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Title: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Rman on January 23, 2009, 04:55:00 PM
I've slept with my contacts for ages.  I use Acuvue two week disposables.  I've never had any weird infection or eye irritation.  Does anyone else do this? 
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 23, 2009, 04:56:45 PM
I have monthlys that have been in for 2.5 months.   My eyes are like yellow and sore and shit. 
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Rman on January 23, 2009, 04:58:42 PM
Jeez.  Monthlies are way too irritating to my eyes.  I really need to save up for lasik.
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Brehvolution on January 23, 2009, 04:59:57 PM
Quote from: Father_Mike on January 23, 2009, 04:56:45 PM
I have monthlys that have been in for 2.5 months.   My eyes are like yellow and sore and shit. 

yaere is th.

Makes sense now.
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Rman on January 23, 2009, 05:01:33 PM
''yaere is th.''

???
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: drohne on January 23, 2009, 05:09:51 PM
i slept with your contacts last night :hump
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 23, 2009, 05:10:46 PM
if they aren't related to you it's probably okay

wait what
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Reb on January 23, 2009, 05:12:37 PM
I'd love to sleep with some of my contacts.
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Robo on January 23, 2009, 05:13:48 PM
My eyes get really dried up if I sleep in my contacts.  I usually have Visine if I'm going out anywhere just in case I have to keep them in for the night.  wink wink
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: CajoleJuice on January 23, 2009, 05:15:32 PM
I do it all the time. I have monthlys. I've never had any problems, although I usually do get rid of them in a month.
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Robo on January 23, 2009, 05:17:40 PM
I've noticed (well, others have noticed and haw haw'd) that if I sleep in my contacts, I often sleep with my eyes partially open.  That would explain the dryness.
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Tauntaun on January 23, 2009, 05:19:11 PM
Quote from: Professor Prole on January 23, 2009, 05:10:46 PM
if they aren't related to you it's probably okay

wait what

BrandNew sleeps with his sister's contacts.  :-*
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: bud on January 23, 2009, 05:29:45 PM
there are also contacts you only wear while sleeping

when you wake up, you take them out and your vision will be as if you're still wearing them

should help those with dry eyes
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: CajoleJuice on January 23, 2009, 05:32:35 PM
Quote from: bud on January 23, 2009, 05:29:45 PM
when you wake up, you take them out and your vision will be as if you're still wearing them

what

overnight LASIK surgery?
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Reb on January 23, 2009, 05:35:12 PM
They force the rounding of your eyeballs in the right direction, the effect lasting for about a day.
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: OptimoPeach on January 23, 2009, 06:37:19 PM
I also have 2 week Acuvue disposables. I've worn them for up to a week or so, and then they really start to dry out. When I first wake up I can feel that they are extremely dry, but it seems like they lube right up after I've been awake for about 10 minutes. I don't really like my eyes feeling so shitty when I first wake up though, so I try to avoid sleeping in them at home.

About a year ago I scheduled my optometrist appointment late and ended up having to wearing one pair of two week contacts for a little over a month, and I only took them out maybe 3 times. My eyes felt like they were going to fall out, so that was definitely too much.
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: drew on January 23, 2009, 07:09:55 PM
yeah i used to sleep in my contacts all the time.  sex, drugs and saline solution

they were those 30 day ones and your not supposed to do that.  passing out smh.
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 23, 2009, 08:45:49 PM
thread does not deliver
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Positive Touch on January 23, 2009, 10:59:26 PM
a friend of mine kept doing this shit and ended up getting a nice little fungus growth in her eye.  stop being lazy and just take the damn things out

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I wear hard contacts, and many years ago I decided to stop changing the solution I put them in each night.  It lasted about four months and every day my eyes would burn like hell and they were so red everyone was convinced I was a huge stoner :(
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Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: TakingBackSunday on January 23, 2009, 11:03:20 PM
Yeah I do it all the time.  Only got an infection once, but that was because the contact had a tear in it.
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Bocsius on January 23, 2009, 11:05:02 PM
I've always slept with my contacts in. My very first doctor when I first got contacts was like "in a few days or whatever when you get used to these things, you'll be sleeping in them and it will all be natural." (This was as I was struggling to even get the dern things in to begin with.) It was only my last eye doctor was all shocked that I didn't take them out at night. So for a few months, I started taking them out at night. Then I got a better job with better hours, but one that didn't give me as much time in the morning, so it was right back to sleeping with them.

Anyway, I've had this pair in for a few months now (admittedly too long) and they've maybe been out once or twice. It's my last pair, though, and my prescription ran out (er, uh, in 2007).
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Valcrist on January 23, 2009, 11:11:50 PM
My optometrist said that it's vital to take out the contacts, as well as possibly wearing glasses 1 day out of the week.  Eyes need oxygen.  I don't think something severe as going blind will happen, but you'll definately have an increased chance of eye infection.
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: cool breeze on January 23, 2009, 11:15:08 PM
I've been thinking about getting contacts for a while now, but all these complications seem a bit annoying.  My biggest concern is that I will lose contacts constantly since I rub my eyes a lot.
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Bocsius on January 23, 2009, 11:16:59 PM
You'll get used to not rubbing your eyes. It's a habit and habits can be broken.
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Rman on January 23, 2009, 11:17:22 PM
Quote from: swaggaz on January 23, 2009, 11:15:08 PM
I've been thinking about getting contacts for a while now, but all these complications seem a bit annoying.  My biggest concern is that I will lose contacts constantly since I rub my eyes a lot.
That won't happen.  I rub my eyes all the time.  Most modern contacts don't just fall out easily.  Next time you go to the eye doctor order some two week disposables just to try them out.
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Bocsius on January 23, 2009, 11:20:01 PM
I went straight from 20/20 vision to not seeing very well to contacts. I never had glasses before then. In fact, I first got contacts at the age of 18, and I got my first pair of backup glasses at 26. Spent almost $500 on them, too, and I have no idea why. I never wear them.
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: cool breeze on January 24, 2009, 12:06:52 AM
Quote from: Rman on January 23, 2009, 11:17:22 PM
Quote from: swaggaz on January 23, 2009, 11:15:08 PM
I've been thinking about getting contacts for a while now, but all these complications seem a bit annoying.  My biggest concern is that I will lose contacts constantly since I rub my eyes a lot.
That won't happen.  I rub my eyes all the time.  Most modern contacts don't just fall out easily.  Next time you go to the eye doctor order some two week disposables just to try them out.

I'll try them out.  The big problem is that if I do lose a contact, I'm pretty much blind. 

Quote from: Bocsius on January 23, 2009, 11:16:59 PM
You'll get used to not rubbing your eyes. It's a habit and habits can be broken.

it's not so much a habit as it is a necessity during my classes to stay awake
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Rman on January 24, 2009, 12:12:23 AM
Dayum, FA!

I would think two week contacts would melt after a month or so.  I guess that's not the case.  I'd love to get the Lasik, but I'm a pussy.  I'm afraid that in twenty years or so people who had the procedure would start going blind or something.  I'm paranoid like that.
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Rman on January 24, 2009, 12:18:49 AM
I heard that's retinal tissue burning, according to my friend who had the procedure done.
Title: Re: Sleeping with your contacts.
Post by: Bocsius on January 24, 2009, 12:34:33 AM
I once wore the same pair of lenses for a year. They were 2-week disposables, too. Much like now, that was my last pair and my prescription had expired. That was back in 2001. Good times.