggles.

[Tammuz]

prescriptions sunglasses do exist, and so do prescription goggles.

[TheMuffin]

Or get the best of both worlds with impact resistant transistion glasses. So nice not having to have those stupid clip on shades over my glasses like I did when I was younger.

[Rogue.]

I've had contacts for about four years now. I have the soft kind, that you're only supposed to use for two weeks, but I use them for a month. I'm actally a bit overdue now, and need to get some new sets. I have to get my eyes checked too.

The only problems I've had with my contacts are when they slide over my eye and I freak out and have to try getting it back. And when I wore a set for like two months, my eyes started twitching like mad. That was the stupidest thing I've done with contacts.

I also have color contacts, which is half the fun of having contacts. Since my eyes are blue, I can pretty much have whatever color I want. I have a set of yellow (for a Halloween kind of fun) and some that make my eyes a natural green.

I had worn glasses since I was in the 2nd grade. When I started working jobs at the age of 19, I found glasses very frustrating. If only because of my poor eyesight (nearsighted), the lenses were heavy, and my skin is oily, so the glasses would slide almost off my face as I worked and started to sweat. I hated having to readjust my glasses every time I looked down, or having to wipe off the sweat & oil constantly. When I finally got contacts, it was like, "whhhoaaa" (Keavu Reeves voice). Everything looked so damn clear and perfect, none of this seeing the edge of my glasses bullshit. And I could wear non-prescription sunglasses! I guess I got used to having to touch my eyes before I got contacts, so that helped. I was quite the opposite for many years (hence no contacts until recently).

Old pics of me with glasses...



No glasses!



My yellow contacts (and some makeup, haha)



My green eyes (and yes, even more makeup)

[Predaprince]

When I first got them, I had trouble but quickly got use to it.

Don't listen to how they tell you to put them in completely. Just take what they say and invent your own personal way of putting them in.